Remember Your Baptism | Everyday Grace

Today's reminder is from a recent Theocast episode hosted by Pastor Jon Moffitt and Pastor Justin Perdue.

Transcript:

Justin: Here's what we're talking about. Remember your baptism. Here you are today; you're struggling. That's acknowledged. There was a point in time in your life when you were baptized. You received baptism.

It was given to you as a sign of the fact that you've been united to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that he has you, that your sins are forgiven, and there has been the remission of those in Christ Jesus, and God is going to keep you. As a result of your union with Christ, you will be finally saved. There was a time in your life when that occurred.

And here you sit today amid struggles and wrestlings and fears and doubts and all that still meaning to trust the Lord Jesus Christ. And how in the world do you think that happened? It's because God has done that for you. Remember your baptism. And when we say, remember your baptism, we are encouraging you to remember your union with Christ as signified to you through that thing that happened to you.

And this is a means of God's grace to you, and it's his testimony and his pledge to you that you've been united to his son and therefore will never be lost. And so it's just another way for us to talk and to preach the gospel to people that they might look away from themselves unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and look upon the grace of God that they received in the sacrament of baptism.

Jon: That’s so good. So all throughout the Old Testament, God has been instituting signs and symbols. He's been instituting forms by which Israel could look to as remembrances. And so they would build altars, and God would institute different things. I mean, a great example of this is the rainbow in the sky.

We look to the promises of God. And so baptism is another, which by the way, the whole flood and the ark are also used by Peter as an illustration of baptism.

Justin: My flood sermon was called “Brought Safely Through Water” when I preached through Genesis.

Jon: There you go. Yeah. So God, in his kindness and his grace, has given us signs and symbols that we might look at them and say, assuredly, as this has happened, God's promises are a surety to us.

And I love that God, to people who are visible, to people who are tangible that we taste, we see, we look, we feel, and God says in this kindness, I'm going to give you something as a remembrance that you might constantly receive.

Justin: I'm going to give you a sign of my covenant.

Jon: That's right. Yeah. And the purpose of it is not just for you to remember it. It, it's not just a like, oh yeah, that happened. The purpose of it is grace. Amen.

Everyday Grace 019

SUPPORT Theocast:

FACEBOOK:

TWITTER:

INSTAGRAM:
#encouragement #baptism #church