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Only By Faith in Christ Jesus is a Person Saved ~ Water Baptism Can’t Save Anyone

~ John the Baptist said, “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” ^{Matthew 3:11}

~ “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” ^{John 3:36}

~ Anyone that adds to their salvation by faith in Jesus alone for salvation is not saved. Today, we have multiple groups of people that believe a person must do something other than place faith in Christ Jesus. Some believe in ongoing forgiveness. Some believe in speaking in Tongues. Others believe that they must be baptized in their church and a very specific way to be saved. Quite frankly, it is hypocrisy to even think that way, for what makes their “church” so special and their baptismal water more special than that of a swimming pool? Folks that believe in water baptism for salvation are deceived into thinking that they must do something beyond their faith in Jesus in order to be saved. And furthermore, they do not even understand the spiritual baptism of the Holy Spirit. And the reason they don’t understand it is because they do not have the Holy Spirit living in them.

~ “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” ^{1 Corinthians 2:14}

Bob speaks to a caller that believes in water baptism in order to be saved.
~ “Well, Jim it’s dead wrong there isn’t anything we can do for salvation, salvation comes from God. It has nothing to do with us. And Paul obviously said that he was glad that he did baptize anyone because he did name oh, yes, I did baptize Gaius and Crispus. But beyond that I didn’t baptize anyone else because God I was sent here to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel. We’re saved by the gospel. The gospel is given to us in the Scripture. And it has nothing to do with baptism. It is a death, putting your faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Whenever you add to what Jesus did, Jim, you’re subtracting from what Jesus did. And the emphasis becomes not on what Jesus did, but what you’re doing. And so the issue is, quite frankly, I think it is terrifically hypocritical that doctrine because in reality, and I’ve never seen an exception to this in reality, I’ve talked to people from that denomination. And I’ve explained to them I said, you know, I’ve been baptized. First of all, in a Christian church years ago, in the name of the Father and Son, and Holy Spirit dunked three times, I was sprinkled in a Presbyterian Church, and I was dunked in a Baptist church, and none of them saved me. But I said, but I have been baptized probably more than you have. So I want to ask you a question. If I wanted to come and join your church, would those baptisms have any benefit? The answer’s no. And so right there, it tells you that they don’t believe what in the world they say, because what they say is that you have to believe that you’re saved by getting baptism, which is totally heretical. And secondly, you need to be baptized in my church and in my waters, by my pastor, in other words, your church of Christ, or your Christian Church, baptism, one work your for your Presbyterian Baptist would work in your Baptist baptism, one work, you got to be baptized in our place, and that in and of itself, Jim should tell you the fault, they tell you how detrimental that kind of teaching is. But I do know that that’s what they believe. And I do know that they’re dead wrong. Because there is nothing that we can do to add to the salvation of God, salvation comes from God. It is putting your faith in what he did, and nothing in what we do. We come to Him by faith and by faith alone, and we put our faith in the fact that he took away my sins. Baptism cannot take away your sins, you had ceremonial washings and the Old Testament days and the Hebrew, religion, the same as you’re talking about their ceremonial washings but you cannot forgive your own sins, you cannot cleanse yourself of your unrighteousness you cannot bring life to the to your position of death. That is all from God. And all we can do is to respond to that by faith and faith alone, and that’s which is all the way through the Scripture. So that I know is contrary to what your denomination would believe. But if I if I if I said that your denomination was correct, I’m not saved and you guys shouldn’t be listened to me anyway. So I certainly certainly not saved because I’ll guarantee you I did not believe that I was saved by getting baptized. As a matter of fact, my baptisms did nothing for me but to get me wet.” ~ Bob George

~ “To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit,” ^{1 Corinthians 12:8}

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JESUS DIED…
1. For all (1st Timothy 2:6; Isaiah 53:6).
2. For every man (Hebrews 2:9).
3. For the world (John 3:16).
4. For the sins of the whole world (1st John 2:2).
5. For the ungodly (Romans 5:6).
6. For false teachers (2nd Peter 2:1).
7. For many (Matthew 20:28).

For Me:

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ^{Galatians 2:20}

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