The importance of baptism. Yes baptism is an outward show of an inward grace, baptism is to demonstrate what you believe inside you, you believe that Christ died for you, to wash away your sin and he rose again, that is what we find in Romans Chapter Six.

If you believe that Christ died for you and rose again, now you demonstrate this through that which symbolizes that you are dead to sin. As you come out of the water you are rising again from death that's what is symbolized. So you are telling the heavens, you are telling the earth, you are also telling hell that you believe that Christ died for you and you identify with the death of Christ.

In dying you go under the water and then rising again to the newness of life. So it's a beautiful thing if you can do that, some things are symbolic and that's an example of these things that are good, in fact it's good for you to go through it . Praise God!

And on the implication of sex before marriage, sex outside marriage as far as God is concerned is either called fornication or adultery. Fornication is agreed sex between an unmarried couple, adultery is sex between one that is (or at least one of them is) married or even both but not married to one another, so sex before marriage now is fornication as in this case because the two people are assumed not to be married. Any form of sexual sin is either fornication or adultery as far as God is concerned. "I'm happy you have asked this question along with baptism".

It is symbolic if you really read it very well, you are going to find out that God describes unfaithfulness, and all, God describes it as fornication, if you read your bible very well especially Ezekiel 23, he describes it as fornication and so when you fornicate. When you go into sex outside marriage you are symbolizing, just like I said of baptism now you are demonstrating to heaven, to earth as well as to hell that you believe in idolatry, that is the meaning of it.

If you look at the bible very well, God always describes idolatry as fornication or as adultery so when you do that physically it has a spiritual meaning and that's why it's good for you not to touch it at all because that is what it is to the spirit realm. So if you do that before marriage you are only telling to the angels, to earth hell and everybody that you believe in idolatry.

How do you now go to the same God when you have demonstrated all that, it's not in your own interest although when you do that you truly confess and repent the blood of Christ will cleanse you from all of that, when you truly repent and ask for forgiveness. Praise God!