[Footnote 131: Acts 8.21, 23] [Footnote 132: Gal. 3.26, 27] [Footnote 133: Rom. 6.4] [Footnote 134: Acts 2.16, 21; Acts 10.34, 35; Joel 2.28, 29] [Footnote 135: 1 Cor. 12.6] [Footnote 136: Heb. 2.9] [Footnote 137: Heb. 8.10, 13] [Footnote 138: Titus 2.11] [Footnote 139: Rev. 3.20] [Footnote 140: Jon. 14.23] [Footnote 141: What is Christ's Church? Hammond P. 31, 71, 86] [Footnote 142: 1 Cor. 6.9, 11; Gal. 5.21; Eph. 5.5; Gal. 5.21; R.v. Margin; Gal. 5.22; Rom. 14.17] [Footnote 143: 1 Cor. 6.10, 11; R.v.; 1 Cor. 6.9] [Footnote 144: 1 Cor. 6.11] [Footnote 145: 1 Cor. 6.11; R.v.] [Footnote 146: Rom. 14.17; 1 Cor. 6.11; Eph. 5.9, 18; Gal. 5.16, 25] [Footnote 147: Mat. 5.3, 12; Mat. 5.20] [Footnote 148: Mat. 7.21, 23] [Footnote 149: Jon. 10.1, 7] [Footnote 150: Mat. 3.11; Luke 3.16; Jon. 3.5] [Footnote 151: Jon. 3.3; Margin R.v.] [Footnote 152: Jon. 3.3 R.v.; Mat. 3.11; Luke 3.16] [Footnote 153: See in this Article P. 39 to 44] [Footnote 154: Jon. 3.3, 5] [Footnote 155: Jon. 3.5; Luke 3.16; Mat. 3.11; Jon. 7.38, 39] [Footnote 156: Mat. 3.10, 12; Luke 3.9, 17; Jon. 4.10, 14] [Footnote 157: Rev. 7.17; Zech. 13.9; Mat. 3.2] [Footnote 158: Mat. 7.21; Gal. 5.21] [Footnote 159: 1 Cor. 6.10, 11 R.v.; Titus 3.5, 6] [Footnote 160: Philippians 3.3; Rom. 6.6; Mat. 16.24; Gal. 2.20; Col. 2.11, 12; Gal. 3.27; Rom. 2.29; Col. 2.11] [Footnote 161: Col. 2.11, 16; 1 Cor. 6.11 R.v.] BAPTISMAL GRACE Some maintain that water baptism is a means of Grace. Others define it as an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual Grace. We have no record that our Saviour ever taught any such doctrines. Grace is mentioned in the New Testament more than one hundred times but water baptism is never once alluded to in connection with Grace in any way whatever. We cannot believe that our Saviour ordained water baptism as a means or sign of Grace to his children forever, when neither He nor his disciples ever mentioned it or even remotely alluded to it--so far as Scripture informs--in all of those one hundred texts wherein Grace is so variously and impressively commended to us. We are forced to believe that this whole theory of baptismal grace was conceived by man; was modified by the reformation and now might be entirely abandoned as adverse to the teachings of Christ and repugnant to sound reason. WATER BAPTISM AND CIRCUMCISION Some assume that Christ, by his apostles and disciples, instituted water baptism as the Christian successor of Jewish circumcision. Scripture testimony conflicts with this assumption. "The Acts of the Apostles" indicate that these apostles were mostly tenacious of Jewish customs and only gradually comprehended the universal and spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom in its noon-day brightness.