Cultural Exegesis (3)
  1. God’s desire that all be saved led him to pay the price by which all are saved, all are justified.
  2. It is worthwhile because Jesus Christ gave baptism to His disciples as a means for making disciples after He had suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified died and buried and rose again on the third day.
  3. The authority God gives to men—to you and I as baptized believers in Christ—is to forgive sins, to free them from guilt, to free them from the power of sin.