غسل تعمید در آب اغلب به عنوان یک آیین مسیحی در نظر گرفته می شود. وقتی به عیسی مسیح ایمان بیاورید در آب تعمید خواهید گرفت, توبه کردن, and decide to follow Jesus and become a Christian. Many Christians are baptized without really knowing and realizing, what water baptism means. You shouldn’t be baptized out of tradition, a formality, or out of a feeling of obligation or loyalty towards your spouse, کلیسا, خانواده, دوستان, و غیره. That’s not the right reason to be baptized. The baptism in water is indeed an act of obedience to the Word of God. But you have to know, what you are doing and what water baptism means. درسته? There is a group of Christians, who use water baptism as some panacea. They use the baptism in water to deliver people from demonic spirits and for healing purposes. But does the Bible confirm this? پاسخ منفی است! Let’s have a look at the true meaning of water baptism and the importance of baptism. What does the Bible say about baptism?
when is it time to be baptized?
اغلب اتفاق می افتد, چه زمانی ( جوان ) adults or children are baptized, they have wonderful and moving testimonies, but after their baptism, there is no change in their lifestyle. Sometimes their lives change for a short period,. اما بعد از مدتی, they return to their old former life again and pick up their old habits.
نمیدونی, که بسیاری از ما که در عیسی مسیح تعمید یافتیم در مرگ او تعمید یافتیم? بنابراین ما با تعمید در مرگ با او دفن می شویم: مثل اینکه مسیح با شکوه پدر از مردگان بلند شد, حتی بنابراین ما نیز باید در جدید بودن زندگی قدم بزنیم (رومیان 6:3-4)
When is it time to be baptized? When you are fed up with your old dirty life as a sinner and you want to be cleansed from your sins and iniquities.
It’s time when you are ready and willing to lay down and گوشت خود را مصلوب کن (زندگی جسمانی قدیمی شما) and follow Jesus Christ and walk in newness in life with Him in holiness and righteousness after the Spirit. Only then it’s time to be baptized.
What is the meaning of water baptism
Baptism means the crucifixion of your flesh (اراده شما, خواسته های شما, شهوات شما, عواطف, و غیره. (همچنین بخوانید: پیروی از عیسی برای همه چیز برای شما هزینه خواهد کرد).
The baptism means, that the old you, پیرمرد, با عیسی مسیح مصلوب شده است. You are baptized into His death.
Because that’s what baptism means. Baptism means to lay down your old life (طبیعت گناهکار شما) and arise in the newness of life.
The act of baptism is a permanent decision
When you decide to be baptized, you have to realize, that water baptism is a serious act. It’s not a temporary decision, but it’s a permanent decision you make for the rest of your life. You make the decision as a sinner, to turn to Christ, to repent from your current lifestyle, and to crucify and bury your old sinful carnal nature.
دانستن این, که پیر ما با او مصلوب شده است, تا بدن گناه از بین برود, که از این پس نباید خدمت گناه کنیم. زیرا مرده از گناه رهایی یافته است (رومیان 6:6,7)
You don’t want to be a slave of your sins anymore and don’t want to be dictated by your sinful carnal nature and be a بنده شیطان. عوض, you want to be freed from your carnal nature in the flesh, که دارای طبیعت گناه آلود است.
You want to be delivered from the kingdom of darkness and turn to the Kingdom of God.
You don’t want to serve your flesh and the devil anymore, but you want to serve Jesus Christ, your new Lord, and Saviour, and live in obedience to God after His will.
All you want to do is to please Jesus Christ and God the Father and exalt and glorify God through your life.
همه ما می دانیم, that the sinful carnal nature cannot please God. Therefore this sinful carnal nature in which evil dwells has to die.
The old man hasto die before the new man can arise. A new man; از روح خدا متولد شده است. Only when you are born of the Holy Spirit, و به دنبال روح برو, you will be able to please God the Father, و عیسی مسیح (همچنین بخوانید: آیا می توانید زندگی قیامتی را بدون مردن زندگی کنید؟?).
Baptized in Jesus’ مرگ
But I have a baptism to be baptised with; و من چگونه در تنگنا هستم تا آن که محقق شود(لوقا 12:50)
Baptism refers to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and His resurrection. Jesus died for our sinful carnal nature. Jesus took all our sins and iniquities upon Himself and carried them, on the cross. Because Jesus took all our sins and iniquities, Jesus died and went into Hades (همچنین بخوانید: عیسی در جهنم چه کرد؟?).
But Jesus didn’t stay in Hades! Jesus conquered death and was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is alive and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
When James and John asked Jesus, whether they could sit at His left and right hand in the Kingdom of God, عیسی از آنها پرسید: "You know not what you ask: can you drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” (علامت 10:38). They answered Him, that they could.
When Jesus mentioned baptism, Jesus referred to His death (مصلوب شدن; the death of His flesh), and if they were willing to be baptized into His death.
The water baptism is a symbolic sign
It all starts with faith in the Name of Jesus. Then repentance of sins and laying down your carnal life. When you’ve laid down your زندگی قدیمی, you will begin your new life in Jesus Christ. You will no longer walk as the old creation after the flesh, but you will walk as آفرینش جدید (متولد روح القدس) بعد از روح.
You will no longer live the life, you lived, before your repentance and before your baptism. Because when you decided to be baptized, you showed, that you didn’t want to live and walk that way anymore. You said goodbye to your old carnal life (سبک زندگی) and began a new life in the Spirit.
در قلمرو معنوی, you have freely buried your flesh (طبیعت گناهکار شما) in the water. Through the act of water baptism, you’ve indicated that you:
- repented of your sins and iniquities
- wanted to lay down your own life
- didn’t want to be a slave of sin anymore, but wanted to become a slave of righteousness
- didn’t want to keep serving the devil, از طریق نافرمانی خدا, but you wanted to serve Jesus Christ, through obedience to God
- didn’t want to walk in the kingdom of darkness anymore, but you wanted to walk in the light; پادشاهی خدا
Bury the sinful nature in water
هر که ایمان بیاورد و تعمید یابد نجات خواهد یافت; اما کسی که ایمان نیاورد، محکوم خواهد شد (علامت 16:16)
When you are baptized, but keep living the same way as you lived before, or you keep living, درست مثل جهان (living the same life as a carnal person, who doesn’t know God), then this baptism was nothing more, than some kind of religious human ordinance.
Because how can you, when you have buried your old sinful nature, in the water, remain living after your sinful nature? غیر ممکن است!
Have you ever experienced a funeral, where the coffin suddenly opened and the person, که مرده بود, stepped out of the coffin and walked with you back home? نه, البته نه! Because when someone has died and is buried, it means the person is really dead.
This also applies to the carnal nature. When you have crucified your carnal nature with all its sins and iniquities, then this nature has died and is buried in the water through baptism. Unless you have not truly repented and your carnal nature is in a coma.
But when you decide to be baptized in water, you bury your carnal nature and it stays in the water.
An heir of Jesus Christ
تنها راه, تبدیل شدن an heir of Jesus Christ, و وارد ملکوت خدا شوید, و زندگی ابدی را دریافت کنید, is to believe in the Name of Jesus (in His redemptive work, that He has accomplished), be baptized into His death, and raised from the dead, با قدرت روح القدس.
You have crucified your flesh. You have buried your old man in the water, از طریق غسل تعمید. There is no other way to be saved. گوشت شما (طبیعت گناهکار شما) باید بمیرد.
When you come out of the water, you have not only buried your old life but you are raised in the newness of life. A new life, with Jesus Christ as your Master. You shall no longer walk after the flesh but after the Spirit. Because your flesh doesn’t exist anymore. Unless…..
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