You Need to Get Wet “The Big Ask”
- The word “baptize” means to ____________, or __________ , or _____________ someone in water.
Psalm 51:7, “Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”
- John the Baptist’s baptism was not about ritual purity, but ________________ purity.
Matthew 3:11, “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
Matthew 3:13-15, ”Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter Him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?’ 15 Jesus replied, ‘Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then John consented.”
Matthew 28:19-20, ”Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
- Baptism is a reflection of the life you are ________________ _____________, not the one you have lived, or are living now.
- All examples of baptism in the New Testament followed an individual’s _____________to trust Christ alone for their salvation.