The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-02-10

Extract of sermon by Mr.. Loren Nj.
Reno in the Ringoes Baptist Church.
Feb : 1904.
Nv therefore, we are buried With him
10y baptism into death that like rs
Christ Was raised from the dead hy the
glory of the Father even SO we should
also walk in neWnSss of life. Roni,
6;I.
Paul is here trying To show the char
acter of the Christian life He is not
aiming Ia show the mode of baptism,
although incidentally he does, but To
indicate the Significance that baptism
has in the Christians experience.
shall try to restrict myself to that
phase of the question.
In fifth chapter he has shown the
fullness and freedom of the redemption
of Christ that his readers might be
lead TO say that it WAS better Ito con-
tinue in sin that grace may abound
In the sixth he shows that even II
"where sin ahounded grace superb
bounded that the idea of continuing
in sin is in itself contrary to all thai
he puts into the thought of Justification.
This he does In the first II verses lhN
showing that To live in sin is 20 he I'm
der its sway, and III los that IT. live
in sin is To practice sin.
In the second Verse he tells us that
we are dead to sin and therefore we
cannot live any longer in sin. "But
why are we dead To sin is the question
IN the minds of some. stop and
think" he says in verse that We who
were baptized into Christ were baptized
into his death That is what your
baptism signifies and justified
man eannot live In fhis enslaVing ser
vice, for he Is dead to all that Is past.
Now dead TO sin means fnr from
death of sin. - SIN is here all about
us. II strikes us on every hand. We
feel It's temptation and shock. But our
attitude Ia ii is that of II dead man To
the world lie H. perfectly indifferent
10 il even If the Winds do blow as
chill and the SHOWS pile as deep over
his grave as il had over his. We are
dead 10 sim moi sin dead 10 us.
l.-Let us note to what weare buried.
| 10 the old life of sinful acts
Those things we once did We may do
no more now. Our actions are those
of a new man.
70 the old disposition Perhaps |
WAS reVengelnl, maybe was proud
and coneeited. may have been
naughty or unkind No matter what
that old disposition with the marks OF
the sinful man, to II | am forever dead,
= TO life OF sellishness. Perhaps
had better express 1t ms n life of "self
eenteredness Paul expresses ii as
Look not every man on his own
things, bnt every man also on the
things Of Others Phil. "a. The
Christian man IL dead to life Of self
As Christ pleased not Himself Rom,
lJ;8, no more can we.
IL To what are we raised.
|. To II life of ghteousness. My
acts hencetorth must be those of II new
nlan, for las Christ VAS raised from
The dead by the glory of the Farmer So
also we should walk IN newncss Of
life
>. 70 n new disposition The
Christian graces are thosa that | must
now possess. Love, JOY, peace, long
suffering, gentlenees, faith, meekness
temperance; against such there is no
law" Gal. j;22-2}.
To u new life in Christ. Christ has
died my death and | must live his life.
That was the agreement when ne
eepted hi- salvation and his cleansing.
Then M we look upon this baptismal
scene this morning let us remember the
time when we, by voluntary burial in
the watery grave, declared to the world
Ia ourselves and To our God that we
were buried with Christ in his death
in order that we might bc raised with
him in ncNness of life as the apostle
tells us mat We are udi that we ought
Ia be dead.
As we have shared in the likeness of
his death SO shall we share in the like
ness of his resurrection. verse >. This
is seen thai the old man was crueilled
with him as expressed IN NerseG. Dead
To sim buried TO the old dispositions;
raised to II ucwness of life, alive to God
lorcvermare. verse i. This Is what is
symbolzed 10 rs this morning.
Covenant meeting and Annual bust
ness meeting ON Saturday ltoll-cnll
meeting and Communion sunday
Morning Evening subject "Ile
World I Greatest Problem.