Study 23: Christian Baptism

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*Matthew 28:19 - Teach all nations and baptize them - Baptizo in Greek means: Immerse; Plunge under

*Matthew 3:13-17 - "And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water."

*Mark 1:1-11 - "And straightway coming up out of the water .... "

*John 3:23 - John the Baptist baptized where there was much water

*Acts 8:26-40 - Phillip went down with the Ethiopian eunuch into the water to baptize him

*Col. 2:6-12 - "Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him .... " The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the bell tower of a Cathedral whose baptistry was a place where, until the 15th century, Catholics baptized by immersion

*Romans 6:1-6 - Jesus wants us to share in His death, burial, and resurrection by baptism

*I John 2:6 - "He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked."

*Mark 16:15-16 - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. The dying thief was covered with the Life of Christ, but he would have been the first one into the water if he had had a chance

*Acts 2:36-39 - "Peter said unto them, 'Repent, and be baptized, every one of you ... '"

*Acts 16:16-34 - "Believing in God with all his house" Only those who believe are ready to be baptized

*Acts 8:12 - When they believed, then they were baptized

*Galatians 3:26-27 - "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

*II Cor. 5:17 - "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature."

Galatians 2:20 - "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me ...." 

*Col. 3:1-3 - "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,"

*Acts 22:16 - "And now why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptized,"

Rev. 1:5 - "Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood,"

*I Peter 3:21 - "Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)" Baptism is an outward sign of an inward work of grace

I Cor. 10:1-4 - God even had a type of baptism in the Old Testament

*Acts 18:24-28; 19:1-5 - Nothing was wrong with John's baptism - Jesus received that baptism There were some who were rebaptized when they understood God's way better

I Cor. 12:13 - "By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,"

*Acts 10:44-48 - "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost"

*John 3:5 - "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."

*Ephesians 4:4-5 - "One Lord, one faith, one baptism."