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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: Isn't 24 more than one? |
Bible Note: Hello Tim and Rowdy I remember a speaker coming to my school for Spiritual Emphasis Week who really explained this one story to us. The story is found in Mark 5:21-34. Jesus was going to heal the young girl and the woman with the bleeding condition touches him and is healed. Now Mark says that she just touched his clothes, but Matthew says "the edge of his cloak". Now what the speaker told us was that women in this condition were unclean. When she touched Jesus, a rabbi, she made him unclean, so according to the law he would have to cleanse himself before praying or doing anything like that. Not only that, but she grabbed his prayer shawl, because there was a tradition that the tassels on the Messiah's prayer shawl would heal. She believed that he was the Messiah, and she put her whole trust for her health and really for her normal adult life in his relationship with his father, symbolized by his prayer shawl. Her uncleanness is transferred to him. By doing so, she could be severly punished, I'm not sure if that means she could be stoned. In another place, Jesus chastens the Pharisees and scribes for making their tassels so long, so as to suggest that they might be the Messiah or could heal people. When Jesus asks who did it, she "told him the whole truth". She trembles, but she confesses her faith in him, and her trust in his power. Then Jesus says "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from her suffering." Now the way I feel the Lord has lead me for a while now is there is belief and there is faith. The difference is that a person can believe that Jesus and all he did was true, but unless he trusts himself to God, unless he "throws his whole weight on" God's promise. Unless he risks his soul by entrusting it to Jesus' work, he is not saved. So when Satan and his fallen angels believe, it is of this first kind, I think. The kind of belief that gets us saved is the kind that is willing to take Christ at his word and seek salvation from no other. I don't know if this distinction will help the discussion at hand, but it may be edifying anyway. God bless and may He speak through this forum Jo |