Amen and amen. Church, if you got your Bibles, we're going to be all over the place.

So grab them and start in Matthew chapter 3 and then put a finger in Romans chapter 6.

And then we're going to probably jump over to Romans 3 and Luke chapter 23 and Acts 8.

So look up all those real quick.

How many have you made every night? Romans 3 and Luke chapter 23 and Acts 8. So look up all those real quick.

How many of you made every night of saturated? Any of you? God, glory to God. Look at you.

I wish I had a prize for you, but the prize is you were here to worship. So good. I have a goal today,

a very singular goal. Well, really two goals. One is if you are not a believer in Jesus, my hope and prayer is that today would be the day that you put your faith in Jesus.

My second goal is if you have never been baptized as a believer that you would get baptized today,

you would declare Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior,

and you would get dumped. And if you think, well, I'm not ready. Well, I'm not ready either.

I still got 34 minutes and three seconds, and then you're going to be ready, all right?

As you've heard, we had 277 people signify a first-time decision to follow Jesus. Praise God. And so for all 277 of you

and over 1,700 people this year that have put their faith in Christ and hadn't got baptized yet,

today is your day. And if you're not planning on it, if you weren't planning on it,

that's okay. We were planning on it, and the God of the universe was planning on it, and so we've

got it all figured out for you. You see, baptism is a really, really big deal, and what most

people do is they just kind of adopt whatever you grew up with when it comes to baptism.

And what I want to do is just look through the scriptures to see what the Bible says about what baptism is,

why we should get baptized, and whether you should get baptized today.

You see, when something significant happens to you, when something significant happens on the inside of you, you typically

do something significant to signify the thing. Like way back in the 1900s, I was working

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