The Importance of Water Baptism

Water baptism is extremely
important to those who believe in Jesus and who want to follow Him.
However if you are not serious about following Jesus Christ, then
what a baptism makes no sense. To be baptized in water is our public
confession that we believe in Jesus and we obey Him; we have repented
of sin we have died to sin and to our own desires and we wish to live
for Jesus and therefore, by being baptized the old man of sin, that
we used to be, is buried under the water, and out of the water comes
a new man, our commitment to follow and obey Jesus Christ.

Water baptism is not about
the person doing the baptizing, but about the person being baptized.
It is his confession of his commitment to follow Jesus Christ. He has
been born again of the Spirit of God, because his heart has been
changed. He does not want to go after sin and the world, his own
pleasures, anymore. He's got a new heart he wants to follow Jesus.
The old man has died he is a new creature, and therefore in obedience
to Jesus he is baptized in water, to bury the old person of sin, that
he used to be. And out of that water comes the new born again
creature, a child of God, ready and eager to do the will of God,
eager to be filled with the Holy Spirit and be led by the Holy
Spirit. The born-again child of God wants to do the will of God, he
wants to live for Jesus Christ and therefore he is committed to obey
Jesus. He is eager to repent and be baptized in water, he's eager to
be filled with the Holy Spirit he is eager to be led by the Holy
Spirit and follow Jesus Christ. If you have not been born again, if
you have not had a change of heart and if you're not committed to
follow Jesus Christ until the very end, it makes no sense to get
baptized. You are wasting your time but if you want to follow Jesus,
you will be eager to be baptized because that is what He requires of
us to demonstrate our commitment to Him, and that He has given us new
life and we want to live that life for Him to please Him. That is
what water baptism is about. The truly born again a child of God
wants to be baptized in water and he's eager to live his life in
obedience to Jesus, to do His Master's will. If you are truly born
again you will not have a problem to get baptized. You will seek to
do everything that Jesus requires of you.

If you want to follow
Jesus, obey Him. Repent and be baptized, be filled with the Holy
Spirit and then seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit, seek Him every
day. Go after Him. Follow Him every day until the very end. If you
are not that serious about following Jesus, then don't bother because you
will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

May Jesus bless you.

What is on your MIND?

People talk about those things that are on their mind, those things that are dear to them. If we are truly born again and we love Jesus then we talk about Jesus, we tell everybody about Jesus and about what He has done in our lives, what Jesus is to us. We don't talk about “church” and recite Bible verses, we talk about Jesus Christ whom we FOLLOW and KNOW, the ONE who has revealed Himself to us, the One who is REAL. If Jesus is our life than we talk about HIM.

People profess to be Christians but they talk about all kinds of nonsense. They are interested in the things of the world but they don't talk about Jesus. They talk about the soccer and TV and the movies and what is happening in the world but they don't talk about what is happening in the kingdom of God, they don't talk about Jesus.

If we are truly born again and we walk with God, we are children of God, then we will be talking about Jesus Christ. We will be telling others about Jesus, we will be taking others to Jesus. All that will be on our mind is Jesus Christ. We will share our TESTIMONY with everybody so that they can also know Jesus.

I carry my testimony and I give it to people so that they can read it, so that they can know why Jesus is real to me. I believed I was saved but then I died and went to hell. That is what has happened to me! And I don't want others to go to hell. That is why I talk about Jesus. Jesus is my LORD, He is my KING and I SERVE HIM. If we truly love Jesus that is all that we will really want to talk about.

What is on your mind? Jesus or other things? We have to KEEP Him ON OUR MIND then we WILL NOT SIN against Him and we WILL DO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING TO HIM.

May Jesus bless you