Ordinance of Baptism
Brett Hickey Sausage, bacon and eggs for breakfast sounds like a great way to start a Saturday. Then, after mowing the lawn, you could reward yourself with a catfish lunch. These acts, which we would not think twice about today, would make the Jew under the Old Covenant guilty of four sins. Working on the Sabbath (Saturday) was a sin punishable by death (Exod. 31:15), while bacon, sausage and catfish violated the Old Testament food ordinances (Lev. 11). How could…