{"id":669,"date":"2018-05-14T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/?p=669"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:24:33","slug":"the-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/2018\/05\/14\/the-pickle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pickle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard a Great Sermon on Matthew 28:19\u201320 recently.<\/p>\n<p>In it he use the idea of a Cucumber being Baptized to create a Pickle!<\/p>\n<p>I love the Pickle illustration, it reminds me how much Baptism is not just a Symbol but that it does change us.<br \/>\nJust as the Cucumber is baptized and becomes a pickle so we start off as sinners and when we are baptized we have our sins washed away, being joined with Christ and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nMark 16:15\u201316; Acts 2:38\u201339; Acts 22:16; Romans 6:3\u20134; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:26\u201327; Colossians 2:11\u201313; 1 Peter 3:21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexico\u2026\/greek\/\u2026\/baptizo.html\">https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexico\u2026\/greek\/\u2026\/baptizo.html<\/a><br \/>\nNot to be confused with 911, bapto. The clearest example that shows the meaning of baptizo is a text from the Greek poet and physician Nicander, who lived about 200 B.C. It is a recipe for making pickles and is helpful because it uses both words. Nicander says that in order to make a pickle, the vegetable should first be &#8216;dipped'(bapto) into boiling water and then &#8216;baptised&#8217; (baptizo) in the vinegar solution. Both verbs concern the immersing of vegetables in a solution. But the first is temporary. The second, the act of baptising the vegetable, produces a permanent change. When used in the New Testament, this word more often refers to our union and identification with Christ than to our water baptism. e.g.Mark 16:16. &#8216;He that believes and is baptised shall be saved&#8217;.Christ is saying that mere intellectual assent is not enough. There must be a union with him, a real change, like the vegetable to the pickle!<br \/>\nBible Study Magazine, James Montgomery Boice, May 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard a Great Sermon on Matthew 28:19\u201320 recently. In it he use the idea of a Cucumber being Baptized to create a Pickle! I love the Pickle illustration, it reminds me how much Baptism is not just a Symbol but <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/2018\/05\/14\/the-pickle\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rom120.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}