The Old Has Passed Away | Baptism & The New Creation

Don’t dig up what God buried. Don’t wear what Christ stripped off. Don’t live like someone you’re not.

Baptism is not the end of your testimony—it’s the beginning. It is the first step on the narrow road. The start of a journey where we “present our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God” (Rom. 12:1).


VIII. A Word to the Waiting
If you have trusted in Christ but have not been baptized, let me ask plainly: what are you waiting for?

Baptism is not optional. It is not secondary. It is the command of Christ and the testimony of the Church.

In Acts 22:16, Ananias told Paul:

“And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.”

If the old has passed away—then say so. Proclaim it. Declare it. Bury it. And rise to walk in newness of life.




Footnotes

1. John MacArthur, Romans: Volume 1 (Moody Publishers, 1991), p. 322.
2. Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Romans 6.
3. William Perkins, A Golden Chain, in Works, Vol. 6 (Reformation Heritage Books, 2015), p. 112.
4. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Life in Christ: Studies in 1 John (Crossway, 2002), p. 88.
5. William Perkins, Treatise on the Order of Causes, in Works, Vol. 4, p. 257.