“Practice Baptism”
WHY WE DO IT 


1 Peter 3:18-22 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. (19) After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits – (20) to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, (21) and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, (22) who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

*Baptism that now saves you*

1. NOT REMOVAL OF DIRT FROM BODY

 

2. PLEDGE OF CLEAR CONSCIENCE


Acts 22:16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.

 

Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.



3. THROUGH THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS


Romans 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

 
Matthew 28:18 – All authority on heaven and on earth has been given to me.