VI. Should Baptism Ever Be Repeated?
A. Yes, baptism should be repeated if a person was not saved when he was previously baptized.
1. Acts 19:1-5 reveals that some people who had been baptized by John the Baptist had never believed on Jesus, so when they did make that decision, “they were ________________ in the name of the Lord Jesus.”
2. According to Acts 8:36,37, permission cannot be given to be baptized until a person ________________ on Jesus Christ with all his heart.
If a person was baptized before he was truly bornagain, then it is his duty to be baptized again. The first
time was meaningless, because there was no death
to the old life of sin — for he was still a lost sinner.
B. Yes, baptism should be repeated if a person was baptized in the wrong manner.
1. Remember, the very meaning of the word baptize is, “to dip, to immerse, to cover ____________ (completely)”.
2. The example of Acts 8:38 is that of going ________ into the water.
3. The picture of Romans 6:3-5 shows that baptism pictures __________, burial, and resurrection.
If a person’s baptism consisted of being sprinkled orpoured upon, then it was not done according to the
Bible. The person’s duty is to now obey the Lord
and get baptized in the proper manner.
C. Yes, baptism should be repeated if a person was baptized by an unqualified person.
1. I Timothy 3:1 says, “This is a true saying, If a ______ desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.”
2. I Timothy 3:12 says, “Let the deacons be the ________________ of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”
Note: A bishop or pastor or deacon is to be a man. These are the ones that we see baptizing in the Book of Acts.
If a person was baptized by a woman preacher,
or by anyone other than an ordained man of God,
then that person needs to be baptized again.
D. Yes, baptism should be repeated if a person was baptized by an unscriptural church.
1. I Corinthians 1:17 says, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the ____________: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
2. Galatians 2:21-3:3 says, “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the ____________, are ye now made perfect by the __________?”
Note: If you were baptized by a church that believes that baptism washes away your sins, then that was not a true and scriptural baptism at all. It did not symbolize at all what baptism really pictures.
If you were baptized by a church that believes that
salvation can be lost, then that church does not preach
a true salvation, but a mixed up faith/works salvation.
Such a baptism does not picture a salvation settled
on the cross, but a salvation which depends upon
you and your own continued good works.
That is a baptism of works, not a picture of a faith that is resting totally upon Jesus’ finished work. So such a baptism is a false picture, and needs to be done properly.
E. No, a person should not get baptized again if he was saved first, and then baptized in the proper manner by a Scriptural church.
1. Romans 6:4 shows that when we go down into the water, we are picturing the death and burial of Jesus Christ. When we come up out of the water (verse 5), it pictures His ________________________, and our new life in Christ.
To submit ourselves to two baptisms (two proper ones)
once we have been saved is totally against the Bible.
It would then be picturing two deaths, two burials,
and two resurrections of Jesus Christ.
2. Hebrews 9:28 makes it very clear that, “Christ was ________ offered to bear the sins of many.”
Note: To get baptized again would then be picturing that the new life in Christ had ended, and that can never happen.
3. John 6:37 says, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise ________ out.”
4. Hebrews 6:1,2 says that we are not to lay again the foundations which have already been laid: concerning repentance, faith, ________________, laying on of hands, the resurrection, and eternal judgment.
Note: If a foundation has been properly laid, then it will last a lifetime. If you trust Jesus Christ once, then you need never make that decision again — that foundation has been laid. He will last for your “eternal lifetime.” Likewise, if you have followed the Lord in believer’s baptism according to the Bible, then you need never get baptized again.
REVIEW:
1. ______, baptism should be repeated if a person was not saved when he was baptized.
2. If a person was baptized before he was truly born again, then it is his duty to be baptized again. The first time was ______________________, because there was no death to the old life of sin — for he was still a lost sinner.
3. ______, baptism should be repeated if a person was baptized in the wrong manner.
4. If a person’s baptism consisted of being __________________ or poured upon, then it was not done according to the Bible. The person’s duty is to now obey the Lord and get baptized in the proper manner.
5. ______, baptism should be repeated if a person was baptized by an unqualified person.
6. ______, baptism should be repeated if a person was baptized by an unscriptural church.
7. ____, a person should not get baptized again if he was saved first, and then baptized in the proper manner.
8. To submit ourselves to two baptisms once we have been saved is totally against the Bible. It would then be picturing two ____________, two ______________, and two __________________________ of Christ.
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