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Baptism is like a wedding ring: they both symbolize transactions.
A wedding ring symbolizes marriage, just as baptism symbolizes salvation.
Wearing a wedding ring does not make you married any more than being baptized makes you saved.
To extend the parallel, if a person, especially a woman, does not wear a wedding ring you can almost always assume that the person is not married.
So it was in New Testament times.
If a person was not baptized, you could probably assume that he or she was not a believer.
On this we must be clear: baptism is a symbol of salvation and only a symbol.
But, like a wedding ring, it is such an effective symbol that it should never be taken for granted.
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[1]Michael P. Green, /Illustrations for Biblical Preaching : Over 1500 Sermon Illustrations Arranged by Topic and Indexed Exhaustively/, Revised edition of: The expositor's illustration file.
(Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989).
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