Why Jesus & Baptism? 270725

Why Jesus & Baptism?

• How to know Jesus personally  

You are special, you are precious. It is the God who created everything in the universe who thinks this. The Bible tells us that all people (each and every one) is made by God and can know Him. 

• God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life. 

God's Love "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16  

Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3 

• People are SINFUL and SEPARATED from God so we cannot know and experience God’s love and plan for our life. 

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23 

• Jesus Christ is God’s ONLY provision for our sin. Through Him alone you can know and experience God’s love and plan for your life. 

• He Lived 

Jesus had to be born as a human being for several reasons. One is outlined in Galatians 4:4–5: “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.”  

• Only a man could be “born under the law.” No animal or angelic being is “under the law.” Only humans are born under the law, and only a human being could redeem other human beings born under that same law.  

• Born under the law of God, all humans are guilty of transgressing that law. Only a perfect human—Jesus Christ—could perfectly keep the law and perfectly fulfil the law, thereby redeeming us from that guilt. Jesus accomplished our redemption on the cross, exchanging our sin for His perfect righteousness 

• He Died in Our Place   God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 

• He Rose From the Dead   Christ died for our sins…He was buried…He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures…He appeared to Peter, then to the Twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred… 1 Corinthians 15:3-6 

• He Returned to The Father  I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father. John 16:28 

• Signalled the end of His earthly ministry 

 • Signified the success of His earthly work  

• Signalled His return to heavenly glory 

 • Signalled His exaltation by the Father as the one whom The Father is pleased with  • Allowed Him to prepare a place for us  

• Signalled the beginning of His new work as High Priest and mediator of the new covenant.  • Set the pattern for His return – when Jesus comes to set up the kingdom of God, He will return just as He left, bodily and visibly in the clouds. 

• He Is the Only Way to God  Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6 

• We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord; then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives. 

As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name. John 1:12 

• We Receive Christ Through Faith  

By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works so that no one may boast." Ephesians 2:8-9