Jaya Browning and Abigail Knight will be baptized Sunday morning.

1. Water Baptism
Romans 6
Water baptism is a testimony of that which has
already happened in a believer’s life.
When we are born again as children of God,
We are baptized into the body of Christ,
By the Holy Ghost.
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2. In a spiritual sense, we are crucified with
Jesus, and raised from the dead with Him
in that moment of salvation.
We actually take part in
His death, burial, and resurrection.
We testify to that spiritual baptism with the
act of water baptism.
What did we die to? Look at verses 1-3.
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3. Rom 6 1What shall we say then? Shall we continue
in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How
shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer
therein? 3Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His
death?
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4. When we were born as human beings,
we were born into a life of sin and depravity.
When we were born of the Spirit of God into
the family of God,
We died to that old life.
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5. A Christian can, no longer, find life in the
things he once thought of as life.
Sin no longer satisfies or gives the
same pleasure it once did.
We are dead to sin -- as a way of life.
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6. And that is portrayed
in the act of Baptism
when we are put under
the water.
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7. But, Jesus didn’t stay dead and in the grave.
He’s alive!
And we are alive in Him.
4Therefore 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.
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8. 5For if we have been planted together in the
likeness of His death, we shall be also in the
likeness of His resurrection: 6Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with Him, that the body
of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin.
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9. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8Now if we
be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also
live with Him: 9Knowing that Christ being raised
from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more
dominion over Him. 10For in that He died, He died
unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto
God. 11Likewise reckon (account and declare) ye
also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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10. Christians are dead to that old life of sin, and
We deny ourselves the momentary pleasures
of a worldly lifestyle.
We are alive unto God, and
unto a life of righteousness
in the Power of God’s Holy Spirit.
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11. So, when I lay a person down in that pool of
water, it is his or her testimony:
“I have died to a life of sin and
worldly pleasure.”
And when I lift one up out of that water,
he or she is saying,
“I am alive unto God, to live a life of
righteousness
in the Power of God’s Spirit.”
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12. And it is also symbolic of their Spiritual Baptism,
by the Holy Ghost, into the body of Jesus Christ,
Which is the church.
As I bury each one (Jaya and Abigail) under the
water, she is declaring herself to be dead to sin.
And when I raise her up, she is declaring herself to
be alive unto righteousness in Jesus Christ.
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13. From this day forward:
Only good
Where God
Do good directs.
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14. This baptism today is your testimony:
“I am burying my old life of sin.”
“I am going to live the Christian life in the
Power of God’s Holy Spirit.”
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