• You Don’t Have To Be Baptized
• If you do not want to go to heaven; this statement is true.

• Introduction
• Often when we teach the plan of salvation, we are challenged as to the necessity of baptism.
• Yes, Baptism is a choice we make.
• Yes, it is a response to what we believe.
• Yes, it is essential and necessary for salvation.
• But much more than that, there is much we need baptism for.
• Let us notice a few things.
• You only HAVE to get baptized if:
• you want to follow in the steps of Christ, who was baptized (Matthew 3:16);
• you want to become a disciple (Matthew 28:19);
• you want to be saved (Mark 16:16);
• you want to enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:5);
• you want your sins remitted (Acts 2:38);
• you want the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38, 5:32);
• you have gladly received the word of God (Acts 2:41);
• you have believed the preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom (Acts 8:12)
• you want to obey the commandment of God (Acts 10:47-48)
• you want your sins washed away (Acts 22:16)
• you want to call upon the Lord (Acts 22:16)
• you want to be IN Christ Jesus (Romans 6:3)
• you want to be IN the death of Christ (Romans 6:3)
• you want to be buried WITH Jesus and raised to walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4)
• you want to be united with Jesus in His death and resurrection (Romans 6:5)
• you want to be crucified with Christ (Romans 6:6)
• you want your body of sin to be done away with (Romans 6:6)
• you want to no longer be a slave to sin (Romans 6:6)
• you want freed from sin (Romans 6:7)
• you want to be washed and sanctified in the name of Jesus by the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 6:11)
• you want to be in the body of Christ
(1 Corinthians 12:13)
• you no longer want to be under the tutor of the law (Galatians 3:25-27)
• you want to become a son of God by faith (Galatians 3:26-27)
• you want to be in Christ and clothed with Christ (Galatians 3:27)
• you want to be sanctified and cleansed (Ephesians 5:26)
• you want a spiritual circumcision of Christ, in which your body of flesh (sin) is cut away (Colossians 2:11)
• you want to be buried with Jesus and raised up with Him (Colossians 2:12)
• you want to be made alive together with Christ (Colossians 2:13)
• you want to be forgiven of all your transgressions (Colossians 2:13)
• you want your heart and your evil conscience cleansed (Hebrews 10:22)
• you want to make an appeal to God for a clean conscience (1 Peter 3:21)

• Could One Be Baptized Wrong?
• Simple answer is YES.
• Most people are baptized wrong.
• Sadly, they think they are saved.
• These people do not know their baptism is invalid.
• They have been taught wrong.
• Most denominations teach error concerning baptism.
• Most denominations do not teach baptism for the remission of sins.
• If you were baptized in a denomination, you are not yet saved.
• You cannot be taught error, and be baptized right.

• Conclusion
• If you want to be right with God and have the hope of salvation, why not obey the right way.
• Do not forget that Baptism is just one step in God’s plan, we must do the other steps (believe, repent, confess), and live a faithful life towards God.
• You will not go to heaven unless you are baptized properly.
• If you want any of these blessings we have discussed, you need to be baptized.
• If you want to be saved, why wait?

By Carey Scott from unknown source.

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