HE BROKE THIS DOWN.

He broke this down!
Eric Obeng Asante

You’re Right! You Don’t HAVE to Be Baptized.

I have had many discussions about the subject of baptism with people, and it never fails that sometime during the discussion, they just deny what the scriptures say about the topic.
They at times just say, “I deny what you are saying about about baptism,” ignoring the fact that all I am doing is quoting verses about baptism.
Another response I have gotten is, “You don’t have to be baptized!” Well, to this response I say, you are absolutely right! You do not have to get baptized. This is a true statement.

You only have to get baptized if:

●you want to follow in the steps of Christ, who was baptized (Matthew 3:16);

Matthew  3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

●you want to become a disciple (Matthew 28:19);

Matthew  28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
you want to be saved
(Mark 16:16);Mark  16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

●you want to enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:5);

John  3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

●you want your sins remitted (Acts 2:38);

Acts  2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
you want the gift of the Holy Spirit
(Acts 2:38; 5:32);
Acts  5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

●you have gladly received the word of God (Acts 2:41);

Acts  2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

●you have believed the preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom (Acts 8:12)

Acts  8:12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

●you want to obey the commandment of God (Acts 10:47-48)

Acts  10:47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?  10:48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

●you want your sins washed away (Acts 22:16)

Acts  22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

●you want to call upon the Lord (Acts 22:16)

●you want to be IN Christ Jesus (Romans 6:3)

Romans  6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

●you want to be IN the death of Christ (Romans 6:3)

●you want to be buried WITH Jesus and raised to walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4)

Romans  6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

●you want to be united with Jesus in His death and resurrection (Romans 6:5)
Romans  6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

●you want to be crucified with Christ (Romans 6:6)

Romans  6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
●you want your body of sin to be done away with (Romans 6:6)
●you want to no longer be a slave to sin (Romans 6:6)
●you want freed from sin (Romans 6:7)
●you want to be washed and sanctified in the name of Jesus by the Spirit of God (1\I Corinthians 6:11)
●you want to be in the body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:13)
●you no longer want to be under the tutor of the law (Galatians 3:25-27)
●you want to become a son of God by faith (Galatians 3:26-27)
●you want to be in Christ and clothed with Christ (Galatians 3:27)
●you want to be sanctified and cleansed (Ephesians 5:26)
●you want a spiritual circumcision of Christ, in which your body of flesh (sin) is cut away (Colossians 2:11)
●you want to be buried with Jesus and raised up with Him (Colossians 2:12)
●you want to be made alive together with Christ (Colossians 2:13)
●you want forgiven of all your transgressions (Colossians 2:13)
●you want your heart and your evil conscience cleansed (Hebrews 10:22)
●you want to make an appeal to God for a clean conscience (I Peter 3:21)
●you want saved through the resurrection of Christ (I Peter 3:21)

●○●So as the verses above show, you really don’t have to be baptized, but I pray you will be so you can partake of the above blessings that are given to those who are.