Baptisms

LESSON NINE: Water Baptism (continued)
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I. PREREQUISITES FOR WATER BAPTISM

A. What do the following verses tell us took place BEFORE the people were baptized?

    1. Acts 2:41 ________________________________________________

    2. Acts 16:14, 15 ____________________________________________

    3. Acts 19: 5 ________________________________________________

B. Acts 2: 37 ______________________________________________________

C. Acts 2: 38 ______________________________________________________

D. Mark 16: 16 ____________________________________________________

    Acts 8: 12 _____________________________________________________

    Acts 8: 36, 37 __________________________________________________

    Acts 16: 31, 33 _________________________________________________

E. Acts 9: 6, 8, 18 __________________________________________________

Notice in verse six, the words "arise and go" and in verse eight, the words, "Saul arose... they led him and brought him..."

II. WHEN BAPTISM TOOK PLACE IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES

The book of Acts is the pattern book. Notice this carefully: When were the people baptized in the following verses?

A. Acts 2:41 ____________________________________________________

B. Acts 8:12 ____________________________________________________

    Acts 18: 8 ____________________________________________________

    Acts 8: 37, 38 _________________________________________________

C. Acts 16: 33 ___________________________________________________

III. As New Testament believers we are to continue "stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine..." (Acts 2: 42). We thus ask the question, "WHAT DID THE APOSTLES TEACH ON THE SUBJECT OF WATER BAPTISM?"

A. What are we commanded to do after we repent?

    Acts 2: 38 _____________________________________________________

    Acts 10: 48 ____________________________________________________

B. WATER BAPTISM IS AN ACT OF OBEDIENCE on the part of the true believer. By it the believer testifies of genuine repentance and faith.

C. WATER BAPTISM IS the answer __________________________________

___________________________________________________. I Peter 3:21.

D. BAPTISM IN WATER IS LINKED WITH THE REMISSION OF SINS.

(Acts 2: 38) "Repent, and BE BAPTIZED every on of you in the name of Jesus Christ __________________________________________________."

The word translated "remission" means "forgiveness, deliverance, liberty; a sending away, letting go."

1. The remission of sins is a divine gift through our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. For what two reasons did God exalt His Son to be a Prince and a Saviour? Acts 5:31 _________________________________________

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2. Upon what is the remission of sins based?

    Matt 26: 28 ________________________________________________

    Heb 9: 22 _________________________________________________

3. How is the remission of sins received? Acts 10: 43 ________________

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4. How is a person to express his faith in the fact of the forgiveness and remission of sins? Acts 2: 38 _________________________________ (cf. Mark 1:4; Luke 3:3)

5. What is to be done with the truth concerning the remission of sins? Luke 24:47 ______________________________________________

E. WATER BAPTISM INS LINKED WITH CLEANSING FROM SIN.

What concerning our sins is pictured in baptism? Acts 22:16 __________

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At this point is our study we need to be very clear as to how we are cleansed from sin.

1. How are we washed, cleansed and loosed from our sins? Rev. 1:5 ____

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2. We are cleansed also by ___________________________ John 15:3    (cf. Eph. 5:25- 27)

3. Our cleansing from sin is signified in water baptism.Water baptism is an outward testimony of an inward work of grace in the heart. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ washes us from our sins. The written Word of God cleanses us from our sins as we hear it, read it, and heed it. (cf. Psalm 119:9) Water baptism is the confession of our desire to be clean from sins of every kind.