1. Why Stop the Chariot? Acts 8:26-39

2. Why stop the chariot if…
There are specific people chosen before time to be saved?

3. Predestination Wrong View B. Biblical Predestination
God chose men to be lost or saved before time.
We don’t have a choice.
B. Biblical Predestination
Ephesians 1:3-6; 2 Timothy 2:10
Galatians 3:26-29

4. Why stop the chariot if…
There are specific people chosen before time to be saved?
We can be saved by simply believing in Christ?

5. Believing
It is necessary.
Mark 16:16; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9

6. Mark 16:16
“He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.”

7. Acts 16:31
“So they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.’”

8. Romans 10:9
“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

9. Believing It is necessary. B. It doesn’t save alone.
Mark 16:16; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9
B. It doesn’t save alone.
Mark 16:16
Romans 14:11

10. Romans 14:11
"AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD."

11. Believing It is necessary. B. It doesn’t save alone.
Mark 16:16; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9
B. It doesn’t save alone.
Mark 16:16
Romans 14:11
James 2:20-26
Genesis 22:9-12

12. Why stop the chariot if…
There are specific people chosen before time to be saved?
We can be saved by simply believing in Christ?
We can be saved by sprinkling or pouring water on our heads?

13. Baptism Defined Baptizo – to make whelmed B. Baptism according to God.
Sprinkling=partially wet
Pouring=partially wet
Went down into water=fully wet (baptized)
B. Baptism according to God.
1 Peter 3:21

14. 1 Peter 3:21
“There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ”

15. Baptism Defined Baptizo – to make whelmed B. Baptism according to God.
Sprinkling=partially wet
Pouring=partially wet
Went down into water=fully wet (baptized)
B. Baptism according to God.
1 Peter 3:21
Answer of a good conscience through baptism.

16. You need to stop the chariot!
Baptism=MUST!
Acts 9:6; 22:16
Must=necessary/no other way
Time is running out!
Matthew 24:42-44
Mark 13:32

17. Mark 13:32
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”

18. You need to stop the chariot!
Baptism=MUST!
Acts 9:6; 22:16
Must=necessary/no other way
Time is running out!
Matthew 24:42-44
Mark 13:32
Luke 12:16-21
C. It is commanded!
Acts 17:30-31

19. Why haven’t you stopped the chariot?