Lord's Day 27 When children are baptized into Jesus Christ

When children are baptized into Jesus Christ, we take a great responsibility upon ourselves:

1. who must be baptized?
2. why must they be baptized?
3. when must they be baptized?

Questions to think about during the sermon:
Introduction:
1 Why – a hundred years ago – did wise old men suggest that the church was becoming an extension of the delivery room?
Point 1:
2 Does the Bible say that children have to be baptized?
3 Why does Paul mention children in 1 Corinthians 7? What does this prove?
4 What does it mean to become ‘like children’?
Point 2:
5 How does the Lord make His covenant children different from the world?
6 In which ways can we hinder our children?
7 To whom did Jesus give the command that they should not ‘hinder the children’? So … to whom does this command apply today? [What are you doing for the children of the congregation?]
Point 3:
8 When were children circumcised in the Old Testament? What can we learn from that?