The document discusses water baptism and provides biblical references from Noah's ark and 1 Peter 3:20-22. It notes that Noah and his family escaped God's judgment by entering the ark and were saved by water, lifting them from their old life to a new way of living. Similarly, baptism now saves believers, not physically but as an answer of a good conscience toward God. The document encourages readers to escape their old life and live in the power of their new life in Christ through baptism, as the eunuch requested baptism upon seeing water.

1. Encouraging Words
WATER BAPTISM 5

2. WATER BAPTISM 5
Encouraging Words

3. Noah & Family
• fled to God for Safety
• Built the Ark to save his family
• They needed to escape the corruption
that was in the world
• They escaped the judgment & floated
away to a new life

4. Saved by Water
• Water lifted him from OLD life
• Set him down on NEW way of living

5. 1PE 3:20-22
• [KJV] [1 Peter 3:20] Which sometime
were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering of God waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight
souls were saved by water.

6. • 21 The like figure whereunto even
baptism doth also now save us (not the
putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience
toward God,) by the resurrection of
Jesus Christ:

7. • 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on
the right hand of God; angels and
authorities and powers being made
subject unto him.

8. Complete Covering
• Judgement for Old – Joy for New

9. Escape to a New life
• Be like Noah
• Escape from your old life
• Live in the power of a New Life

10. Do you want this?
• Do you want the badge to say
• “this is what I want” - “this is what I
have done” ?

11. So here we are
• Do you understand what “water
baptism means?
• Do you understand this?

12. ACT 8:36-39
• [KJV] [Acts 8:36] And as they went on
their way, they came unto a certain
water: and the eunuch said, See, here
is water; what doth hinder me to be
baptized?

13. • 37 And Philip said, If thou believest
with all thine heart, thou mayest. And
he answered and said, I believe that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

14. • 38 And he commanded the chariot to
stand still: and they went down both
into the water, both Philip and the
eunuch; and he baptized him.

15. • 39 And when they were come up out
of the water, the Spirit of the Lord
caught away Philip, that the eunuch
saw him no more: and he went on his
way rejoicing.

16. “LOOK! Here is water –
What am I waiting for?
Why shouldn’t I be baptised?”