Baptism and Conscience

1 Peter 3:21

BAPTISM AND CONSCIENCE

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An AntitypeAn Antitype

A type is an imprint, pattern or

shadow cast.

The antitype is the real thing,

the reality, the full embodiment.

Typology

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Heb 8:5 - Make the Tabernacle “according to the pattern (tupos) that was showed thee in the mount.”

The Pattern was not the real Tabernacle.

Rom. 5:14, Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure (tupos) of Him that was to come.

“Him that was to come”is the anti-type

to Adam’s type. Jesus is the Real Thing.

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1 Pet. 3:20, … In the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 21 There is also an antitype which now saves us -- baptism… (NKJV)

What is the Type?Is it the Ark?Not the ark

Type AntitypeNoah and his family “saved by means of water” in the the flood.

We “in like figure” (anti- type) are saved by means of baptism.

The type and the antitype both worked well!

Baptism Doth Baptism Doth NowNow Save YouSave You

1 Pet. 3:21, Baptism Now Saves You

1:3, Blessed be … God ... who according to His great mercy begat us again...

1:18, …Ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things ... but with precious blood ... even the blood of Christ.

1:22, …Ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the Truth…

2:25, For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

BAPTISM AND CONSCIENCE

What One Seeks to AccomplishIn Baptism

Simply the outward cleansing of the body? No.“The answer of a good conscience toward God” Mk. 16:15,16; Acts 2:37,38,41

1 Pet. 3:21:

(KJV) but the answer of a good conscience toward God

(NKJV) but the answer of a good conscience toward God

(ASV) but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God

(NASB) but an appeal to God for a good conscience

(RSV) as an appeal to God for a clear conscience

(NRSV) but as an appeal to God for a good conscience

"request, appeal … an appeal to God for a clear conscience" (Arndt & Gingrich, 285)

Acts 22:16 “Wash away sins, calling on God’s name.” Acts 8:35-39 “See here is water, what hinders me . . .?” Rom. 6:17,18 “obeyed from the heart” and were set free

1 Peter 3:21 and the Brethren to whom Peter Wrote ---

Was he writing to a few or many?

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1 Pet. 1:1, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

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1 Pet. 1:1, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

Baptism Puts One into the Church

1 Pet. 4:17 “For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?”

The House of God; “us.”

1 Tim. 3:15; Gal. 1:2; 3:26,27; 1 Pet. 1:22;

Eph. 5:23; 1:22,23

Them that Obey Not

the Gospel

“An appeal to God fora good conscience"

Baptism and conscience, 1 Peter 3:21:1.The water saves, just as it saved Noah.2.Baptism saves now. It is God’s will today. 3.The thing accomplished --

an appeal to God for a clean conscience.4.It universally applies to all persons that

Peter wrote to: Asia, Galatia. In sync with Matthew 28:19. Mk 16:15,16 “all the

world”5. Puts you into the Lord’s Church and Kingdom.