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There are seven (7) types of baptisms in the scripture for the people of God:
1.The Flood
Genesis 7:1 – 9:17, Hebrews 11:7, 1 Peter 3:18-21
Noah was a preacher of righteousness. He preached for 120 years and then the judgement came that Noah had preached and all were swept away by the flood. Noah condemned the world. because God spoke to him and he believed the words of God and he did what God said and everybody else in the world didn't. Noah became heir of the righteousness which is by faith in God's Word
Through the water the world was destroyed, Noah and his family were saved, and God established a new covenant with him and his seed. (Genesis 9:9)
1 Peter 3:18-21
These spirits which were in prison was those Nephilim that were destroyed by the flood. He preached to them his victory. He did not preach any Gospel to them for they had no hope. These angels or spirits left their first estate and descended down to earth. There is no redemption for them. Noah and his family (8 souls) were saved by water. The water destroyed the evil Nephilim and their descendants. The like figure even baptism doth also now save us.
The blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins and the Bible says that Moses sprinkled the book of the law and all the people with water and blood that they put in a basin blood of bulls and goats. See he sprinkled the people but that didn't take away their sins. That only rolled away their sins for another year every time the high priest went into the holy place the Holy of Holies on the day of atonement year after year. This continued until Acts 2:38. Now we have remission of sins.
2. The Red Sea
Exodus 14:13-30, Psalms 106:8-12, 1 Corinthians 10:1,2
Noah's descendants through Shem came Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, to Jacob's 12 sons, to the Nation of Israel. They went down to Egypt for 400 years and became a large nation.
God led them out of Egypt (after the plagues) and brought them straight tto the water. Why? Because it was time for them to be redeemed. Israel was getting mad at Moses, thought he had brought them here to die. God had a different plan.
At the Red Sea the Egyptians were destroyed and Israel was saved. The Lord established a new covenant with Moses at Mt Sinai. As soon as they were baptized in the Red Sea the went Mt Sinai and God gave them the 10 commandments.
Psalms 106:8-12
1 Corinthians 10:1-2
The cloud was the Spirit of God. Then the passed through the Sea on dry ground. They were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. A baptism is when something is immersed underwater and it comes out different than when it went in.
Just like in Act 19...Paul passed through the upper coast and came to Ephesus he found some disciples and he asked them unto what were you baptized and the said unto John's baptism. Whenever a person is baptized he is baptized unto something
Through the water the Egyptians were destroyed, Israel was saved, and God established a new covenant with them through Moses at Mount Sinai.
3. The Jordan River (Joshua)
Joshua 3:7 – 5:9
After Israel was baptized in the Red Sea the Lord became displeased with them. He was displeased because he told them to take the Land of Canaan but Israel was afraid and refused because of the people that were in the land. For this reason the Lord let Israel wander in the wilderness for 40 years. Remember 10 of the 12 spies brought back an evil report about the land. They reported it was great land but we can't take the land cause the people are too tall. For this reason the Lord killed off the entire generation except Joshua and Caleb in the wilderness. He gave the promise land to their children instead. Joshua and Caleb was the only ones who had a true heard after the Lord. They told the people that God had given them the land and to go take the land but the people refused.
Psalms 95:6-11
That evil generation wandered in the wilderness for 40 years and their children which they said were a prey. They whined and complained that God brought them out into the wilderness to kill their children. Their children didn't know any better so God raised them up and 40 years later they went into the promise land under the leadership of Joshua.
Joshua 5:1-9
Now Israel has the Ark of the Covenant with them and they passed through the water. The children had not yet been circumcised
Deuteronomy 10:16 "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked."
The circumcision was the token of the Covenant.
Today circumcision is still a token of the Covenant but not circumcision after the manner of Moses or after the manner of Abraham but the Circumcision of Christ which is a circumcision of the heart.
Romans 2:29
Colossians 2:6-14
(11 & 12) "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made with hands, in putting off the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead."
When you are baptized in Jesus name you receive the circumcision of the heart.
When the children of Israel passed through the Jordan River their parents who died in the wilderness were filled with the wickedness of Egypt. They were filled with everything the had learned in Egypt so God destroyed them. He marched them around in the wilderness until they died. God would not let them into the promise land. Now they died and the reproach of Egypt that was in them the customs and the filth of Egypt that was in that generation died with them.
Through the water the wilderness was left behind, Israel entered into ( a type of ) the rest, or promised land, and, being circumcised at Gilgal, the reproach of Egypt was rolled away (Joshua 5:9). When they got to the other side of the river God established his Covenant with them again. It was at Gilgal (the place of rolling) is where their sins and their reproach of Egypt had been rolled away from them at that place they went through the water and then they received circumcision which is a type or shadow of the spirit and the water. Except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
4. The Baptism of John
Isaiah 40:3, Malachi 4:5,6, Matthew 3:1-12
In the same (Jordan) river, God’s circumcised, covenant people were baptized unto repentance for the remission of sins (Mark 1:4), so they could know their Messiah.
(Luke 7:29,30, John 1:31)
Isaiah 40:3-8
Mark 1:4-5
Who was John sent to? Was he sent to the world? No Was he sent to the Gentiles? No He preached unto the children of Israel.
Luke 1:67-77
Zacharias (John's father) prophesied about John. John was sent to the children of Israel. They were living in sin and were filled with sin. What did they need? They needed their sins remitted or washed away so that they could see their Messiah. Their Messiah was coming. Jesus came 6 months after John. Israel wouldn't have been able to see Jesus (their Messiah) unless their sins were remitted so God sent John to preach in the wilderness and to baptize the children of Israel unto repentance for the remission of their sins. They were already the people of God they were circumcised but they had forgotten God. They had forgotten his law they were living in wickedness and sin. For this reason God sent John before him to prepare the way of the Lord to make the straight the way of the Lord and He prepared the way of the Lord by preaching the Kingdom of God is at hand.
If the people were willing to repent then they should come down to him and be baptized and he baptized them unto repentance. Remember everyone that is baptized is baptized unto something. They were baptized unto repentance for the remission of their sins. This means they made the decision to stop sinning and start living for God to turn back to the ways of God so they could be prepared for the coming of their Messiah. When they did their hearts were prepared to see him and they could see him when he came on the scene.
Luke 7:29:30
This shows us 2 types of people. The first group were baptized with the baptism of John but the second group were not. John was preaching repentance but the Pharisees and lawyers were too proud to admit to anybody that they had anything to repent of. Jesus came to call sinners unto repentance. Those of you who think you're righteous is not who Jesus was calling. The Pharisees and lawyers were too proud to admit that they had anything to repent from so they refused to go down and be baptized by John. Therefore they couldn't see that Jesus was their Messiah.
John was sent to the people of Israel only to preach repentance and baptism for the remission of sins to prepare the people to see Jesus (their Messiah).
Matthew 3:1-12
John the Baptist preached unto the children of Israel your Messiah is coming the Kingdom of God is at hand. You all need to repent. It wasn't good enough that they were just physically related to Abraham because they were not going to enter into the Kingdom of God until they turned from their evil ways. Some people were going to baptized with the Holy Ghost, and some with fire. Those baptized with the Holy Ghost were going to be save. Those who were baptized with fire is like the chaff going to be burned with unquenchable fire.
5. The Baptism Of Jesus In The Jordan River
Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21,22, John 1:29-34
Matthew 3:13-17
John was at the Jordan river baptizing sinners. Now here comes a Man (Jesus) who had no sin wanting to baptized. John was baptizing people in the Jordan River and he was baptizing Sinners for the remission of their sins. Jesus had no sin so something had to happen. This is why the heavens opened and the spirit of God descended down upon Jesus. This is why Jesus said suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. This is the first and only time the heavens were opened. After Jesus was baptized he began his ministry. He went 40 days to be tempted by the devil.
In the same (Jordan) river, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, was baptized; not unto repentance, for he did no sin (1 Peter 2:22), and there was no sin in him (1 John 3:5); but rather “to fulfill all righteousness” (Matthew 3:15). Being the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45-49), and the only righteous man who ever lived since the first Adam (Romans 3:10-18, Isaiah 63:5), he became the forerunner (Hebrews 6:20) of all the Israel of God, and the first (and only) to be born of water and Spirit based on his own righteousness; thereby beginning his ministry, being a man and being “in the Father” (John 14:11), and, at the same time God himself in the flesh, “…and the Father in me” (John 14:11); “God was in Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:19).
It was through this baptism (of water and Spirit-John 3:5) that God’s righteous servant (Isaiah 53:11), the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5) came to be “in the Father”, thereby making it possible for “whosoever believeth in him” (John 3:16), and “them that believe on his name” (John 1:12), to be in the Father as well by coming to be in him through the New Testament way of salvation (Acts 2:38).
6. The Baptism Of The Cross
Luke 12:50, Matthew 20:22, Mark 10:38
It wasn't enough for Jesus to be baptized in water because there needed to be blood shed. Hebrews 9:22 "...without the shedding of blood is no remission"
Luke 12:49-50
Remember Jesus had already been baptized in the river Jordan. He was talking about his death and resurrection.
I John 5:5-8
I John 5:6 "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood..."
As surely as the Lord Jesus was baptized in Jordan and became the first man since Adam to be “in the Father”, he also, “being found in fashion as a man” (Philippians 2:8), of necessity to fulfill the scripture, had “to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day” (Luke 24:46) in order to
“…destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and to deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
(Hebrews 2:14).
Romans 5:12-21
Romans 5:12 "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death, by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned"
By this baptism, the Son of God was literally plunged, or immersed, into every facet of death caused by sin and brought into existence by the disobedience of the first Adam (Romans 5:12, James 1:15).
This included :
physical suffering (Isaiah 53:4,5, 1 Peter 4:1),
physical death (Isaiah 53:9, Romans 5:8), and
spiritual death (Matthew 12:40, Ephesians 4:9, Revelation 1:18),
literal burial (1 Corinthians 15:4, Luke 23:53), and
real bodily resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:4, Luke 24:6,7, Revelation 1:18, Luke 24:39);
…all of which was voluntarily entered into (Philippians 2:5-8) because of the great love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:39) , and was necessary to fully redeem fallen man from the curse of sin and the law’s penalty (Galatians 3:13, Romans 5:12-21) that the elect of God might walk in “newness of life” (Romans 6:4), and bring forth “fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” (Romans 6:22).
Now, being a man, and being “in the Father” by baptism in the Jordan river, our Lord Jesus Christ became fully baptized into every facet of the penalty of sin, which is death in its fullest form and absolute entirety; and, as the Christ of God, overcame death, hell, and the grave by his own righteousness, and “became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him” (Hebrews 5:9), thus fulfilling his own words in John 14:6,
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”.
7. New Testament Baptism In Jesus’ Name
Matthew 28:19, Acts 2:38, 8:16, 19:5, Romans 6:3
This is the final baptism given by God. It is a baptism of water and Spirit (St. John 3:5), typed out and foreshadowed by all the previous baptisms beginning with the flood in Genesis 7-9, and it is, in the realm of time and literal history, the top of the plan of God for his chosen people to come into personal covenant relationship and fellowship with him in a way equal to, and even surpassing, that which he had with Adam in the beginning. Those who are ordained to eternal life (Acts 13:48), whom the Lord calls his own sheep (John 10:4) know his voice, and become “converted” (Acts 3:19) through this baptism by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 3:19 "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out..."
How are we converted? We were converted by obeying the Apostles Doctrine and the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Power of the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ
Acts 4:12 "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved"
Romans 10:13 "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
We are not saved by calling upon the titles Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We are saved by being baptized in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost which is Jesus.
As the Lord himself became the way of salvation, and, being the forerunner, entering into death, burial, and resurrection; and being victorious therein made a perfect and effectual atonement for the sins of all mankind with his own blood (Hebrews 9:12, Leviticus 17:11); so those who believe in him receive:
remission of sins,
the power of his resurrection,
and full adoption into the household of God with all the rights and privileges thereof,
…through his name by obeying the New Testament gospel he gave to his holy apostles (Hebrews 2:3-4, John 17:20, Ephesians 2:20), which was first preached by Peter in Jerusalem at the feast of Pentecost in the year of our Lord 33 A.D. (Acts 2:14-42).
Hebrews 2:4 "God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?"
He was a witness to the Apostles and confirmed his word with the signs and wonders
St John 17:20 "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;"
By the power of the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12, John 20:31) the actual death, burial, and resurrection he accomplished for all mankind is literally imputed to, and made effectual in, the life of whosoever will obey this New Testament gospel command by:
repentance from sin,
and water baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ,
This is when you are believing on the name of the only begotten Son of God, …wherein his blood is made effectual upon the individual’s life, justification occurs, and resurrection, according to the promise of the scripture (Isaiah 44:3, Acts 2:39,etc…).
It is by this baptism that a believer comes to be “in Christ”, and a member of the body of Christ (Ephesians 4:5, Galatians 3:27, 1 Corinthians 12:13, Romans 6:3, Colossians 2:11-12).
This is why Jesus said to his disciples in John 14:20,
“At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”
“I AM IN MY FATHER”
As we saw earlier, Jesus, the Son of God, came to be “in the Father” by his baptism in the Jordan river, when by his own righteousness he went down into the water, came up, was anointed with the Holy Ghost (Acts 10:38), and received public confirmation of his being the Son of God by a voice from heaven. He became the first to be literally “born of water and of the Spirit”, and from this point forward (not from his physical birth), he was openly called the Son of God (Matthew 3:17, Luke 3:22, Mark 5:7)
“AND YE IN ME”
And, as the scripture declares, the only way to be “in” Jesus Christ the Lord is by baptism in his name.(Romans 6:3, Galatians 3:27, Colossians 2:11-12)
“AND I IN YOU”
Finally, as the scripture declares, the hope of eternal life is, “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). This is the gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:38), the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:19). The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23)
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