Thanks for listening as Pastor Jeremy shares Sunday in Glendive.

Different reasons to be water baptized:

1. Obedience- 1 John 2:6 He who says he abides in

Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked

a. Matt 28 make disciples and baptize them

2. Public Declaration-Water baptism doesn’t obtain

salvation, it announces salvation.

3. Personal Experience-You own personal

commitment to God, maybe you walked away or

haven’t lived for God like you should. Water

baptism can be a good time to hit the reset

button, start fresh, and move forward.

4. Identifying w/ Christ through water baptism

Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we

continue in sin that grace may abound?

Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin

live any longer in it? Or do you not know

that as many of us as were baptized into

Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Therefore we were 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. ....... Verse 11 Likewise you

also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to

sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord

2 Cor. 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,

he is a new creation; old things have passed

away; behold, all things have become new.

Eph. & Col. talk of putting off the old man

which is corrupt and putting on the new

man, full of life!

Sin, shame, guilt, condemnation, not

being enough, broken, abused, used,

damaged, all these things float

downstream.

Freedom, renewed, life, more than a

conqueror, useful, cleansed,

strengthened w/ mighty power, a living

sacrifice, acceptable, pleasing,

purposed, a child of the living God!!

This is who we are and live to be when

we come up out of those waters.

Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it

is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;

and the life which I now live in the flesh I live

by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and

gave Himself for me.