Encouraging Words

WATER BAPTISM 5

WATER BAPTISM 5

Encouraging Words

Noah & Family

• fled to God for Safety• Built the Ark to save his family• They needed to escape the

corruption that was in the world• They escaped the judgment &

floated away to a new life

Saved by Water

• Water lifted him from OLD life• Set him down on NEW way of living

1PE 3:20-22

• [KJV] [1 Peter 3:20] Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

• 21 The like figure whereunto even 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,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

• 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Complete Covering

• Judgement for Old – Joy for New

Escape to a New life

• Be like Noah• Escape from your old life• Live in the power of a New Life

Do you want this?

• Do you want the badge to say • “this is what I want” - “this is what I

have done” ?

So here we are

• Do you understand what “water baptism means?

• Do you understand this?

ACT 8:36-39

• [KJV] [Acts 8:36] And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

• 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

• 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

• 39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

“LOOK! Here is water –

What am I waiting for?Why shouldn’t I be baptised?”