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Conversions in Acts
"Baptism"

Introduction:
 

        1.    In Acts 1:8, Jesus gave the apostles a specific plan for evangelizing the world.
        2.    As Luke showed how this plan was implemented in Acts, he wrote about a number of
               conversions that occurred.

        3.    Studying these conversions helps us understand how we become Christians today.
        4.    Luke also wrote in Acts about a number of important subjects that relate to salvation, including
               "baptism."


Discussion:

I.                   PRIOR  TO  THE  EVENTS  RECORDED  IN  ACTS,  JESUS  INCLUDED  BAPTISM 
                     IN  THE  GREAT  COMMISSION


        A.   We learn from Matthew 28:18-20 that baptism:
               1.    is a command of Christ who has "all power" [authority]
               2.    is for "all nations" [everyone]
               3.    is "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit"
               4.    is to be administered "unto the end of the world."
        B.   We learn from Mark 16:15-16 that baptism:
               1.    is for those who believe (Acts 8:36-38)
               2.    results in salvation.

II.                IN  ACTS,  LUKE  SHOWED  HOW  PEOPLE  WERE  BAPTIZED  AS  THEY  WERE 
                   CONVERTED  TO  CHRIST,  INCLUDING:


        A.   the 3,000 in Jerusalem on Pentecost (2:37-38, 41)
        B.   people in Samaria (8:12)
        C.   the eunuch of Ethiopia (8:38)
        D.   Saul (9:18; 22:16)
        E.   Cornelius and his household (10:48)
        F.    Lydia and her household (16:14-15)
        G.   the Philippian jailer (16:33)
        H.   the Corinthians (18:8)
        I.     the 12 men in Ephesus (19:5).

III.             THE  NEW  TESTAMENT  LETTERS  ALSO  CONTAIN  SOME  IMPORTANT  INFORMATION 
                
ABOUT  BAPTISM


        A.   (Romans 6:3-7) We are "freed from sin" when we are baptized into the Lord.
        B.   (1 Corinthians 12:13) We are baptized "into one body" [the church -- Ephesians 1:22-23].
        C.   (Galatians 3:26-27) When we are "baptized into Christ," we become "children of God," we
               "put on Christ," and we become Abraham's spiritual descendants.

        D.   (Ephesians 4:5) There is only "one baptism."
        E.   (Colossians 2:12) We are "buried with him [Christ] in baptism."
        F.    (1 Peter 3:21) We are saved when we are scripturally baptized.
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