Saturday, February 23, 2013

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}Matthew 28:18-19
}18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore[a] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
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}To be “baptised” means to be “totally immersed”.
}If a person repents from his sin and has accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior he can be baptised and be brought to the river, sea or any place where there is water for him to be immersed and be baptised.
}Sprinkling is permissible when the person is on sick bay or there is not enough water.(desert)
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}There are four stages Christ work pictured.
1.He died- I died in Him
}Romans 6:6-7
}knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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}Stage 2.
}He was Buried- I was  Buried with Him
}Romans 6:3
}Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
}Romans 6:4
}Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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}Stage 3
}He was raised- I have a New Life in Him.
}Romans 6:4-5
}Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
}For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
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}Now we have New Life.
}Your Old life is death.
}You are a New Person in Jesus.
}Ezekiel 36:26-27
}26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
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}Stage 4
}He Ascended- I Ascended in Him
}Colossians 3:1-3
}Not Carnality but Christ
}1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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}THE TWO KINGDOMS
}Colossians 1:13
}New King James Version (NKJV)
}13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
}Every man and woman born into the world is born into the Kingdom of Darkness born slaves dictator  Satan.
}There is no way out of this Kingdom except by DEATH, and there is no way into the Kingdom of God except by  BIRTH.
}And so Jesus became both our death and new birth- and this we desire in water baptism.
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}The First Adam.
}“For as in Adam all die……..(1 Cor. 15:22)
}Adam was the father of us all, the entire human race. Adam’s sin alienated us from God.
}Because of his sin we all inherited his rebellious and diseased nature and became subject to death.
}Adam’s offspring are called “the Adamic Race”.
}The Last Adam
}Romans 5:6
}Christ in Our Place
}For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
}There was no way God could change  the fallen Adamic Race and the firstborn of new race of humanity.
}Jesus was the last Adam.
}He came as the lastborn of the Adamic Race.
}When Jesus died on the Cross, the Adamic Race and the Adamic sinful nature died.
}The Second Man
}1 Corinthians 15:22
}22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
}Jesus came as God’s new Man, through which a new race would be created.
}Jesus was raised from the dead not as the Last Adam- but the Second Man the Head of the New Creation.
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}Corinthians 15:45-49
}And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.”[a] The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
}46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord[b] from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear[c] the image of the heavenly Man.
}After Baptism You are a New Creation.
}2 Corinthians 5:17
}17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
}In water  baptism we declare to all our friends and acquaintances that we are no longer part of Adam’s race and the Kingdom of Darkness.
}We are a New Creation in Christ belonging to the Kingdom of God.
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}Your Commitment.
}Abba I thank you that you brought me into this world to deliver me from the Kingdom of Darkness to the Kingdom of God.
}I thank you Jesus that you  have asked me to obey your commands that I go out to make disciples of all nation baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
}I pray and make this commitment today to encourage all the people I know to be baptised.
}In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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