BIBLE TRUTHS ABOUT BAPTISM
* John the Baptist preached "baptism for the remission of sins" (Mark 1:4).
* Those who refused John's baptism rejected the counsel of God (Luke 7:30).
* Jesus Himself was baptized by John and God was well pleased with Him (Matthew 3:13-17).
* Jesus had no sins (I Peter 2:21-22), but in being baptized Jesus "fulfilled all righteousness" (Matthew 3:13-16), i.e., He obeyed a commandment that God had given through John the Baptist and all of God's commandments are righteousness (Psalm 119:172).
* Jesus also was baptized to avoid the conflicting position of being "a teacher come from God" (John 3:2) while not submitting to the preaching of another teacher from God, John the Baptist (John 1:6-7).
* Jesus and His disciples baptized (John 3:26; John 4:1-2).
* Jesus said that a man who had experienced the natural birth from his mother's womb must nevertheless be "born again...of water and the Spirit" (John 3:3-5).
* Jesus commanded the apostles to teach all nations, baptizing people in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:18-20).
* Jesus said, "He who believes and is baptized shall be saved" (Mark 16:16).
* The apostle Peter told sinners to "repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins" (Acts 2:38).
* As a result of having Christ preached to him, the Ethiopian eunuch asked to be baptized, and upon confessing his faith in Christ, he immediately was baptized (Acts 8:35-39).
* Baptism is a complete immersion in water (Matthew 3:16; Acts 8:38-39; Romans 6:4-5; Colossians 2:12).
* The Philippian jailer and his household were baptized the same hour of the night in which they learned what to do to be saved (Acts 16:25-34).
* "And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed, and were baptized" (Acts 18:8b).
* There is but one baptism: baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the remission of sins (Ephesians 4:5; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:38).
* Baptism is so important that Paul re-baptized about twelve men who had received the outdated baptism of John the Baptist (no longer valid if administered after Acts 2), i.e., the men had to make a second trip to the water in order to be right with God (Acts 19:1-7).
* Baptism washes away sins (Acts 22:16).
* Baptism is into Christ (Romans 6:3; Galatians 3:27).
* Baptism is into the death of Christ where He shed His blood (Romans 6:3-4; John 19:33-34).
* It is in baptism that one contacts the blood of Christ (note the preceding) and has his sins washed away (Acts 22:16).
* Baptism is not a work of human merit, but a work of God (Colossians 2:11-12).
* God saves people according to His mercy "by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:4-7).
* Baptism is into the one body, the church (I Corinthians 12:13; (Ephesians 1:22-23).
* The church of the Lord (the composite of all those who have been saved—Acts 2:47) is sanctified and cleansed "with the washing of water by the word" (Ephesians 5:25-26).
* Baptism saves (I Peter 3:21).
Hugh Fulford
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