John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”
Romans 6:1-11 (ESV)
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 1:1-5 (ESV)
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Ping.
I do. I also listen to jazz and classical music. All day long. There are really only two types of music. Good and bad. If it's good, I listen to it.
I like to consider “What’s In The Water” in mathematical terms:
Matthew 26:28 -
“Blood of the New Testament” (X) = “Remission of sins” (Y)
Acts 2:38 -
“Repent and be baptized” (Z) = “Remission of sins” (Y);
hence, (X) = (Z).
Therefore, in terms of the sinner achieving “remission of sins,” the “blood of the New Testament” is in the “baptismal waters” of one “pricked in their heart” by their sin and who repents of same and submits to baptism, wherein is “cleansing” (Colossians 2:12-13).
Chronologically, the mixing of water and the blood of Christ is shown forth in John 19:34, occurring between the time of the events Matthew 26:28 and Acts 2:38.
” The Holy Spirit is given to us in Holy Baptism, so that we believe...What else is in the water? Forgiveness. The forgiveness of sins.”
Nope. If you didn’t already believe, you would not be getting baptized.
I suggest:
http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/80-57/understanding-baptism?Term=baptism
We are joined to Jesus by the Baptism done by Jesus: the baptism in the Holy Spirit. There is also no correlation between water baptism and baptism in the Holy Spirit in Acts.
” For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.”
“11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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