Acts 8:35-37
34 So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. 36 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?” 37 Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
The Christ-Messiah who was told about over 700 years before He was born as a man, this is the Jesus Philip explained to the Ethiopian. The man received faith to believe Jesus was who He said - the Son of God - and did all He did as was told long before. So he was reborn and was baptized outwardly in water after being immersed inwardly in Christ and His Spirit. Nothing hindered him from obedience to reflect outwardly what was worked inside by faith. So we are also told by God through others from His book who He is and what He did for us from long ago. We have only to trust He is the Son with all our heart also.
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