Water Baptism

Transcribed and edited from live broadcast Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Hello, I’m Doyle Davidson, a servant and apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ ministering locally to the Body of Christ in Dallas and Fort Worth Texas, and sent by God to your house to declare unto you the gospel of Jesus Christ.  I want to welcome all of you, wherever you are at throughout the world.  Thank God!  I want to say hello to Steddie Muserera and all of his friends in Africa.  Blessed be the name of the Lord!  Praise God, Amen....

….Christianity is following Jesus and if you take up your cross daily and follow Jesus, he's going to lead you to do his works, not yours. It's fun to obey God, once you acknowledge that you’re going to have to. That's the big chore. Not wanting to follow him, but want to go call yourself a Christian when you’re nothing but a hypocrite, and I grew up with them and they had little effect on me. What do you say, tonight, we’re going to talk from the book of Romans chapter 6. Chapter 6, thank God!  Kathie D is going to start reading in verse 1.  We're going to teach this and then we’re going to worship God. Tonight I believe God wants us to talk about this one and I believe that God is speaking specifically to people that walk with me and know me and they should humble themselves and hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying.  Amen?  So it’s a nice war.  So Kathie if you would start with Romans chapter 6, verse 1.

(1) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

No! That's the problem with the church. Sin! Sin! The church is not convinced of their sins. I realize the importance of grace. We talked of that last night, I believe. But, just because there's grace does not give you a certificate to sin. Not at all. And that's what the apostle Paul is dealing with here, and that's what I've dealt with for years; sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin. There's a city in the United States they call “Sin City”. Well I think Plano probably ranks right up there close, if not above that city. And I think the churches of Plano rank right up with the chief sinners of America. And they are so holy and they're so righteous, but full of sin. And the sin of unbelief is top.  Next, Kathie.

(2) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

That’s a good statement, you know that?  That's a good question. If you're dead to sin, how could you live in it; in sin. If you're dead. If you are dead to sin, how can you live any longer in sin. Well, the apostle Paul writing in this sixth chapter tells us why that you live in sin.  And that's the so called Body of Christ. The so called church of Jesus Christ; which packs stadiums, huge auditoriums, to hear somebody preach…..who's a sinner! And the sinners pack the places. Thank you Jesus.  Next.

(3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Don't you know that? Know you not? If you were baptized, baptized into Jesus Christ. This is what this chapter is about, water baptism. You were baptized into his death. Do you know that? Are you aware that if you've been baptized in water by immersion, according to the word of God found in Romans 6, then you were baptized into his death?  And if you were baptized into his death, then you cannot be living in sin; if you believe what water baptism was for. If you believe that you were baptized into the death of Jesus, when you were baptized in water. If you believe that, sin will not have dominion over you. But, if sin has dominion over you, it's because you don't believe your water baptism was worth one quarter, 25 cents, or worth nothing. And the way that you correct that, quickly, is start humbling yourself now and repenting and say, “My God, the reason I live in sin is because I don't believe my baptism in water, did me any good.” And, you don't know the reason it did not do you any good is because you don't know, you were baptized into the death of Jesus. That's the church, so called, of Jesus Christ. Pathetic, you know that! If you believe in water baptism, your rebellion will stop. If you believe your old man was crucified with Christ when you were baptized by water into his death, you wouldn't be rebellious, you wouldn't be a busybody. You wouldn't hate people. No, you wouldn't hate them. You wouldn't strive with them. But your old man is not dead, because you don't believe you were baptized into the death of Jesus. Now I'm not sure I said this at the outset, but I can tell you, God directed me to do this thing, this very night because of a bunch of rebellious people that think they are walking with Christ Jesus.  Next.

(4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:....

Therefore, we are buried with him through baptism unto death. Unto death?  Does that say that? [Kathie: Into death]  Into death.  Right.  See, your problem is you don't believe these scriptures. You don't believe what water baptism did for you. That is the problem with the church.  Next.

….. that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

If you were baptized into the death of Jesus, through water baptism, and I know not very long ago, I saw a whole bunch of you baptized in the name of Jesus by immersion and I ask you this question, “Do you believe what the word says about your water baptism; what happened to you?” If you were baptized into his death, you also should walk, what, in newness of life.  Is that what that says? [Kathie: ...so we also should walk in newness of life.]  If you were baptized into his death, in water, right up here, you wouldn't be striving.  Strife would be buried...strife would be buried.  You'd be buried, baptized into his death and your hate, hatefulness, doubt and unbelief, and rebellion, and wicked works, and wicked talk, wicked thoughts, wicked tongue, wicked ways would be dead, buried.  But you don't believe in water baptism. You don't know what it did for you. Did you know the reason I walk as I walk, and can walk the way I walk, is because the old man has been crucified, baptized into the death of Jesus. And we’ll get to that in a little bit.  And your old man is alive and well today in Collin County, Texas.  What’s next?
           

(5) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

           
If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection.  Would you go back at verse 4?
           

(4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death …

           
Notice that word buried. In case you don't know what buried means, go somewhere and get you a spade and dig some soil up, and throw a little pebble in it, and cover the darn thing up, and that pebble is buried.  Is that clear enough?  I'm not condemning you, I'm instructing you because when you ought to be teachers you need again milk, and that's what this is...milk.  Beginning principles of the doctrine of Jesus.  So busy doing your own thing, you forgot to believe what happened to you when you were baptized in water by immersion.  Verse 5 again.        
           

(5) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

           
Notice verse 4, buried. Verse 5, planted. Planted! Buried!  Planted!  Are you going to cover it or not?  Water baptism covers you when you go under the water.  Baptized into the death of Jesus.  The death, and you're no longer alive to sin.  You don't have to try to stop sinning, you just have to believe what water baptism did for you.  People who are always trying to stop sinning, never do.  And the major sin with them is unbelief.  Unbelief!  Verse 6.        
           

(6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

           
Read that again.

(6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him….

With who? 

Our old man is crucified with who?  With Jesus!  Right? When?  When you're baptized your old man was crucified with Jesus.  And that is appropriated when you're baptized in water by immersion in Jesus name.  You're baptized into his death.  The old man is baptized into the death of Jesus.  And when you're baptized into his death.  Does that not say you are crucified with him?  [Kathie: Your old man is crucified with him.]  Yes!  With him.  Your old man hung on the cross with him.  You have to believe.  Believe, my friends, is the only requirement that God has of you...except, what you believe.  Well you said, “That’s the only requirement…?”  It is.  Until the second requirement comes up.  And that is, “What do you believe?”  Mark chapter 1 verse 14 and 15 tells us Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God.  The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. And the kingdom is power of God. I Corinthians 4:20. And saying, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of heaven is at hand, Repent ye and believe the gospel.”  Believe the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.  That is all that you need to believe.  And once you can believe that and walk in that, then you can start believing what took place when you were baptized in water. You see these are simple steps….nothing to them. But if you don't believe them, you won't walk anywhere with God. You might be religious, but you'll never please God with your rebellion.  Never!  Your old man was crucified with Jesus when he was put on the cross. Crucified! Crucified! Your old man. And the way that is appropriated is through water baptism. When you're baptized in water, you're baptized into the crucifixion of Jesus. And you won't be such a doubter, an unbeliever. No, you won't want to chase the world, once you believe you've been baptized into the death of Jesus you will not want to follow the world. Because the old man is dead and you walk in newness of life. You walk in the resurrection power of Jesus Christ. And that resurrected person wants to follow Jesus. The reason you can't follow Jesus is because you don't believe what water baptism did for you.  It is a simple fact folks. Water baptism is necessary...necessary, to save your soul.  I didn't say be born again.  That's the new birth.  Receive Christ, that's the new birth. Thank God. Get saved, that's the new birth.  But you have not yet dealt with the old man.  Your old man is alive and well in Texas, Oklahoma, Africa, everyplace, wherever you're at because you don't believe.  You love to hear some preacher give you a pep talk and stir your flesh up and, “Ya, ya, ya, ya, hallelujah, bless God”, and walk out and say, “What happened, I don't know”.  Any of you ever been to one of those meetings?  They talk for two hours and when you walk out you say, “Well what the heck did they say?”  Well I've been there.  I've listened to all of them.  They don't say anything.  Your old man...your old man was crucified with Jesus and the way it's appropriated is through water baptism.  Baptized into his death!  You know, you can fast 365 days, if that were possible, and the old man still be alive. But you can believe that you were baptized in water, into the death of Jesus, and your old man is gone. Hallelujah!  What’s next?
                   

(7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.

           
See, when you're baptized into the death of Jesus, your baptized into his death. And did you know, you're dead.  And did you know, you're free of sin.  Oh I know you mean well, but we don't care how well you mean.  What God wants is, “What do you believe?”  Repent and believe the gospel.  Then be baptized in water and believe in water baptism.  Believe what it did.  Believe that when you were baptized in water in Jesus name.  And look, if you believe in baptism in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I don't have any problems with that. I know that's Matthew 28.  But I know this, that you can read in the book of Acts, and the apostles baptized in Jesus name and you can't find where they baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in the book of Acts and Luke wrote it.  And in the book of Luke, Luke says at the beginning of chapter 1 that he had perfect understanding of everything from the beginning.  And you can see what they did in the book of Acts.  It took me a long time to overcome.  Overcome religious spirits.  No, I'm not a oneness.  I'm not a oneness, so don't come to me with your oneness junk.  Did you know your oneness religion is the devil.  Did you know that?  It's nothing but the devil.  There's one Father, there’s one Son, and where does he sit?  At the right hand of the Father.  Well how in the world could there just be one, if there's one here and one at the right hand?  You don't even have to go to school to figure that one out. You just have to know where your right hand is and the word “sit”.  Isn't that right? “Sitting at the right hand.” You don't have to go to seminary. You don't have to study Greek.  You don't have to study Hebrew.  You don't even have to speak in tongues to figure this one out.  Well, you don't.  I ask you a question.  Are you seated?  Yeah?  Is there anything at your right hand?  Is there a person at your right hand...seated?  Well, God knows who is seated at his right hand, and it's Jesus!  So you oneness people, repent of your devils and I'll cast them out of you.  So there's one Father, there's one Son, and there's one Holy Ghost.  And the Father is a spirit.  And the Son is a man.  And the Holy Spirit is a spirit.  And the Father is the one that we worship in Spirit and in truth.  He's the one that gives all the directions.  And you can pray to the Father in the name of the Son, and the Father will answer you through the Spirit of God.  The Holy Spirit can't even say yea or nay.  “Oh, I don’t know about that now.”  Well let me help you.  You don’t know anything, that’s your problem.  Father, Son, Holy Ghost.  Father, Son, Holy Spirit.  Father, Son, Spirit of God.  Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, all the same.  Father's different and the Son's different. The Son has a body and is the express image of the Father.  All this is in the bible.  No big deal.  Your problem is you need to receive Jesus.  Mark 16 says you need to believe the gospel.  The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus; the gospel.  Then you need to be baptized in water.  And if you do that and are baptized in water, guess what?  You're saved.  “Oh, you believe you have to be baptized in water to be saved?”  I don't know what your question means, but I will tell you this, if you want to be a complete person to begin following God, you have to be born again (be saved), baptized in water, and then you can start walking and the next thing you need to do is obey the Father and get the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues.  And now you are ready for trouble.  You all don't believe that?  What’s that verse we just read, Kathie?

(7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Right.  Free of sin!  Next.
           

(8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

           
If you're dead with Christ, you're baptized into his death through water baptism, then you also must believe that you live with him…..dead….live.  Do you know what your problem is with water baptism?  “Oh, I got baptized in water, oh....”  A bunch of babblers.  People come to me and their acting stupid and I say, “Get a hold of yourself.”  If you died with him, you also live with him.  And that's where I live and that's where you shall live.  Alright!
           

(9) Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

That's why you don't re-baptize. Christ doesn't die once then come alive and die again. One water baptism in the name of Jesus, into his death. And all you have to do is repent of your unbelief and say, “Lord, I believe my water baptism did what it says. I was buried with Christ and I raised from the dead with Christ. I was planted with Christ, and I've been raised with him." And that's it. "And sin has no more dominion over me. I will not let my tongue get set on fire from hell every thirty seconds, or everything I see I don't like."  Next.           
           

(10) For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

           
In that Jesus died, he died unto sin once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God, not sin, but God. Next.           
           

(11) Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Reckon yourself to be dead, dead to sin.  Is that right?  [Kathie:  ...unto sin.]  Unto sin.  And alive unto what?  [Kathie:  Unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.]  Alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.  You need to look at this.  You need to study this.   You need to meditate on it.  You need to consider with your eyes and see what it says.  You don’t have to go back thirty years to get square.  You can get square in about 10 minutes and you’ll be back where you should have been thirty years ago when you started out.  But you know what?  You forgot what happened.  You forgot what you were taught.  And you didn’t believe it.  And you got carried away with divers lust and divers spirits that led you astray and deceived you and puffed you up, and told you how great you were.  Next.
                       

(12) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

   
Let not sin?  [Kathie:  Right.]  Is that what that says?  [Kathie:  Let not sin therefore reign..]  Reign, rule, in your mortal body...this one.  Next.

……..that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Don’t obey sin in the lust thereof.  Look, this is not hard.  I’m not beating anybody down.  I’m not putting you down.  I’m, by the Spirit of God, opening your eyes to see what your problem is.  My old man doesn’t bother me anymore.  He doesn’t.  I won’t let him.  The old man can wake up, I’ll tell you that.  If he does, say, “No,  I buried you in water, in Jesus name."  That’s it.  "Don’t be bothering me anymore.”  You know, Kathie D, lives around me and she knows I’ll say, “Satan, shut up.”  You say that to the devil?  Well, what are you going to say?  I’ll tell you this, you tell him to shut up and he’ll come back at you.  And you say it again and he’ll come back at you.  You say it in faith, and he’ll finally shut up.  But you can’t say, “Devil, shut up”, once.  You say, “Jesus never told the devil to shut up.”  He said, “Be still and come out.”  Now is that, maybe, equivalent to shut up?  Alright.  You see, people are so righteous, you don’t know how to be real.  Next.

(13) Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin:

Don’t yield ye your members, that’s all your members (figure out what your members are), as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.  Do you know what that word instruments means, weapon.  They become weapons, weapons of unrighteousness unto sin.  And they cause you to sin.  Next.

…..but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Yield your members unto God.  Yield your members unto God.  Let God lead you.  Let God direct your paths.  Let God speak to you.  Humble yourself before God and let God raise you up.  Oh, folks, this can be very difficult.  It’s impossible for the flesh to do this but I’m telling you, I’ve got a track record that proves I know what God is doing through me.  Thursday night...forty-four years.  That’s a long time.  No, not just sitting in church.  Forty-four years fighting the devil, fighting the good fight of faith, and not departing from the faith but doing the will of God from the heart.  Next.
           

(14) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Oh there’s your problem.  Sin shall not have dominion over you because you're not under the Ten Commandments, but you’re under grace.  But you know what?  If sin has dominion over you then the law is operating in you, and you need to be set free from the Ten Commandments.  You need to start over again.  But goodness sakes, it’s better to start over again when you're 10 or 50, than it is to never get started. 
           

(15) What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

   
Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace?  God forbid, no, you don’t sin.  Led by the Spirit you will not sin.  Next.

(16) Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

       
Read that again.

(16) Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,....

Did you hear that?  Notice yield….Yield.  You have to yield to the devil or yield to the Spirit of God. 

 ….his servants ye are to whom ye obey;....

You're a servant to whoever you obey.  Look this is not hard.  Sit and think about it.  Meditate on it and let God lead you, but get serious, get committed to God, not yourself.  Not what you think should be right, but what the word says.  Next.

…..whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Right, whether sin unto death.  You yield to sin, it’s death.  Obedience…righteousness.  Next.
   

(17) But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

(18) Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Right.  Freed from sin, became servants of righteousness.  Next.
           

(19) I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

   
See.  Yield your members to righteousness, not sin, righteousness unto holiness.  That word holiness scares most people.  I don’t blame them.  I’ve been around that bunch and they're not very holy.  Not at all.  They just think they’re holy.  Next.

(20) For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

Notice that?  Servants of sin, you’re free from righteousness.  
           

(21) What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?

Oh my goodness, you had no fruit.  Next.

…. for the end of those things is death.

         

(22) But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
           
(23) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Did you get that?  The wages of sin is death.   Fruit….does that say fruit unto holiness?  [Kathie:  Yes, you have your fruit unto holiness.]  Right.  Don’t be afraid of that word, I’m not.  I’ve been around those people that think they’re so holy.  They’re not holy.  Your fruit unto holiness it's a good thing.  It’s a great thing.  I think there is a scripture that says, “Be ye holy as God is holy.”  Don’t be afraid of that.  It doesn’t scare me at all.  If you’ve been where I’ve been, and God raised me, and a bunch of people thought they were really holy…   As a young boy I could tell, those people don’t know more about God than I do.  You say, “Well that was pride.”  No that wasn’t pride.  When I was 18 years old I walked flat away from them.  I said, “I don’t think this is right.”  And you know what, I walked for years through one camp after another.  And I met more goofy doctrines than you want to talk about...goofy doctrines.  “How do you know they were goofy?”  Look, if you follow what they teach you, along with scripture and they depart from that scripture, you better stop and say, “Lord, is this bible wrong, or are these people wrong, or am I wrong....what I think they’re saying?”  It’s just written right in front of you.  Don’t be afraid.  God won’t hurt you for talking to him and saying, “I don’t know if this is right.”  Well, it’s not.  Like God told me once, “Get up and get out of here!”  I said, "Wow!”  You see, God is for you and he’ll direct your paths.  But Kathie just read, “The wages of sin is death.”  Everybody know what wages are.  Aren’t they trying to raise the minimum wage?   And the more they raise it, the more sin people commit.  Let God raise your wage.  Yeah, humble yourself and start at the bottom.  Sack groceries, carry them out.  Obey God, believe the gospel.  Watch God raise you up.  He’ll raise you up so high, you’ll make more money than you ever knew existed.  We used to have a stupid guy that attended this sanctuary.  He was stupid.  He had a college education but stupid.  Do you believe that?  And do you know what that stupid guy said?  He thought that because I had a doctorate in veterinary medicine that it helped me get closer to God.  Oh, it got me closer to god alright….the god of this world.  No, education won’t get you close to anything.  Faith.  Believing the gospel.  God will deliver you, set you free.