Who baptizes is more important than many professing Christians realize.

1. That ye might believe…
Lesson seven
John’s baptism

2. •A PERSONAL CALLING
•AN ABIDING CONVICTION

3. A SCRIPTURAL EXPERIENCE
In vs 33 John said that God had sent
him to baptize with water
In vs 31 he said that that baptism
was meant to make Christ manifest
to Israel.

4. A SCRIPTURAL EXPERIENCE
A. The whole gist of the event is
based in the authority of that
baptism.
To reject the baptism of John the Baptist was
to reject the very counsel of God.

5. A SCRIPTURAL EXPERIENCE
B. There is no other baptism in the
Bible.
Baptism by immersion in water, under the
proper authority has been the dividing line
between Baptists and protestants since about
300 AD.

6. A SCRIPTURAL EXPERIENCE
B. There is no other baptism in the
Bible.
Baptism by immersion in water is
•An act of emulation of Christ
•A step of obedience to the Scriptures and
•A means of identification with a particular
body of believers

7. A SCRIPTURAL EXPERIENCE
C. the persecutions of the Dark and
Middle Ages.
W can boil the cause of the persecution
e
down to three "offenses":
• R
efusal to attend state approved religious services
• Possession of a Bible in the common language and
• R
ejection of the state churches, either Protestant or
Catholic, as having authority to baptize.

8. A SCRIPTURAL EXPERIENCE
D. Religion is in no short supply
today.
But that does not mean that the crowds see
Jesus and have met Him in spirit and in
truth.