What role does baptism play in the role of the gospel? The word in the New Testament is used many times to describe several different types of baptisms: the baptism of Moses, the baptism of John, the baptism of our Lord, the baptism of the cross, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of judgment and the baptism of believers.

The word means to "to dip, immerse, submersion." This is scene in the account of the baptism of Jesus and the Ethiopian eunuch when it says of both they "went down into the water" and "came up out of the water."

But what is the importance of this water baptism in relation to the gospel?

First, let’s say what baptism is not:

But baptism is a powerful tool of the proclamation of the gospel.

Acts 8 we see that the man wanted to be baptized after trusting Christ.

This is a dramatization of what has saved you.

Romans 6:5 –7 "For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. ⁷For he who has died has been freed from sin."

Romans 6: 3-4 "Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

John baptized because it was a way of identifying with him as a teacher and his message. This is one of the reasons Jesus wanted John to baptize him because he believed in his message.

Baptism comes after believing.

Acts 8: 36-37

Baptism is important because it reveals a heart of obedience.

Acts 2: 38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.