Baptize Me.

A burglar broke into an opulent home and was filling his sacks with stolen goods when he heard a deep growl. He looked down to see the biggest Doberman pinscher he had ever seen. But before he had a chance to do anything, he heard a small voice ask, “Who are you? Who are you?” He looked around but couldn’t find anyone or anything that was saying it, and the dog just sat there. So he continued to rob the house until his bags were full. Then as he was ready to leave the house he noticed a parrot in a cage.

As he walked over to the cage the parrot said, “Who are you? Who are you?”

The crook looked at the bird and said, “Is that all you can say? ‘Who are you? Who are you?’”

And the parrot replied, “Sic ’em!”

TOPIC: Baptism Broken Record

A minister kept boring his congregation with sermon after sermon about baptism. Finally, church leaders told him to preach on another subject the following Sunday. They chose the subject of pills. Certainly, they felt, there could be no connection between pills and baptism.

So the next Sunday the minister began, “There are big pills and little pills, also bitter pills and sweet pills, cheap pills and expensive pills. Another pill is the ‘gos-pill’–and that brings me to my real subject, baptism.”

Hodgin, M. (2010). 1002 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking: Fresh, Timely, Compelling Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, and Speakers. Zondervan.

Acts 8:29–32 KJV 1900

29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. 30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? 31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. 32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

Isaiah 53:7–8 KJV 1900

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, Yet he opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: And who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

We need to immediately follow the Lord

Acts 8:35–39 KJV 1900

35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. 36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. 39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

Next step what is it

Can i be baptized

Notes For Verse 37

a [If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest] This is the secret of salvation

Romans 1:16 KJV 1900

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 10:9–10 KJV 1900

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Ephesians 2:8–9 KJV 1900

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

The great commission

Matthew 28:18–20 KJV 1900

18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Paul and Silas

Acts 16:28–34 KJV 1900

28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. 29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. 34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

Illustration:

50 TOPIC: Application Gonna Have a Wife

At Sunday school the teacher was teaching about how God created everything, including human beings. Little Tommy, a kindergartner, seemed especially intent when he heard how Eve had been created out of one of Adam’s ribs.

Later in the week his mother noticed that he was lying down as though he were ill. She asked, “Tommy, what’s the matter?”

Tommy responded, “I have a pain in my side. I think I’m gonna have a wife.”

Hodgin, M. (2010). 1002 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking: Fresh, Timely, Compelling Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, and Speakers. Zondervan.

At the Baptism

Thank David and shana for the use of there home and pool

Pray

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Go into all the world

ask each one as they are in the water if they like to share there salvation experience ?

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