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Baptism Today is By The Holy Spirit Not by Water

~ When a person accepts Jesus, God in flesh, for having taken away their sins on the cross, the Holy Spirit comes to live in that person. They are baptized (placed into) the body of Christ at that very moment in time by the Holy Spirit Himself. When John baptized, he baptized with water for those that were looking forward to Jesus. John compares the difference between his baptism of water for repentance (believing that the Christ was indeed coming), with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They are two different things. And John even pointed to Jesus as being the one who takes away the sins of the world. Yet people today have equated water baptism with getting saved, as though a person needs to be water baptized in order to be saved. That is a lie, spread by those that have been taught by seminaries that spread the lies of Satan. And that is what they indeed are, lies of Satan. And you can hear it in people’s testimonies that the lies have been passed on down to those that sit in the pews. People fall for the lies because they do not check out the Scriptures for themselves. Even Bob George pointed people to the word of God to verify if the things that he was saying were correct. And even in today’s program he points that out to us as clear as a bell. And when you think about it, what other pastor teaches that Truth of going to the word of God to verify what they are saying? Hardly anyone today.

Today, Truth is seldom taught in the majority of churches today. It’s obvious to the most casual observer. The reason that is the case is they have been indoctrinated by their seminaries. These seminaries pass on the lies down to the pastors. Then the pastors go out and are appointed by elders of churches that they too believe Satan’s lies. And on and on it goes. And when you know the Truth of the word of God for yourself, it becomes easier to spot the liars and deceivers within the church itself. Satan doesn’t want you thinking for yourself. And he sure doesn’t want you to depend on the Holy Spirit to teach you the meaning of the word of God. And don’t think that you yourself cannot be deceived by Satan and the things of the world. It’s when a person who thinks they know it all, then Satan has got them caught in his web of lies. For only God knows it all, and that is why we need to go directly to the Holy Spirit to be taught ALL Truth. For all who are in Christ Jesus have the Holy Spirit living in us to be taught All Truth directly by God Himself. And there are many many more lies that the Holy Spirit is here to show us. Be open to learning the Truth of the word of God. Don’t lean on your own understanding of anything. That includes both the word of God and the things of the world.

Lord Jesus, teach me the TRUTH of the world we live in today and the Truth of You.

I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
. _{Matthew 3:11}

Question: What about baptism for children?

“Well, neither one of them. Yeah, the you’re talking about the baptism of babies, that is ludicrous. Or any place in the Bible about baptizing babies or christening babies or dedicating babies, neither one not that. None of that’s mentioned in the scriptures. The idea that baptism causes the Holy Spirit to come to live in somebody is ludicrous. You’re born again when, as an act of your will, you believe what God said about your condition, and you believe what he said about his provision. And you put those two together and and to enter in by faith to a relationship with the Living God. Now, what what I said, Yeah, which is what you which is what you said? People say, Well, yeah. Well, what about babies who died before their end? Again, on your side of the coin? There is no such thing as an age accountability in the scriptures. That’s also nonsense. You have, you have the question, what happens to a baby if he dies before? You know, while he is a baby and never had a chance to understand? I said, that decision goes into the hands of a perfectly loving and a perfectly just God, and that is his decision to make, not ours. We are told that there’s no other name under heaven given among men whereby you must be saved, and no one is saved by baptism. How could Paul say I didn’t baptize anybody except Crispus and Gaius? I wasn’t sent to baptize but to proclaim the gospel, If baptism was in the gospel. So there’s nobody that is saved by getting dunked in water or sprinkled with water. You’re saved by faith in Christ, Jesus and of obedience. Well, Denise, yeah, to a degree, but again, you see, we’ve taken Jesus said that John baptized with water, but I’m going to baptize you with the Holy Spirit. And John put the other side that I baptize you with water, but one coming after me, whose sandals I’m not worthy to untie, will baptize you with the Spirit. Now we equate every mention the Scripture baptism with dunking somebody in water instead of what Jesus said, and no, I’m going to baptize you with the Spirit. And what that is, is that the very moment that the Spirit of God comes to indwell us as a result of our act of faith toward what Jesus proclaimed to us, we respond. We don’t initiate that the Spirit of God comes to live within us, and we’re told, if the Spirit of God does not live in you, you don’t belong to him. And then the Spirit baptizes or places you into the body of Christ. The Spirit living in you is what identifies us with God, and then us being baptized into. His body is what identifies us with being a part of the body of Christ. And that’s spiritual baptism. And I think in Matthew baptizing people in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit, I don’t think that is a water baptism at all. I think that’s spiritual baptism. You’re going out to identify people with the Triune God. And and to and to be sure that that, that the end result of that is that a person is indwelt by the Spirit of God and therefore placed into the Body of Christ. So, you know, I kind of laugh at these baptism things. It’s kind of like, you know, appointing, appointing to a dog to go over to to his food, and he comes up and sniffs your finger. You know, where, where, where baptism is. Is, is appointing to something. It’s not the thing itself. Salvation comes through Christ alone. So you were perfectly right in what you were saying, and they’re just totally wrong in what they believe. I believe that, as an example, I think that kind of teaching is very prevalent in the Lutheran church, where they baptize they baptize babies and say they’re saved. That’s nonsense. There isn’t anybody saved through getting sprinkled or dunked in water, you’re saved by faith in Christ, Jesus.” ~ Bob George

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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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