First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Morning Service

How We Worship: Baptism


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And you know, that makes sense on this side of eternity because the Bible says a whole lot about baptism and the Lord’s Supper, both through shadows and literally in the New Testament. And there are spectrums and nuances and angles and allegories and all sorts of things that are tricky to capture. And this is not surprising because the word “sacrament” in itself means “mystery.” It has the nuance of mystery - that the sacraments are deep mysteries. Just listen to 1 Corinthians 10:2 where Paul says this - “The Israelites were baptized into Moses.” What does it mean to be baptized into Moses? That preposition doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in modern English - “into Moses”? And so we can expect, before Christ comes again, that we’ll have all sorts of ways of looking at this. But we need to come to the Bible and grapple with what God says about baptism. Because as the old theologians used to say, “Baptism is the beautiful divine gift of God to the Church.” 

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