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Living Waters of Grace 10.10.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, County
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  of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  We're no longer slaves to sin, for when we died with Christ, we
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  were set free from the power of sin.
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  It also identifies us with being part of the body of Christ.
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  In the New Testament church, when people were baptized after
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  they believed, they were already a member of the church.
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  You know, our way in Calvary chapels when people come.
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  How? How can I become a member of the
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  church? Where are you born again?
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  Yes. So you've been baptized?
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  Yes. Well, you're already a member.
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  There's nothing to sign, there's nothing to agree upon.
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  It's just believing in Jesus and following Him.
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  Believing in Jesus and following Him doesn't stop at salvation.
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  Your life should look different. There should be evidence of
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  Christ working in your life today.
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  Pastor Clark is going to encourage you to be bold in the
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  faith you claim and to share Jesus with others around you.
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  Every day there are people around you who need salvation.
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  They need the same hope for eternity that you have.
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  You may be the only person in their life who would share Jesus
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  with them. You could be the one who leads
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  them to Christ. Now here's Pastor Clark in the
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  book of Acts Chapter 8 with today's edition of Living Waters
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  of Grace. This guy's already prepared to
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  hear about Jesus, and I just get a chance to tell him about him
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  and explain things to him. How exciting this is for Philip
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  and how exciting it is for you and me.
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  When you have a chance to tell someone about what the Lord has
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  done for you and how much more exciting it is whenever they
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  start responding and their eyes start lighting up and they're
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  getting questions and they want to know and maybe they get to
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  the point, Well, how can I know this Jesus?
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  There's nothing more exhilarating in life to have the
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  opportunity to see God bring someone into salvation because
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  you were faithful to tell them about Jesus.
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  Amen. My wife is talking about this
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  over and over. We were praying the other night.
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  We had a profound discussion about life and aging and kids
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  and grandkids and family and older moms and just everybody
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  that's in our life and how we want to be used by the Lord
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  together as a couple and not be thinking about ourselves or our
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  opinions or our feelings. But how can we more be more
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  giving to others and less focused on this ourselves?
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  And she told me, and I mentioned this briefly, but I want to
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  bring it up again. She happened to be in a
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  neighborhood where her mom lives in a older development.
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  And she had a chance to visit a neighbor about some unrelated
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  matter. And she went in and the woman
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  was crying and her daughter was there.
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  And Cindy said, what's wrong? She's why I got to break up my
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  home. My husband's died.
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  I got to leave this place. I can't handle it myself.
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  They're going to put me in a personal care home now and just
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  seems like my life is this ending and I got all this stuff.
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  I don't know what to do with it. And and she was just overwhelmed
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  and distraught, this woman and Cindy began to tell her about
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  the Lord and she finally got to the point of asking the lady if
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  she could pray for her. And she says, oh, I would, I
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  would love that. And so Cindy got to pray for her
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  and got to impact this woman for Christ.
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  And she said, Clark, that's all I want to have a chance to do in
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  life, to have those kind of opportunities, those kind of
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  divine appointments, because she said there's nothing that makes
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  you feel any better than that kind of opportunity and
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  experience, right? And you guys know you've been
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  there, you've done it. And and so this is the
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  opportunity that we're learning about today in the book of the
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  act. This is Philip's encounter and
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  God personalized it. So you and I can sort of think
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  as we study this together, how can I be like Philip and be open
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  to the Holy Spirit and be ready to tell someone that they need
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  Jesus? And so Philip runs over and he
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  is going to begin to speak to him.
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  In verse 31, this man says, I can't understand any of this
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  unless someone guides me. And he asked Philip to come up
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  and sit with him. The place in the Scriptures
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  which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the
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  slaughter. This is from Isaiah chapter 53
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  verses 7 and 8. Doesn't matter where you go in
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  the Bible, you can always take wherever it is in the Bible and
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  lead people to the truth of who Jesus is.
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  And as a slam before its shears is silent, so he opened not his
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  mouth, and his humiliation, His justice was taken away.
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  And who would declare his generation for his life is taken
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  from the earth? Now, you and I being believers
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  right away, we know, hey, that's Jesus, that's prophetical,
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  that's been fulfilled in the death, the bearer resurrection
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  of Jesus Christ. But the eunuch is hearing and
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  reading this for the first time. So the eunuch answers Philip and
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  says, I ask of you, of whom does this prophet say this?
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  Of himself or of some other man? And that's sort of the view of
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  the Jewish people when they read Isaiah 53.
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  If you ask a Jewish person who do you think that's about,
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  they'll say, well, that's a prophet or that's about the
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  Messiah. Or they might just be honest and
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  say we have no idea when we read that, what that's talking about.
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  South Philip opens his mouth and beginning at this Scripture,
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  preaches Jesus to him. So not only did he cover this
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  section of Scripture in Isaiah of this being fulfilled when
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  Jesus came to earth, but he would go into the teachings of
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  the Gospels and the experience that they've had already in the
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  book of the Acts with the preaching of the Gospel and how
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  thousands of people are becoming believers because they're
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  hearing about Jesus saves for the first time.
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  Jesus saves from sin. Jesus forgives sin.
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  Jesus cleanses us from sin. And so when Philip is preaching
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  to Jesus, to him, and they're going down the road, it says now
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  as they went down the road, they came to some water, interesting
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  water. And the eunuch said, see, here
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  is water. What hinders me from being
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  baptized back in those days, they had public baptism.
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  It wasn't done in the backyard of someone's home or in the YMCA
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  or in some church facility. They love going out into the
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  community, into streams and lakes and rivers and get a big
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  crowd of people around and have people publicly baptized.
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  Because when that happened, the culture all of a sudden said,
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  something's going on here with these Christians.
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  Every time I turn around, they're, they're, they're being
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  dunked underwater and they're, they're following Jesus.
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  What's going on here? And it convicts them.
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  And maybe they're thinking I'm missing out on something or I
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  should be baptized or I should follow Jesus.
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  I mean, all kind of thoughts happen when people see other
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  people baptized, as this man recognized right away the
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  significance of water, and water represents purification and
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  cleansing. He would have been taught that
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  in the school of Judaism. But that water can't cleanse us
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  from our sin. It's a purification, right?
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  Temporal. But it can't wash away sin, only
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  the blood of Jesus Christ. What can wash away my sin?
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  Nothing but the blood of Jesus, right?
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  We sang about that this morning, the blood of Jesus.
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  That's without the shedding of blood.
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  There is no remission of sin. If we walk in the light as
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  Christians, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one
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  with another. We have this communion, we have
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  this oneness, we have this unity, and the blood of Jesus
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  Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin.
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  Amen. If we confess our sin, he is
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  faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from
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  all unrighteousness. It takes the blood of Jesus to
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  do that, the only sacrifice that could take away our sin.
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  And so Philip says to him, if you believe with all your heart,
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  you may. Now when you think about when
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  you first became a believer and the Lord brought you to the
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  knowledge of your need of salvation, and you began to
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  think about, you know, this, this power of the of the cross
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  and what it can do for you. You realize that first of all,
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  when you believe, you were maybe in front of someone that
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  understood you were believing, or maybe you were by yourself
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  when you believed like I was, but you knew that now you
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  believed. You once didn't believe and now
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  you believe a young man that used to come to this church.
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  I'll never forget the story. Wonderful young man and friends
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  of some good family here. And he had come from a Catholic
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  background and he never really heard, he said, the Gospel.
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  He just felt that he was hearing about religion every Sunday.
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  And so I got to know him after a while.
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  And I said, well, by the way, you know, how did you come here?
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  And he told me and and then I said, were you a Christian?
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  And he said, yeah. I said, well, how did that
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  happen? He said one Sunday, I'm just
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  sitting here and all of a sudden I believed.
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  Isn't that awesome? There was no altar call that he
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  had to come down the hall to, to like, you know, make some kind
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  of public confession. He just sat in his seat very
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  humbly. And the Lord saved him.
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  It's for by grace we've been saved through faith.
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  And this is not of ourselves. It's a gift of God, isn't it?
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  Not of works. And no man can boast.
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  So this question that was asked by Philip, Philip said to this
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  guy who wanted to be baptized, if you believe with all your
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  heart, you may. Now Philip didn't lead him in
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  any sinner's prayer here. Be be careful with this.
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  He didn't ask Philip to do anything, did he?
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  There was no methodology here. And the Scriptures tell us in
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  Romans chapter 10 that the word is near you and in your mouth
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  and in your heart. That's you're hearing it, you're
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  reading it, you're receiving it. That is the Word of Faith which
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  we preach, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,
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  this is what the man's doing. If you confess with your mouth
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  the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God hath raised
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  him from the dead, you will be saved.
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  That's the simplicity of the gospel.
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  You believe in your heart that Jesus is a Christ, the Son of
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  the living God. God Forgives your sin.
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  You know you're a Sinner. You're forgiven you.
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  You're asking him to have mercy on you, whatever it is that you
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  might have done or have done or continually do.
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  And this man responds. Phillip says if you believe with
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  all your heart, you may, you may want to underline this in your
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  Bible. This is a direct, a clear
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  declaration of believing faith. He answered and said, I believe
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  that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
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  Amen. I believe that Jesus Christ is
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  the Son of God. That's why the Lord said in John
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  316 so simply, what is a gospel? For God so loved this world that
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  he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
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  should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  That's the gospel. I don't know why in the world
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  people complicate the gospel. I know people in churches that
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  wanted to believe, but they said I was afraid of going up front
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  because I didn't want to be embarrassed and I wanted to keep
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  it private. Well, it didn't.
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  It's not about going up front, is it?
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  It's about believing. So we as pastors or churches
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  have tripped up so many people into thinking they must do
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  something in order to be saved, and the only thing they do is
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  believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And thou shalt be saved, if you confess with your mouth the Lord
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  Jesus, and believe in your heart that God hath raised him from
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  the dead, thou shall be saved. Now someone has questions in a
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  church they want to come up after Hey I don't understand
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  this thing to be saved. Can someone explain to me what
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  do I have to do? You know, all these things that
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  go through people's minds. The devil's trying to confuse
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  people with the simple gospel. Take them aside, sit them down
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  and have a conversation with them.
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  You might not be able to clearly get it across in 5 minutes after
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  church, right? Charles Spurgeon in his church,
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  he had a room where people met for intercession when he
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  preached. And at the end of the service,
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  he would meet people down in the office that wanted to receive
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  Christ and he'd ask them, well, why are you here?
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  And if they said they don't know, he said, well, you might
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  as well leave because if you don't know, there's nothing I
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  can do to help you. But if they said I'm here to get
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  saved, then he would patiently explain to them what the gospel
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  is and what it does and how God can save them.
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  It wasn't a, you know, a drawn out thing that either we're
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  being convicted and the Lord has given them faith to believe.
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  And if he wasn't doing that, there was nothing that Charles
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  or anybody else could do to make someone be a believer.
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  So soon as Philip heard that, he didn't ask any more questions,
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  did he? Are you sure?
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  Did you repent of every sin that you've ever done?
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  Did you tell me all the things you've done?
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  None of that stuff? He commanded Chariot the
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  standstill in verse 38. And both Philip and the eunuch
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  went down into the water, and he baptized him.
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  Now read between the lines. I don't know what kind of
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  conversation they have, but he already made the profession of
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  faith and admitted that he believed that Jesus Christ is
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  the Son of God. That's enough to baptize someone
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  every time I baptize someone or Pastor Lewis or you baptize
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  someone as a Christian. Baptism isn't just something
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  that pastors do, it's something that believers are to be doing.
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  You can baptize your grandkids in the ocean.
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  You can baptize them in a swimming pool.
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  You can baptize them at Lynn Run, whatever you want to do.
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  OK. But the bottom line is when you
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  baptize someone, you want to ask them, do you believe that Jesus
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  is a Christ? And they say, yes, I believe
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  that Jesus is a Christ, the Son of God.
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  Then based upon your profession of faith, I baptize you in the
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  name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, just
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  like Jesus told us to do in a Great Commission.
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  Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every living
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  creature, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
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  Son and of the Holy Spirit. And you take them in.
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  You don't come down. Now, if they're a real bad
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  Sinner, and I've mentioned this before, you keep them down at
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  least 5 minutes, hold them down until they're almost ready to
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  gasp and die. And then you say, hey, you know,
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  the Lord gives you a new life, resurrection life.
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  You just simply baptize them, put them in and bring them out.
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  And boy, the joy that people experience, it's, it's a
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  commandment of God. Baptism isn't saving you, but
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  it's blessing you because you're being obedient to what Jesus
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  said. I remember when I first got
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  saved in the pastor just Baptist Church Baptist like baptized.
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  Their success is based on how many people they baptize, right,
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  not how many people they disciple.
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  No, I'm just kidding you. But so you know, these guys
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  hassle on me. Hey, you've been baptized.
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  I'm not getting baptized. Well, why not?
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  That's works. I've been saved by grace and
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  it's the truth. But I didn't understand this
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  whole idea of like, well, Jesus was baptized and he tells us to
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  baptize others. So what was the hang up there?
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  Just my pride. And finally, we're applying to
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  go to a Bible college. And one of the things in the
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  application was, have you been publicly immersed and baptized?
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  I looked at sin. Yeah.
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  I said we got to get baptized. So we got baptized in the
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  church. And boy, like you said, it was a
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  blessing. I mean, I, I didn't understand
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  the significance of it until I humbled myself and yielded
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  myself to the Lord and was baptized.
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  And the rest is the rest is history.
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  There's one baptism and that is being baptized.
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  Immerse in the name of the Lord Jesus, in the name of the
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  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You know, some people get
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  baptized when they're kids. They're they put a rose on your
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  head, a baby and a bapt. That's not baptism.
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  Infant baptism is no choice. I'm not saying, you know, it
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  isn't trying to honor the Lord or anything like that, but you
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  have to be baptized as a believer.
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  And any way you can be a believer is if you understand
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  the gospel and if you understand the gospel and you've received
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  the gospel, then you're to be baptized as a follower of Jesus
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  Christ. That's the New Testament model.
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  And so the chariot stand still, both Philip and the eunuch went
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  down into the water. They didn't stand by the water
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  and he didn't get a cup and pour it on top of them.
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  They went into the water and he baptized him.
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  Total immersion. Now, when they came up out of
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  the water, that means they had to be in the water to come up
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  out of the water, right? The spirit of Lord cut Philip
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  away so that the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way
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  rejoicing. Isn't that wild?
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  So this guy's translated to this place called Azotis.
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  It's about 30 miles away. Just like, you know, like Star
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  Trek, man. He's going like from point A to
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  point B when you like to be able to be translated.
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  Lord, I want to go on vacation next week.
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  I don't feel like driving to New Jersey for seven hours.
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  Can you get me there in like 2 minutes?
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  That would be awesome. When it that's going to happen.
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  We're in heaven. We're going to be able to go
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  over the universe, but we're going to have that capability.
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  But anyway, whenever Philip wasn't there anymore, this
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  eunuch wasn't like all caught up.
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  Oh, where did where did Philip go or whatever.
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  He's just so excited about what happened to him.
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  He didn't see him anymore and he went on his way rejoicing and
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  Philip was found at his Otis and passing through.
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  He preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.
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  And so baptism. Why should I get baptized?
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  OK. From the earliest days of the
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  New Testament church, the way people showed that they had a
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  salvation born again experience was that they were publicly
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  baptized in the water. That's the way God set it up.
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  This is the way of a testimony. This is what Jesus wants us to
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  do, and this is the first step of faith observed by new
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  believers immediately following salvation.
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  I mean, back in those days, they didn't wait for your schedule.
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  You got saved, you were baptized right then.
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  If we had a baptismal font here, we would do that right away.
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  But it's just the nature of how our church is set up.
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  We don't have that available. Have to go to the swimming pool,
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  either the why in the winter or my house in the summer.
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  The act of baptism by immersion in water outwardly expresses the
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  inward experience of a change that happened in your life
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  because of Jesus Christ. It demonstrates when you're
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  going into the water, the old way of life is dying in the in
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  the tomb, like Jesus represents dying for our sins into the
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  tomb. And the third day he rose again
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  from the dead. And when you come up out of the
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  water, it's the magnificent work of Jesus.
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  He died for your sins and now you're rising out, showing that
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  you've been justified. It tells us in Colossians
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  chapter 2, verse 12. For you were buried with Christ
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  when you were baptized, and with him you were raised to new life
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  because you trusted the mighty power of God who raised Christ
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  from the dead. Baptism is ordained by the Lord.
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  It's part of the Great Commission.
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  As I've already said. We're told to go and make
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  disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
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  the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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  That's wonderful. And we're told then to teach the
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  people after they become believers, to obey everything
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  that the Lord's commanded us. That's the purpose of going
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  through the Bible and Sunday and all these different Bible
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  studies that we have and different pastors online that
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  are teaching the Word. It's the purpose to disciple and
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  get you strong in your faith so you're stable and you're able to
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  grow in the ways of the Lord. Baptism is again, being obedient
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  to Jesus. We want to please him.
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  We're being baptized to please the war, the Lord.
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  The word Christian means Christ's follower, and so as
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  we're being baptized, we're following Christ.
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  It unites us with Christ by identifying us with his death,
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  burial, and resurrection. And so the Word tells us that we
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  were therefore buried with Him through baptism.
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  Paul talks about this in Romans Into death in order that just as
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  Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father,
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  we too may live in a new life. Romans 6, three and four.
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  Likewise, baptism represents our death of the old life of sin and
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  our new birth into resurrection of life.
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  The freedom that we have now from bondage to sin, since we've
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  been united with Him and His death, were also raised to life
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  as He was. We know our old sinful selves
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  were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in
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  our lives. We're no longer slaves to sin,
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  for when we died with Christ, we were set free from the power of
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  sin. It also identifies us with being
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  part of the body of Christ In the New Testament church, when
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  people were baptized after they believed they were already a
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  member of the church. You know our way in Calvary
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  chapels and people come on, how? How can I become a member of the
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  church? Where are you born again?
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  Yes, you've been baptized. Yes.
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  Well, you're already a member. There's nothing to sign.
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  There's nothing to agree upon. It's just believing in Jesus and
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  following him. And you've been baptized if you
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  haven't been baptized and we get you baptized.
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  So for you are all children of God through faith in Christ
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  Jesus, all who have been united, united with Christ and baptism
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  have put on Christ like putting on new clothes.
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  And so when we think about this, this idea of baptism, it's, it's
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  a joy, it's a privilege to be baptized.
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  And it's an opportunity to to really honor the Lord and what
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  it is that he wants us to do in the days ahead.
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  I believe like baby steps for the Lord to work on our lives,
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  that if I want to grow and get closer to the Lord, there's
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  there's steps in the Christian life that I'm required to begin
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  to walk in so that my life begins to become more Christ
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  like and less like myself. And baptism is the immediate
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  first step after you've been born again to be baptized.
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  Let's pray, Father, we're just so thankful, Lord, for your joy
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  in our church, in our lives. Because of you.
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  Lord, we're thankful so much for the Word of God that we can hear
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  it and believe it and apply it and live it.
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  And Lord, we pray in the days ahead that Lord, many would come
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  to know you because of your word being passed out, letting people
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  know the truth of the word. There's a famine for the Word of
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  God in the world right now. There's a lack of places where
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  people can even find the Word of God anymore.
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  Lord, I pray that you would help us, Lord, to be faithful to do
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  this. Use the resources, Lord, that we
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  give to help us buy more and more Bibles.
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  Lord, thank you for those who give to this ministry and help
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  provide, Lord, and we pray you bless them for it.
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  Lord, we pray, God, as we are provided for by you, that we
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  equip the Saints for the work in the ministry, that we, Lord, are
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  interested in people coming to know Jesus.
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  Lord, every we know that's your heart continually.
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  Lord, there's not enough that we could get back to you ever that
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  would would pay you for what you've done for us.
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  But we're thankful, Lord, You don't ask for payment.
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  You made the payment for us. You died in our place.
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  Shed your blood for us that we might be set free and forgiven.
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  We praise you for that, Lord. We're so glad you joined us
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  today on this edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Pastor Clark is teaching through the book of Acts, which is the
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  only book that chronicles the history of the early church
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  immediately after Jesus's ascension.
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  It gives us a front row seat to how the Gospel began to move
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  outward, starting in Jerusalem and reaching into the heart of
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  the Roman Empire. In just three decades, a small
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  group of frightened ordinary believers became a bold, spirit
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  empowered movement that transformed the known world.
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  Acts is not just a history lesson.
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  It's a reminder of what God can do when His people are
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  surrendered, obedient, and filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Their perseverance still inspires us today.
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  May we follow their example and live faithfully for Christ in
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  our own time. We hope today's message
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  encouraged you. Living Waters of Grace is a
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  ministry of Calvary Chapel, Westmoreland.
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  If you're in the Greensburg, PA area, we'd love to have you join
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  us in person. Our Sunday service begins at
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  10:30 AM at 400 E Pittsburgh St. Unit 6B.
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  Be sure to visit calvarychapelonline.com to
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  confirm times and learn more. If you are in the Greensburg
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  area, you can listen to Grace FM on the new 91.7 frequency.
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