One of the greatest and most frequent requests in our prayers should be for God to graciously save our children.

No child by virtue of pedigree or status is born with a right to salvation,

and each child must choose for himself to place personal faith and trust in Jesus.

However, in an effort to maintain the importance of a personal decision to trust in

Jesus, some Baptists run the risk of overcorrecting and negating the promises of the gospel

that are given to parents and children. For example, 1 Corinthians 7.14, Baptists can and should

affirm the holiness and special nature of their covenant children

with a good conscience while still waiting to baptize their children upon a profession of faith.

Tune in now as we discuss covenant theology and why the children of Baptist and Presbyterians, but especially Baptists, are holy.

All right. Well, welcome back. Good to be here. We're going to be discussing baptism and especially covenant theology today. So if you've been interested in covenant theology, like most of us, if you grew up in the U.S., you probably grew up in a dispensational home. And so I remember coming to covenant theology and I read a chapter of a book. I'll put it down and be like, what did I just read? I can take some time to get used to that type of framework as compared to dispensationalism. Where's the plan for the temple? The third temple mouth.

What about these red heifers? What do we do with them? Do these guys even love Jesus or what?

Yeah, yep. So we'll talk about Baptist, Covenant Theology. I'm going to go ahead and start,

so I'm going to put some definitions on the screen. I'll read them out for anyone who may be listening, not watching the video. But I've got some definitions here that I think are going to be helpful to kind of set the stage. So when we talk about covenant, we're really talking about something very solemn. Some guys would maybe say that there are covenants that are building, for example, or a mortgage covenant. Those are probably closer to promises or contracts.

Right. When we talk about covenants, we're talking about something really solemn, something really serious.

All of the covenants that we have as examples in the Old Testament, especially when administered by God on behalf of the individual and contracted with them.

They're of the utmost serious.

It says in Deuteronomy that I call today heaven and earth as witness against you.

And it's as if all of creation is watching as Israel recounts the terms of the covenant

that they're agreeing with God.

And so covenants are a solemn bond and they're often sealed in blood.

So where this really comes from is in the ancient Near East, kings would sometimes conquer, or they would take over the stewardship

of a people, and they would agree to protect them, and because this was important. I mean, like,

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