Creation 7th Day Adventist
BAPTISMAL VOW

Christ has made baptism the sign of entrance to His spiritual kingdom. As Christians submit to the solemn rite of baptism, He registers the vow that they make to be true to Him. This vow is their oath of allegiance. I hereby enter that kingdom and declare my allegiance to YAH', the Creator and Eternal Father.

In going forward in this most solemn rite I make a public declaration that I am dead to sin (Romans 6:2). I solemnly vow to remain dead to sin, accepting the promise that it shall have no more dominion over me. I have claimed the cleansing from my hereditary and cultivated traits of evil. My mouth shall remain a sanctified mouth, my tongue a converted tongue. I will speak of God's goodness and praise His holy name (Romans 6:14). I have renounced the world and will no longer live in pride and self-indulgence.

I accept Christ's vow to me: "I will never leave you nor forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5). "I will preserve you from all evil" (Psalms 121:7). "I will guide you into all truth and show you things to come" (John 16:13). "Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto Thee. For Thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not Thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?" (Psalms 56:12, 13).

Follwing Christ's commission in Matt. 28:19, I am baptized "into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"-- being sealed a member of the Royal Family. Henceforth I shall walk in newness of life, loyal and obedient to God and His law. I will bear His sign of obedience and creative power, the Sabbath of the fourth commandment (Ezekiel 20:12) and His sign of humility and dependence for life, the New Moon (Isaiah 66:22, 23; Psalm 81:3,4; Colossians 2:16). I surrender to Him all that I have and pledge myself to serve Him; all of my capabilities shall be given to the work of extending His kingdom. Those who have been baptized can claim the help of the Great Worthies of Heaven to keep them from falling, and to reveal through them a character that is after the Divine similitude.

By my vow of perpetual obedience to YAH's Word, I testify before angels and men that I LIVE BY "EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF YAH". (Matthew 4:4). "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that day." (2 Timothy 1:12).