-Does not
Acts
2:38 indicate that we should be baptized in physical water?
Baptism is unnecessary for
receiving the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit:.Acts
10:47 "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized,
which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?" Acts
1:5 "For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."
Comprised
with.Adam
Clarke's Commentary:."It
does not appear that Christ either baptized the twelve apostles
or ordained
them by laying on of hands, yet, from his own infinite sufficiency, he
gave them authority both to baptize and to lay on hands, in appointing
others to the work of the sacred ministry.".That
is, until new light came, changing things:.Hebrews
6:1,2.
When we believe in what
Emmanuel came to tell us, we are born of His water and blood:.Hebrews
10:22 "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water." John 3:5 "Emmanuel
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John
7:38,39 "He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of
his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the
Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the Holy
Ghost was not yet given, because that Emmanuel was not yet glorified.(John
13:31)."
When we believe in Emmanuel
we're immersed into His nature:.Ephesians
2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Emmanuel
unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk
in them."
The Creator is the fountain
of living waters who immerses us into His Holy
Spirit nature:.Jeremiah
2:13 "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns.(their
own works of righteousness, instead of accepting His
righteousness as a gift), broken cisterns,
that can hold no water."
In early church times it
was common to baptize physically.
James Montgomery
Boice, May 1989 on Acts 2:38 from.Bible
Study Magazine:."The
clearest example that shows the meaning of 'baptizo' is a text from the
Greek poet and physician Nicander, who lived about B.C.E.
200. It is a recipe for making pickles and is helpful because it uses both
Greek words, 'bapto' and 'baptizo'.
Nicander says that in order
to make a pickle, the vegetable should first be 'dipped'.(bapto).into
boiling water and then 'baptized'.(baptizo,
meaning immersed).in
the vinegar solution.
Both verbs concern the immersing
of vegetables in a solution. But the first is temporary. The second, the
act of baptizing the vegetable produces a permanent change.
When used in the New Testament,
this word more often refers to our union and identification with Christ
than to our water baptism. Christ is saying that mere intellectual
assent
is not enough.(the
'bapto', the dipping). There must be
a union with him.(*),
a real change, like the vegetable to the pickle!"
-Is it necessary to be baptized
to receive the Holy Ghost.(aka
Holy Spirit).and
be saved?.Acts
2:38 and Acts
10:47 "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized,
which
have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?".and.Acts
1:5 "For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."
We were saved before the
world was here:.2Timothy
1:9 "Who saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which
was given us in Christ Emmanuel
before the world began."
Romans
4:17 "...God, who quickens the dead and calls those things which
be not as though they were."
The
Holy
Spirit was and is given to those who
believe:.Acts
11:16,17 "Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said,
John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy
Ghost. Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto
us who believed on the Lord Emmanuel the Christ..."
Mark
1:4 "John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of repentance
for the remission.(original
Greek is 'release from bondage or imprisonment and forgiveness or pardon
of sins {letting them go as if they had never been committed}, remission
of any penalty').of
sins."
When we are immersed.(immersed
is 'being surrounded by', Greek is 'baptizo').in
the Holy Spirit of our Creator we have received the baptism of repentance
and are
now perfect in our Creator's eyes.
Baptism was one of the things
the great apostle Paul said to move on from.(Hebrews
6:1,2).and
on to the perfection in Christ.
-My pastor says that if
I get baptized I should evidence the Holy Spirit by
speaking
in tongues.
-What does it mean to be."baptized
for the dead"?.1Corinthians
15:29 "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if
the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?"
Paul's
subject in this chapter is the resurrection from the dead.
Those baptized."for
the dead".are
those immersed into the death of Christ:.1Corinthians
15:3,4 "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that
he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures."
Romans
6:4 "Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Emmanuel
the Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him
by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."
Colossians
3:3 "For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God."
