Conversion Accounts in Acts

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Conversion Accounts in Acts

• Approved Examples of Gods Plan of Salvation
  Obeyed

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3,000 On Pentecost (Acts 2)

• The word of God was preached
• The hearers believed (v. 37)
• The question was asked (v. 37)
• Men and brethren, what shall we do?
• The command was given (v. 38)
• Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins
• Faith resulted in obedience (v. 41)

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City of Samaria (Acts 85-13)

• Phillip Preached Christ unto them (5)
• The hearers believed (12)
• Faith resulted in obedience (12)
• They were baptized, both men and women (12)
• They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus
  (16)

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The Ethiopian (Acts 826-39)

• Phillip preached unto him Jesus (35)
• The question was asked (36)
• What hinders me from being baptized?
• The confession was made (37)
• They both went down into the water (38)
• Phillip baptized the Ethiopian (38)
• The Ethiopian left rejoicing (39)

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Saul of Tarsus (Acts 9 22 26)

• The Lord spoke to him (4-6)
• The question was asked (6)
• You will be told what you must do
• Ananias was sent to teach Saul
• Saul believed
• Prayed and fasted for three days (99, 11)
• At what point was he saved?
• He was saved when he obeyed (2216)
• Be baptized, and wash away they sins

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Cornelius House (Acts 10-11)

• Told to send for Peter(1114-15)
• Who will tell you words by which you and all
  your household will be saved
• As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon
  them, as upon us at the beginning
• They were baptized in the name of Jesus
• Why were they baptized?
• For the remission of sins (Acts 238)
• There is only one baptism (Eph. 45)

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Lydia (Acts 1613-15)

• Lydia appears faithful as a Jew (13-14)
• The word was preached (13)
• The hearer believed (14)
• The Lord opened her heart to heed the things
  spoken by Paul
• She was baptized (15)
• She had the heart of a servant (15)

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Philippian Jailor (Acts 1623-34)

• Paul and Silas imprisoned under his care
• About to kill himself
• Asked What must I do to be saved?
• Answer Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
  you will be saved, you and your household. (31)
• Gospel preached to household (32)
• Immediately he and all his family were baptized
  (33)

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The Corinthians (Acts 188)

• Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue,
  believed on the Lord with all his household. And
  many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and
  were baptized.

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Those at Ephesus (Acts 191-7)

• These were disciples who believed (1-2)
• Had not heard of Holy Ghost (2)
• An important question was asked
• Into what then were you baptized? (3)
• The reason for baptism matters!
• Their first baptism was invalid for salvation or
  baptism into Christ

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Into What Were You Baptized?

• Do you not know that as many of us as were
  baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His
  death?  Therefore 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.
  (Rom. 63, 4)

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Have You Obeyed the Gospel?

• In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do
  not know God, and on those who do not obey the
  gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.  9These shall
  be punished with everlasting destruction from the
  presence of the Lord and from the glory of His
  power, (2 Thess. 18-9)