Speaker: Pastor Neil Lindwall

Old Testament Connections Water Baptism:

• Genesis 6: Noah, the Ark, & the Flood. Saved to Restore.

• Exodus 1-3: Moses an Ark the Nile, Drawn Out Alive & Destined to Deliver.

• Exodus 14-15: The Red Sea Crossing. 

• Leviticus 14, 15, Numbers 19, etc.: The Mikvah.

• Joshua 1: Joshua, Crossing the Jordan and the Promised Land. 

• Jonah: Rebellion, Storm Sea, Great Fish, Death & Resurrection to Purpose. 

NIV 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

NIV Exodus 14:21-28 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 25 He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.” 26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. 28 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

Transformed Identity

NIV Matthew 3:1-3 & 11 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’” 11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Transformed Direction

NIV Romans 6:3-4 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Transformed Life

NIV 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

NIV Romans 8:1-6 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Transformed Standing

NIV Colossians 2:9-15 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self, ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

NIV Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Transformed Mind. 

NIV Romans 8:5-6 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Mind = 5426/phroneō ("visceral opinion-making") is the God-given capacity of each person to have in-sight which has God's approval (when exercised through faith) or disapproval (if done in the flesh). … 5426 (phroneō) conveys an individual's personal priorities, i.e. "visceral opinions" which need to line up with living in "God's inbirthed persuasion" (4102/pístis), i.e. thinking God's thoughts after Him to walk with Him. – Excerpts from HELPS Lexicon.

NIV Ezekiel 36:25-26 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

ESV Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Heart = 3820 lēb̠ – properly, heart (always used figuratively) – inherent capacity to exercise moral preference as an endowment by God; "what makes a person tick" (G. Archer); spiritual consciousness, equipping people to live "from the inside out"; moral-spiritual inclination, setting the course of both cognitive activity (thinking) and outward behavior; the inner man gifted by the Lord with conscience, resolve, etc. In sum, "3820 (lēb̠) is the richest biblical term for the totality of man's inner or immaterial nature" (TWOT, 1, 466). The heart is the seat of our deepest inclinations, resolutions, appetites, will, passions – as one thinks and feels in the inner man (BDB). – Excerpts from HELPS Lexicon.

Transformed Heart

NIV Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Transformed Purpose

Kingdom Physics:

Space – Proximity, Drawing Near the Source, Allowing In All My Space. Practice Proximity.

Time – Punctuality, Redeeming the Time. Prioritize Punctuality.

Matter – Potentiality, Giving God the Potential to See it Transformed. Prove the Promise.

Power – Transformation, 

Proclaim The Purpose.

NIV Acts 22:14-16 “Then he said: ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. 15 You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard. 16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’