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NASB | Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, |
Subject: Does baptism show we're a follower? |
Bible Note: Mk 1:14. Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of God, 15. and saying, "The time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent ye and believe in the Gospel." [After John was delivered up!] Mt 4: 12. Now when He heard that John was delivered up, He withdrew into Galilee ... 17. From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, "Repent ye! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" [Listen to Him!] Jn 3: 23. And John also was baptizing in Enon near to Salim because there was much water there and they came and were baptized. 24. For John was not yet cast into prison. [FOR JOHN WAS NOT YET CAST INTO PRISON. I truly hope you will begin to read these critical Scriptures much more carefully.] Ac 10:37: ... that saying ye yourselves know, which was published throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached ... [AFTER THE BAPTISM THAT JOHN PREACHED!] Ac 11:16. And I remembered the Word of the Lord, how He said, 'John indeed baptized with water but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit." 17. If then God gave unto them the like Gift as He did also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God? ["Withstand" means OPPOSE!] Ac 13:25: 25. And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, "What suppose ye that I am? I am not He. But behold, there cometh One after me the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to unloose." Ac 19:4. And Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on Him that should come after him, that is, on Jesus." 5. And when they heard this, they were baptized into the Name of the Lord Jesus. 6. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied. [The 3000 in Ac 2 and Saul/Paul in Ac 9; Ac 22; Ac 26, all were saved when they called on the Name of the Lord and some also had hands laid on them. Can you explain in a sentence or two how calling on the Name of the Lord saves us and what actually takes place when we call on the Name of the Lord to be saved? I am not asking because i do not know.] When Jesus Christ healed people during His earthly Ministry, people who could not even walk, they were not baptized with physical water at all. When Jesus Christ sent out His disciples, two by two, there was no possibility for any physical water baptisms to take place in His very detailed instructions because there is only the one baptism now of Eph 4:4-7, the one baptism of the One Spirit that we must spiritually drink, Jn 7:37-39; 1Co 12:13-14. I will repeat: There were no physical water baptisms by Jesus Christ's disciples during His earthly Ministry and Ac 8; Ac 10-11 can also be easily explained again for those who want to know, anne |