THE IMPORTANCE OF BAPTISM

Read Acts 8:26-39

KEY VERSE  "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." (Romans 6:4)
         
Why do we need to be baptized? What is the importance of it? Are we baptized when we were a a baby? Do we really know the reason for our baptism before? Did we follow how Jesus Christ was baptized? What does the bible say?

All these questions can be answered through the bible. We all know that Jesus Christ was baptized when he was about thirty years old, at the time when he is about to start his ministry. At that time, Jesus already knows what his mission in the world is. As he begins his ministry, he opened the book of the prophet Isaiah and began to say to them" The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:18-19).

In the Acts of the Aposotle, Philip was commanded by the angel of the Lord to go down south in the desert. He found there an Ethiopian eunuch was reading from the book of Isaiah. Then he was led by the Holy Spirit to join him, and he answered and he preached unto him Jesus Christ. As they were passing by, they saw water and the eunuch told what will hinder him to be baptized? Philip told him that he must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, which he did. Then they alighted in the chariot, and Philip baptized him.

See, this is what baptism is all about. We have to know who Jesus Christ is, and confess our sins to him. How will a baby know who Jesus Christ is? The Apostle Paul tells us in the letter to the Romans that we are being buried in Christ in his death, so that we are going to be raised with with him with his resurrection. Yes. we are submerged in water, to be buried for our sins, and raise up as new men, cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ and his resurrection. That is what baptism is about. We need to know Jesus Christ first. He will also baptize us with the Holy Spirit, so that we can preach his gospel to the world.

Me and my wife were already baptized in the Lord Jesus Christ's name last March 18, 2017. Just like the Ethiopian eunuch, we also accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior.

Have you accepted Jesus Christ as you lord and savior? Then repent of your sins, and be baptized in water, and he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

MAY JESUS BLESS YOU,

BRIAN LUCIANO

AUGUST 1,2017