back to index2020-7-19 Elise Chin Baptism
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I've been attending Berean for over seven years 00:00:16.680 |
By the time that I was a sophomore in high school, 00:00:20.160 |
I'd moved over 15 times and was living with my mom in Georgia 00:00:23.500 |
while my dad was serving the US Army as a chaplain 00:00:29.880 |
and because of the constant moves throughout our lives, 00:00:37.460 |
He got suspended, ran off with a car without a license. 00:00:45.180 |
He would now ask my mom and me to spend time together. 00:00:52.060 |
But the most distinguishing memory that I have of that time 00:00:54.520 |
was that he wouldn't stop talking about Jesus. 00:01:03.180 |
And that was offensive to me because between the two of us, 00:01:14.440 |
And that was when he shared the gospel with me. 00:01:16.840 |
I was confused because weren't we already Christian? 00:01:19.320 |
Doesn't dad being a pastor automatically give us heaven? 00:01:30.000 |
And that's when he shared the gospel with me, 00:01:32.900 |
And before he went to California for school again, 00:01:37.560 |
which was to be involved in the church community. 00:01:41.440 |
Eventually, God led me to the revelation of the fact 00:01:46.680 |
that was just as much an offense as my brother's badness. 00:01:49.920 |
And by God's grace, I recognized my sinfulness 00:01:55.960 |
that Christ achieved perfect obedience for me 00:01:58.040 |
and paid the price of all my sin and insurrection 00:02:02.280 |
I praise him because I'm completely forgiven and justified, 00:02:08.280 |
the just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God. 00:02:13.480 |
I lived in fear of disappointing those in authority, 00:02:17.880 |
And looking back now, that was such a purposeless life, 00:02:23.960 |
is the only one worthy of worship from any and all creation. 00:02:27.200 |
Ironically, it disappoints many when I do follow God. 00:02:46.480 |
And when I left Georgia to attend college in California, 00:02:48.960 |
I was taught that I don't really need the physical church 00:02:51.720 |
because I am the church and the spirit lives in me, 00:02:55.680 |
and it was a really rough college experience. 00:03:16.480 |
I can't cry and talk at the same time, sorry. 00:03:21.000 |
Such is the sensuousness and a lack of temperance. 00:03:23.600 |
But I truly believe that God brought me to a place 00:03:28.400 |
rather than just reading it or relying on sermons. 00:03:34.240 |
And so I moved a lot of times throughout my life, 00:03:43.200 |
Long story short, I could only attend college in California 00:03:51.040 |
from when I lived in Temecula for only a year, 00:03:55.880 |
The fact that this person recognized me on Ring Road 00:03:59.440 |
And he invited me to a campus ministry called CCM 00:04:08.360 |
This person also introduced me to Sharon Singh, 00:04:13.760 |
because lo and behold, she was a sister-in-law 00:04:16.880 |
of one of the two senior girls that I confided in. 00:04:21.560 |
Sharon went on to disciple me for several years, 00:04:23.680 |
which led to my consistent attendance at Berrien. 00:04:33.400 |
but I also knew that my parents would not approve. 00:04:41.960 |
I read and studied Jesus' baptism in Matthew 3 00:04:47.000 |
sorry, and studying Judaism for a little bit. 00:04:52.660 |
just as our Savior did, to fulfill all righteousness. 00:04:58.960 |
his miraculous calling of my life over 10 years ago, 00:05:01.480 |
but I see this as something important enough to do 00:05:03.520 |
and something so important that I don't wanna brush off. 00:05:08.200 |
to be baptized by submersion at a church that I love, 00:05:12.440 |
I thank God for this time because in a lot of ways, 00:05:15.700 |
that a lot of people don't necessarily have to. 00:05:17.960 |
And it's a privilege that I got to understand 00:05:19.880 |
a little more deeply the why's, what's, and how's 00:05:45.100 |
- Just to understand when you go into the water 00:05:49.640 |
that you're uniting with Christ in his death, 00:05:51.600 |
and then when you're coming out of the water, 00:05:56.680 |
- Then I baptize you in the name of the Father,