Water baptism is often considered as a Christian ritual. You’ll be baptized in water when you believe in Jesus Christ, pişman olmak, 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, kilise, aile, Arkadaşlar, ve saire. 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. Sağ? 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? Cevap hayır! 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?
Sık sık olur, Ne zaman ( genç ) 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,. Ama bir süre sonra, they return to their old former life again and pick up their old habits.
Bilmeni bil, İsa Mesih'e vaftiz edilen birçoğumuz ölümüne vaftiz edildik? Bu nedenle vaftizle ölüme gömüldük: Mesih gibi Babanın ihtişamı tarafından ölümden yükseltilmiş gibi, Yine de hayatın yeniliğinde yürümeliyiz (Romalılar 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 etini çarmıha ger (eski cinsel hayatın) 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 (Senin iraden, Arzularınız, şehvetlerin, duygular, ve saire. (Ayrıca okuyun: İsa'yı takip etmek size her şeye mal olacak).
The baptism means, that the old you, yaşlı adam, İsa Mesih ile birlikte çarmıha gerilir. You are baptized into His death.
Because that’s what baptism means. Baptism means to lay down your old life (senin günahkar doğan) 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.
Bunu bilmek, yaşlı adamımızın O'nunla birlikte çarmıha gerildiğini, Günah bedeninin yok edilebileceğini, Bundan sonra günah hizmet etmemeliyiz. Çünkü ölü olan günahtan özgür kılınmıştır (Romalılar 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 şeytanın kölesi. Yerine, you want to be freed from your carnal nature in the flesh, günahkar bir doğaya sahip olan.
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.
Hepimiz Biliyoruz, 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; Tanrı'nın Ruhu'ndan doğmuş. Only when you are born of the Holy Spirit, ve Ruh'un peşinden yürüyün, you will be able to please God the Father, ve İsa Mesih (Ayrıca okuyun: Ölmeden dirilme hayatını yaşayabilir misin??).
Baptized in Jesus’ ölüm
But I have a baptism to be baptised with; ve bu gerçekleşene kadar nasıl daralıyorum(Luka 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 (Ayrıca okuyun: İsa cehennemde ne yaptı??).
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, İsa onlara şunu sordu:: “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?” (İşaret 10:38). They answered Him, that they could.
When Jesus mentioned baptism, Jesus referred to His death (çarmıha gerilme; 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 eski hayat, 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 yeni yaratım (Kutsal Ruh'tan doğmuş) Ruh'tan sonra.
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 (yaşam tarzı) and began a new life in the Spirit.
Manevi alemde, you have freely buried your flesh (senin günahkar doğan) suda. 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, Tanrıya itaatsizlik yoluyla, 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; Tanrı'nın Krallığı
Bury the sinful nature in water
İman eden ve vaftiz edilen kurtulacaktır; ama inanmayan lanetlenecek (İşaret 16:16)
When you are baptized, but keep living the same way as you lived before, or you keep living, tıpkı dünya gibi (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, eski günahkar doğanı gömdüğünde, suda, günahkar doğanızdan sonra yaşamaya devam edin? Bu imkansız!
Hiç cenaze töreni yaşadınız mı?, tabutun aniden açıldığı ve kişinin, kim ölmüştü, tabuttan çıktım ve seninle eve yürüdüm? Hayır, Tabii ki değil! Çünkü birisi öldüğünde ve gömüldüğünde, bu kişinin gerçekten öldüğü anlamına gelir.
Bu aynı zamanda cinsel doğa için de geçerlidir. Bedensel doğanı tüm günahları ve kötülükleriyle birlikte çarmıha gerdiğin zaman, o zaman bu doğa öldü ve vaftiz yoluyla suya gömüldü. Gerçekten tövbe etmediğiniz sürece ve dünyevi doğanız komada olmadığı sürece.
Ancak suda vaftiz edilmeye karar verdiğinizde, bedensel doğanı gömersin ve o suda kalır.
İsa Mesih'in varisi
Tek Yol, olmak İsa Mesih'in varisi, ve Tanrı'nın Krallığına girin, ve sonsuz yaşamı al, İsa'nın Adına inanmaktır (O'nun kurtarıcı çalışmasında, O'nun başardığını), O'nun ölümüne vaftiz edilmek, ve ölümden diriltildi, Kutsal Ruh'un gücü ile.
Sen etini çarmıha gerdin. Yaşlı adamını suya gömdün, vaftiz yoluyla. Kurtulmanın başka yolu yok. Senin etin (senin günahkar doğan) ölmek zorunda.
Sudan çıktığında, sadece eski hayatınızı gömmekle kalmadınız, aynı zamanda hayatın yeniliğiyle de büyüdünüz. Yeni bir hayat, Efendiniz İsa Mesih ile. Artık bedenin peşinden değil, Ruh'un peşinden yürümeyeceksin. Çünkü senin bedenin artık yok. Meğer ki…..
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