North Attleboro


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The Importance of Baptism
I. What is baptism?
Baptism is the of our in Christ.
Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Baptism is to be .
Mark 10:38 Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
When Jesus died he was overwhelmed with death, so we could be overwhelmed with life.
Baptism is to be by God.
Acts 2:38-41 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, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” And with many other words, he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
When you are baptized into Christ, you become His, spiritually and mentally.
You say ‘I belong now’. You are His.
Baptism is to be the old way of .
Romans 6:2-3 How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory o the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
II. Why should I be baptized?
You should be baptized to the example set by Christ.
Mark 1:19 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth and was baptized by John in the river.
You should be baptized because Christ it.
Mark 28:19-20 ‘Jesus said, Go then, to all the people everywhere and make them my disciples, baptize them in the name of the Father, son and the Holy Spirit…’
You should be baptized because it I really am a .
1 John 2:3-6 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked
We are baptized to follow His example, because Jesus commands it. Being baptized does not make you a believer, you were a believer when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of you salvation and believed in him.
Acts 18:8 ”…many of the people who heard Him believed and were baptized.
III. Why Be Baptized by Immersion?
Jesus was Baptised by full .
Matthew 3:16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him,[a] and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him
Every Baptism in The Bible was by .
Acts 8:38-39 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.
It best symbolizes a , and .
Romans 6:5-11 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
The greek definition of Baptism, “Baptizo" means: .
IV. Who should be baptized?
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Acts 18:8 …many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
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North Attleboro
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Norwood
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Southcoast
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WATERS U | FALL SEMESTER
This fall is the perfect time to grow in your faith and take steps toward a stronger walk with Christ through Waters U! Whether you’re exploring life’s big questions in Alpha, working on strengthening your marriage in Re|engage, finding freedom in Celebrate Recovery, or gaining biblical wisdom for your finances in Financial Peace, there’s a class designed to help you thrive. Classes begin in September and October—click here to learn more about the different classes and to register today!
Woonsocket
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Ready to test your teamwork, brainpower, and endurance? Get ready for a 2-hour adventure packed with wild challenges, fast-paced fun, and fierce competition! On Saturday, October 11th, Teams of four will race across town completing 12 challenges for a chance to win $500 cash and other prizes. Cost is $40 per team. Space is limited so register now so you don’t miss out! Not racing? We also need volunteers to help make the event a success—sign up online!
WATERS U | FALL SEMESTER
This fall is the perfect time to grow in your faith and take steps toward a stronger walk with Christ through Waters U! Whether you’re exploring life’s big questions in Alpha, working on strengthening your marriage in Re|engage, finding freedom in Celebrate Recovery, or gaining biblical wisdom for your finances in Financial Peace, there’s a class designed to help you thrive. Classes begin in September and October—click here to learn more about the different classes and to register today!

From Exodus 1-8
📖 Exodus 1:8 ESV Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
1. the ultimate around .
📖 Exodus 1:9-10 ESV And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
📖 Exodus 1:11-12 ESV Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
📖 Exodus 1:13-14 ESV So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
📖 Exodus 1:15–16 ESV Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”
📖 Exodus 1:22 ESV Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
📖 Exodus 2:23 ESV During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
Understand the of the :
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📖 Exodus 2:1–3 ESV Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
📖 Exodus 2:11 ESV One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens…
📖 Hebrews 11:24–25 ESV By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
Understand the in the story:
1. Egypt – The .
2. Pharaoh – The .
3. Israel – The .
4. Moses – A of our .
📖 Exodus 5:1 ESV Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
📖 Exodus 5:4–8 ESV But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.” 5 And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!” 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.
📖 Exodus 5:19–21 ESV The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.” 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; 21 and they said to them, “The LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
2. what is to .
📖 Exodus 6:1 ESV But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
📖 Exodus 6:2 ESV God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD.”
📖 Exodus 6:10 ESV So the LORD said to Moses, “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.”
📖 Exodus 6:13 ESV But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
📖 Exodus 7:1 ESV And the LORD said to Moses….
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C. S. Lewis
God’s servants are never through death, they are through death.
📖 Exodus 7:3–4 ESV But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
3. what God is out of .
📖 Exodus 7:1–2 ESV And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.
📖 1 John 4:17 ESV As he is so also are we in this world.
📖 Exodus 8:1 ESV Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.”’”
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the and yourself in God’s — letting every become a .
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