This was something that I just couldn't keep to myself. If my loved ones only knew, there would be no way that they could pass up a gift like this. Somewhat na vely, I had believed that all professing Christians believe the same gospel. Oddly enough not one of them, in all of the years I had known them, had ever said anything to me about the Lord Jesus, or about my lost condition. You have to believe and be baptized in order to receive biblical salvation.
Water baptism is essential to salvation.
No, not really. I was thinking about the Old Testament saints. That's easy, Ralph. They were saved under the Old Covenant. He was a special case .