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HAB-071 and 072

HAB-071 and 072. The Boots and the Gospel: Baptism and Lordship. The Boots. “Also having put combat boots on your feet, with the equipment of the Gospel, specifically peace (reconciliation)” (expanded trans., Eph. 6:15).

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HAB-071 and 072

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  1. HAB-071 and 072 The Boots and the Gospel: Baptism and Lordship

  2. The Boots • “Also having put combat boots on your feet, with the equipment of the Gospel, specifically peace (reconciliation)” (expanded trans., Eph. 6:15). • The equipment for full preparedness in witnessing is the knowledge of Bible doctrine pertinent to salvation, described here as "the gospel (good news) of peace.” H&B-071 and 072

  3. The Boots and the Gospel • But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost [Spirit] is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8). • Who is responsible for the declaration of the Gospel - the good news of Salvation - to the unbelieving World? • Personal evangelism is the responsibility of EVERY believer in the Lord Jesus Christ! H&B-071 and 072

  4. The Boots and the Gospel • His command is repeated in several of the epistles; thus the Apostle Paul reminded the Corinthians that they were to be ambassadors for Christ (2 Cor. 5:20). • An ambassador is a high-ranking minister of state, often a member of royalty or nobility, sent to another state to represent his sovereign or official business. H&B-071 and 072

  5. The Boots and the Gospel • Like earthly ambassadors, we did not appoint ourselves but were appointed by Our Savior to represent Him on earth as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords while He is at the right hand of the Father. • As the heavenly King's personal representatives on the earth, we are in full-time Christian service, regardless of our vocation or profession. H&B-071 and 072

  6. The Boots and the Gospel • It is a well-known fact that you cannot communicate what you do not know! • If your knowledge of the good news of salvation is fuzzy, so will be your presentation. • As a result, the person to whom you witness will have no clear understanding of the Gospel or the issue in salvation. • Often, there is too much zeal in witnessing and too little knowledge. H&B-071 and 072

  7. The Boots and the Gospel • For example, zealous but ignorant Christians have a mistaken idea of what constitutes genuine conversion; usually, they want everyone to give up his sins and change his wicked ways. • Yet salvation is entirely the work of God! Therefore, if you want to be effective in witnessing, it is imperative that you understand your subject. • In order to tell others of God's Plan of salvation; you should at least know what that Plan is all about! H&B-071 and 072

  8. The Boots and the Gospel • Furthermore, you should be cognizant of where your part in witnessing ends and that of the Holy Spirit begins; you should master the prerequisites for successful personal evangelism. • What, then, is the minimal knowledge standard for effective witnessing? H&B-071 and 072

  9. The Boots and the Gospel • 1. Witnessing is the responsibility of every believer. • There are two areas in which you may witness - your life (2 Cor. 3:3; 6:3) and your lips (2 Cor. 5:14-21; 6:2). H&B-071 and 072

  10. The Boots and the Gospel • 2. Witnessing involves knowledge of Bible doctrines pertinent to salvation, including: • Christology, • Soteriology, • Reconciliation, • the Judgment of Human Good • and the Last Judgment. H&B-071 and 072

  11. The Boots and the Gospel • 3. Clarity of witnessing demands your accurate understanding of the two deaths - spiritual and physical of Jesus Christ on the Cross. • 4. The challenge of witnessing comes from the Doctrine of Unlimited Atonement (1 John 2:2). Christ died for all mankind! • 5. The dynamics of witnessing are determined by your mental attitude and are related to your spiritual growth or maturity. H&B-071 and 072

  12. The Boots and the Gospel • 6. The effectiveness of witnessing depends on the ministry of God the Holy Spirit. • 7. Confidence in witnessing comes from your own assurance of eternal security. • 8. The reward of witnessing is a part of your blessings in time and in eternity. - Thieme H&B-071 and 072

  13. The Gospel (Good News) • "It is likewise asserted that salvation is through Christ alone, and that it is secured, on the human side, by faith alone uncomplicated by any works of merit." - L.S. Chafer H&B-071 and 072

  14. The Gospel (Good News) • L.S. Chafer: • "Outside The Doctrines related to the Person and work of Christ, there is no truth more far-reaching in its implications and no fact more to be defended than that salvation in all its limitless magnitude is secured, so far as human responsibility is concerned, by believing on Christ as Savior. • To this one requirement no other obligation may be added without violence to the Scriptures and total disruption of the essential doctrine of salvation by grace alone. H&B-071 and 072

  15. The Gospel (Good News) • The Gospel (Good News) • John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him." H&B-071 and 072

  16. The Boots • Now THAT IS GOOD NEWS! Christ solved the sin problem on the Cross; and it is for you to deliver God's message of grace: • “Also having put combat boots on your feet, with the equipment of the Gospel, specifically -peace (reconciliation)” (expanded trans., Eph. 6:15). H&B-071 and 072

  17. From our Statement of Faith • We believe that salvation comes to the sinner only by faith alone in Christ alone; that there is no other means of salvation afforded to the human race, including baptism, church membership, emotional guilt over personal sin, good deeds, philanthropic activity, so-called 'repentance', communion, or any other physical or emotional act or state. Salvation is based solely on the spiritual death of Christ on the Cross and can only be received through reliance on the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ (Isa. 64:6; Jn. 3:16, 18, 36; Acts 4:12; 16:31; Rom. 3:10-17; Eph. 2:8, 9). H&B-071 and 072

  18. The Gospel (Good News) • There are distinct steps in the process of Salvation: • Recognition • Repentance • Reliance • Regeneration H&B-071 and 072

  19. The Gospel (Good News) • Recognition noun • a learning process that relates a perception of something new to knowledge already possessed. • Theological definition: The point at which the unbeliever is "convinced" by the Holy Spirit that he is unable to meet God’s Standard, and requires Christ, who is able, as his Substitute. H&B-071 and 072

  20. The Gospel (Good News) • Recognition • And when He [the Comforter] is come, He will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. (John 16:8) • No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him. John 6:44 • "He shall convince the world of sin. ” H&B-071 and 072

  21. The Gospel (Good News) • In the NT there are 115 declarations that the lost are to depend ONLY on believing. • In another 35 they are to depend ONLY upon faith. • Yet millions of Christians (really "Relig-ians"), from legalistic individuals to entire legalistic denominations, attempt to coerce those whom God calls into their box, requiring some religious activity to stamp the process of salvation "legitimate". H&B-071 and 072

  22. The Gospel (Good News) • There are numerous additions to the simple but accurate Faith, Believe, Trust, or Rely means to salvation: • 1. Believe and Pray • 2. Believe and Confess before men • 3. Believe and Confess your sins • 4. Believe and Repent of your sins • 5. Believe and be Baptized • 6. Lordship Salvation. (New) H&B-071 and 072

  23. The Gospel (Good News) • 1. Believe and Pray • Invite Christ into your heart. • Repeat a prayer formula. • Pray to tell God you are sorry. • Pray to ask God to save you. H&B-071 and 072

  24. The Gospel (Good News) • 2. Believe and Confess before men. • Found only in the Kingdom teachings of Mt. 10:32. • 3. Believe and Confess your sins. • An erroneous application of the 1 John 1:9 verse addressed to Believers. H&B-071 and 072

  25. The Gospel (Good News) • 4. Believe and Repent of your sins. • 6 verses can be found that couple repentance, believing and salvation. • However, the book of John that repeatedly reveals the plan of salvation never uses the word repentance. • Romans, the advanced exposition of the doctrine of salvation omits repentance at every prescription. H&B-071 and 072

  26. The Gospel (Good News) • Repentance: • (Defn) • Metanoeo - Meta = change; and Noeo = thinking. • To change your thinking. H&B-071 and 072

  27. The Gospel (Good News) • There are 150 salvation statements with "Faith" or "Believe", but without "Repentance". • When the true meaning of repentance is known, it is obvious that repentance is a part of the believing process, and a direct result of the Recognition process. H&B-071 and 072

  28. The Gospel (Good News) • When one recognizes that nothing BUT Christ will do, we are forced to change our mind (metanoeo) and believe. • The New Testament call to repentance is not an urge to self-condemnation or self-reformation, but is a call to a change of mind which promotes a change in the belief system being pursued. H&B-071 and 072

  29. The Gospel (Good News) • This definition of this word as it is used in the New Testament is fundamental. • Little or no progress can be made in a right induction of the Word of God on this theme, unless the true and accurate meaning of the word is discovered and defended throughout." - L.S. Chafer H&B-071 and 072

  30. The Gospel (Good News) • Repentance does NOT mean "Give up sinning", it means "Change your mind". • Not one verse has in the context the hint of personal sins as the object of repentance. • It is clear that the object of repentance is the Lord Jesus Christ, and to "give Him up" would be ludicrous to all but the most legalistic of cults. H&B-071 and 072

  31. The Gospel (Good News) • Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Romans 10:1-3 H&B-071 and 072

  32. The Gospel (Good News) • "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out...," said Peter (Acts 3:19). • Repentance is part of the process of Believing. • It is the result of Recognition in the Appraisal Process on the part of the hearer who then is faced with the decision to choose Faith in Christ. H&B-071 and 072

  33. The Event Perception Appraisal The Representation I Agree The Volitional Interlude I Disagree Faith Unbelief The Good News S A M B A K God The Father Calls The Holy Spirit Convinces Believe in Christ OR H&B-071 and 072

  34. The Gospel (Good News) • Conclusion: • "As before stated, repentance, which is a change of mind, is included in believing. • No individual can turn to Christ from some other confidence without a change of mind, and that, it should be noted, is all the repentance a spiritually dead individual can ever effect." - L.S. Chafer H&B-071 and 072

  35. The Gospel (Good News) • That change of mind is the work of the Spirit (Eph. 2:8). • It will be considered, too, by those who are amenable to the Word of God, that the essential preparation of heart which the Holy Spirit accomplishes in the unsaved to prepare them for an intelligent and voluntary acceptance of Christ as Savior—as defined in John 16:8–11—is not a sorrow for sin. The unsaved who come under this divine influence are illuminated—given a clear understanding—concerning but one sin, namely, that “They believe not on me.”- L.S. Chafer H&B-071 and 072

  36. The Gospel (Good News) • 5. Believe and be Baptized • Only 1 verse (Mark 16:16) joins these together. • This verse is not included in the oldest manuscripts. • It is evident from the final statement, "he that believes not shall be condemned", that baptism is not the essential element, anyway. H&B-071 and 072

  37. The Gospel (Good News) • In any discussion respecting the word βαπτίζω it must be recognized that this term is used in the New Testament to represent two different things—a real baptism by the Spirit of God by which the believer is joined in union to Christ and is in Christ, and a ritual baptism with water. John distinguished these when he said, “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire” (Matt. 3:11). H&B-071 and 072

  38. The Gospel (Good News) • Though this word sustains a primary and secondary meaning and these are closely related ideas, the fact that the same identical word is used for both real and ritual baptism suggests an affiliation between the two ideas with which this word is associated. • In fact, Ephesians 4:5 declares that there is but one baptism. • The word itself means “identification” and comes from the concept of immersion into something. H&B-071 and 072

  39. The Gospel (Good News) • The question naturally arises when it is asserted that one must believe and be baptized, whether a real or a ritual baptism is in view. • There are two passages demanding attention: • Mark 16:15–16. “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” (verse not found in oldest manuscripts) H&B-071 and 072

  40. The Gospel (Good News) • A Religious inattention to the evidence which serves as proof that reference is made in this text to real baptism by the Spirit, has characterized the interpretation of the passage. • This evidence should at least be weighed for all that it is. • Should it prove upon examination that reference is made to real baptism by the Spirit, which is the baptism essential to salvation, the difficulty of a supposed regenerating water baptism is immediately dismissed. H&B-071 and 072

  41. The Gospel (Good News) • These points must be universally admitted (Chafer): • 1. The passage does not declare a ritual baptism by express statement; • 2. It contains no statement which involves a ritual baptism as a necessary inference; • 3. The Scriptures present both a real and a ritual baptism, one or the other of which will meet the exigencies of any elliptically stated baptism; H&B-071 and 072

  42. The Gospel (Good News) • 4. That baptism which meets, in its scripturally defined nature and power, the requirements of any particular passage, must be the baptism designed by such passage. • Ritual baptism has no direct connection with this passage, in general, because, the passage treats of salvation and its conditions, belief and baptism, which, when examined in light of the other pertinent scriptures, must reflect the real Baptism by the Holy Spirit. H&B-071 and 072

  43. The Gospel (Good News) • The use of Believe and Saved, as well as “baptized,” is elliptical. • “Believe” has in the New Testament a double usage; the one limited to the action of the intellect, as, “the devils believe and tremble”; the other embraces and controls the actions of the heart, as, “with the heart we believe unto righteousness.” • It is the higher form of “belief” that is universally recognized as belonging to this passage. H&B-071 and 072

  44. The Gospel (Good News) • “Saved,” also, is used in the New Testament, with a double application; as of the body, “all hope that we should be saved was taken away”; and of the soul, “He shall save his people from their sins.” • Again it is this higher salvation that is accepted without question. • So also, “baptized” is used in a lower and a higher meaning; applied in the one case to the body, as “I baptized you with water”; and in the other case applied to the soul, as “He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” H&B-071 and 072

  45. The Gospel (Good News) • By what logic, now, can “believe,” and “saved,” be taken in their highest sense, and “baptized,” in the same sentence and in the same construction, be brought down to the lowest? • Such diversity of interpretation is unnatural and without any just support. • The only tenable supply of the ellipsis must be, “He that believeth” (with the heart upon Christ), “and is baptized” (by the Holy Ghost into Christ) “shall be saved” (by the redemption of Christ). H&B-071 and 072

  46. The Gospel (Good News) • The new relation to Christ of being in Him is wrought by the Holy Spirit’s baptism, and must be present for there to be any true salvation. • On the other hand, all who have been saved have been saved quite apart from ritual baptism. • The form of speech which this text presents is common in the Bible, namely, that of passing from the main subject to one of the features belonging to that subject, as, “Thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak” (Luke 1:20). The word dumb is amplified by the words not able to speak. H&B-071 and 072

  47. The Gospel (Good News) • Also, at Ephesus the Apostle Paul found certain men who were resting their confidence in water baptism, “John’s baptism,” who confessed “We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Spirit” (Acts 19:1–3). • In other words, the student would do well to note that the truth regarding the baptism with the Spirit is itself more important than water baptism. H&B-071 and 072

  48. The Gospel (Good News) • If water baptism was essential for salvation it would have been mentioned in the 150 plainly stated salvation passages of the New Testament. • “The above examination of two passages, on which the idea of baptismal regeneration is made to rest, has sought to demonstrate that ritual baptism, however administered, is not a condition which is to be added to believing as a necessary step in salvation.” – L.S. Chafer H&B-071 and 072

  49. The Gospel (Good News) • Lordship or Surrender Salvation: • “On account of its subtlety due to its pious character, no confusing intrusion into the doctrine that salvation is conditioned alone upon believing is more effective than the added demand that the unsaved must dedicate themselves to do God’s will in their daily life, as well as to believe upon Christ.” – L.S. Chafer H&B-071 and 072

  50. The Gospel (Good News) • The desirability of dedication to God on the part of every believer is obvious, and is stressed in the Bible. • Many sincere people who are inattentive to doctrine are easily led to suppose that this same dedication, which is voluntary in the case of the believer, should be a necessity in the case of the unsaved. • Others, whose role, they believe, is that of the Holy Spirit, wish to make it a requirement of salvation, so as to leave no doubt about it. H&B-071 and 072

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