The Meaning of Baptism
Don’t ever let anyone tell you baptism isn’t important.
- It illustrates Christ’s __________, ____________, and __________________.
Colossians 2:12 – Having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
- It illustrates my ______ ________ as a Christian.
Romans 6:4 – Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
- We baptize by immersion because __________ was baptized that way.
Matthew 3:16 – And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him.
John 13:26 – “Jesus said, ‘It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.’ And having dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas Iscariot.”
- Baptism does not ________ a person, but is an expected act of obedience.
1 Corinthians 1:17, Paul says: “For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel.”
