https://steve-finnell.blogspot.com/2016/11/is-untimely-death-inoculation-against.html
IS AN UNTIMELY DEATH AN INOCULATION AGAINST OBEYING THE GOSPEL? by steve finnell
Some say that
immersion in water, [that being baptism], is not essential for
salvation. The reasoning is because if a believer should die before he
has time to be baptized God would forgive him anyway. Their logic being a
loving God would not condemn a person because of an untimely death.
Jesus gave us the gospel terms of pardon. Mark 16:16 "He who believes and is baptized will be saved....(NKJV)
If a person can be
saved because they died before they were baptized, then, why could they
not be saved before they believed that Jesus is the Christ?
If a person heard
the gospel, but died minutes before they believed that Jesus is the
Christ, would they be saved? Of course not.
God has the power to insure that believers have time to be baptized.
In Biblical examples men were baptized the same day they believed. No one died before they had a chance to be baptized. Acts 2:37-41....41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.(NKJV) Acts 8:26-38.....So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. (NKJV) Act 16:25-33.....And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.(NKJV)
[NOTE: There is no Scripture where Jesus says. "Baptism will not save you." There is Scripture where Jesus says "Is baptized will be saved."(Mark 16:16)