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Why Baptize with water?

Here's some spiritual food for thought. I want to leave a legacy for my children so they will understand the divine and inspired Word of God. I have been on a quest recently to study Baptisim, Speaking with Tongues, and other critical and controversial subjects. I hope that what I have researched will help others. I have found that water baptism (immersion) is an outward symbol of an inward reality; a genuine conversion. The Bible says that we are identified with Christ in His death, burial, AND resurrection.

(Romans 6:1-14)
Dead to Sin but Alive in Christ
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 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. Col. 2.12
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¶ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
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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.
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For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
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knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
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For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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¶ Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.



(Acts 2:38-39 -New King James Version)
38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

(Matthew 3:11)
“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.”


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