BIBLE STUDY -- CHAP.21 - BAPTISM

Chapter 21.

1. WHAT ordinance is closely associated with believing the gospel?
"And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is ______________shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Mark 16:15,16.
2. What did the apostle Peter associate with baptism in his instruction on the day of Pentecost?
"Then Peter said unto them, ________________, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins." Acts 2:38.
3. In reply to his inquiry concerning salvation, what was the Philippian jailer told to do?
"And they said, ______________________, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31.
4. What followed immediately after the jailer and his family had accepted Christ as their Saviour?
"And he took them [Paul and Silas] the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was __________ he and all his, straightway." Verse 33.
5. In connection with Christian baptism, what is washed away?
"And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and _______________________, calling on the name of the Lord." Acts 22:16. See Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 3:21.
6. By what means are sins washed away?
"Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins ____________________." Rev. 1:5.
7. Into whose name are believers to be baptized?
"Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the _____________ and of the __________and of the__________." Matt. 28:19, R. V.
8. When believers are baptized into Christ, whom do they put on?
"For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have ___________." Gal. 3:27.
9. Into what experience are those baptized who are baptized into Christ?
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were _______ ____________________?" Rom. 6:3.
NOTE.- Baptism is a gospel ordinance commemorating the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. In baptism public testimony is given to the effect that the one baptized has been crucified with Christ, buried with Him, and is raised with Him to walk in newness of life. Only one mode of baptism can rightly represent these facts of experience, and that is immersion, - the mode followed by Christ and the primitive church.
10. How is such a baptism described?
"Therefore we are _________________________ 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." Verse 4.
11. How fully are we thus united with Christ in His experience of death and resurrection?
"For if we have been _______________ in the likeness of His ________, we shall be also in the likeness of His ______________." Verse 5.
12. What will follow this union with Christ in His death and resurrection?
"Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also ___________." Verse 8.
13. In what working of God is faith to be exercised in connection with baptism?
"Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him ________________ ___________________________________________________." Col. 2:12.
14. At the beginning of His ministry, what example did Jesus set for the benefit of His followers?
"Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be _____________ of him." Matt. 3:13.
15. What remarkable experience attended the baptism of Jesus?
"And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw ________________________________, _______________________: and lo a voice from heaven, saying, ________________ __________________________." Verses 16,17.
16. What promise is made to those who repent and are baptized?
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ________________________________." Acts 2:38.
17. What question did the eunuch ask after Philip had preached Jesus unto him?
"And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; _______________________________________?" Acts 8:36.
18. In order to baptize the eunuch, where did Philip take him?
"And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and ___________________________, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him." Verse 38.
19. How did the people of Samaria publicly testify to their faith in the preaching of Philip?
"But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, ______________________, both men and women." Verse 12.
20. What instruction did the apostle Peter give concerning the Gentiles who had believed?
"Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? ________________________________." Acts 10:47,48.
21. How perfect is the unity into which believers are brought by being baptized into Christ?
"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all _______________________, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all __________________________________." 1 Cor. 12:12,13.
22. After being united with Christ in the likeness of His death and resurrection, what should the believer do?
"If ye then be risen with Christ, _______________________________________, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." Col. 3:1.
________________________________________
Lord, in humble, sweet submission,
Here we meet to follow Thee,
Trusting in Thy great salvation,
Which alone can make us free.
Naught have we to claim as merit;
All the duties we can do
Can no crown of life inherit;
All the praise to Thee is due.
Yet we come in Christian duty,
Down beneath the wave to go;
O the bliss! the heavenly beauty!
Christ the Lord was buried so.
ROBERT T. DANIEL
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BIBLE STUDY -- CHAP.20 -- CONVERSION OR THE NEW BIRTH

Chapter 20.

1. How did Jesus emphasize the necessity of conversion?
"Verily I say unto you, ________________________, and become as little children, _________________________________." Matt. 18:3.
2. In what other statement did He teach the same truth?
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, _______________________, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3.
3. How did he further explain the new birth?
"Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, ____________________________ _____________, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." Verse 5.
4. With what comparison did He illustrate the subject?
"______________ bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: _________________________ _____________." Verse 8.
5. What change is wrought in conversion, or the new birth?
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath _____________ us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)." Eph. 2:5.
6. What is one evidence of this change from death to life?
"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because ___________________. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." 1 John 3:14.
7. From what is a converted sinner saved?
"Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from ______________, and shall hide a multitude of sins." James 5:20. See Acts 26:14-18.
8. To whom are sinners brought by conversion?
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. . . . Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall be _________________________." Ps. 51:10-13.
9. In what words to Peter did Jesus indicate the kind of service a converted person should render to his brethren?
"And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and _______ _____________________________________." Luke 22:31,32.
10. What other experience is associated with conversion?
"For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be ______________, and I should ___________________." Matt. 13:15.
11. What gracious promise does God make to His people?
"___________________________, I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away from him." Hosea 14:4.
12. By what means is this healing accomplished?
"He [Christ] was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and ___________________________." Isa. 53:5.
13. What takes place when one is converted to Christ?
"Wherefore if any man is in Christ, __________________: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new." 2 Cor. 5:17, R. V., margin. See Acts 9:1-22; 22:1-21; 26:1-23.
14. What is the value of merely outward forms?
"For in Christ Jesus _________________________________, but a new creature." Gal. 6:15.
15. Through what was the original creation wrought?
"______________________ were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth." Ps. 33:6.
16. Through what instrumentality is conversion wrought?
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, _________________, which liveth and abideth forever." 1 Peter 1:23.
17. What change is wrought by beholding Jesus?
"But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are _____ ___________________ from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Cor. 3:18.
NOTE.- A beautiful statue once stood in the market-place of an Italian city. It was the statue of a Greek slave girl. It represented the slave as tidy and well dressed. A ragged, uncombed little street child, coming across the statue in her play one day, stopped and gazed at it in admiration. She was captivated by it. She gazed long and lovingly. Moved by a sudden impulse, she went home and washed her face and combed her hair. Another day she stopped again before the statue and admired it, and got a new idea. Next day her tattered clothes were washed and mended. Each time she looked at the statue she found something in its beauties to admire and copy, until she was a transformed child. By beholding we become changed.
18. What are the evidences that one has been born of God?
"If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that ____________________________ ________________." "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and ________________________________, and knoweth God." 1 John 2:29; 4:7.
19. What is true of every one who believes in Jesus?
"Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is _______________." 1 John 5:1.
20. What do those born of God not do?
"We know that __________________________________; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." Verse 18.
21. What indwelling power keeps such from sinning?
"Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for ______________________: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." 1 John 3:9. See I John 5:4; Gen. 39:9.
22. What will be the experience of those born of the Spirit?
"There is therefore now _________________________ to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Rom. 8:1.
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