This week we look at how a person can drink from the water of life!
- Reject your old way of thinking and acting that was outside God's will. You see your old ways as wrong and decide to do things God's way as best you can. Nobody can do this perfectly, but the decision has come to try. Scripture speaks of this as repentance (Acts 3:19, 17:30, 26:20).
- Confession is simply saying aloud that you believe Jesus is Lord. (Matthew 10:32; Romans 10:9, 10; 1 Timothy 6:12-14).
- Baptism is when a person is dipped under water. It is a picture of dying to your old self, of burying your past, being totally cleansed of all your guilt, and being raised up to a new kind of life (Romans 6:3, 4; Galatians 3:26, 27; 1 Peter 3:20-22). In the New Testament we see a person was always baptized soon after he or she decided to trust Jesus (Acts 2:40, 41; 8:26-40; 16:16-30).
"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now I'm found; was blind but now I see." -John Newton, 1779
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