Lesson 4035

 (Lesson 4035)(02-07-23) Matthew 3:5-6

    “Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.”

    Today’s quote relates that many of the Jews went to John for water baptism. It behooves us, at this point, to understand why John administered water baptism. 

    Water baptism was, and remains, a traditional ritual of the Jews demanded by the old law. Before entering into any religious space or practice. Every Jew was required, by law, to be bathed by immersion, into “living” water. “Living” water is water that is flowing in a natural stream.  The Jews built hundreds of “Mikvas” around Jerusalem to serve the purpose of ritual bathing, or, batpisms. (A Mikva is a pool of water fed by a natural source or stream.) The essence of the bathing was the fact that it was performed in “living’ water.

    This information is valuable because, as will be exposed in the furtherance of these lessons, water baptism, (immersion) actually has no place in Christianity.

    Remember this, Jewish baptism originally required “living” water. The living water that saves the eternal soul in Christianity is Jesus Christ crucified.

    John 4:14, “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."~