Week # 15

BAPTISM

"Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no other way beneath the heavens whereby God hath ordained for man to come to him to be saved, and enter into the kingdom of God, except faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and baptism for the remission of sins, and any other course is in vain; then you have the promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost" (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 4:555).

Questions and Activities

• What is an ordinance of the gospel? Why does the Lord give us ordinances?
• What is the purpose of the ordinance of baptism?
• Find scriptural examples of the proper mode of baptism.
• How is baptism by immersion symbolic of the blessings of the atonement of Jesus Christ?
• Why was the Savior baptized?
• Review the covenants made at baptism--the promises made by you and the promises made by Heavenly Father.
• What are some of the blessings that you have received because you have been baptized?
• What feelings did you have as you attended a baptismal service? Why are baptismal services such powerful spiritual experiences?

Topical Guide

Baptism

Baptism, Essential

Baptism, Immersion

Baptism, Qualifications for

Jesus Christ, Baptism of

Jesus Christ, Taking the Name of

Remission of Sins

Scriptures

2 Nephi 31

Mosiah 18

3 Nephi 11:19-41

Moroni 6, 8:4-16

D&C 20:37

Matthew 3

John 3:1-5

Acts 8:26-40

Romans 6:1-16

Articles of Faith 1:4

Bible Dictionary

Baptism

Bethabara

John the Baptist

Jordan River

Regeneration

Symbolism

Other Sources

Gospel Principles, chapter 20

A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, chapter 10

Jesus the Christ, chapter 10

The Articles of Faith, chapters 6-7