The Role of Baptism, Acts 2:37-38

This post concerns the role of baptism in the formative days of the New Testament church.

The Role of Baptism discusses the importance of baptism in salvation.

The church began on Pentecost following the preaching of Peter. In his first gospel sermon, Peter stressed the prophecy of Joel about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Then, he stated that the Jews had killed Jesus. But God had resurrected Him.

After that, Peter told the audience how to obtain forgiveness for their sins, especially the sin of crucifying Jesus, Acts 2:37-38. “Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins,”

Afterwards, all through the book of Acts whenever conversions and forgiveness of sins took place, baptism was mandatory. When Philip went down to the Samaritans, he preached baptism, Acts 8. Soon thereafter, an angel dispatched Philip south to the Gaza road to join and teach a eunuch riding in a chariot. When they came to water, the eunuch asked for baptism.

Peter told Cornelius, a Roman soldier and a Gentile, to undergo baptism, Acts 10.

Lydia, a woman in business, underwent baptism, Acts 16. Later, in Philippi the Jailer also underwent baptism late at night after he heard the gospel.

All of these lumped together teach us that baptism became a command for salvation.

The same today…we must undergo baptism for salvation.

So, what did we learn?

1.All the cases of conversion in the New Testament involved baptism.

2.Today, undergoing baptism remains essential to salvation.

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