Sometimes a person will say to me that because he was baptized as an infant and did not understand the significance of baptism when the sign was put upon him, now, having come to faith and to an understanding of what God has done for him, he wants to be baptized once more. I have to tell him no. Why do I say that? When we are baptized the first time, we receive an outward sign of the promise of God, and when we come to faith, God has kept His promise. We are now born-again. We are now members of
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