Why Baptism is Important and Necessary

 Romans 6

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as 

were BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST 

were baptized into His death?

4 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.

5 For if we have been PLANTED TOGETHER 

in the LIKENESS of His DEATH, 

we shall be also in the likeness of 

His RESURRECTION:

6 Knowing this, that 

OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED with Him, 

that the body of sin might be destroyed, 

that henceforth we should not serve sin.

* This is why baptism is important and necessary.  

It represents being buried with Jesus Christ by baptism.  

1 Peter 3:21

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:

Jesus instructed in John 3: 

5 ....Verily, verily, I say unto thee, 

Except a man be born of water 

and of the Spirit, 

he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, 

Ye MUST be BORN AGAIN.

Peter, taught by Jesus and supported by the Apostles, instructed in Acts 2:

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, 

lifted up his voice, and said unto them....

38 Then Peter said unto them, REPENT, 

and BE BAPTIZED every one of you 

IN THE NAME of Jesus Christ 

for the remission of sins, 

and ye shall RECEIVE the gift of the HOLY GHOST. 

39 For the promise is unto you, 

and to your children, 

and to all that are afar off, 

even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

40 And with many other words did he testify 

and exhort, saying, 

Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

41 Then they that GLADLY RECEIVED THE WORD WERE BAPTIZED: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Have you repented and turned from your sins?

Have you obeyed Christ's and Peter's commands to be Born Again of water (Baptism in Jesus name) and of Spirit (being filled with the Holy Ghost)?

Have you received and obeyed the Scriptures with gladness?

Don't marvel that Jesus said we MUST be Born again.