How Dead People
Should Live.
Baptism
“Begin at the
beginning, and go
on till you come to
the end: then stop.”
Genesis 1
9 And God said, ‘Let the water under
the sky be gathered to one place,
and let dry ground appear.’ And it
was so. 10 God called the dry ground
‘land’, and the gathered waters he
called ‘seas’. And God saw that it
was good.
Baptism
 The
Jewish Background
 The
New Testament
 The
Early Church
 Romans
 Why
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Believers Baptism is Important
THE JEWISH BACKGROUND
THE NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV)
The Great Commission
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching
them to obey everything I have commanded
you. And surely I am with you always, to the
very end of the age.”
Acts Chapter 8 Philip and the Ethiopian
34The eunuch asked Philip, "Tell me, please, who is the
prophet talking about, himself or someone else?“ 35 Then
Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told
him the good news about Jesus. 36 As they travelled along
the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said,
“Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being
baptized?” [37]38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot.
Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water
and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the
water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and
the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way
rejoicing.
The Ethiopian
 Either
Jewish or a convert to Judaism
 He went to worship God.
 He could not make sense of what he
was reading.
 He understood.
 He Believed
 He was Baptised (Down into the
water)
Jordan River
THE EARLY CHURCH
Milan Cathedral
Milan Baptistery
Orthodox Churches
Romans 6: 1 – 10.
1What
shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning, so that grace may
increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can
we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were
baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? 4 We were
therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just
as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we
too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly
also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our
old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be
done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin – 7 because
anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with
him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he
cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he
died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Romans 3: 21 - 25
Righteousness through faith
21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God
has been made known, to which the Law and the
Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through
faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no
difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that came by
Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of
atonement, through the shedding of his blood – to be
received by faith.
Baptism
doesn’t make you a
believer.
Baptism doesn’t save you.
Baptism doesn't make you a
Christian.
Romans 6
1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning, so that grace may
increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can
we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were
baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? 4 We were
therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that,
just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father,
we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will
certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we
know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by
sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to
sin – 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with
him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he
cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death
he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Death
Burial
Resurrection.
How Dead People Should Live
Death
Burial
Resurrection
Genesis 1
9 And God said, ‘Let the water under
the sky be gathered to one place,
and let dry ground appear.’ And it
was so. 10 God called the dry ground
‘land’, and the gathered waters he
called ‘seas’. And God saw that it
was good.
Genesis 1
9 And God said, ‘Let the water under
the sky be gathered to one place,
and let dry ground appear.’ And it
was so. 10 God called the dry ground
‘land’, and the gathered waters he
called ‘seas’. And God saw that it
was good.
Revelation 21: 1
Then I saw ‘a new heaven and
a new earth,’ for the first
heaven and the first earth had
passed away,
Barbados
Barbados
Baptism
- Resurrection.
Why Believers Baptism is Important
Act
of obedience.
Testimony to the world.
Baptism is a visual
picture of what Christ
has done for us.