Baptism - Its Meaning and Teaching
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The closing words of the Lord Jesus to the eleven disciples on are all-important for all time.
‘And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit …”’ (Matt.28:18-19).
This is the Lord’s mandate to his apostles to teach and carry out the practice of baptism. This booklet endeavours to explore its relevance, taking a broadly chronological approach to the subject.
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Baptism - Its Meaning and Teaching - Hayes Press
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Old Testament background
Chapter 3: New Testament teaching - John the Baptist
Chapter 4: New Testament teaching - the Lord Jesus: His example
Chapter 5: New Testament teaching - the Lord Jesus: His mandate
Chapter 6: New Testament teaching - practical examples of water baptism in ‘the Acts’
Chapter 7: New Testament teaching - the symbolic meaning of baptism
Chapter 8: Baptism in the Holy Spirit and into the body of Christ
Chapter 9: So why should I be baptized?
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
The closing words of the Lord Jesus to the eleven disciples on the Galilean mountain, whose identification is not specified (although it could well have been Mount Hermon), are all-important for all time.
‘And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ...
’ (Matt.28:18-19).
This is the Lord’s mandate to his apostles to teach and carry out the practice of baptism. This booklet endeavours to explore its relevance, taking a broadly chronological approach to the subject. We begin with the Old Testament background.
CHAPTER 2: OLD TESTAMENT BACKGROUND
The book of Exodus provides the first example of the importance of water as a cleansing and purifying agent for those who would engage in God’s service in his dwelling-place of a past day, the tabernacle. Even the garments of the people