I'll confess to you that I think
up reasons to ask Leah to sing that song. I love it. But I thought how appropriate
to ask her to sing it this morning. If there's any group of people
that from their heart can shout how much I owe, it's us. I'm so thankful. The title of
the message this morning is, What Doth Hinder Me to Be Baptized? Now, at the beginning of Acts
chapter 8, we read to open the service, there's a great revival
going on in Samaria. Many people believed. Wouldn't
we all love to have been there? This revival going on, apostles
preaching, and the Lord called Philip away from that revival.
to go out into the desert. Now, why would he do that? Because
the Lord had a lost sheep out there in the desert. His time
had come in God's eternal providence for him to hear the gospel and
believe. Well, why wouldn't the Lord have just sent that eunuch
to the revival? He was right there in town. I
don't know. He didn't. That's not what he
did. The Lord sent one of his choice servants away from the
revival, out to the desert, away from all those people that were
believing, to preach to one. Would the Lord really do that?
Yes, he would. And I know one man who is eternally
grateful that he would. Would the Lord really send his
preacher, his servant, to one little town in Kentucky? pass
all these other big cities by?" Yes, he would, and I know people
who are eternally thankful that he did, and that's what's happened
here. In Acts 8, verse 26, the Lord
called Philip away from this revival. He spake unto Philip,
saying, Arise, and go toward the south, unto the way that
goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he
rose and went, and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great
authority under Queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of all
her treasure, had come to Jerusalem for her worship. It was returning,
and sitting in its chariot, read Isaiah the prophet. Now, this
man's a sinner seeking the Savior. He came all the way from Ethiopia
to Jerusalem seeking the Lord, seeking to worship. But he's
leaving, going back home just as empty as when he got there,
because all he saw there was religious ceremony. without Christ. He's still searching. He's still
trying to find. He knows he hasn't found anything
yet, but it's time for him to go home. But he had obtained
something priceless. He had in his hand a portion
of the Word of God, and he was reading it on his way home. And
I tell you, when a man or woman begins to read Scripture, when
they begin to search the Scripture, very likely the Lord's just getting
ready to show mercy. That he is when someone begins
reading the Scripture, because in the Scripture is where you
find Christ. Verse 29, the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join
thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran further to him,
and heard him read the prophet Isaiah. And he asked him, Understandest
thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except
some man should guide me? And he desired, Philip, that
he would come up and sit with him. Now this eunuch is somebody. This man is educated. He's got
worldly power. He's a trustworthy man. You know,
the Queen trusts him with all of her treasure. People listened
when this man spoke. Now, he's an educated man. But
he could not understand what he was reading. He didn't have
the foggiest idea of what it was he was reading. And Philip
asked him, do you understand what you're reading? I remember
Henry said one time, don't be offended if someone asks you,
do you understand what you're reading when you're reading the
scripture? Because, of course, we don't. By nature, of course,
we don't understand God's Word. And I would add to that, don't
pretend you do understand when you don't. Because, of course,
we don't understand. The natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God. They're foolishness to him. Neither,
indeed, can he know them, because they're spiritually discerned.
This man, with all of his education, couldn't understand what he was
reading because these things are spiritually discerned. And
God sends his preachers, just like he sent Philip here, as
guides, as guides in the Word of God to guide sinners to Christ
the Savior. So, verse 32, the place of the
Scripture which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the
slaughter, and like a lamb done before his shearer, so he opened
not his mouth. In his humiliation, his judgment
was taken away. And who shall declare his generation?
For his life is taken from the earth. And he said, I pray thee, of
whom speaketh the prophet this? Of himself or of some other man?
Now the whole Bible is about a person. The Bible is not given
to us as a history lesson. The Bible isn't given to us to
give us a law to live by. Either the Old Testament law
or some New Testament, you know, kind of interpretation of the
law. This is not a law for us to live by. The scriptures are
not given to us as a doctrinal dissertation. The Bible is about
a person. The Word of God is a person,
the Lord Jesus Christ, and the whole Bible is concerning him. And Philip took from this very
scripture, right where this man was reading, he preached unto
him the Lord Jesus Christ. Now look back in Isaiah 53. This
is the passage that this man was reading. And we don't have
Philip's outline. But I think we know some things,
very likely. Philip told this eunuch from
Isaiah 53. And the first thing I believe
Philip probably told this man is God's holy. Now, the natural
man has devised a God in his mind who's not holy. He's not sovereign. He's impotent. He's just the God of this world
is a God, the God that man has devised. He'll overlook sin. He'll do anything in order to
get somebody to come to him. He's just begging people to come
to him and let him be their personal Savior. Bill very likely told
that eunuch, that God is not the God of the book you're reading.
The God of the Bible, the true living God, he's holy. And whatever he does must be
holy. He's a holy God. The passage
is being read to describe a man suffering for sin, being fully
punished for sin. But this reason, God's holy. He must punish sin wherever that
sin is found. And you know who this person,
this suffering Savior is. Even when that sin is found on
God's own son, God must punish him for it because God's holy.
The second thing Philip probably told this eunuch is this. He
told the euning of the total depravity of man. This passage
he was reading spoke of someone suffering, someone being punished
for sins. Now, those sins were not his
own. They were the sins of someone else. They were the sins of a
people who are so sinful, they're totally depraved. They're so
sinful, they're completely sinful. All they are is sin. That's the people that we are,
the sons of Adam. Isaiah 53 begins, Who hath believed
our report? Now we preach a message of God's
love in Christ Jesus. It's a message of peace with
God. It's a message of the forgiveness of sins through Christ Jesus.
It's a message of grace and mercy in Christ. It's a message of
true salvation from sin. as a message that tells how sin
is completely put away. Yet so few people believe our
report, so few. Our message is the message of
Christ Himself. Our report is the report of the
person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a message
of His doing, His obedience, His suffering, His life, His
death, of full and free salvation found in Him. Now that's a good
report. It's a true report. It's a report
that's worthy to be believed. And it's a report every son of
Adam needs. Yet so few people believe it.
And I know why they don't believe it. They're totally prayed. We're all, every one of us, there
was a time you didn't believe it. There was a time I didn't
believe it. Because we're totally depraved. Born dead in trespasses
and sins. Now I know this. I know all of
God's elect are going to come to hear the gospel and they're
going to believe it. They're going to believe on the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We do not preach in a defeated
fashion. This gospel is a victorious gospel. We worship a victorious Savior.
But it is depressing to think how few people believe it. It
saddens me to think at this very moment of people I've preached
to in the past did not believe, and at this very moment are in
hell. That's heartbreaking. I wish
more people would believe. You just cannot preach the gospel
to people unless you care about them, even though they're totally
depraved. And I'm sure he must have told
this eunuch something about that. He read, look at verse 3. This
is what he was reading. He's despised and rejected of
men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it
were, our faces from him. He was despised, and we esteemed
him not. The light shined in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not." Nothing about the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ appeals to the flesh. Because the gospel
describes the flesh, our flesh, as it is. Sinful. Completely and utterly sinful.
Incapable of doing anything good. dead in trespasses and sin, completely
dependent upon Christ to save. And when the Savior did appear,
we hid our eyes from him. Have you ever been out in public
and seen somebody and think, oh, I don't want to, and turn
your head? That's what we did to the Savior.
Turned our head. We could not see because we're
blind and we would not see. because we're totally depraved. We hid our eyes from him to be
sure we didn't see him. Totally depraved. Look at verse
6. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone
to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us
all. Isaiah is not writing here of
an ignorant sheep who just wanders off because he doesn't know better.
He's talking about a people who are in willful rebellion. Going our own way on purpose
instead of going God's way. You know why we do that? We're
totally depraved. Totally depraved. It shocks me. Janet points this
out all the time. You cannot turn a television
show on today without seeing homosexuality in it. Oh, they
do it because it's an enlightened society. It's going our own way. Willfully rebellious because
we're totally depraved. Don't be surprised when you see
these things. This is what we are. Totally
depraved by nature. Third, I bet Philip told this
eunuch something about unconditional election. Who hath believed our
report, Isaiah says. Well, he answers his question
with a question. To whom is the armor of the Lord revealed? You
show me the man to whom the Lord has revealed his arm, I'll show
you man who believes the gospel. To whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed? That arm is the Lord Jesus Christ. Look back to Psalm
98. God's right arm is the Lord Jesus
Christ. In Psalm 98 verse 1, O sing unto
the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvelous things. His right
hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory. The Lord hath
made known his salvation. His righteousness hath he openly
showed in the sight of the heathen. God's right hand, his holy arm
has gotten him the victory. His righteousness is the Lord
Jesus Christ. But the eunuch didn't understand
that, did he? Christ and his gospel must be revealed to us
or we'll never see him. If God does not reveal his son
to us, we'll never love him. We'll never believe him. But
I know who does love this message. It's the people to whom God has
revealed his son. If you have, by God's grace,
gotten a glimpse of the Lord Jesus Christ, you believe this
gospel. You have no problem at all. believing
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ once you've seen him.
And this revelation is a work of God. Man cannot figure it
out. There's no point in some so-called
preacher trying to get you to make a decision to accept Jesus
because you can't choose to accept the truth. It must be revealed
to us. And that's what God does for
his people. What did our Lord tell Peter? Blessed art thou,
Simon Bar-Jonah. Blessed blood didn't reveal that
to you, but my Father which is in heaven. He revealed it to
you. Look over John chapter 6. This revelation of who the Lord
Jesus Christ is, is the work of God that he does for his people. In John 6 verse 45. The Jews then murmured at him,
because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How is it, then, that he say,
I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered, saying
unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except
the Father, which hath sent me drawing. And I will raise him
up at the last day, as it is written in the prophets, and
they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath
heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me." This
is what God does for His people. Who comes to Christ? Those that
the Father draws, those that He teaches, the Lord Jesus Christ.
They come to Christ. And I'm sure Philip, fourthly,
must have told this unit, had to tell them about the suffering
The Lord Jesus Christ is God's Son. He is God. Yet the Word
was made flesh and dwelt among us. God's own Son became the
God-Man and from cradle to grave, the Lord Jesus was a man of suffering. You think how he humiliated himself,
how he suffered to clothe himself, to limit himself to human flesh
so he could be our substitute. But that's what he did in verse
2 of Isaiah 53. For he shall grow up before him
as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry ground. He hath
no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him. Our Lord suffered in his
birth. God's Son was made to be a helpless
baby, completely dependent upon his mother. You could have snuffed
out his life Just as easily as you could kill a stalk of corn
when it first plucks through the ground. You'd kill it just
by kicking some dirt over on it. It'd be dead. Our Lord suffered
to be made a helpless baby. The great I Am was a helpless
baby in the arms of his mother. I can't explain that, but he
suffered that. He suffered in his lineage. He
didn't come born. to a princess. He didn't come
born in Pharaoh's palace. The Old Testament scriptures
prophesied that the Messiah would be the root of Jesse, the root
of David, the house of David. This is the lineage. The family
tree of our Lord had sunk so low, all that was left of it
was a dry root that was buried under that arid soil of the desert. He had such a humble family tree,
and he suffered be stripped of his glory. Now, the Lord Jesus
was a real man. And he did not look like the
Son of God to the natural man. You know, we see these artist's
paintings of this man that's supposed to be Jesus. He's got
this glow around his head, you know. No. He didn't look like
that to the natural man. He looked like any other common,
ordinary man. That's what those folks said.
This is Jesus, the Son of Joseph, whose Father and Mother we know.
We know all about Him. We know Him. Just like us? You imagine
the suffering of our Lord, how He endured being surrounded by
all this sin and unbelief. But this was His purpose in coming.
To establish righteousness for His people and to suffer the
wrath of God for their sins. Look here at verse 4. This is
what the eunuch was reading. Surely He hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken. smitten
of God and afflicted. Those Jews esteemed Jesus of
Nazareth on the cross as a man forsaken of God. They esteemed
him as a man being punished for his sins and getting what he
deserved. And you know, largely, they were
right. He hung on that cross, deserted of his Father. He was
being punished by his Father, not for his sins, for the sins
of others that were laid on him. But those sins were made his. He said, my sins have gotten
hold of me. Those sins became his sins and
the Father punished him fully for them. Isaiah said he bore
our griefs. That word grief is disease and
sickness. He bore our sickness in his body
on the tree. Can you imagine the horror the
Holy Son of God suffered in His holy person to bear the sin sicknesses
of our souls? He bore that for His people.
Isaiah says He carried our sorrows. And that word sorrows is pains.
He carried the pains that our sin, the sin of His people deserved.
Look over in Lamentations chapter 1. We can't imagine the horror that
he suffered, being stripped of his glory, being made to be sin. He says in Lamentations 1, verse
12, Is it nothing to you, all ye
that pass by? Behold and see if there be any
sorrow, like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith
the Lord hath afflicted me. in the day of his fierce anger.
Is there any sorrow like the sorrow our Lord carried? He bore
it, and like the scapegoat of old, he carried it away, never
to be seen again. Look here in verse 5. Isaiah
goes on. He said, But he was wounded for
our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes
were healed. That word wounded is tormented. He was tormented for the transgressions
of his people. And the word bruised there means
crushed. He was crushed like a grape for
the iniquities of his people. The bruising and the beating
that his body endured, that's just a picture of the bruising
and the beating, the crushing that his soul endured when he
made his soul an offering to sin before the Father. He was
tormented and bruised both body and soul. What men did to God's
Son at Calvary so clearly shows us that man has declared war
on God. And the only way that that war
can have peace, the only way peace can be made is if the Lord
Jesus Christ suffers. the chastisement that our sin
deserves. He must suffer the torment and
the punishment that our sin deserves. That's the only way God can be
made not angry with the wicked. That's the only way he can be
made not angry with the sinner is if he has punished his precious
son for the sins of those people. Then God can have peace with
the sinner. That's how peace is made. And
our Lord carried our griefs, that disease. is a fatal disease, always. Sin, when it is finished, brings
forth death. And the only cure for that sin sickness is for
Christ to suffer, unspeakably suffer as our substitute. To
take our disease and His own body on the tree and to cleanse
us with the sweet balm of Gilead, His own precious blood. He takes
His people and He washes them in His blood. Makes them clean
and whole and righteous By his stripes, by his bruising, we're
healed. Healed of all of our sin sicknesses.
And our Savior, the suffering Savior, suffered so greatly because
the Father made him to be sin. His Father made him to be guilty
for his people. That's what he says here in verse
six. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone
to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on him,
made to meet on him. the iniquity of us all. The Lord
made to meet on His Son the sins of all of His people, and He
punished Him fully for every one of those sins. And the suffering
Savior is a silent Savior. Look at verse 7. He was oppressed
and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth. He is brought
as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers
is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. The Lord Jesus Christ
went willingly to the cross. That mob didn't take Him and
force Him to go somewhere He did not want to go. He went willingly. Who for the joy that was set
before Him, He endured the cross, despising the shame. He went
to those shearers to be stripped of everything. He went to those
shearers to be stripped naked before men. And that's nothing
to the shame of being stripped naked before the Father. And
he went there willingly to the butchers to be butchered. These artist's depictions of
the crucifixion, they just don't even scratch the surface. He
hung there butchered like no other man, how he suffered. And
he went there to be butchered willingly for the sins of his
people. No man taketh my life from me.
I lay it down willingly, because I love my people." As he stood
there in Pilate's hall, all those accusations being thrown at him,
why didn't he say, Stop! I didn't do this! All these that
bear witness against me are bearing false witness. Why didn't he
say, Stop! I'm innocent! The Father made to meet on Him
all the sins of His people. And he stood before his father
guilty. If the father did not make him
guilty, he never would have killed him. He made him to be guilty. He transferred the guilt of his
people onto his son. And he became guilty, even though
he never personally committed the sin. And the suffering Savior
actually died, the Prince of Life. died in a violent way. Look at verse 8. He was taken
from prison and from judgment. And who shall declare his generation?
For he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression
of my people was he stricken. He actually died. Why did the
Lord Jesus Christ die? Because he was stricken for the
transgressions of my people, of God's elect. And he suffered
the full penalty of their sins. He's the suffering Savior. And
yet, fifth, I'm sure the eunuch heard this from Philip. He's
the sinless Savior. Look at verse 9. And he made
his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death, because
he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Now that word because is better translated though. Though he
had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. The Lord Jesus Christ never committed
any sin, ever. He was perfect in thought, word,
and deed. Even though he was made to be
guilty for the sins of his people, at the same time, he was a sinless
sacrifice. Yet, even though he's perfect,
it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Why did the father find
pleasure in tormenting his son? I'm glad the time And my life
is over, and I have to discipline my girls. I did it, and I hated
it. I hated it every time I hated
it. But I did it, because it was
for their good. I never found a moment's pleasure
in it, ever. It never pleased me. But the
Father, the perfect, holy Father, found pleasure in tormenting
His Son. Why? Because when Christ was
made to be sin, he became loathsome to his father. And the father
took holy, righteous pleasure in punishing his son for the
sin that was imputed to him. And now the father's wrath against
the sins of his elect is no more. No more wrath, but peace in the
Lord Jesus Christ, because he fully put away the sin of his
people. And sixth, I'm sure, Philip told
this eunuch something about the sovereign Savior. Look at verse
ten. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him, yet put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong
his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his
hand. He shall see his seed. No doubt about it. How can you
be so sure? His seed is everyone who's born
of God. Born of the seed, the incorruptible
Word of God which liveth and abideth forever. Well, how can
we be so sure? He shall see his seed. The Lord himself is going to
see to it. He's going to call them to it. He's going to give
them life and he's going to call them to himself. Christ arose. He suffered. He died. But he
arose again to ensure the salvation of his people. His death shall
prosper. There's going to come a day,
you're going to lay me in the ground, a dead, you're not going
to lay me in the ground, you're going to lay this dead corpse
in the ground. And that's going to be defeat. Sin's body defeated,
this body of flesh. Our Lord was not defeated. He
accomplished. What was his death going to accomplish? It's going to prosper. What's
the pleasure of the Lord that's going to prosper? The pleasure
of the Father is the salvation of His people. And the death,
the burial, the resurrection of Christ, that we're going to
see pictured here in just a few moments, guarantees the salvation
of God's people. God will save His people. You can just write that down.
We preach in full confidence. God's going to save His people.
We don't have to try to help God out. We don't have to try
to talk somebody into making a decision. God's going to save
His people. Christie told me this Wednesday
night. She's always so careful to never nudge Michaela toward
any kind of decision. Never. Just so careful. She answered
all her questions. She talked to her about the Lord.
But so careful to never nudge her. A wise mother is a blessing to
all. Always wise. Because Michaela, now you can
be sure, this is the salvation of the Lord. This is what he
accomplished. Not what your parents talked
you into. Not what John talked you into. Not what I talked you
into. It's the salvation of the Lord.
Salvation, mercy from a sovereign Savior. He'll save his people.
You just preach the Word. He'll call them out. And Philip
must have told this eunuch something about the successful Savior.
Look at verse 11. He shall see the travail of his
soul, and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities."
The suffering Savior did not die in vain. He didn't stay dead. He rose again, because all that
sin that was imputed to him is gone, been put away under the
blood of his sacrifice, and everyone for whom Christ died They're
going to be made righteous and they're going to spend eternity
with this Savior, this suffering, successful, sovereign Savior.
Christ is going to see every one of them in glory. Talks about
here about the travail of his soul. Now that travail means
birth pains. I don't know anything about this
travail, birth pains. You mothers do. And I hear it
said, it's funny, I hear it said, oh, you know, you have all these
horrible travail and childbirth and you have that baby and it's
all forgotten. Well, how come I hear so much about this? Y'all
going through the valley of shadow of death? I don't know that it's
forgotten exactly. But it's worth it, isn't it?
Isn't it worth it? Those children are worth it.
The travail of our Savior is worth it. It's worth it to Him.
There'll be no stillborn children in the family of God. Every one
of them will be a healthy, happy birth. He shall see the travail
of his soul. And you know why I'm so sure
of that? He bore their iniquities. Bore them away. And God's holiness
and God's sovereignty guarantees the success of his sacrifice. Sin's gone. It's been put away.
God's holiness demands those people be made righteous and
be with him where he is. And last, Philip must have told
this eunuch something about the supreme Savior. Look at verse
12. Therefore, I divide him a portion
with the great. He should divide the spoiled
with the strong, because he had poured out his soul into death.
He was numbered with the transgressors. He bared the sin of many. And
he made intercession for the transgressors. Who are these
great, Isaiah is talking about here, the strong? Not me. We say, every one of us here
says, well, that's not me. I'm not great. I'm not strong. And
that's true in yourself. These people who are nothing,
absolutely nothing, are made great and made strong in the
Lord Jesus Christ. And Christ has divided his spoil. Everything he earned, a cow for
his tree, that's his spoil. And he's divided it with his
people. Everything he earned as a man, his righteousness,
everything he earned in his death, the satisfaction of God's justice,
it's not divided. It's not divided, split up among
all his people. Every child has it all. Every
child of God has everything that God has to have it all. All of
the inheritance is given to every one of God's people. And right
now, the Lord Jesus Christ is interceding, making intercession
for the transgressors. He can intercede. He can intercede
for sinners because he's got something to plead. He pleads
to the Father his sacrifice. And the Father says, that's enough. I'm well pleased in that. Now
that's a message that's worth believing. That's the report
of the gospel. And at some point, Philip must
have told this eunuch that a believer, someone who believes in the Lord
Jesus Christ, someone who God's given some belief in this gospel
of salvation through the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus Christ,
Philip told him that person will confess Christ in believer's
baptism. They'll confess him publicly.
is a picture. That's what we're going to see
here in just a moment. It's a picture. What Michaela is confessing is
this. When Christ died, he died for my sins. When he died, I
died in him as my representative. When he was buried, I was buried
in him. And when he rose, I rose in him. He's my representative. He's
my substitute. Look back in chapter 8 of Acts
again quickly. This eunuch heard this report,
this message, it's worth believing. In verse 36, as they went on
their way, they came unto a certain water. And the eunuch said, here,
see here's water, what is it for me to be baptized? What stops
me? What keeps me from being baptized?
And Philip said, if you believe with all thine heart, thou mayest.
And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God. And he commanded the chariot
to stand still. and they went down both into the water, both
Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they were
come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away
Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more, and he went on his way
rejoicing. But Philip was found in his Otis,
and passing through, he kept doing what he did out there in
the desert, preaching this gospel, preaching the gospel in all the
cities till he came to Caesarea. What hinders me to be baptized? This eunuch had been up there
to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, that man was a second-class citizen.
He couldn't go to the temple. He couldn't go to certain places.
People kind of looked down on him, you know. He's not a Jew.
He was a second-class citizen. Not in God's Christ, he's not.
He's a son of God. The only fence around being baptized
is this. Do you believe? Do you believe
this gospel? Do you believe the Lord Jesus
Christ? Do you believe He's able to save you from all your sin?
Do you believe that His sacrifice is enough to put away all your
sin and make you accepted before the Father? Do you believe that?
It's Believer's Baptism for those who believe on the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what happened to that eunuch?
I have no idea. None whatsoever. What did he
do when he got home? I don't know what he did, but
this is what I do know. He went on his way rejoicing
in God his Savior. He never saw Philip again, but
that didn't matter. He went on his way rejoicing in God his
Savior. He went on his way to Ethiopia
with Christ in his heart. He still had that Word of God
in his hand. When he got home, reckon that's
precious to him? Reckon he called his friends
and neighbors Come let me read you this. Let me tell you what
I heard. Let me tell you about this Savior. Oh it was precious
to him. I'm sure his worship continued. And I'm sure of this. He wasn't
constantly looking back to that miracle where Philip appeared
to him in the desert. He wasn't constantly looking
back to this experience. He was looking to Christ. He
was looking to this Savior that he heard about in Isaiah 53.
And now He can go forward. Now he can
move on. He's obeyed that first commandment.
Now you can go forward. Now you can grow. Now you can
just continue to grow in grace in the knowledge of him that
you've confessed in Believer's Baptism. What doth hinder me
to be baptized? Do you believe? If you believe,
thou mayest. All right. Well, I hope the Lord
will bless that to your heart. Now we're going to sing a song
and Michael's going to change clothes, and John's going to
baptize.