THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 6:8-9 | THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BAPTISM/IMMERSION

Mike Balloun teaches today 10-17-20.

ROMANS CHAPTER 6:8-9
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BAPTISM/IMMERSION

VERSES: 1st Corinthians 15; Hebrews 2:6-10; Colossians 3:9; John 12:24-26; Acts 2

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ROMANS 6:8-9 “Now if we be dead died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised from (among) the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.”
To apprehend the fullness of the meaning of immersion, a Christian must apprehend God’s purposes in creating Man and then redeeming him in order to see what He has in view. If we don’t see what God’s end plan is, we won’t see the necessity of taking the steps He requires of us. Those steps being redemption, which is represented in the cross; sanctification, which is represented in baptism; and then resurrection/ glorification.

We have discussed God’s purpose for Man was to rule in glory over the Earth and the heavens associated with this Earth from the Book of Genesis, and that unto the glory of God. But by Adam, sin and death came upon all his seed, and we all fall short of the Glory of God. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God…” [Romans 3:23] But God has set forth a Salvation Plan in Jesus Christ to bring Man into his appointed royal glory. “But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” [Hebrews 2:6-10] (God’s purpose for man being to bring many sons to glory. )

But Sin thwarted God’s Garden plan for Adam’s/Man’s glory. Adam chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and took the human way. He was a willing accomplice with satan and became a subject/slave of this World, being now without the divine nature of God. Without the divine nature of God, there was/is no hope or possibility of glory. Sin brought in condemnation and death for man. From all this we see God’s gracious reason for Jesus the Christ; the Second Adam to Live, Die and be Resurrected. That is to defeat and set aside sin and death and bring righteousness and eternal life to His seed, and thereby potentially bring them into His glory. Redemption qualifies us again for glory. (Adam was qualified for glory but he never attained it.) So God’s purpose in creating Man and then for the redemption of Man is to bring many sons unto glory (incorruptible immortality).

How does this relate to baptism? We have said is that my Old Man has been crucified with Christ “…that the body of sin might be destroyed disabled, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” [Romans 6:6b] (This verse says we should not serve sin, noting that we are still able to sin which is contrary to the popular teaching that Christians are ‘dead to sin’. And it also runs contrary to the teaching that that their past, present, and future sins were taken care of by the mere act of receiving Christ.) The Old Man is of the old creation in fallen Adam, and is crucified and disabled (under the death sentence) but is yet alive on the Cross. Me, as the New Man, is brought forth out of the Old Man, and knit into Christ to be fully realized in the new creation of the future. (We are becoming a new creature in Christ. We are in an embryonic stage of the new creature. The New Creation isn’t fully realized until the First Resurrection. And many who are qualified will stay in that underdeveloped stage and not emerge as that spiritual being/New Creation with glory at the time of the First Resurrection. For not all who receive the cross will receive the reward of the First Resurrection in glory.)

I have died with Jesus, leaving my Old Man (knitted to sin unto death eternal; inherent from Adam) on the Cross. Eternal death was God’s Judgment on Adam’s sin; and I was corporately the seed of Adam carrying the eternal death sentence under the curse of the law that Adam transgressed, and.....

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