{"id":21463,"date":"2022-12-02T22:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=21463"},"modified":"2023-03-16T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:09:44","slug":"what-is-baptism-no-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=21463","title":{"rendered":"What Is Baptism? \u2014 No. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 1<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>New Uploads 3\u00a0<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Having surveyed the overwhelming evidence showing the only Scriptural action of baptism to be immersion, we will now seek to discover the Scriptural purpose of baptism. What does baptism do for or to a person? What does it not do? What is its function according to the Scriptures? Let us begin by noticing some thigs it will <strong>not<\/strong> do:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It will not accomplish anything without faith in Christ: \u201cExcept ye believe that I am He, ye shall die in your sins\u201d (John 8:24); \u201cHe that disbelieveth shall be condemned\u201d (Mark 16:16). Baptism is merely a dunking without faith in Christ.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It will not accomplish anything apart from repentance of one\u2019s sins: \u201cExcept ye repent ye shall all in like manner perish\u201d (Luke 13:3); \u201cHe commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent\u201d (Acts 17:30).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It will not help one who will not confess Christ as the Son of God: \u201cEveryone therefore who shall confess me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in Heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in Heaven\u201d (Mat. 10:32\u201333).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It will not accomplish God\u2019s purpose if it is done against one\u2019s own will: The obedience that pleases God must be \u201cfrom the heart\u201d (Rom. 6:17).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Baptism will not help one who does not know its God-given purpose or who is baptized for the wrong purpose. Otherwise, every time one went swimming one would engage in the act of baptism; The 12 men who were baptized for the wrong purpose (Acts 19:1\u20135) had to be baptized for the right purpose to be pleasing to God.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Baptism does not bring forgiveness of sins to the Christian who sins. Baptism is part of the new birth by which one enters God\u2019s family (John 3:5). When a Christian sins, he doesn\u2019t have to be reborn to be restored to God\u2019s favor any more than a physical child has to be reborn each time he returns home. Repentance, confession, and prayer are the scriptural remedies when a Christian sins (1 John 1:9; Acts 8:22).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0I wrote this article for, and it was published in the \u201cBible Thoughts\u201d Column for the <em>Hood County News<\/em>, Granbury, Texas, March 26, 1978.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 1[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our New Uploads 3\u00a0 page.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Having surveyed the overwhelming evidence showing the only Scriptural action of baptism to be immersion, we will now seek to discover the Scriptural purpose of baptism. What does baptism&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=21463\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  What Is Baptism? \u2014 No. 5<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,708,300,140,36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baptism","category-baptism-purpose","category-belief","category-confession-of-faith","category-faith","category-repentance","wpcat-37-id","wpcat-708-id","wpcat-300-id","wpcat-140-id","wpcat-36-id","wpcat-38-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22811,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463\/revisions\/22811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}