Doctrine 6 Repentance & Baptism Review: Doctrine Series 1. The Importance of Doctrine and Theology Doctrine impacts everyone’s abiding fellowship with Christ 2. God Exists, The Godhead & The Trinity 5 reasons for the existence of God: Moral, Cosmological, Teleological, Ontological, Theological. Characteristics of God: Eternal, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Immutable, Omniscient, Personal, Active and Involved in His Creation and Holy. Discussion on the Trinity A healthy reverence and better understanding of God us have intimate abiding fellowship with God. 3. God’s Word: The Bible is the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings. Sola Scriptura: the Bible has supreme authority in all spiritual matters. The Bible contains the words of Eternal life, the main source that feeds our spirit, it reveals God’s will, wisdom and direction, faith comes from hearing the Word of God Consumption of God’s Word directly impacts your abiding relationship with Christ. 4. Original Sin & Resurrection of the Lost and Saved Every human has a sin nature and as a consequence this separates us eternally from a Holy God, but Christ paid the penalty of sin and offers redemption if we choose to respond to His Gospel. Understanding sin, depravity, punishment and redemption should compel us to make to know Christ and make Him known 5. Justification Through Faith and Eternal Life Salvation through faith in Christ renders us innocent from our depraved nature and sinful disobedience and fully justifies us before Holy God. Works have no bearing on justification but should produce good works of righteousness because you are saved. 6. Repentance & Baptism Repentance and Baptism are associated together at times in the Bible. “Repent and be baptized” Acts 2:38 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.” Matthew 28:19-20 Repentance in the Old Testament. Shub: repent, to turn back, return, to turn away. Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against. Isaiah 31:6 Come, let us return to the Lord. Hosea 6:1 Repent (Turn) now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings. Jeremiah 25:5 NKJV Repentance in the Old Testament. Nacham: Repent, be sorry (breath strongly), regret, be comforted. Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes. Job 42:6 The Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind(repent); for He is not a man that He should change His mind. 1 Sam 15:29 NASB Repentance in the New Testament. Metanoia: Reversal of decision, a change of mind, to think differently afterward. Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” Matthew 4:17 Repent and believe in the gospel. Mark 1:15 Repentance in the New Testament. Metamelomai: Remorse or regret. Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse (repented) and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. NASB I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 Repentance is to turn from sin to God. This is not simply a change of mind, but such a change as would reverse the effects of the previous state of mind. Baptism A direct command of our Lord for believers, in the “name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” Baptizo: to immerse, to clean by dipping or submerging. Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized. John 3:23 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. Matthew 3:16 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. Acts 8:38 The ordinance is a symbol of the Christian’s identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. 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, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:3-6 Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God. Colossians 2:12 Pedobaptists: Infant Baptism Some who practice infant baptism equate baptism with Old Testament circumcision. Jewish boys were circumcised because parents wanted their boys to be included in the community and to be obedient to God. Evangelical pedobaptists feel similarly for their infant children, they understand that the child will need to become a believer later. In this case pedobaptist do this similar to a child dedication. Infant baptism is not affirmed or forbidden in the New Testament; there is not instance mentioned. Five households are mentioned to have been baptized, but no mention of babies baptized. Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptized. Acts 18:8 Didache, an early church manual instructs on Baptism. "Before the baptism, moreover, the one who baptizes and the one being baptized must fast, and any others who can. And you must tell the one being baptized to fast for one or two days beforehand." "Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.” Matthew 3:5-6 "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Galatians 3:27 "...having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.” Colossians 2:12 Big Idea: I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. What is preventing each of us from living completely for Christ? To follow the symbolism that it is Christ living in us, not our desires?