Friday, April 23, 2021

How soon did people in the Bible get baptized after they heard the Gospel?


 How soon did people in the Bible get baptized after they heard the Gospel?

On the day of Pentecost when the church first began, Peter preached the gospel – the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When he got to the end of his message, the Bible says they were pricked in their heart and asked, “What shall we do?”

"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." - Acts 2:38 KJV

Those that received his word were baptized the same day!

"Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls." - Acts 2:41 KJV

When God opened the prison doors for Paul and Silas, the keeper of the prison was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried, Do not harm yourself - we are all here! Trembling, the prison keeper said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house." - Acts 16:31-32 KJV

When they heard the word of the Lord, they wanted to be baptized. When did Paul baptize the prison keeper and his household? The same hour of the night!

"And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway." - Acts 16:33 KJV

After Phillip preached Jesus to the Ethiopian eunuch, he asked Phillip if he could be baptized. They were by water. Philip did not postpone – he baptized him then and there!

"And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him." - Acts 8:37-38 KJV

When God sent Ananias to pray for Saul to receive his sight, Ananias did not delay to baptize Paul! He prayed for him and then told Paul,

"And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." - Acts 22:16 KJV

"And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized." - Acts 9:18 KJV

When Peter saw that the Gentiles received the Holy Ghost, he commanded them, then and there, to be baptized!

"Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord..." - Acts 10:47-48 KJV

When Paul came to Ephesus, he asked John the Baptist’s disciples how they were baptized. As soon as Paul preached to them Jesus, they had him baptize them in the name of Jesus!

"When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." - Acts 19:5 KJV

The Bible reveals that there was never any delay when it came to water baptizing people in the name of Jesus after they heard the gospel.

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