We Are Spiritually Baptized into Christ

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST COMES TO MANKIND TO SET THEM FREE FROM SIN

Charles e Whisnant,          April 3, 2011       Romans 6:-3-4         45.70

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KNOW YE NOT, THAT SO MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTIZED UNTO JESUS CHRIST WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH.

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST COMES TO MANKIND TO SET THEM FREE FROM SIN

In Romans 6, Paul sets out to demonstrate the effectiveness of grace to deal with sin. Grace features the saving work of both Christ (Romans 6:1-7:6) and the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:1-30). The law, on the other hand, is ineffective (Romans 7:7-25).[i]

1A      WE ARE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST:  (principle #1)

BUT WE WERE “BAPATIZO” IN TO CHRIST.

BAPTIZED907[ii]

  • My life was “fused” with Jesus Christ.
  • I was “baptized” immersed, submersed into Christ.
  • When you were saved you were immersed into Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:2 2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

o   Means come under authority of Moses, to participate in the Mosaic leadership.

o   What God was doing for Moses so he was doing to them.  Infused them into Him.

  • We were baptized, placed in to Jesus Christ, deeply into Christ
  • It is not talking about H2O
  • But a personal fellowship with Christ.
  • 1 John 1:3: 3That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Corinthians: 6 17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

o   Alters its condition or its relationship to its previous environment.

Here in Romans 6:3 and 4 and Galatians 3:27-28, baptism is meant symbolic

  • Why? Well, water baptism cannot put a sinner into Jesus Christ. Only the Holy Spirit can do that. Romans 8:9 and 1 Corinthians 12:13:
  • Water baptism is a public witness of the person’s identification with Christ, while Spirit baptism is the personal and private experience that identifies the person with Christ.

WHAT I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS THIS:

  • We are spiritually introduced or placed into a new environment, union with Christ, an unbreakable joining together with Christ, an unbreakable union which forever alters the individual’s relationship to their previous environment.

2A       PRINCIPLE #2 HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH

WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST INTO HIS DEATH

  • Aorist tense = past completed, fully accomplished, historical act.
  • Picture’s the believer’s identification with Christ’s death, here also means in relationship with the power of sin. Romans 6:10
  • It’s the GALATIANS 2:20 VIEW

THEREFORE

In light of the truth that we “have been baptized into His (Christ Jesus) death” There has been a burial.

WE ARE BURIED4916 WITH HIM IN BAPTISM Vs. 4a

Now we are BURIED in His death and raised in His RESURRECTION, in order that we might be raised in to new life.

  • Colossians 2:12-13, 1 Peter 3:21

BURIED WITH CHRIST

  • Together with.   Our burial with Christ signifies the believer’s participation in His death by virtue of our unbreakable coming together with Him.

THAT LIKE AS CHRIST WAS RAISED UP FROM THE DEAD

Or IN ORDER THAT 2443[iii]

  • In order that, the purpose of, as in this case the believer’s spiritual baptism into Christ’s death, the ultimate purpose being that we might experience “newness of life.”

AS5618 [iv]

  • Even as, just as, exactly like….

WAS RAISED1453[v]

  • That is, there was an awakening from sleep. Figuratively it meant to cause to return to life.  Ephesians 2:5-6.

THE DEAD3498[vi]

  • So the purpose of you dying to SIN is so you could LIVE unto GOD.

BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER

  • Which Christ was raised not only by God’s power, but by the glory of the Father.
  • 1 Corinthians 6:14, 2 Corinthians 8:4.
  • The sanctification of believers to the power of the glory of God

EVEN SO WE ALSO COULD WALK 4043 (PERIPATEO)[vii]

  • Figuratively refers to one’s manner of life, to one’s habitual way or bent of life or to one’s life-style.

o   To regulate one’s life, to conduct one’s self,

  • So with the purpose of the co-resurrection with Christ.

IN NEWNESS OF2538 kainotes

  • A new sense that it brings into the world a new quality of things which did not exist before.[viii]

LIFE 2198 ZOE[ix]

  • That fullness of life, a blessed life, a life that satisfies and can be lived as God had it in mind.
  • LIFE: His life is now in us as BELIEVERS, as a motivating, energizing, pulsating principle of existence that has the potential to transform every believer’s life.

[ii] BAPTIZED http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=907

http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/907.htm

  1. to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk)
  2. to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one’s self, bathe
  3. to overwhelm
  • Not to be confused with 911, bapto. The clearest example that shows the meaning of baptizo is a text from the Greek poet and physician Nicander, who lived about 200 B.C. It is a recipe for making pickles and is helpful because it uses both words. Nicander says that in order to make a pickle, the vegetable should first be ‘dipped’ (bapto) into boiling water and then ‘baptised’ (baptizo) in the vinegar solution. Both verbs concern the immersing of vegetables in a solution. But the first is temporary. The second, the act of baptising the vegetable, produces a permanent change. When used in the New Testament, this word more often refers to our union and identification with Christ than to our water baptism. e.g. Mark 16:16. ‘He that believes and is baptised shall be saved’. Christ is saying that mere intellectual assent is not enough. There must be a union with him, a real change, like the vegetable to the pickle! Bible Study Magazine, James Montgomery Boice, May 1989.

[iii] THAT LIKE that, in order that, so that 2443

[v] WAS RAISED http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=1453

to arouse, cause to rise

  1. to arouse from sleep, to awake
  2. to arouse from the sleep of death, to recall the dead to life
  3. to cause to rise from a seat or bed etc.
  4. to raise up, produce, cause to appear
    1. to cause to appear, bring before the public
    2. to raise up, stir up, against one
    3. to raise up i.e. cause to be born
    4. of buildings, to raise up, construct, erect

[vi] DEAD http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3498&l=en

  1. properly
    1. one that has breathed his last, lifeless
    2. deceased, departed, one whose soul is in heaven or hell
    3. destitute of life, without life, inanimate
  2. metaph.
    1. spiritually dead
      1. destitute of a life that recognizes and is devoted to God, because given up to trespasses and sins
      2. inactive as respects doing right
    2. destitute of force or power, inactive, inoperative

DEAD http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/3498.htm

3.     3498 nekrós (an adjective, derived from nekys, “a corpse, a dead body”) – dead; literally, “what lacks life”; dead; (figuratively) not able to respond to impulses, or perform functions (“unable, ineffective, dead, powerless,” L & N, 1, 74.28); unresponsive to life-giving influences (opportunities); inoperative to the things of God.

4. 3498 /nekrós (“corpse-like”) is used as a noun in certain contexts (“the dead”), especially when accompanied by the Greek definite article. The phrase, ek nekron (“from the dead”), lacks the Greek article to give the sense “from what is of death.”

[vii] WALK  http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=4043

  1. to walk
    1. to make one’s way, progress; to make due use of opportunities
    2. Hebrew for, to live
      1. to regulate one’s life
      2. to conduct one’s self
      3. to pass one’s life

http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/4043.htm

to walkOriginal Word: περιπατέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: peripateó
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ee-pat-eh’-o)
Short Definition: I walk, conduct my life
Definition: I walk, hence Hebraistically (in an ethical sense): I conduct my life, live.

[viii] NEWNESS http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=2538

  1. newness
    1. in the new state of life in which the Holy Spirit places us so as to produce a new state which is eternal life

[ix] LIFE http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=2198

  1. to live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead)
  2. to enjoy real life
    1. to have true life and worthy of the name
    2. active, blessed, endless in the kingdom of God
  3. to live i.e. pass life, in the manner of the living and acting
    1. of mortals or character
  4. living water, having vital power in itself and exerting the same upon the soul
  5. metaph. to be in full vigour
    1. to be fresh, strong, efficient,
    2. as adj. active, powerful, efficacious

cognate: 2198 záō – to live, experience God’s gift of life.

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