BAPTISM NO. 5

BAPTISM NO. 5

I never said or wrote that the children of believers in this dispensation were born into the house of God. Baptism introduces them into the place of privilege. The children of a believer now are in a more favoured position than with Israel. The children of a Jew and Gentile were unclean. See Haggai. The children of a believer and an unbeliever now are not unclean, but they are “holy” (see 1 Corinthians 7: 14); that is, they belong to God as every devoted thing under the law was holy unto the Lord. This is my authority for baptising them, refusing for them the first man in the figure of Christ’s death, the only way of salvation, and because, as I am the bondsman of Jesus Christ, everything I have belongs to Him; the children of a slave belong to his master. You must either have your children connected with Adam, or connected with Christ; and He, remember, is the Head of every man; not merely the Head of His body — the church — but the Head as to authority of every man.

In baptism the children are claimed for Christ. It is not in any way a question for fellowship. It relates to Christ’s rights on the earth.