O batismo nas águas é frequentemente considerado um ritual cristão. Você será batizado nas águas quando acreditar em Jesus Cristo, arrepender-se, 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, igreja, família, amigos, etc.. 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. Certo? 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? A resposta é não! 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?
Muitas vezes acontece, quando ( jovem ) 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,. Mas depois de um tempo, they return to their old former life again and pick up their old habits.
Sei que você não, que tantos de nós que fomos batizados em Jesus Cristo fomos batizados em Sua morte? Portanto, estamos enterrados com ele pelo batismo na morte: que, assim como Cristo foi levantado dentre os mortos pela glória do Pai, assim também nós devemos andar em novidade de vida (Romanos 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 crucifique sua carne (sua antiga vida carnal) 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 (sua vontade, seus desejos, seus desejos, emoções, etc.. (Leia também: Seguir Jesus vai custar-lhe tudo).
The baptism means, that the old you, o velho homem, é crucificado com Jesus Cristo. You are baptized into His death.
Because that’s what baptism means. Baptism means to lay down your old life (sua natureza pecaminosa) 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.
Sabendo disso, que nosso velho é crucificado com ele, que o corpo do pecado pode ser destruído, daqui em diante não devemos servir o pecado. Pois quem está morto está liberto do pecado (Romanos 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 escravo do diabo. Em vez de, you want to be freed from your carnal nature in the flesh, que possui uma natureza pecaminosa.
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.
Todos nós sabemos, 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; nascido do Espírito de Deus. Only when you are born of the Holy Spirit, e ande segundo o Espírito, you will be able to please God the Father, e Jesus Cristo (Leia também: Você pode viver a vida da ressurreição sem morrer?).
Baptized in Jesus’ morte
But I have a baptism to be baptised with; e como estou tenso até que isso seja realizado(Lucas 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 (Leia também: O que Jesus fez no inferno?).
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, Jesus perguntou-lhes: “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?” (Marca 10:38). They answered Him, that they could.
When Jesus mentioned baptism, Jesus referred to His death (a crucificação; 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 antiga vida, 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 a nova criação (nascido do Espírito Santo) depois do Espírito.
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 (estilo de vida) and began a new life in the Spirit.
No reino espiritual, you have freely buried your flesh (sua natureza pecaminosa) 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, através da desobediência a Deus, 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; O Reino de Deus
Bury the sinful nature in water
Aquele que acredita e é batizado deve ser salvo; Mas aquele que acredita não será condenado (Marca 16:16)
When you are baptized, but keep living the same way as you lived before, or you keep living, assim como o mundo (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? É impossível!
Have you ever experienced a funeral, where the coffin suddenly opened and the person, quem estava morto, stepped out of the coffin and walked with you back home? Não, claro que não! 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
A única maneira, para se tornar an heir of Jesus Christ, e entre no Reino de Deus, e receba a vida eterna, 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, pelo poder do Espírito Santo.
You have crucified your flesh. You have buried your old man in the water, através do batismo. There is no other way to be saved. Sua carne (sua natureza pecaminosa) tem que morrer.
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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