Where In The Bible Will Find:

The Urgency Of Doing After Believing?

The cure or restoration from many physical ailments depends on an immediate treatment by a competent physician. A heart attack, a blood clot, a restriction in the respiratory system, or so many other things in which we certainly would not want to "put-off," but would request, yea, demand immediate action.

With this being so important to our physical well being, of how much more important is urgency in complying with God's Word in our spiritual well being? Jesus came to this earth to "...seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10), to build His church (Matt. 16:18), which is His kingdom (Matt. 16:19; Mark 9:1).

Conditions of entry were laid out and a promise made to everyone complying with these conditions would be saved and added to His church (Mark 16:16; Acts 2:47). His command is: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ... He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved..." (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:16).

Prior to baptism, the conditions are, we must believe in Christ, "...for if you believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins" (John 8:24). "Repent or perish" (Luke 13:3), and confess His name before men (Matt. 10:32-33). It takes ALL these to comply with the teaching of Christ. Belief only, will not comply - many believed on Christ but were not saved because they were not baptized (Luke 7:30; John 2:42).

It is imperative that after we hear the Gospel and believe it to request water baptism immediately as recorded in God's Holy Word. On Pentecost some three thousand believed and "the same day" were baptized (Acts 2:37-41). Philip preached the Gospel to the people in Samaria. They heard, believed and were baptized (Acts 8:12). He was then called to "preach Jesus" to the Ethiopian Noblemen. On hearing about Jesus he knew that he must be baptized. WHY? Because one cannot preach Jesus without preaching His commandment to be baptized. And with urgency, he asked: "...See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized" (Acts 8:36).

Saul of Tarsus, on hearing the Lord say, "...go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do (with urgency the preacher said) ... arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord" (Acts 9:6; 22:16). The Philippian jailor, on hearing about Jesus, was, "...the same hour of the night, baptized" (Acts 16: 31-34. After Lydia heard about Jesus, she was baptized (Acts 16:14-15).

Cornelius, after hearing "Words" spoken by Peter, was commanded to be baptized in water (Acts 10:34-48). Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized (Acts 18:8). All these people, believing the Word of God, did not "put‑off' the final commandment of the Lord, but obeyed immediately His commandment to be baptized in water for the remission of their sins (Acts 2:38).