Baptism
Paul told the Ephesians that there was just one baptism. So is it John the Baptist's water baptism that he was sent by God to perform or is it the holy Spirit baptism that John said that Jesus would perform.
Baptism is essential but you need to know what baptism it is that you need. Study these articles to understand why you need to be baptized by Jesus and to understand what happened to water baptism.
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Baptism Articles
- Baptism
- Baptism
- Have Ye Received the holy Ghost Since Ye Believed?
- Are You Born Again?
- New Commandments
- Seven Lies #1 Christianity is the Family of God
- Seven Lies #3 The holy Ghost baptism is Not the New Birth
- Impossible to Return
- Questions on Why the Baptism of the Holy Ghost is The New Birth
- A Prophet Like Unto Me - Part One Washing
- A Prophet Like Unto Me - Part Two To Be Priests
- Jesus is Sufficient
- Appearances and Baptism
- New Testament Fundamentals #4 John's Baptism
- The First Thing to Seek
- The Receipt
- John 3:16
- Whatever It Is
- Getting Into Christ
Suggested Further Reading
Spiritual Light is the result of four visitations from the Lord over a period of 4 years. Starting with the 3rd commandment and then insight into Christ's sacrifice the book reveals desperately needed understanding that dispels the confusion about conversion, baptism, salvation and works.Related Topics
- Other subjects from the topical index related to the New Birth.
- Salvation & Conversion
- The New Birth
- Speaking in Tongues
- The Holy Spirit
- Ceremony
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Thought for the Evening
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"A PROPHET LIKE UNTO ME"
PART ONE: WASHING
Moses, in Deuteronomy 18:15
"The people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts concerning John, whether he were the Christ or not."
Luke 3:15
In times past, I often pondered over what it was about John the Baptist that caused the Israelites of his time, including the elders and priests, to wonder if he was the promised Messiah. It was easy to understand why people would think of John as a great man, but what would cause them to go so far as to think that he might be the Messiah?
After years of having that question spring up in my heart, and then fruitlessly contemplating it, the Lord directed my attention to something God sent John to do, a holy act that God had never ordained any man to do since Moses. God commanded Moses to perform that ritual only once, many centuries before John. This act, which no prophet had performed since Moses, was to carry out a ceremonial washing of people, the way Moses had ceremonially washed Aaron and his sons at Mount Sinai. Moses washed Aaron and his sons with water as part of their being ordained to be God's priests for Israel. Since that time, no one in Israel's history had been ordained by God to wash anyone else. No one, that is, until John.
Understanding that, it is easy to understand why all men "mused in their hearts concerning John, whether he were the Christ or not." He certainly was a prophet like Moses, as far as performing a water-cleansing ritual is concerned. But the men looking on and musing in their hearts about John did not know that John's watery baptism was just a temporary shadow of the real washing to come, the one that Jesus gives to every soul who truly repents. The difference between John's baptism and the baptism Jesus gives is that Jesus baptizes souls, not bodies, and he uses eternal life, not the water of the Jordan River. Jesus baptizes men in the invisible river of life that flows from the throne of God, a powerful flow that cannot be seen by those who receive it, but that can very much be felt.