Do you remember when you made the lifelong commitment to follow Christ? Kelly Campbell takes us back to that time in our lives as he concludes his "Back to our roots" sermon series.

1. Back to
our roots

2. What want me to do for you?
2-7-10 a.m.
Thank you for being here
today!

3. Remember when
we made the
decision…

5. Let’s go back to
the garden…

6. Let’s go back to
the cross…

7. Let’s go back to
the empty
tomb…

8. Acts 2:22-23 “Fellow
Israelites, listen to this: Jesus
of Nazareth was a man
accredited by God to you by
miracles, wonders and signs,
which God did among you
through him, as you yourselves

9. know. This man was handed
over to you by God’s
deliberate plan and
foreknowledge; and you, with
the help of wicked men, put
him to death by nailing him to
the cross.

10. v.36 “Therefore let all Israel
be assured of this: God has
made this Jesus, whom you
crucified, both Lord and
Messiah.”

11. v.37 When the people heard
this, they were cut to the heart
and said to Peter and
the other apostles,
“Brothers, what
shall we do?”

12. Acts 2:38… Peter replied, “Repent
and be baptized, every one of you, in
the name of Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins, and you will
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

13. Let’s go back to
our beginning…

14. What happens at baptism?
Our sins are forgiven. Acts 2:38
We receive the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38
We die and gain a new life. Rom. 6:3-4

15. Romans 6:3-4 Or do you not
know that as many of us as
were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into His
death? Therefore we were

16. buried with Him through
baptism into death, that just
as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life.

17. What happens at baptism?
Our sins are forgiven. Acts 2:38
We receive the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38
We die and gain a new life. Rom. 6:3-4
We are clothed with Christ. Gal. 3:26-27

18. Gal. 3:26-27 So in Christ Jesus
you are all children of God
through faith, for all of you
who were baptized into Christ
have clothed yourselves with
Christ.

19. What happens at baptism?
Our sins are forgiven. Acts 2:38
We receive the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38
We are buried with Christ and raised with
Him, through His power. Col. 2:11-12
We die and gain a new life. Rom. 6:3-4
We are clothed with Christ. Gal. 3:26-27

20. Col. 2:11-12 In Him you were
also circumcised with the
circumcision made without
hands, by putting off the body
of the sins of the flesh, by the

21. circumcision of Christ, buried
with Him in baptism, in which
you also were raised with Him
through faith in the working of
God, who raised Him from the
dead.

22. What happens at baptism?
Our sins are forgiven. Acts 2:38
We receive the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38
We are buried with Christ and raised with
Him, through His power. Col. 2:11-12
We die and gain a new life. Rom. 6:3-4
We are clothed with Christ. Gal. 3:26-27
It saves us through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ. I Peter 3:20-21

23. I Peter 3:20-21 …God waited
patiently in the days of Noah
while the ark was being built.
In it only a few people, eight
in all, were saved through

24. water, and this water
symbolizes baptism that now
saves you also—not the
removal of dirt from the body

25. but the pledge of a clear
conscience toward God. It
saves you by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ…

26. What happens at baptism?
Our sins are forgiven. Acts 2:38
We receive the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38
We are buried with Christ and raised with
Him, through His power. Col. 2:11-12
We die and gain a new life. Rom. 6:3-4
We are clothed with Christ. Gal. 3:26-27
It saves us through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ. I Peter 3:20-21

27. Back to
our roots