Amazing Facts – Bible Study session 9 (Baptism)

• It represents changing teams – you’ve changed masters and kingdoms
• It’s the marriage ceremony between you and Jesus
• The gift of the Holy Spirit is received by baptism
• It’s essential
• It is not what ‘washes away sin’
• Jesus was baptized to ‘fill all righteousness’ – to give credit to those who cannot or know not
• Emersion is the only Biblical method of baptism
• If you take away the true nature of the symbols of the Bible, you lose the meaning they represent
• You want your old nature buried
• God does not judge us for our ignorance
• Before you marry the Lord, you have to stop dating the devil
• Must be willing to walk in a new life – should not serve sin – no longer a slave to sin
• You want to know what you’re getting into, but not wait until you know everything, because you never will
• God judges babies by their innocence
• When your child is old enough to be lost, they’re old enough to be saved – if they can have their own relationship (prayer, Bible study, etc), then baptism is relevant for them
• Baptism means responsibility to the body of Christ (the church)
• Everything that Christ experienced at His baptism, God wants you to experience (Matthew 3:16)
• Heavens were opened – granted access to heaven
• Saw the Spirit of God – claim it by faith
• Peace enters into your life
• Hear a voice in heaven – God’s voice will become more clear
• Now adopted as a son of God
• God is well pleased with you
• Began a life of ministry and started a journey to the cross
• Devil tempted Him – now a threat to him
• Baptism doesn’t:
• Change the heart
• Make you feel better – faith comes first
• Remove temptation
• Guarantee salvation
• Reasons for re-baptism:
• Not baptized Biblically (by immersion)
• Back-sliding
• Person comes into a whole new understanding of Christ