Sermon Tone Analysis

How to Follow Christ Through Baptism

1. Who are the ones that should be baptized?

What is the New Testament criterion for participating in baptism?

Repentance

Acts 8:12–13 (CSB)

12 But when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

13 Even Simon himself believed.

And after he was baptized, he followed Philip everywhere and was amazed as he observed the signs and great miracles that were being performed.

Believe in salvation

Acts 8:30–39 (CSB)

30 When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?” 31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?”

So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this: He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb is silent before its shearer, so he does not open his mouth.

33 In his humiliation justice was denied him.

Who will describe his generation?

For his life is taken from the earth.

34 The eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about—himself or someone else?” 35 Philip proceeded to tell him the good news about Jesus, beginning with that Scripture.

36 As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water.

The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water.

What would keep me from being baptized?”

38 So he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.

39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer but went on his way rejoicing.

Seek & believe

Acts 16:14–15 (CSB)

14 A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening.

The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.

15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.”

And she persuaded us.

Opening your heart

Acts 16:29–34 (CSB)

29 The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

30 He escorted them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”

32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.

33 He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds.

Right away he and all his family were baptized.

34 He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire household.

Belief

Acts 18:8 (CSB)

8 Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household.

Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

Belief

Acts 19:4–5 (CSB)

4 Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.” 5 When they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

Hear and Belief

2. When should a person be baptized?

Immediately upon believing.

3.

In lesson one, “My New Security in Christ”, you discovered that a person becomes a Christian…

❑ Through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross.

4. How does this influence your view on baptism?

Baptism is the next step after making a faith commitment.

5. Baptism is a symbolic reminder of our faith commitment.

a.

What did Joshua use to remind God’s people of their faith commitment?

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