This sermon draws a line in the sand when it comes to baptism and challenges people to cross it. Baptism symbolizes many things about the work of Christ on the cross, and when a believer "goes public" and gets in the water, there's nothing like it!

2. Is it time to go public with your faith?

3. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous
for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the
spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the
spirits in prison, because they formerly did not
obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of
Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a
few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely

4. through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this,
now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the
body but as an appeal to God for a good
conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the
right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and
powers having been subjected to him.
- 1 Peter 3:18-22

5. through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this,
now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the
body but as an appeal to God for a good
conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the
right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and
powers having been subjected to him.
- 1 Peter 3:18-22

6. Baptism Makes A Statement By Symbolizing:

7. Baptism Makes A Statement By Symbolizing:
1) I Was Dead And Now I’m Alive.

8. We were buried therefore with him by baptism into
death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from
the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might
walk in newness of life.
- Romans 6:4

9. Baptism Makes A Statement By Symbolizing:
1) I Was Dead And Now I’m Alive.
2) My Sins Are Washed Away For Good.

10. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of
God.

11. And such were some of you. But you were
washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit
of our God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

12. Baptism Makes A Statement By Symbolizing:
1) I Was Dead And Now I’m Alive.
2) My Sins Are Washed Away For Good.
3) I Identify With Jesus Over Every Other Cause.