The document discusses persecution and baptism. It talks about how persecution allowed the command to spread the gospel to be fulfilled. It also discusses what baptism represents such as identifying with Jesus' death and resurrection. However, baptism does not save, cleanse, make one holy, or make one a Baptist. The document recommends baptism by immersion for believers and discusses the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

1. Persecution
and
Baptism
Growing Through Trials, Part 1V - Acts 8:1-25

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9. God allowed the
persecution to the fulfill
the command to go into
Samaria and the uttermost
parts of the world. (Acts
1:8)

11. If God has told you to do
something, don’t wait until
you have to do it.

12. If God has told you to do
something, don’t wait until
you have to do it.

13. How much do you owe
spiritually? What is
your sin debt?

14. How much do you owe
spiritually? What is
your sin debt?
1 sin/day = 25,550 sins in a typical lifetime

15. How much do you owe
spiritually? What is
your sin debt?
1 sin/day = 25,550 sins in a typical lifetime
25 sins/day = 638,750 sins

16. Baptism

17. Baptism
Baptism - a signpost that I
am putting my old life to
death and will now follow
Christ

18. Galatians 2:20

19. Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ;
and it is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me; and the life which
I now live in the flesh I live by faith
in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave Himself up for me.

21. - a public profession of an inward
confession

22. - a public profession of an inward
confession
- identifying with Jesus death and
resurrection and believing God will
raise your body after you die
(Romans 6:4)

23. Baptism DOES NOT

24. Baptism DOES NOT
- save you (Ephesians 2:8-9)

25. Baptism DOES NOT
- save you (Ephesians 2:8-9)
- cleanse you (1 John 1:9)

26. Baptism DOES NOT
- save you (Ephesians 2:8-9)
- cleanse you (1 John 1:9)
- make you holy

27. Baptism DOES NOT
- save you (Ephesians 2:8-9)
- cleanse you (1 John 1:9)
- make you holy
- make you a Baptist

28. Baptism Method?

29. Baptism Method?
- by immersion (Matthew 3:6)

30. Baptism Method?
- by immersion (Matthew 3:6)
- by believers (Infant baptism is not
practiced in the scriptures)

31. Baptism Method?
- by immersion (Matthew 3:6)
- by believers (Infant baptism is not
practiced in the scriptures)
- if you were baptized as an infant, it
represents your parents’ faith; you
should now get baptized to represent
your faith.

32. Baptism of the Holy Spirit

33. Baptism of the Holy Spirit
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit was a
BIG deal! The disciples wanted
everyone to experience it

35. Baptism of the Holy Spirit can take
place at salvation or afterward. (Acts
18:24-25; Acts 19:1-6)

36. Ephesians 1:13-14

37. Ephesians 1:13-14
In Him, you also, after listening to the
message of truth, the gospel of your
salvation—having also believed, you
were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit
of promise, who is given as a pledge of
our inheritance, with a view to the
redemption of God’s own possession, to
the praise of His glory

41. The Purpose of the
Baptism of the Holy Spirit
- is power to serve

42. The Purpose of the
Baptism of the Holy Spirit
- is power to serve

44. Are you a Simon? Look
good on the outside, but
inside there is bitterness
and bondage?

46. The more we put up walls, the more
we think we are protected, yet the
walls become a prison, entrapping us
and keeping us in bondage.

47. 2 Corinthians 7:9-10

48. 2 Corinthians 7:9-10
“I now rejoice, not that you were made
sorrowful, but that you were made
sorrowful to the point of repentance; for
you were made sorrowful according to the
will of God, in order that you might not
suffer loss in anything through us. For the
sorrow that is according to the will of God
produces a repentance without regret,
leading to salvation; but the sorrow of the
world produces death.”