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Baptism is a submissive act...not a work…

Baptism is a submissive act...not a work…

I have a questions for my evangelical friends...How can you condemn baptism as essential for salvation...when you have never been baptized in full surrender to the obedience of Jesus...how can you condemn it if you never done it? After all did Jesus say...He that believes and is baptized will be saved? Yes or no? Mar 16:16 KJV He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

 

Baptism is where God cleanses you in full surrender to obedience of Jesus Christ. It is where you become a New Creature (2 Cor 5:7) being born of the water and the Spirit (John 3:5) it is how we are added into Christ (Gal 3:27) it where our sins go into remission (Acts 2:38-39)...it is where we can receive the promise of the Holy Spirit to any whom God calls (Eph 1:13-14)...it by being or allowing God to wash and regenerate you...it is not something you are doing it is a work of God cleansing you...besides the work of your lips is a prayer if you still do not accept baptism as essential for salvation ( 1 Pet 3:20-21)...Christians have to have the witness of the Blood, of the Spirit, and of the water (1 John 5:8). When Jesus was on the earth He said you could get the Spirit by asking the Father (Luke 11:13), if you find Jesus forgiveness then you have the blood (Mat 26:28) but there is only one way to get the water (Baptism Mark 16:16; John 3:3-5). So you can have the Holy Spirit without baptism...you can find Jesus blood without baptism, but you cannot get the water without baptism. Baptism is a work of God where the sinner is surrendering His life to Jesus and God cleans and regenerates us with the Holy Spirit (Col 2:12).

 

Jesus who was also baptized for the remission of sins by John the Baptist (Mark 1:4)...Jesus needed no repentance or forgiveness but obeyed John's command...repent and be baptized for the remission of sin? If you have never tried Jesus words in faithful obedience then how do you know you are right? Even Jesus obeyed John's message when He needed no repentance...You were changed the day you understood there was God and Jesus made a way so you could never choose wrong again...and a way for you to be forgiven...Jesus said blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they will be filled...Jesus will reveal the truth to anyone...and this changes people behavior causing rejoicing (Luke 15:10)...if you think discovering the truth is great imagine how much better baptism will be?

 

Do you not believe God forgives those who repent or forsake evil? Those who repent when they hear the truth find God's forgiveness not salvation...they have to continue to obey Jesus unto full surrender in baptism where we are given the Holy Spirit as a seal of redemption (Eph 1:13-14; Mark 16:16; John 3:3-5; Gal 3:27; Acts 2:38-39)

 

Father please confirm this truth to those who hear in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

Try…A…Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend




Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy…

Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy…

 

For a Jew this means…keep the other nine commandments…so you will be Holy on worship Day…and not be offering animal sacrifices. Jesus kept the intentions of the Law…the Jew had to be in Jerusalem three times minimum a year (Ex 23:7) …and Jesus taught the meaning of the Sabbath Day when talking to the Samaritan woman who could not go to Jerusalem on Saturday and worship…Jesus said in the conversation with her…

 

Joh 4:20-24 KJV  Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye (Jews) say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.  21  Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.  22  Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.  23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.  24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 

If you have obeyed the truth…then will you be offering animal sacrifices on the Sabbath as a Jew? Yes or no. If you have remained Holy and do not have to offer an animal sacrifice…then are you now able to worship the Father on the Sabbath instead of offering an animal sacrifice? Yes or no.

 

The intention of the Law of Moses or the minimum requirements of the Jewish Agreement or the Old Testament was and is the Ten Commandments. The Law or Ten Commandments require your behavior to be like God’s Character Holy. Practicing the Ten Commandments keeps your character like God’s character…and at peace with man and God…in todays time as Jesus said to woman at the well…the time is now…when God looks for anyone to worship Him in the Truth…without offense or at peace with Him…and in the Spirit…with the right attitude and God’s presence…God does have to be present to hear your worship…God does have to consider you Holy in order for you to approach Him and receive your worship…so you have to have peace with God and fellow man…and practicing the Ten Commandments is the minimum requirements of being Holy Character…thus resulting in peace with God and fellow man. Jesus had to only never break one of the Ten Commandments to be considered Holy…we have broken at least one of them and thus are considered unholy or sinful unlike Jesus who never broke one.

 

 

Remember the Sabbath Day…better understood I believe is said this way…keep yourself right with God and mankind so on worship day (Sabbath or Saturday the Seventh Day) you can worship God and not offer sacrifices of animals for your sins or evil deeds to atone so you can worship and be right with God. When we think on Jesus words…it means the same…Mat 5:23-24 KJV  Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath ought against thee;  24  Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Jesus taught we must remain practicing the Truth with clean hands or our worship will not be accepted…in fact if we remember we done someone wrong we are to reconcile before we worship God if such truth is for our fellow man how much more with Our Creator the Great I am?

 

 

So keep yourselves Holy by remaining at peaceful conduct by practicing the truth with God and creation…so you can worship in Spirit and Truth anytime and anywhere now and not just on Saturday the seventh day of the week called the Sabbath Day.

 

 

Father help us to have Your character so we may worship You in Spirit and Truth…please meet our soul’s deepest needs for reconciliation and salvation…in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

 

Try…A…Daily Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend...




How to read the Bible…as in a part for the whole…

How to read the Bible…as in a part for the whole…

 

Have you heard the instance Jesus was arrested…and Peter cut off the right ear…of the servant of the high priest…and his name was Malchus?

 

In order for us to discern the details of what Peter did…one must read the knowledge found in all four of the Gospels of Christ. No one record contains all the information needed for every detail mentioned above, but each record contains enough truth for us to draw a conclusion of understanding…Peter was willing to fight the entire Roman nation and the office of the high priest to defend Jesus and was told to put up his sword.

 

Some critics say this proves there is no unity in the New Testament of Christ…yet fail to realize it is the Holy Spirit revealing the knowledge needed for salvation not for our pleasure…each book is inspired or God breathed…each person was used to reveal with inspiration of the Holy Spirit…each person recites the events as revealed or remembered (eye witnesses) by the Holy Spirit.

 

For instance if you and I were in a field and watching and we seen a tree fall. Would we use the exact same words…to describe the tree’s fall?

No. I may be a better story teller and you may be like simple saying yes…lightening hit it and it fell…or perhaps I may want to describe the heat I felt from the lightening or the brightness because my eyes were open and yours shut…or the sound of the thunder…you see these details have to transmitted to others…but does not change the only true fact intended by this exercise…a tree fell in a field and me and you were there…here is what happened. Each of us or each faithful witness revealed a little more detail than what was needed to understand the main point…a tree fell in a field…

 

Back to the instance of Jesus in the garden…here are the scriptures needed to get the whole revelation revealed by the Holy Spirit…

1.      Who was the victim of being struck?

2.      What was cut off?

3.      Which ear of the servant of the high priest?

4.      Which one of the ones standing by cut off his ear?

5.      What was the high priest servant’s name?

 

Who was the victim of being struck? What was cut off?

Mat 26:51 KJV  And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.

Mar 14:47 KJV  And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

 

Which ear of the servant of the high priest?

Luk 22:50 KJV  And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

 

What was the high priest servant’s name? Who cut off his ear?

Joh 18:10-11 KJV  Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.  11  Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

 

So then we can answer these question after reviewing the Holy Inspired Record of the instance…from all the inspired accounts and draw one conclusion…

Who was smote…a servant of the high priest

Which ear was cut off…his right ear

Whose ear got cut off…a servant of the high priest

Whose ear got cut off…Malchus

Who was the one swinging the sword…Peter

 

We could not answer all these questions unless we understand and remember all the knowledge of the truth on the matter…we have to read the New Testament as one document…with one understanding…with one purpose…which was revealed in pieces over time until all the knowledge need for salvation to occur was revealed…the New Testament has One Author and is inspired of the Holy Spirit…Holy reliable Truth…one message to all creation…written by many people inspired of God to inform sinners of salvation…

 

2Pe 3:9-10 KJV  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

 

Father please help us to remember the Truth from Jesus according to the promise… 2Jn 1:2 KJV  For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever…in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

Try…A…Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend

 




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