Baptised in water - who needs it?

1. Encouraging Words
WATER BAPTISM 1

2. WATER BAPTISM
Encouraging Words 1

3. Is Water Baptism For You?
Do you know that Bible
Teaches?

4. Water Baptism
Should you be baptised in
water?

5. Water baptism
• Is included in the Gospel Message?
• Water baptism is everywhere in the
New Testament

6. BAPTISMS in ACTS
& OTHER New Testament
Baptisms

7. Peter Preaches water
baptism
It’s the 1st message in/to the
Christian Church

8. ACT 2:38-41
• [KJV] [Acts 2:38] Then Peter said
unto them, Repent, and be
baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of sins, and ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

9. • 39 For the promise is unto
you, and to your children, and
to all that are afar off, even as
many as the Lord our God shall
call.

10. • 40 And with many other
words did he testify and
exhort, saying, Save
yourselves from this
untoward generation.

11. • 41 Then they that gladly
received his word were
baptized: and the same day
there were added unto them
about three thousand souls.

12. Water Baptism Shows
• That a person is committing
him/herself fully to follow
Jesus Christ

13. Water baptism comes after
• Repentance & Faith
• Repentance = being sorry for &
turning away from the wrong
things that you know that you have
done
• Faith is believing in Who Jesus is &
What he has done

14. [KJV] [Acts 2:38]
• Then Peter said unto
them, Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost.

15. Turn Back To God
• Turning from Sin
• Forsaking Sin
• Leaving the Old Life
• Otherwise water baptism is a
farce – joke if you don’t mean it

16. A desire deep within you
• To stand up for Jesus
• To serve God
• If you don’t want to serve God
DON’T get baptised

17. Paul is converted THEN
• He is baptised
• Paul Repented & had Faith –
then he was baptised

18. ACT 22:12-16
• [KJV] [Acts 22:12] And one
Ananias, a devout man
according to the law, having a
good report of all the Jews
which dwelt there,

19. • 13 Came unto me, and
stood, and said unto
me, Brother Saul, receive thy
sight. And the same hour I
looked up upon him.

20. • 14 And he said, The God of
our fathers hath chosen
thee, that thou shouldest know
his will, and see that Just
One, and shouldest hear the
voice of his mouth.

21. • 15 For thou shalt be his
witness unto all men of what
thou hast seen and heard.

22. • 16 And now why tarriest thou?
arise, and be baptized, and
wash away thy sins, calling on
the name of the Lord.

23. Here are many accounts of
Christians
Getting baptised in the 1st
church
We should look at them

24. The Samaritans
– ACT 8:9-13

25. • [KJV] [Acts 8:9] But there was
a certain man, called
Simon, which beforetime in the
same city used sorcery, and
bewitched the people of
Samaria, giving out that
himself was some great one:

26. • 10 To whom they all gave
heed, from the least to the
greatest, saying, This man is
the great power of God.

27. • 11 And to him they had
regard, because that of long
time he had bewitched them
with sorceries.

28. • 12 But when they believed Philip
preaching the things concerning the
kingdom of God, and the name of
Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both
men and women.

29. • 13 Then Simon himself believed also:
and when he was baptized, he
continued with Philip, and
wondered, beholding the miracles and
signs which were done.

30. The Ethiopian
– ACT 8:35-38

31. • [KJV] [Acts 8:35] Then Philip
opened his mouth, and began
at the same scripture, and
preached unto him Jesus.

32. • 36 And as they went on their
way, they came unto a certain
water: and the eunuch
said, See, here is water; what
doth hinder me to be baptized?

33. • 37 And Philip said, If thou
believest with all thine
heart, thou mayest. And he
answered and said, I believe
that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God.

34. • 38 And he commanded the
chariot to stand still: and they
went down both into the
water, both Philip and the
eunuch; and he baptized him.

35. Cornelius & Household
ACT 10:43-48

36. • [KJV] [Acts 10:43] To him give
all the prophets witness, that
through his name whosoever
believeth in him shall receive
remission of sins.

37. • 44 While Peter yet spake these
words, the Holy Ghost fell on
all them which heard the word.

38. • 45 And they of the
circumcision which believed
were astonished, as many as
came with Peter, because that
on the Gentiles also was
poured out the gift of the Holy
Ghost.

39. • 46 For they heard them speak
with tongues, and magnify
God. Then answered Peter,

40. • 47 Can any man forbid
water, that these should not be
baptized, which have received
the Holy Ghost as well as we?

41. • 48 And he commanded them
to be baptized in the name of
the Lord. Then prayed they him
to tarry certain days.

42. Jailor & Household
ACT 16:30-34

43. • [KJV] [Acts 16:30] And
brought them out, and
said, Sirs, what must I do to be
saved?

44. • 31 And they said, Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shalt be saved, and thy house.

45. • 32 And they spake unto him
the word of the Lord, and to all
that were in his house.

46. • 33 And he took them the same
hour of the night, and washed
their stripes; and was
baptized, he and all
his, straightway.

47. • 34 And when he had brought
them into his house, he set
meat before them, and
rejoiced, believing in God with
all his house.

48. Lydia a Businesswoman &
family
ACT 16:14-15

49. • [KJV] [Acts 16:14] And a
certain woman named Lydia, a
seller of purple, of the city of
Thyatira, which worshipped
God, heard us: whose heart
the Lord opened, that she
attended unto the things which
were spoken of Paul.

50. • 15 And when she was
baptized, and her
household, she besought
us, saying, If ye have judged
me to be faithful to the
Lord, come into my house, and
abide there. And she
constrained us.

51. Crispus Ruler of the
Synagogue
[KJV] [Acts 18:8]

52. • [KJV] [Acts 18:8] And
Crispus, the chief ruler of the
synagogue, believed on the
Lord with all his house; and
many of the Corinthians
hearing believed, and were
baptized.

53. Believers at Ephesus
ACT 19:1-5 ~Paul at Ephesus

54. • [KJV] [Acts 19:1] And it came
to pass, that, while Apollos was
at Corinth, Paul having passed
through the upper coasts came
to Ephesus: and finding certain
disciples,

55. • 2 He said unto them, Have ye
received the Holy Ghost since
ye believed? And they said
unto him, We have not so much
as heard whether there be any
Holy Ghost.

56. • 3 And he said unto them, Unto
what then were ye baptized?
And they said, Unto John's
baptism.

57. • 4 Then said Paul, John verily
baptized with the baptism of
repentance, saying unto the
people, that they should
believe on him which should
come after him, that is, on
Christ Jesus.

58. • 5 When they heard
this, they were baptized in
the name of the Lord
Jesus.