3. Peter On Baptism
1 Peter 3:21-22

4. Is It Biblical Truth? What Peter said is either true or false
Jesus addressed this another time (Matt. 21:23-27)
“Baptism now saves you” (1 Peter 3:21)
Baptism does not save
Which is it? Which is from heaven; which is from man?
Noah is used as an illustration of salvation
The flood (water) separated the ark from the sinful world (2 Peter 2:5)
Baptism (water) washes away sin (Acts 22:16)

5. Why Baptism Saves Power in the water?
Cleansing is in the blood of Christ (Rev. 1:5; 1 Jn. 1:7)
How do we do this (Rom. 6:1-6)

6. Illustration – Naaman (2 Kgs. 5:1-19)
Was the power in the Jordan River? If so, why didn’t all other lepers go wash in the Jordan?
The power was of God (2 Kgs. 5:15)
So, why wash in the Jordan (2 Kgs. 5:13-15)?
God, through Elisha, commanded the washing (2 Kgs. 5:10).
One is baptized because God commanded it
Through Jesus Christ (Mk. 16:16)
It is God who has the power (Col. 2:12)

7. That Good Conscience The knowledge that sins are forgiven (Acts 2:38)
To be able to “walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4)
To now set the mind on things of God (Col. 3:1-2)