7/6/2025

Matt 28:18-20

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. NKJV

Water baptism?  Why is it important? The early church baptized people as soon as they received salvation.  Jesus taught water baptism.  The Greek word for baptism is baptidzo which means to fully immerse, fully overwhelmed (fully wet).  In Matt. 28:19, Jesus instructed us to baptize believers in water.  (Romans 6:4 says, “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.  Water baptism proclaims that our “old man” has been buried with Christ, and that we have been raised with him to new life.  It proclaims what happened when we received salvation!  We became new creatures in Christ Jesus.  We were born again! It is symbolic of the fact that we have been dipped in the blood of the lamb and raised to “walk in newness of life.”  Rejoice and again I say rejoice!