Entering the Waters

 

One of the first things you will have to teach your children is the importance of Baptism and what Baptism does for your soul and for your eternal life. Some of the best baptism scriptures are found in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon. Two of my favorites are Mark 3:1-8 and Mosiah 5:7. In both sections the importance of Baptism is greatly stressed. Jesus makes this abundantly clear when he says, 

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3

What Jesus is clearly telling John is that there is no way to get into the kingdom without being born again. This is can be kind of confusing because all of us have already been born. We all have physical bodies and have been born of our earthly parents. Christ was talking about another kind of birth. He clarifies in his statement,

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." John 3:6

We are born of the flesh. That is how we have physical bodies and that is part of the plan, but we also have another creator. The Lord. And he requires that we also choose to be born of the spirit so that we can be with him. To reign alongside Heavenly Father we need to be Spirit, the only way for us to become spirits is through baptism by immersion. 

The blessings we will recieve in life by being members of the church start with this important principle.