Water Baptism - 9/3/2009

This is a back dated posting. Hope Serdang conducted Water Baptism Ceremony on 9/3/2009 ( selangor puclic holiday) . Togather with kajang unit, Bro Wei Liang (uniten) and Sis Ai Lim (upm) from upten were being baptised in water on this day also.

We arrived around 10am @ Sri Pinang baby pool. All of us were very excited for this celebrative moment. Pastor shared a passage about water baptism and faith, then made public confirmation with all the bro and sis about their conviction in salvation and decision to be baptised , then the water baptism began... Praise God for giving us a chance to live a new life!!

1Peter 3: 21 - and this water symbolizes baptism which now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I Corinthians 10:1-4
And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, And were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

God brought Israel:
out of Egypt (the land of slavery--i.e. sin)
through the sea (water -i.e. baptism)
and into the promised land (Israel--i.e. salvation, redemption)

Baptism is nothing new in God’s plan. It is something He has always used to illustrate the separating of sin from mankind. God has always saved people through water. It was foreshadowed long ago in the Old Testament scriptures.