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Learn more on the subject her: BAPTIDZO.COM “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). Let us look at the Greek word for “baptism” and examine the history behind it. I know this short sermon may raise some eyebrows, but I am seeking to shed light on the baptism we should desire. This may not sit well with some, but I challenge anyone to prove me wrong concerning this brief history lesson on baptism. I am not suggesting that we should not be baptized—just the opposite. We all need to be baptized. But does that mean we should all be searching for the nearest watering hole to be dunked? Let me be clear to all who are listening: baptism does equal salvation. However, it is not water baptism. The word baptizō originally meant to dip and to dye. In early usage, it described the process of dipping a garment into a vat of dye, leaving it there long enough for the material to absorb the new color, and then pulling it out with a permanently changed outward appearance. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” A person who comes to Jesus Christ can be likened to an old garment that needs to be dipped into a vat so its color can be changed. That person, however, is not dipped into a vat of colored dye but into the precious blood of the Lamb. The blood of Jesus totally transforms a person, making them a new creature in Christ. His countenance is so changed that he even looks different. You could say that the believer has been “dipped and dyed.” What a new light this sheds on baptism. Paul also wrote, “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). Being baptized in the blood is a proclamation that believers have been buried with Christ and raised with Him. When a believer is figuratively blood-baptized, it symbolizes being immersed in the blood vat in one condition and coming out looking brand new. In other words, it is a picture of what happened when that person was saved. This outward symbol represents the fact that the believer has been dipped in the blood of the Lamb, and now his entire life has been newly colored and transformed. A person who has been dipped in the blood of Jesus Christ is newly colored, transformed, and changed forever.

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