2. What Baptism Is Not
Acts 22:16

3. Baptism Is Not Sprinkling
Many have the mistaken idea that sprinkling is baptism. (Rooted in the doctrine of total hereditary depravity)
BAPTIZO (Gr.) “immerse, submerge, dip, overwhelm”
Baptism is a burial (Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12)
Baptism involves going “into” the water, and coming up “out of” the water (Acts 8:38-39)

4. Baptism Is Not An Outward Sign Of An Inward Change
Many have the mistaken concept that baptism is merely an outward sign to the world that I have been saved. They believe that an individual is first saved and later baptized
Bible baptism, though, is always pictured as coming before salvation (Mk. 16:16; Acts 2:38; 22:16; 1 Peter 3:21)

5. This is why the Bible stresses the urgency of baptism (Acts 2:41; 8:36; 16:33; 22:16)
If you were baptized “to show you were already saved” you were mistaken and you were not baptized according to the Scriptures!

6. Baptism Is Not Water Salvation
Numbers 21:8-9 was not “snake salvation”
2 Kings 5:1-14 was not “water salvation”
1 Peter 3:20-21 is not “water salvation”