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He nodded; so I asked, “Since baptism is the entry door to God’s kingdom, and he loves all His children, why is it that less than 8% of the 110 billion people that have been born on the earth have ever heard of Christ or baptism? Shouldn’t God, in His justice, provide a way for all his children to be baptized?”
“I had never thought of that,” he exclaimed. “Either baptism isn’t that necessary, or there must be another way provided?”
I shared 1 Peter 4:6
“For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit.”
“That provides for all His children to receive the gospel truths, but what of the gospel ordinances?” We turned to 1 Corinthians 15:29 and wondered at the meaning of “baptism for the dead.”
“Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?”
Then I pointed to the font and shared that the purpose of that font was ancestral and an evidence that God loves all His children! Can a church that does not provide the required ordinances for the ancestral majority of God’s children really be Christ’s church – a Christian church?Share
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