We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

In biblical times, baptism was visible.

Was a visible act that showed a person leaving their old beliefs to become a Christian by partaking in the death barrel and resurrection of Jesus through what?

Submerging.

Okay, so what's going on here is back in the olden days, now you can imagine.

Before Christianity came on the scene, everyone had a belief.

Nobody was, there were no atheists back then.

They weren't atheists they had they either believed in false gods or they believed in the true and living god and that was it you had to have a belief because

everyone had a belief and you know an atheist does have a belief their

belief is they believe in nothing that's still a belief it's like a non-denominational

church you have a denomination your denomination is non-denominational because if

we group and everybody in groups that's a group that's just real logic right

that so in biblical times everyone had a belief so when christianity came on the scene they wanted

god wanted a visible illustration of you leaving your old beliefs and coming into a new belief. And that was baptism.

Something happened spiritually, but God wanted everyone to see it, for it to be visible to give you

confidence and to show others that you were a new creation. See, some people like, let's see, the outward appearance don't matter.

The outward appearance does matter.

I said the outward appearance, it don't matter.

Then drive in the hood with your window down and your doors unlocked and let some of the brothers with the

outward appearance of a thug walk up to your car and tell me that the or the crackhead with the

with the with the squeegee and the water water tell me appearance don't matter oh come on man come on come on

bring that squeegee no his appearance is telling you what's about to happen

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