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iPerceive:. Buried Alive!. “ Only Jesus gives us rest and our heavy load becomes something light and easy to carry. ”. John 3:1-5.
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iPerceive: • Buried Alive!
“Only Jesus gives us rest and our heavy load becomes something light and easy to carry.”
John 3:1-5 • “There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, ‘Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God
John 3:1-5 • for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’
John 3:1-5 • Nicodemus said to Him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?‘
John 3:1-5 • Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’”
“Born of the Spirit” • “Born of water”
“Born of the Spirit” • “Born of water” • Mark it carefully—you cannot be saved without it.
Mark 16:16 • “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.”
Acts 2:22-24, 36-37 • “‘Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know—
Acts 2:22-24, 36-37 • Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death,
Acts 2:22-24, 36-37 • because it was not possible that He should be held by it. . . . Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.‘
Acts 2:22-24, 36-37 • Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’”
Acts 2:38, 39 • “Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38, 39 • For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.’”
I John 1:9 • “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Baptism is an outward sign that an inward change has taken place in the heart.
Matthew 3:13-17 • “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?
Matthew 3:13-17 • But Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then he allowed Him. When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water;
Matthew 3:13-17 • and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’”
John 3:23 • “Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.”
Ephesians 4:4-6 • “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”
James Cardinal Gibbons • “For several centuries after the establishment of Christianity baptism was usually conferred by immersion.
James Cardinal Gibbons • But since the twelfth century the practice of baptism by infusion [or pouring] has prevailed in the [Roman] Catholic Church, as this manner attended less inconvenience than baptism by immersion....