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SOME BIBLE VERSES RELATING TO INFANT/COVENANT BAPTISM

  SOME BIBLE VERSES RELATING TO INFANT/COVENANT BAPTISM   SOME BIBLE VERSES RELATING TO INFANT/COVENANT BAPTISM   Apostles’ and Christ’s Teaching on Covenant Children:   1.        Acts 2 shows us the saving outpouring of the Holy Spirit from Jesus in glory ( Acts 2:33 ) upon Jews and now also Gentiles/many nations, stands in continuity with and fulfils all the old covenant promises through Christ’s blood of the new covenant. a.        This outpouring of the Spirit in Acts 2 comes on Pentecost/the Feast of Weeks, which in Deut. 16:11 we see that the households rejoiced before God on that day, “you and your son and your daughter…” b.        Acts 2:16 says this is a fulfilment of Joel 2:28 , then quotes it, showing the outpouring of the Spirit coming upon “your sons and daughters,” etc. c.        Acts 2:38-39 says this new covenant promise is to “you and your children”. The adults/men present in Jerusalem ( Acts 2:5 ) who believe are baptized. These men are heads of th