Immersion in Water Pt. 4

Derek Prince teaches that Scripture offers no guarantee of salvation to believers who are not baptised, defining true baptism as full immersion. Drawing on 1 Peter 3:20-21, he explains that just as only eight souls were saved through water in Noah's flood, baptism now saves believers—not by washing away physical dirt, but through "the answer of a good conscience toward God." He outlines four conditions for believer's baptism: hearing the gospel, repenting, believing, and having a good conscience toward God—conditions an infant cannot fulfil.

Prince then demonstrates from Acts how the early church baptised converts immediately rather than after lengthy instruction: the 3,000 on Pentecost, the Ethiopian eunuch with Philip (Acts 8), Cornelius's household, and the Philippian jailer who was baptised "the same hour of the night." He contrasts this New Testament urgency with modern practices of delaying baptism for weeks to test for fruit, insisting baptism was seen by the early Christians as essential and inseparable from their salvation.

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