Are You Baptizing Babies?
Are you baptizing your babies? Is that what you are doing? Before you say “no” hold on. “Baptizo” is the transliteration of the Greek word meaning “to baptize” or literally “to place into”. So, the question I want to ask is what are you “placing your babies into” or what are you “immersing” them in?
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That’s good. It would be good for many parents, me especially, to do the time exercise themselves prior to their children doing it. Oh the number of times I’ve put off doing what is really important, waiting to have the “extra” time…which never comes. 24 hrs is all we get, ever! I need to eliminate the time wasted on the unimportant, temporal things or I’ll “never have time” to baptize my children in a way that matters. Thanks for the word. Hope your day was stellar!
The late Keith Green had a great song called “no one believes in me anymore” in which he portrayed satan who was gleeful at the fact that everyone now thought he was a fictional red midget in tights with a pitchfork. Scripture tells us that instead of a red midget, the devil is like a “roaring lion who walks around on the earth looking for someone to devour”. He is so audacious that he personally asked God the Father to be allowed to kill the Apostles of Jesus Christ. To put it bluntly, he wants to kill your children. This doesn’t mean he wants them necessarily to die in a fatal car crash or at the hands of a murderer (although he wouldn’t mind), rather he would see your children and mine suffer for eternity with him.
Someone said that if a parent doesn’t choose what is in the lives of their children – someone else will. That someone else is the devil. He may act through a teacher, preacher, student, gang member, or disaffected parent, but he is acting just the same.
Scripture commanded fathers to continually teach their children and grandchildren of the Lord (Deut 4:9). I and every other father in the world should pay much more attention to this command.
Think your children will turn out alright by themselves? If you believe this, come spend a day with me in my classroom and listen to the stories of teenage girls who got drunk and crashed their cars at homecoming because of their parents’ divorce or the young man who was so high he didn’t know he was stabbed in the chest at a party. What’s the common denominator in these two scenarios? Satan chose what was in their lives – not their parents. Scripture doesn’t guarantee that our kids will turn out the way we want, but God promises to be faithful in His care of and for them. Our job is to be faithful to our kids by being faithful to our God.
Pastor Thomas knows of what he speaks, which is why I am grateful that I get to listen to him!