HAVE YOU BEEN SAVED?

Stage Seven

    Baptism,too is too part of God's plan for salvation.As we saw in the sixth stage,the mission of the apostles was preach to the Word and to baptize in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit.Those who have heard the Good News must repent,believe and be baptize dor the forgiveness of their sins so that the Holy Spirit might come upon them.

    In John's Gospel,Jesus says in His dialogue with Nicodemus, "Very Truly,I tell you,no one can enter the kingdome of God without being born water and Spirit" (3:5).From the earliest days of the church,this was the messages that was preach.As we read in the Acts of the Apostles.

    Brothers,what should we do?"Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven;and you will reveived the gift of the Holy Spirit....'And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved " (2:37 - 38,47)