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Sin must be forsaken before baptism can occur.
For converts they have to forsake bad habits such as smoking, drinking coffee,
and working on Sunday. They have to be worthy.
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The events from Christ’s life that are
symbolized by the baptism are Christ’s death. Christ’s death is symbolized by
us totally immersing in the water. Christ’s resurrection is symbolized in
baptism when we come up out of the water which symbolizes being raised up from
the dead. When we are baptized, our old ways are crucified just as our Savior
was, and we raise up renewed and clean having forsaken our old ways ready to
continually choose the right.
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Baptism by sprinkling doesn’t symbolize the
death and the resurrection the way baptism by immersion symbolizes Christ’s death and resurrection.
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There verses teach us to be baptized and have “our
old man” crucified so we no longer serve sin. This will help us to maintain the
“newness of life.”
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According to Mosiah 3:19, the natural man in us
would ideally die after being
baptized because we would want to be as a little child and be submissive to our
father, who is in heaven.
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We know whose servants we are by our actions. If
we yield to temptation, we are servants of the devil because we are submitting
our will to sin. We are servants to whom we obey. Likewise, if we choose
righteousness if we keep the commandments, we are servants of Heavenly Father
because we are submitting our will to His and showing Him that we want to obey
His word. We show that we are obedient to what He asks us, and thus we become His
servants.
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The true source of freedom is obedience. It
keeps us free from sin and temptation, and in our freedom the Lord protects us
from the fiery darts of the adversary.
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