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--_R.F. Cottrell._
[Illustration: THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST
"Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness." Matt. 3:15.]
[Illustration: THE FORD OF JORDAN
"John also was baptizing in AEnon near to Salim, because there was much
water there." John 3:23.]
BAPTISM
THE MEMORIAL OF THE RESURRECTION
Baptism is the divinely appointed memorial of the resurrection of
Christ. The great fact of the gospel is that "Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose
again the third day according to the Scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:3, 4), to be
our great High Priest and Saviour.
Baptism is a profession of faith in the Saviour, who went into the grave
for us, and rose again to life. It is the great object-lesson to teach
the truth that the sinner must die to sin and the world, and have a
resurrection by the power of divine grace to a new life of obedience.
The ordinance is the sign of an actual experience, the means by which
the believer confesses the work of grace in the soul.
The Scriptures teach the essential conditions necessary to baptism:
"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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