Episode Details

Chapter 28: Of Baptism (Part 5)

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 28.5

Q1. Why should an adult believer not neglect water baptism? Is it a sin? What is the sin? – (20:14)

Q2. What are some reasons they may have for avoiding it and how should it be addressed? – (37:11)

Q3. How did God view Moses’ failure to infant circumcise one of his sons? Why? Should believing parents avoid infant baptism? Why? What if they refuse to today? – (49:50)

Q4. Does water baptism save a person? How do you know? What about: – (55:30)

Q4. a) John 3:5?

Q4. b) 1 Peter 3:21?

Q4. c) Acts 2:38?

Q5. If water baptism does not save, and does not mean a water baptized person saved; why should born again believers make the commitment to be water baptized? – (1:20:33)

Q6. Does it mean that any one person who has been water baptized is a truly born again saved believer? Is there example of such a one? Why is that so? What about you? – (1:21:36)

WCF 28.6

Q7. What does it mean “the efficacy is not tied to that moment wherein it is administered” mean regarding water baptism? – (1:25:42)

Q8. Does the second part of WCF 28.6 mean that a special blessing of grace occurs also at the point of water baptism in the adult and infant? Please explain. – (1:28:40)

Q9. Should we baptize the dead like the Mormons do? What about 1 Corinthians 15:29-30? – (1:44:02)

WCF 28.7

Q10. How many times should we water baptize a believer? – (1:45:16)

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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 5th July 2019

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