Baptism Sunday | May 2025
Baptism:
The Significance
The Aftermath
Colossians 2:11-14
11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 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. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
Baptism:
The Significance
- Spiritual union with Christ’s life, death, and resurrection
Baptism:
The Significance
- Spiritual union with Christ’s life, death, and resurrection
- His Perfect Life is accounted to us
Colossians 2:12
12 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.
“In baptism, we dramatically portray what happened spiritually when we received Christ.” - John Piper
Acts 10:47
47 “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”
Acts 10:44
44 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.
“. . . for the earliest Christians, repentance and faith and conversion and baptism were often experienced as a single event, a package deal if you will.
Unlike many Christians today, the earliest Christians didn't view baptism as something you did months or even years after your profession of faith, long after you'd become part of a church. Baptism was the rite of initiation into the church. It was the principal way in which you professed your faith in Christ.” - Todd Wilson, Preaching the Word
Matthew 28:19
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Colossians 2:13c-14
having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
“This refers to the handwritten certificate of debt by which a debtor acknowledged his indebtedness. All people (Ro 3:23) owe God an unpayable debt for violating His law . . . Paul graphically compares God's forgiveness of believers' sins to wiping ink off a parchment. Through Christ's sacrificial death on the cross, God has totally erased our certificate of indebtedness and made our forgiveness complete.” - John MacArthur Study Bible
Baptism:
The Significance
- Spiritual union with Christ’s life, death, and resurrection
- His Perfect Life is accounted to us
- His death cancels our sin debt
- His resurrection power also raises us spiritually
Baptism:
The Significance
- Spiritual union with Christ’s life, death, and resurrection
- His Perfect Life is accounted to us
- His death cancels our sin debt
- His resurrection power also raises us spiritually
The Aftermath
Spiritual birth produces spiritual fruit
Colossians 3:1
3 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
