Sermon
Baptism: Living as a New Creation
Treeline Church
Speaker: Andrew Hager
April 20, 2026 · 23 min
Summary
Jesus's baptism in Matthew 3 demonstrates three declarations God makes over believers: a new path of repentance (turning to Christ, not religious performance), a new allegiance to King Jesus (not family or ethnic identity), and a new identity as God's child (the most true thing about us). Baptism is the public ceremony where believers physically and spiritually step into the kingdom of God.
Highlights
The only way we get in on this is acknowledging that we don't deserve to be here at all.
What happens to you when you put your faith in Jesus and God gives you a new spiritual life is so radical and transformative that everything else becomes a small and insignificant thing to define yourself by.
Following Jesus is not merely something you do privately in your heart. It's something you do publicly with your life.