Water is lethal. Whether as a liquid, a solid, or a gas – water kills more people than any other substance. Too much water can kill you. Too little water can kill you!
And yet, water is necessary for life!
We’ll be talking today about Peter’s statement in 1 Peter 3 that “baptism saves us.” Peter says this while talking about the Flood – here in Genesis 6. God has just told Noah that he is bringing a flood to destroy the earth. The waters of judgment will be poured out on the earth – in order to destroy all flesh.
The same flood that destroyed the wicked saved Noah and his family.
Last time we read 1 Corinthians 10 – which speaks of how all Israel was baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. The same Red Sea that destroyed Pharaoh’s armies saved Israel.
Water is a curious substance.
Stone crumbles – and takes a long, long time to become stone again! Wood, coal, and oil will burn – and be gone forever. But water endures.
You drink it – and your body uses it – and it passes out of your body pretty much intact. Such are properties of water that the same H2O that flooded the earth in the days of Noah is the same water that Abraham drank – which is the same water that destroyed Pharaoh’s armies – which is the same water in which Jesus was baptized.
Peter says that “baptism, which corresponds to this [the flood], now saves you.” So the question is not does baptism save? – Peter says that it does – so every Christian must affirm that baptism saves. But how?
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