WHY I GET HYPER ABOUT WATER BAPTISM
Question: “How do you get
lukewarm water?”
Answer: “Mix hot and cold
water.”
Question: “How do you get a
lukewarm church?”
Answer: “Mix cold doctrine
with hot doctrine.”
Question: “Why are most
Baptist churches lukewarm?”
Answer: “They mix tradition
(water) with Christian doctrine (no water).”
A typical
conversation:
Question:
“How do you know you are going to heaven?”
Answer:
“Oh, I got water baptised.”
Now most
Baptist churches would be horrified if they thought people would go to
hell
because of this tradition.
So Paul makes it crystal
clear. Paul said “For Christ
sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not
with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of
none effect.”
(1 Corinthians 1:17)
Question: “Oh! But Paul did
water baptize, didn’t he?”
Answer: “Yes, till he
realized that the cross was being made of none effect.”
Question: “So what does the
word “hyper” mean?”
Answer: “To be too strict,
excessive, over the top, going too far.”
Question: “Are we hyper
because we follow Paul?’
Answer: “No. We are simply
being dispensational which means to rightly divide the word of God.”
Paul says “Study to
shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
(dispensational)
the word of
truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15).
Question:
“Was Paul a dispensationalist?”
Answer:
“Yes. Paul says “… a dispensation of the gospel is
committed unto
me.” (1 Corinthians 9:17)
Question:
“Why do Baptists then call Paul a “hyper-dispensationalist?”
Answer:
They love their tradition more than God’s words.
The
scriptures say “Making the word of God of none effect through your
tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” (Mark 7:13)
Question:
“But Paul is just being an ordinary dispensationalist – not a
hyper-dispensationalist?”
Answer:
“Correct”
In
conclusion, let us be reminded …
“If
any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him
acknowledge that
the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.”
(1 Corinthians 14:37)
“Wherefore
I beseech you, be ye followers of me.” (1 Corinthians 4:16)
“If you are being called a hyper-dispensationalist for following Paul about water baptism, then wear that badge with honour and distinction.”
Harley
Hitchcock
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