1. Encouraging Words
WATER BAPTISM 2

2. WATER BAPTISM
Encouraging Words 2

3. Water baptism does NOT save
• As a ceremonial rite on its own
• Just asking someone to baptise you in
water will not save you on its own
• Water baptism does not make you into
a Christian

4. Water baptism does NOT save
• But a Christian is baptised in water
because they are saved
• Water baptism does not make you into
a Christian
• But water baptism marks you as a
Christian

5. The Blood of Jesus (not
water) cleanses

6. Saved by grace (not water)
thru Faith
EPH 2:8-9

7. • [KJV] [Ephesians 2:8] For by grace are
ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God:

8. • 9 Not of works, lest any man should
boast.

9. New Birth – Born Again
• Is cleansing
• Forgiveness
• These come from God
• This is getting a brand new start again
in life

10. “Baptism” – its meaning in Bible
• dip, immerse or submerge
• To completely cover

11. New Testament Believers
• were SUBMERGED in water
• To be submerged or covered
completely over – like being buried

12. You need a lot of water – not
just a “sprinkle from a bowl”

13. You go down into the water

14. You come up out of the water

15. “PLENTY OF WATER”
• [KJV] [John 3:23] And John also was
baptizing in Aenon near to Salim,
because there was much water there:
and they came, and were baptized.

16. GOING DOWN INTO WATER
• [KJV] [Acts 8:38] 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.

17. COMING UP OUT OF WATER
• [KJV] [Acts 8:39] And when they were
come up out of the water, the Spirit of
the Lord caught away Philip, that the
eunuch saw him no more: and he went
on his way rejoicing.

18. JESUS CAME UP OUT OF
WATER
• [KJV] [Mark 1:10] And straightway
coming up out of the water, he saw the
heavens opened, and the Spirit like a
dove descending upon him:

19. SYMBOLISM OF
SUBMERGING IN WATER

20. Buried in baptism
• [KJV] [Romans 6:4] Therefore we are
buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from
the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in
newness of life.

21. Life After Death
Reasons why a Christian
should be baptised

22. 1
1st step in Obedience to Christ

23. 2
You are following example set
by Jesus

24. 3
Baptism is a symbol of being
baptised by one spirit into the
body of Christ

25. 1st step in Obedience to Christ
• [KJV] [Matthew 28:19] Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost:

26. • [KJV] [Mark 16:16] He that believeth
and is baptized shall be saved; but he
that believeth not shall be damned.

27. You are following Jesus
example
MAT 3:16-17

28. • [KJV] [Matthew 3:16] And Jesus, when
he was baptized, went up straightway
out of the water: and, lo, the heavens
were opened unto him, and he saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove,
and lighting upon him:

29. • 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased.

30. Jesus had no sin of his own
• but he was baptised “so that he could
do all that was right”

31. • [KJV] [Matthew 3:15] And Jesus
answering said unto him, Suffer it to be
so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil
all righteousness. Then he suffered
him.

32. • To suffer him – do as he asked
• Will you ask to be baptised in water?