What About the Thief on the Cross

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DOES BAPTISMNOW SAVES US?

• There is also an antitype
• which now saves us baptism
• (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but
  the answer of a good conscience toward God),
  through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• - 1 Peter 321

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What About the Thief on the Cross?
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Matthew 2744

• Even the robbers who were crucified with Him
  reviled Him with the same thing.

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Luke 2339-42

• Then one of the criminals who were hanged
  blasphemed Him, But the other, answering,
  rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God,
  seeing you are under the same condemnation? this
  Man has done nothing wrong. Then he said to
  Jesus, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your
  kingdom. And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I
  say to you, today you will be with Me in
  Paradise."

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Two Certainties

• Jesus Has Authority to Forgive Sins.
• New Covenant Believers were Baptized.

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When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the
paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."
that you may know that the Son of Man has
power on earth to forgive sins - Mark 25,10
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Converts Were Baptized
AS HE PREACHED THE THINGS CONCERNING THE KINGDOM
OF GOD AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, BOTH MEN AND
WOMEN WERE BAPTIZED

• Acts 238
• Acts 812
• Acts 838
• Acts 918
• Acts 1048
• Acts 1633
• Acts 2216

ACTS 812
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Teaches Baptism

• Romans 63,4
• 1 Corinthians 1213
• Galatians 326,27
• Colossians 212
• 1 Peter 321

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Jesus Commands Baptism
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

• Matthew 2818,19
• Mark 1615,16

"He who believes and is baptized will be saved
but he who does not believe will be condemned.
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Is the Thief Our Scapegoat Enabling Us To Deny
Baptisms Essentiality?
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Had the Thief on the Cross Been Baptized?
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• Can Any Prove He Was Not Baptized?
• John came baptizing in the wilderness and
  preaching a baptism of repentance for the
  remission of sins. Then all the land of Judea,
  and those from Jerusalem, went out to him and
  were all baptized by him in the Jordan River,
  confessing their sins. - Mark 14,5

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• Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John.
  
• John 41

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Was the Thief on the Cross Never Baptized?
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• Evidence may be stronger that He was rather than
  not, for he said
• "Do you not even fear God
• this Man has done nothing wrong
• Lord, remember me when you come into your
  kingdom

Luke 2339-43
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The Thief on the Cross

• Recognized His Deity
• Acknowledged Jesus Innocence
• Knew of His kingdom
• Called Him Lord

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Under What CovenantWas TheThief on the Cross
Saved?
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The Time Line

• For where there is a testament, there must also
  of necessity be the death of the testator. For a
  testament is in force after men are dead, since
  it has no power at all while the testator lives.
  - Hebrews 916,17

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His Admission into Paradise was prior to the
Lords Death, Burial, and Resurrection, and the
Great Commission
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The New Testament was not in force until the
death of the Testator - Jesus.

• Therefore, we should not look to the thief as one
  who was saved under the New Covenant without
  being baptized for the remission of his sins in
  any respect whatsoever!

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it is not possible that the blood of bulls and
goats could take away sins. Hebrews 104
He that believes and is baptized shall be
saved Mark 1616

• Which Side
• of the
• Cross are
• You?

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• He takes away the first that
• He may establish the second.
• By that will we have been sanctified through the
  offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
  all.
• - Hebrews 109,10

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• For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just
  for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,
  being put to death in the flesh but made alive by
  the Spirit, the Divine longsuffering waited in
  the days of Noah, while the ark was being
  prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls,
  were saved through water. There is also an
  antitype which now saves us baptism
• - 1 Peter 318-21

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What Should We Learn From The
Thief on the Cross?

• Baptism is Non-Essential To Receiving Christ and
  the Remission of
• our Sins!

NO!

• Fear God!
• Confess Guilt!
• Defend Him!
• Acknowledge Him as Lord!

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• buried with Him in baptism, in which you also
  were raised with Him through faith in the working
  of God, who raised Him from the dead He has made
  alive together with Him, having forgiven you all
  trespasses.
• - Colossians 211,12

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To Which Cross Will You Look For Salvation?
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