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Chapter 28: Of Baptism (Part 2)

Speaker: Reverend Joseph Poon

Website: http://www.bpcwa.org.au/

DOWNLOAD WCF Chapter 28: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10WF3ueV3LBdNneEk6B_dxBzJ5hsFrB9y/view

Introduction - (00:00)

QUESTIONS

WCF 28.1

Q1. When the believer goes through water baptism:

Q1. a) What does it signify? – (07:58)

Q1. b) What does he declare? – (23:19)

Q1. c) Why did Christ command Matthew 28;20? – (32:04)

Q1. d) How should this understanding about baptism impact my life from now onwards? – (39:32)

Q2. In taking the place of the OT circumcision:

Q2. b) Why is it important to know this? – (1:00:02)

Q2. a) Does the NT sacrament of water baptism signify the same substance as OT sacrament of circumcision for the adult believer? What is the substance of both? Support your answer. – (1:00:26)

WCF 28.2

Q3. How would you explain if a person says that to be born again and saved he must be water baptised because of “born of water” in John 3:5. – (1:15:05)

Q4. What is the significance of water used in baptism? What should this remind me of? – (1:22:20)

Q5. Did the OT saints have baptisms? What baptism was it? – (1:26:24)

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CHAPTER XXVIII OF BAPTISM

1. BAPTISM is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,1 not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church;2 but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace,3 of his ingrafting into Christ,4 of regeneration,5 of remission of sins,6 and of his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life:7 which sacrament is, by Christ’s own appointment, to be continued in this church until the end of the world.8

1. Matt. 28:19

2. I Cor. 12:13

3. Rom. 4:11; with Col. 2:11-12

4. Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:5

5. Tit. 3:5

6. Mark 1:4

7. Rom. 6:3-4

8. Matt. 28:19-20

2. The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a minister of the gospel, lawfully called thereunto.9

9. Matt. 3:11; John 1:33; Matt. 28:19-20

3. Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.10

10. Heb. 9:10, 19-22; Acts 2:41; Acts 16:33; Mark 7:4

4. Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ,11 but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptized.12

11. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 8:37-38

12. Gen. 17:7, 9; with Gal. 3:9, 14; and Col. 2:11-12; and Acts 2:38-39; and Rom. 4:11-12; I Cor. 7:14; Matt. 28:19; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15

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Westminster Confession of Faith Series

Bible Presbyterian Church of WA

Friday 10th May 2019

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