The Life-Changing Experience

of Baptism

Clues to the mystery of Baptism

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an FAQ section in the Bible about baptism?

We can still know a great deal about baptism.

With careful study we can learn much about this life-changing experience.

A Change of Citizenship and Ownership

Into the possession of God

•Matthew 28:19 -- 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…

Acts 2:41

•Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

•Added to the body of Christ

Acts 19:5

•On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

•Into the name of the Lord Jesus

Romans 6:3

•Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

•Into Christ’s Death

A Removal ofUnwanted Things

Acts 2:38

•Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

•Forgiveness of sins

Acts 22:16

•And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.'

•Forgiveness of sins

Colossians 2:11-12

•In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, 12having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

•The Body of the Flesh

2 Corinthians 5:17

•Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

•Old Things Passed Away

Romans 6:6

•For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin…

•Body of Sin Crucified

A Putting Onof Lovely Things

Galatians 3:27

•…for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

•Clothed With Christ

Romans 13:14

•Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

•Clothed With Christ

Romans 6:4 •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.

•Burial, Resurrection, New Life!

1 Peter 3:21

•…and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge[a] of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

•A Clear Conscience

1 Corinthians 12:13

•For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

•Drinking of the one Spirit