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Romans 6:1-14 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? (2) Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in

it? (3) Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? (4) Therefore we were buried with Him

through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of

His resurrection, (6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. (7) For he who has died has been freed from

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(8) Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, (9) knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.

Death no longer has dominion over Him. (10) For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. (11) Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (12) Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. (13) And do not

present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to

God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (14) For sin shall not have dominion over you, for

you are not under law but under grace.

BAPTISM CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Changes Everything

"Something In The Water" by Carrie UnderwoodHe said, "I've been where you've been before. Down every hallway's a slamming door.No way out, no one to come and save me. Wasting a life that the Good Lord gave me.Then somebody said what I'm saying to you, Opened my eyes and told me the truth.“They said, "Just a little faith, it'll all get better." “So I followed that preacher man down to the river, and now I'm changed, And now I'm stronger.” There must've been something in the water.Oh, there must've been something in the water. Well, I heard what he said and I went on my way,Didn't think about it for a couple of days, Then it hit me like a lightning late one night,I was all out of hope and all out of fight, Couldn't fight back the tears so I fell on my knees,Saying, "God, if you're there come and rescue me."

Felt love pouring down from above.Got washed in the water, washed in the blood, and now I'm changed, And now I'm stronger.There must be something in the water, Oh, there must be something in the water.And now I'm singing along to amazing grace, Can't nobody wipe this smile off my face.Got joy in my heart, angels on my side, Thank God almighty, I saw the light.Gonna look ahead, no turning back, Live every day, give it all that I have.Trust in someone bigger than me, Ever since the day that I believed, I am changed, And now I'm stronger.There must be something in the water.Oh, there must be something in the water.Oh, there must be something in the water.Oh, there must be something in the water (like me), Oh, yeah.I am changed (I once was lost), Stronger (but now I'm found)(was blind but now I see).

BAPTISM CHANGES EVERYTHINGA. We know it’s not something in the water.

B. It is God changing us through our obedience.

C. Galatians 6:14-15 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (15) For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

D. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

I. A CHANGE IN RELATIONSHIPS

A. A CHANGE OF FAMILIES - Gal 3:26-29) For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. {27} For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. {28} There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. {29} And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

B. A CHANGE OF MASTER - Matthew 6:24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

I. A CHANGE IN RELATIONSHIPSC. A CHANGE OF CITIZENSHIP

1.John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” {4} Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” {5} Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

2.Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

D. A CHANGE OF FRIENDS - James 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

II. A CHANGE IN ATTITUDESA. A CHANGE IS WHAT BRINGS REJOICING - Acts 8:36-39

Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?" {37} Then Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." {38} So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. {39} Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.

B. A CHANGE OF DESIRE - Philippians 1:23 For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

II. A CHANGE IN ATTITUDESC. A CHANGE OF INTERESTS - Acts 8:4 Therefore those

who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word.

D. A CHANGE OF CONSCIENCE - 1 Pet 3:18-22) For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, {19} by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, {20} who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. {21} There is also an antitype which now saves us; baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, {22} who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

III. A CHANGE OF DIRECTIONSA. A CHANGE OF LEADERS - Colossians 1:13 He has

delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

B. A CHANGE OF PATHS - Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. (14) Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

C. A CHANGE OF DEBT - Col 2:11-13) In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, {12} buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. {13} And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

III. A CHANGE OF DIRECTIONSD. A CHANGE OF STATES - Mark 16:15-16 And He said to

them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. {16} “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

E. A CHANGE OF PURITY - Acts 22:12-16 “Then a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good testimony with all the Jews who dwelt there, {13} “came to me; and he stood and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And at that same hour I looked up at him. {14} “Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth. {15} ‘For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. {16} ‘And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

F. A CHANGE OF HABITS - 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

BAPTISM TRULY CHANGES EVERYTHING

A. We are changed into Jesus’ image!

B. Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

C. Colossians 3:9-10 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, (10) and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

BAPTISM TRULY CHANGES EVERYTHING

E. 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

F. ONE DAY WE WILL BE FULLY LIKE JESUS - Philippians 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, (21) who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

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