Water baptism is one the three baptisms; water, spirit, and fire, we are called to repent and be baptized with water. Baptisms and repentance are two of the six foundation doctrine along with faith toward God, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. We can repent unto the remission of sins which must bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. Repentance unto life has always been a Bible principle “turn yourself and live”.
Repent and turn unto Yahweh that there may come seasons of refreshing in the presence of Him even until the times of restoration. In Baptism unto repentance, we are symbolically buried into Jesus’ death and participate in the quickening of His resurrection. Through baptism we died and are discharged from the law to serve in newness of the spirit.
The life we now live in faith is through the grace of God with the life and power of Christ living and abiding in us.
Mat 3:4-12 RV
(4) Now John himself had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
(5) Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan;
(6) and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
(7) But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
(8) Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:
(9) and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
(10) And even now is the axe laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
(11) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
(12) whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Heb 6:1-3 RV
(1) Wherefore let us cease to speak of the first principles of Christ, and press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
(2) of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
(3) And this will we do, if God permit.
Luk 3:2-9 RV
(2) in the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
(3) And he came into all the region round about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins;
(4) as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.
(5) Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straight, And the rough ways smooth;
(6) And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
(7) He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
(8) Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
(9) And even now is the axe also laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
We can repent unto the remission of sins which must bring forth fruits worthy of repentance.
Eze 18:27-32 RV
(27) Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
(28) Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
(29) Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
(30) Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
(31) Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereto ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
(32) For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.
Repentance unto life has always been a Bible principle “turn yourself and live”.
Act 3:18-21 RV
(18) But the things which God foreshewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
(19) Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
(20) and that he may send the Christ who hath been appointed for you, even Jesus:
(21) whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began.
Col 2:11-15 RV
(11) in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
(12) having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
(13) And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he quicken together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;
(14) having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
(15) having put off from himself the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Rom 6:1-14 RV
(1) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
(2) God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
(3) Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
(4) We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
(5) For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death, we shall be also by the likeness of his resurrection;
(6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
(7) for he that hath died is justified from sin.
(8) But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
(9) knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.
(10) For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
(11) Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
(12) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
(13) neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
(14) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
Rom 7:1-6 RV
(1) Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?
(2) For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
(3) So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.
(4) Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
(5) For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
(6) But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were holden; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
Through baptism we died and are discharged from the law to serve in newness of the spirit.
Gal 2:16-21 RV
(16) yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, save through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
(17) But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.
(18) For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.
(19) For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.
(20) I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
(21) I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.
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