Ninth Commandment- No False Witness

Both of these pictures are photos of witnesses. The person on the left is testifying to the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ through the waters of baptism, and the person on the right is being sworn in as a courtroom witness.

Witnesses were a very important part of God's Old Testament law. A person's guilt or innoncence under the law was to be established by two or three witnesses. It was essential that God's people told the truth, since a person could be put to death by the word of 2 or 3 witnesses. God therefore required that any person found to be a false witness was to receive the punishment that would have been meted out to the person they testified against.

"One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you. (Deu 19:15-19)

The most important witness you and I will ever be, is a witness for Christ. Yesterday I had the privelege of baptizing two young adults, a young lady, and an older gentleman, that all wanted to testify of the power of the resurrected Christ to save us from the penalty and power of sin.

We have a few more that are wanting to be baptized, and maybe next week we'll fill up the pool again here at our church facility. Have you publicly confessed Christ as your Lord and Savior?

(I'd be glad to e-mail you our baptism material if you have any questions about immersion as it is presented in the Bible. Did you know that the Jewish Assembly, the Greek Orthodox church, and the Roman Catholic church all agree that immersion was the practice of the early church for almost 1200 years?)

In Christ, we are sanctified and holy, and on our way to glory. Praise God!!

Yours in Him,

Pastor B.