And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord. '

1. Why wait? Once one knows what they must do to obey God, there is no reason for delay.

2. Do not procrastinate. There is danger in delay.

3. Paul is instructed to arise and be baptized.

4. In doing so he will do two things:

1. In being baptized, he will wash away his sins. Not by the power of the water, but be the blood of Jesus Christ.

2. In being baptized, he will be calling (trusting, relying) on the name of the Lord.

5. Romans 10:13 says that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Paul was told to be baptized. In being baptized he was calling on the name of the Lord, thus, in baptism, Paul would be saved.

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