Livestream - Baptism: Shirley Crow, Jennie Krul, John Krul, +1 other

Jim Butler

The two baptisms of Christ in Matthew 3 and Matthew 20 provide the theological ground for Christian baptism. In Matthew 3, Christ undergoes water baptism to 'fulfill all righteousness' — inaugurating his public ministry of active obedience in the place of sinners. In Matthew 20, he speaks of a baptism yet to come: being overwhelmed by the cup of divine wrath at Calvary, the passive obedience by which he ransoms his people. Baptism is therefore not a declaration of the believer's achievement but a public identification with the doing, dying, and rising of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom alone sinners are justified before a holy God.