16我们在传扬基督耶稣时,必须领悟在我们所传的话里有那灵。……我们传扬话语,必须相信我们是在传扬耶和华的话、活神的话和耶稣基督的话。此外,话就是灵(约六63)。我们向人传扬话语,带他们得救,将他们浸入水里,圣灵会尊重这样的受浸,叫基督在他们里面生长。当一个罪人听见福音、相信、祷告,并且知道自己是个得救的人而承认救恩,我们就该将他浸入受浸的水里。浸入水里是一个表记,指明他被浸到经过过程的三一神里,就是浸入与三一神的联结里。人如此被摆进三一神里,是为着使他与基督—三一神的具体化身(西二9)—联合生长。因此,新人相信主耶稣之后,我们该相信受浸的功效,立刻为他施浸(新约总论第十册,四八至五○页)。 16When we preach Christ Jesus, we have to realize that in the word we preach, there is the Spirit…When we preach the word, we must have faith that we are preaching the word of Jehovah, the word of the living God, and the word of Jesus Christ. Moreover, the word is the Spirit (John 6:63). When we preach the word to others, lead them to salvation, and baptize them into the water, the Holy Spirit will honor this baptism by causing the growth of Christ within them. When a sinner hears the gospel, believes, prays, and acknowledges salvation by recognizing that he is a saved person, we should put him into the water of baptism. Being baptized into the water is a sign indicating that he is being baptized into the processed Triune God, that is, immersed into the union with the Triune God. For him to be put into the Triune God in this way is for him to grow with Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God (Col. 2:19). Therefore, after a new convert believes in the Lord Jesus, we should baptize him immediately, believing in the effectiveness of baptism. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3053-3055)