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NASB | Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Subject: To be saved must we be baptised? |
Bible Note: Phil.2:12-13 So, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed when I was with you, it is even more important that you obey now when I am away from your: keep working our your deliverance with fear and trembling, for God is the one working among you both the willing and the working for what pleases Him. Salvation being the process of gaining and walking in the blessings and deliverance provided through Jesus Christ. This SALVATION is not ETERNAL LIFE spoken of in John 3:16, but rather a continual process of growth. I think we believers tend to use these two interchangaly as I did in my previous post in error. We read 'eternal life' and think 'salvation' or we read 'salvation' and think 'eternal life'. I should have said that works are not the 'Wages' of obtaining eternal life. Our effort is to believe God and act on His word, and HE provides the increase. If I believe God for my provision based on His Word and act in obedience, He will provide. It is a covenant with both parties involved. God is the one who brings souls into the Kingdom but we are the one's who preach and teach the truth. God is the one who delivers by His power but He works through us. Collosians 1:9-13 Therefore, from the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and understanding which the Spirit gives; so that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and entirely pleasing to Him, being fruitful in every good work and multiplying in the full knowledge of God. We pray that you will be continually strengthened with alL the power that comes from His glorious might...giving thanks to the Father for having made you fit to share in the inheritance of His people in the light. God empowers us with His Spirit and enlightens us with His Word to know His will and do His service. But we are not puppets, therefore we must act or do or work the works He has called and equiped us to do. From this perspective, it IS God's work, and it is God's equiping and our yielded will and vessel. A COVENANT WORK. God bless |