Subjects of Baptism, Part 1 (in the Gospels)

In this part of the sermon: Martin explores the first mention of 'baptizo' in the Septuagint (2 Kings 5:14) to understand its original meaning. He uses the analogy of a bath versus a shower to illustrate…

Martin uses the analogy of taking a bath versus taking a shower to explain the fundamental difference between immersion (solid into liquid) and sprinkling (liquid onto solid), clarifying the meaning of 'baptizo'.

how many ways are there to wash yourself?

18:08 - 18:10 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There is no record instance indication whatsoever that John ever baptized anyone who would not or who could not confess his sins and repent.

Martin quotes John Owen to show that even paedobaptist authors agree that John the Baptist only baptized those who confessed their sins and professed repentance.

T.E. Watson in his little book Should Infants Be Baptized quotes from several Pado-Baptist authors who also agree with this conclusion concerning John's baptism so that the conclusion that appears to be right here on the surface of the text that the subjects of John's baptism were those who manifested the fruits of repentance and who confessed their sins this conclusion is also seen and recognized and reached by many Pado-Baptist authors. Take, for example, John Owen who writes in his works volume 6 page 465 concerning the first institution of baptism he says and I quote God calls a man in a m...

28:55 - 30:24 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There is no record instance indication whatsoever that John ever baptized anyone who would not or who could not confess his sins and repent.

Martin quotes William Cunningham to further support the point that John's baptism was a 'baptism of repentance' requiring a profession of repentance.

T.E. Watson in his little book Should Infants Be Baptized quotes from several Pado-Baptist authors who also agree with this conclusion concerning John's baptism so that the conclusion that appears to be right here on the surface of the text that the subjects of John's baptism were those who manifested the fruits of repentance and who confessed their sins this conclusion is also seen and recognized and reached by many Pado-Baptist authors. Take, for example, John Owen who writes in his works volume 6 page 465 concerning the first institution of baptism he says and I quote God calls a man in a m...

28:55 - 30:24 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There is no record instance indication whatsoever that John ever baptized anyone who would not or who could not confess his sins and repent.

Martin quotes Thomas Boston, commenting on Acts 19, to reinforce that John baptized none but those who confessed their sins, indicating repentance preceded baptism.

and baptism to repentance because he required of all whom he admitted to baptism a profession of repentance. Thomas Boston speaks the same way in his works on page 384 quoting from Acts 19 he says or commenting he says John verily baptized in the baptism of repentance not in respect of repentance to come after but going before for John baptized none but those that confessed their sins so that this that appears to be patent on the surface of the text is recognized by many paedo Baptist authors and themselves now then having said that with regard to John's baptism we come then to Christian bapti...

30:24 - 31:51 Read in full sermon

The point: Acknowledge that infant baptism cannot be explicitly shown from scripture to have been instituted or practiced by Jesus Christ.

Martin quotes B.B. Warfield, a prominent paedobaptist, who concedes that the New Testament lacks an express command, record, or stringent implication for infant baptism, which Martin uses to support his argument that Jesus did not institute it.

one of the greatest exegetes I'll probably quote this three or four times but one of the greatest exegetes in my estimation of the new testament who has ever lived B.B. Warfield makes the following statement in his article addressing the issue the polemics of infant baptism found in his studies in theology page 399 it is true that there is no express command to baptize infants in the new testament no express record of the baptism of infants and no passages so stringently implying it that we must infer from them that infants were baptized no example no command and nothing from which we must dra...

49:15 - 50:44 Read in full sermon