TC3.Church | Family Celebration Sunday | 10:30am Service

The Greek word for for baptism literally means to dip or to or to plunge. It is the word for dying clothes, and and it's like dipping a a white cloth into purple dye, and the purple dye would would begin to the, the properties of the purple dye would begin to come onto the white cloth. And that's what's happening to us as followers of Jesus. We are now dipped and soaked and wrapped in the blood of Jesus so that the properties of Jesus now become who we are. [00:42:10] (29 seconds)  #DippedInGrace

for any introvert in the room, we're gonna offer up an opportunity for people that may not have signed up to get baptized today. And any introvert in the room is gonna be like, I'm gonna wait until they dismiss and everybody is gone, and I'm gonna come into the pool then. Don't do it. This is not just for you. This is for the body of Christ Jesus to celebrate with you. This is a visible sermon on display. [00:39:16] (26 seconds)  #BaptizeTogether

Thirdly, it's a con it's an expression of faith. Paul writes to the Colossians, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead. And so baptism is an outward expression of us dying to our flesh in our former way of life and walking in this newness of life that God has promised us. [00:41:45] (25 seconds)  #ExpressionOfFaith

Hey. Here's the deal. We're gonna talk about what baptism is, its meaning, its purpose, and and what happens. Right? So baptism gets its meaning and its importance from the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's it's not just this religious ritual that we do. There's three reasons that that baptism are important, and the first is simple. It's commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ. [00:35:15] (24 seconds)  #CommandedByChrist

And so what I love about baptism, oftentimes we'll get requests to come and do baptisms for for people on an individual basis, and some of that is because they have they have physical ailments that they cannot come into the house or into the beach. But let's be really clear about this. Baptism is intended as a blessing, not just for the individual getting baptized. This is not an individual event. [00:38:21] (26 seconds)  #BaptismIsForAll

first, it's commanded by God. Secondly, it it shows that we are now united with Christ Jesus. There is this now union with with Christ that has happened when we connect to the life changing power of Jesus Christ. When you confess with your mouth and you believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, you now have union with Christ Jesus. [00:36:29] (22 seconds)  #UnitedWithChrist

This is what it looks like to say, I'm actually laying my life down, and I am surrendering my life to Jesus. And you just need to know that somebody needs to see it because it may prompt somebody to surrender. I was watching my kids the other day because my wife left me. She came back. She came back. [00:39:42] (20 seconds)  #PublicSurrender

This is a visible sermon for us. And so we ought to remember just like we talked about last week that that there is this spiritual formation. There is this, rhythm of grace that we should practice of remembrance, and baptism should remind us of God's grace towards us. us. [00:41:27] (18 seconds)  #RhythmOfGrace