Have you wished you could start your life over? Have you wished you could be a different person? Listen to this important lecture to find out just how this can be done.

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Amazing Facts

Prophecies of Hope

Lowell Hargreaves

26. Modern, Magic, Miracles, and the Occult

27. Revelation’s “Time No Longer!”

28. The Unpardonable Sin

29. God’s Washing Machine

30. What Will Heaven Be Like?

31. Revelation’s Last Plagues

Michael Hargreaves

1. Mysteries of Bible Prophecy

2. Dinosaurs Prove the Bible True

3. Revelation’s Mother of All Battles

4. Revelation’s Omega, The Secret to Personal Power!

5. UFOs, the Occult, and Christ’s Coming

6. The AntiChrist Coverup!

7. Revelation’s Two Martyrs

8. The Topic that Satan Hates

9. $10,000 Offer for Missing Bible Verse!

10. The Bible’s Longest, Most Amazing Prophecy!

11. The Mysteries of the Mummies

12. The Devil’s Door!

13. Revelation’s Lake of Fire!

14. The Three Steps to Heaven

15. Revelation’s Millennium, when the Devil Goes on Vacation!

16. Survival Keys for Revelation’s End-Time!

17. Revelation’s Gateway to a New Life

18. Revelation Exposes the AntiChrist and 666!

19. The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast

20. Revelation’s Woman on the Moon!

22. Modern Prophets Visions and Dreams

25. Haunted House! Satan’s Deadly Trojan Horses!

23. Mystery Babylon, Revelation’s Scarlet Harlot!

21. The Secret to Financial Prosperity

32. Questions and Answers from Prophecies of Hope

Our topic for tonight is Revelation's gateway to a new life.

Have you ever done something and the very next moment you regretted that you did it?

Have you ever wished that you could do things differently?

As you look back over your past life, do you sometimes wish you could just start all over again, begin anew, so to speak?

Well, the Bible tells us we can actually do that.

In fact, it's not only possible, it is essential if we want to be saved.

Our first text tonight, for those of you taking notes, John 3, verse 3, Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be what?

So we have to start over if we want to enter heaven.

But the 1 that Jesus said this to, Nicodemus, asked the question how, verse 4.

Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?

And that question of how is the question that burdened hearts have been asking for centuries.

How do I begin life anew, Jesus tells us how.

He says in verse 5, Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man is born of water, first of all, and of the spirit, secondly, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.

So to be born again, we must be born, first of all, of water, that represents what?

Baptism, and then we must also be born of the Spirit.

That symbolizes conversion and conversion must take place before baptism.

Well the Bible tells us how in John 1 12, as many as received him Jesus received power.

When we receive Jesus our life is transformed.

Behold Jesus says I stand at the door which represents our choice.

If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me.

We open the door to Christ when we invite Him personally to come into our lives, to direct us, to guide us, to be our King and our Savior.

We are led to take the step of accepting Jesus when we see his love manifest on the cross.

When I see him hanging there, dying there, my death, paying the penalty for my sins, then I want to give my life to him.

In fact, Jesus said in John 12, verse 32, Mark it in your notes.

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

Have you felt that drawing love of Christ in your life?

No doubt you have, or you wouldn't be here.

As we respond to the drawing love of Christ, we surrender our lives to him, then we are born of the Spirit.

Not my will, but thy will be done, O Lord.

That was the first part of being born again.

The second part is to be born of water, which represents baptism.

And we are going to see tonight how baptism is indeed Revelation's gateway to a new life.

We are studying tonight the gateway to a new life.

Jesus instructed his followers to teach and baptize.

Let's read that from Matthew 28, verse 19.

Matthew 28, 19, Jesus says, go you therefore and teach all nations, and then what?

Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

And how is baptism for us the gateway to a new life?

Well, let's begin to get the answer to that important question from Romans 6, verses 3 and 4.

In Romans 6, 3 and 4, the Bible says, Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." So here Paul shows us the true significance of baptism.

He parallels it with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.

We are baptized into his death, buried with him by baptism, like as Christ was raised up from the dead.

So you can begin to see the true meaning of baptism.

It symbolizes death, burial, and resurrection.

We come forth from baptism to live a new life.

For those early Christians, baptism was the public demonstration that they were accepting the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ on their behalf.

But more than that, baptism was also the public demonstration that they were dying to their old life, bearing their past sins and mistakes, and starting a new life with Jesus.

That is the gateway to a new life, and that's why the Bible says...

"...unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood." Revelation 1, 5.

Baptism symbolizes that, the washing away of sin.

In fact, notice from 1 Corinthians 15, verses 3 and 4.

Again, we see the parallel, the death, burial, and resurrection.

Paul says, For I delivered unto you, first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ what?

Rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.

Death to the old life, burial of that life, and resurrection to a new life.

It's a parallel of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection.

So, we see tonight that baptism is the gateway to a new life.

You bury your past and start over anew with Christ.

People, when they accept Jesus, want to start over.

In baptism, you start a new life, but there's a question we need to answer.

Well, that is, what is the biblical method of baptism?

There are at least 14 different methods practiced.

You might have noticed that in your lesson.

This is a picture of baptism by immersion.

That's 1 method, but people say, that's a lot of work.

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Prophecies of Hope

17. Revelation’s Gateway to a New Life

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