Lesson 3931

 (3931)(10-23-22)  Hebrews 10:1-4

    “ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sin was every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”    Today’s quote verifies that NO sins can be justified by the blood of animals. Just as no sin can be justified by “the blood of bulls and goats”, NO sin can be Justified by rituals of man, water baptism included.

    As demonstrated in the quote below, water baptism DOES NOT justifiy the sins of the flesh.

In the quote, Apollos was said to be preaching the “baptism of John”, which is certainly water baptism. Noting his error, Aquila and Priscilla took him aside and taught him the “way of God more perfectly”.

    “And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.” (Acts 18:24-28)

      “The “way of God” is justification of sins by the blood of Jesus Christ through faith in Him. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9) Water baptism is a work of man.~