WATER BAPTISM; A WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE?

People have different perceptions when it comes to water baptism. Some see it as a useless ritual, others see it as a way to eternal life and others choose to just ignore the practice altogether.

Water baptism is a symbol that a person has been born again and given up everything to his personal Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. When a person is born again he is a new creature, old things are passed away and all things become new (2 Corinthians 5 vs. 17). When you are immersed into the water it symbolises that all your sins are washed away and you are starting anew.

Baptism is one of the things a Christian is supposed to go through as Jesus Christ too went through the same thing and this is done to fulfil what the bible says.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptising them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit. He who believes and is baptised will be saved but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16vs 15-16).

Jesus Christ died to the body so that we may believe that He really came to die for our sins. Had it been that He died to the spirit and the body was intact am sure we would not have believed that He was the son of God, we would have named Him a hypocrite claiming to be the son of the most High God.

Baptism is also a way of carrying the burden that Jesus Christ bore on the cross; in other words you experience the death of Jesus Christ. When you are being baptised you realise that the suffering of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ was not just ordinary but it was beyond all things. Once you have gone through baptism you cannot leave a life of sin because you know what it means to go through death.

In addition, Christianity is something that we are supposed to be living not something which we are supposed to be doing as seasonal and that will come in when one has really received Jesus Christ and then start living a life of praising him. The whole essence of baptism in a Christian walk is that you experience what it means to go through death. A person will be saved because he has accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and saviour not because he was baptised. So, are YOU baptised?