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27 For [gar] as many of you as [hosos] have been baptized [baptizo] into [eis] Christ [Christos] have put on [enduo] Christ [Christos]. KJV-Interlinear
27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. NASB
We remember that anything that any person can do as a form of human effort, is works, and human works is not a part of salvation. But here, this baptism is noted as a category of humanity, and not a sub-category of Christians. This is not saying that some Christians are baptized and some are not. What Paul has already said in the prior verses, is that 'all' who have believed, for that is what faith is, are children of God, all who have faith, which is the thought process of believing, are the sons of God. And the word for 'all' means just that. All have obtained salvation by means of faith, and there is not some other add-on to faith. This is not faith plus baptism, not faith plus raising ones hands, not faith plus witnessing, not faith plus anything else. To add anything to faith is adding works, and works is a dead thing. Faith is life and so why would anyone add a dead thing to life? All are 'in Christ' and so now we have the explanation of just what baptism really is, and at the same time, what it is not. Baptism occurs simultaneously with faith. At the moment when you believed in Christ, you were immediately baptized, in Christ. In other passages that we have studied, we know that it is the Holy Spirit who affects this spiritual baptism. Water or other worldly means of baptism are teaching aids, just as the Law and its ritual sacrifices were teaching aids to teach the spiritual principles of truth including Christs work for our salvation (death, burial, and resurrection). Thus the guardian function of instruction in order to bring people to Christ, by faith. Likewise, when you first believed, you not only were baptized, but you 'put on' Christ. And to put on something is like putting on a new set of clothes, but in this case, your clothes are the salvation clothes of eternal life. Your corruptible clothing of this world is removed and your incorruptible clothing, of the soul, replaces it, permanently. And as we will see, all believers are now saved, all believers are first born sons, all believers have the same new clothing. This eliminates all worldly differences amongst us such as race, color, culture, gender and so forth, and retains within each of us, our individual personality and individuality.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
