Be Baptized

In answering questions about baptism, it’s important that we allow the Bible to be our authority.Being baptized is not a suggestion, but a biblical command from Jesus."Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Matthew 28: 19-20Baptism is a transfer of allegiance, a change in citizenship. The water symbolizes that old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Union with Christ is the new reality, while union-with-Adam or with the world is cut off.The Apostle Paul explains that a new reality takes place when you come up out of the water for the believer.He says- it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives within me!There’s an exchange that happens in an outward manner of what you’ve already decided in your heart.