Baptism: Leaving the Old and Entering the New (Romans 6:3–11)
—Romans 6:3–11
Andrew Fountain – Apr 14, 2024
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Goal
To explain baptism, and to encourage and empower all of us as we get hold of it’s true meaning.
Baptism: Leaving the Old and Entering the New (Romans 6:3–11)
Going Down: Joined to Jesus in his death
Coming Up: Joined to Jesus in his resurrection
So why get wet?
Romans 6:3–14
Rock of Ages Augustus Toplady, 1776
“Be for sin the double cure:
Cleanse me from its guilt and power.”
Guilt: Purified as white as snow
Power: Strength right now to battle sin and have victory
Romans 6:3–14
Romans 7 & 8
So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 6 —Raised in the new
Now if we have died with Christ,
we believe that we will also live with him.
We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead,
he is never going to die again;
death no longer has power 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,
but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Luke 15
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’
Baptism: Leaving the Old and Entering the New (Romans 6:3–11)
Going Down: Joined to Jesus in his death
Coming Up: Joined to Jesus in his resurrection
So why get wet?
Baptism is three things:
A public declaration that you are following Jesus
A picture of death and new life
An opportunity to receive more from God
Romans 6 —Baptism
Do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus
were baptized into his death?
Therefore we have been buried 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.
Baptism is three things:
A public declaration that you are following Jesus
A picture of death and new life
An opportunity to receive more from God
If you are not a follower of Jesus today—
How would you like to have the opportunity of having:
Every bad thing in your past to be re-written
Everything you have done that you regret to be erased
Every mistake or hurt to be just wiped away
Reconciliation with God, so he sees you as pure and spotless