Pray! : I am sinner that he has redeemed by his precious blood

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

I am sinner that he has redeemed by his precious blood –

Lutero,
1 John 1:9 is sufficient as he ever faithful to forgive.

But 1 John 1:9 does not nullify or invalidate Matt 18:17 or Heb 13:17. You have to believe all of them. You are not permitted to pick and choose to believe this but not that.

I am sinner that he has redeemed by his precious blood – and I don’t need to go through a fellow human-being who is a sinner like myself.

Lol! Do we need the Scriptures anymore? We have Lutero. Lutero says he needs no fellow humans. Scripture says, (John 17:20; 1 Cor 11:1; 1 Tim 4:16; Heb 13:7; 17). Whom should we believe?

Only God (Jesus) has the authority to forgive sins (Mark 2:7, Luke 5:21, John1:29).

Jesus gave man the authority to forgive sins:
John 20:22-23
King James Version (KJV)
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

I submit to a local Bible believing Church whose structures are found clearly defined in the NT. It a local church to be headed by a Bishop as called a Pastor, with supporting Elders. This is a true Church established by Christ and not apostate Churches like the RCC that preach a “perverted” Babylonian false doctrines.

Really? Can you trace the Bishops back to Christ as we can? Also, do you believe, submit and obey them because they account for your soul (Heb 13:17) as we do in the Confessional?

This is a misconception and not supported in scripture. One is baptized by the Holy Spirit when the Gospel of Christ is preached and believed (Titus 3:4-7).

Here is what that verse says:
Titus 3:4-7
King James Version (KJV)
4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Verse 5 describes precisely what happens in the Sacraments. But, here is what happens when the Gospel of Christ is preached and believed. Acts 2:37-41

37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.

Acts 18:8And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

THAT is what happens when people hear the Gospel! They are baptized.

All Bible believing Christians are filled with the in-dwelling Holy Spirit the moment they are convicted of their sins and place their entire trust alone in the finished works of Christ atonement of the Cross. We rejoice in water baptism only after believing the Gospel as public testimony. Water Baptism by immersion is the only valid means of Baptism in the NT and it is only for adults who believe the Gospel. Not for babies who have no yet arrived at the age of accountability.

Pray tell, what age is the age of accountability in Scripture? 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 18? What?

Acts 2:37-39
King James Version (KJV)
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Still water baptism does not save, it is “believing” – John 6:40. Believe means to completely surrender and trust Christ as your savior and his finished works on the cross. Christ redemption on the cross is complete and finished fulfillment of the law (John 1:17) . John the Baptist came preaching the “baptism of repentance” for the remission of sins Mark 1:4-5. They (the Jews) were baptized in the River Jordan only after believing and confessing their sins. The Jews at that time and even up to this day require to believe with a “sign” and not by faith. So John the Baptist was a messenger of God sent to prepare Gods people – the Jews for the coming savior. Yet some rejected him as the Messiah. In the Gospels, John the Baptist preached and until Christ came and went to the cross, the Holy Spirit was not yet come as Christ did not yet ascend into heaven upto Acts 1:9. At that time in point during the Gospel accounts, God’s plan of Salvation was still “moving” among the Jews only (see Matthew 10:5-8) ) . The door of Salvation finally opened to non-jews only after Acts 10 when Cornelius was the first Gentile to be baptised in water in the name of the Lord (Acts 10:47-48), but only after the Holy Ghost fell upon them witness by St.Peter Acts 10:45. So we as Gentiles are first baptized the Holy Ghost through our faith in Christ alone and then we take the water baptism as a testimony of our obedience only to the Lord and no one else. Why?? because only God (Jesus) died for my sins to redeem me from the curse of sin and spiritual death. The Holy Spirit in-dwells in all bible believing Christians, are placed spiritually into the Body of Christ and made children of God. Bible believers then take water baptism not only as an outward testimony to show obedience but because it is an ordinace commanded by the Lord (Matthew 28:19-20). The scripture is clear, it is always after someone is saved the he/she must be baptized: Acts 2:41 – “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”

You skip around and believe only what you want. Ignoring everything else. Scirpture says Mark 16:16; 1 Peter 3:21

Spin your way out of that.

Take your Bible and read the accounts of baptism in the early church Acts 2:41, 8:12, 10:48, 16:33, 19:5, 1 Corinthians 1:14-15, Colosians 2:12. To know what exactly does baptism mean see Romans 6:4-5. Baptism does help in the least in getting saved. Salvation is nothing we do and all in what the Lord has done. The devil has used baptism as a confusion in false chruches. They try to make baptism have some saving merit. Like the need for baptizing babies or they will go to hell. Water has never been associated with with washing sins away in scripture. The only thing in the universe that has ever washed sins away is the blood of Christ. If Baptism was essential to salvation, people who get saved in a desert wouldn’t have a chance of Heaven. The thief Jesus saved on the cross couldn’t have been saved if that were the case. He couldn’t be baptized, he was nailed to the cross!.

How old was he? Was he nailed to the cross from the day he was born? Read the Scripture:
Matt 3:5; John 4:1

If all Judea came to be baptized by John and Jesus baptized more than John, how is it unlikely that the Good Thief was baptized? Was he not from the land of Juda?