Charles Stanley Daily Devotional 15th August 2025 (In Touch) Friday Message
TOPIC: The New Birth and Baptism
SCRIPTURE: Romans 6:3-10
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3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;
7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
TODAY’S MESSAGE:
Jesus told His followers to go and make disciples, “baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). As the early church spread the gospel message, it was often the case that baptism immediately followed a new believer’s response of faith.
Baptism is a powerful picture of salvation. This act is not only a proclamation of the good news that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and rose again; it is also our testimony that we’ve welcomed His transforming power into our life.
The Greek word for “baptize” is the same term used to describe a cloth dipped in dye. It refers to total change, so by being plunged into the water, we declare that we’re choosing to die to our old way of life and unite with Christ: “We have been buried with Him” (Rom. 6:4). When we’re raised up out of the water, we affirm His resurrection. Baptism is a symbolic way of expressing that just as the Lord conquered death and rose again, we are spiritually resurrected from death into real life—born anew and transformed through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Faith shouldn’t be hidden like a light placed under a basket (Luke 11:33). When unbelieving family and friends look at our life, it’s important that they see how the gospel has changed us.
Bible in One Year: Jeremiah 22-24
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Baptism is a picture of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
Dr. Charles F. Stanley was the founder of In Touch Ministries and a New York Times best-selling author. Throughout his ministry, he demonstrated a keen awareness of people’s needs and provided Christ-centered biblically based principles for everyday life
