One Baptism In Water. DISOBEDIENCE TO DIVINE COMMANDS IS NOT A WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

One Baptism In Water.
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DISOBEDIENCE TO DIVINE COMMANDS

IS NOT

A WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

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“There is . . one Baptism.”
(Ephesians 4:4, 5)
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“Do you not know,
that so many of us
as were Baptized into

(with reference to)

Jesus Christ

were Baptized into
(with reference to)

His Death?”
(Romans 6:3.)
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“Our fathers . . were all baptized into
(with reference to)

Moses in the cloud
and in the sea.”
(I Corinthians 10:1, 2.)
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Use of Scriptural terms,
such as “Baptism”,
in an Un-Scriptural sense
is a favorite trick of modernists.
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This Satan Inspired Delusion
has also been adopted
by some so-called

inter-denominationalists

who pride themselves

on their supposed orthodoxy

or fundamentalism.
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The carnal reasoning of men

effected by the curse of the fall

of Adam are

susceptible to Satanic Delusions.
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Satanic Delusion Inspired Nostalgia
for the Innocence of Childhood,
to a time prior to the realization
of any hard facts of reality
is a ripe environment
for Godless Fantasies
where men “think”
APART FROM GOD.
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So it has become fashionable
in certain circles to speak of a
“spiritual baptism”
of which the Bible tells us

exactly nothing.
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Satan has never introduced
among God’s people
a heresy so ridiculous
but that he has been able to find men

willing to prostitute
some degree of scholarship in its defense.
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So it has been
with the practice of “baby baptism”,
“pouring”, and “sprinkling”
as substitutes for Believer’s Baptism.
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There have been a few scholars
of limited ability or honesty, or both,
who have tried to justify these
Un-Scriptural practices
by perverted “interpretations” of Scripture.
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Selling the LIES of “baby baptism”,
“pouring”, and “sprinkling”
as substitutes for Believer’s Baptism
has been A Lost Battle.
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Among competent scholars
the Scriptural meaning of “Baptize”
and “Baptism”
is no longer a matter of debate.
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Everyone knows that
the ordinary literal meaning of Baptize
in the New Testament is to dip,
plunge, or immerse in water
and
whatever figurative meaning
the word may occasionally have
must be derived from
and based upon this literal sense.
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Martin Luther, John Calvin,
and John Wesley,
whatever their Doctrinal errors,
were at least,
unlike some of their followers,
scholarly enough to admit
that Scriptural Baptism was Immersion,

and that “sprinkling”,
as an Un-Scriptural substitute in its place

was an innovation

by the enemies of God,
in order to “bare false witness”,
rather than to be obedience.
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Their ARE Bible usages
of Figurative Language,
which employ the Picture
depicted by Scriptural Baptisms.
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First, with regard to the Bible usages
of Figurative Language,
which employ
the Picture depicted by a specific Truth,
such as Baptism,
to symbolically express another Reality,
there is an elementary principle
of honest translation and interpretation
that states that the literal,
or ordinary, meaning of a word
is always to be preferred
if it makes good sense in the context

and is obviously denoting the item stated.
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Secondly, as an elementary principle
of honest translation and interpretation
is that figurative or unusual meanings
of a word, or group of words,
are to be adopted only
when demanded by context and is obvious

that there is a connotation of the wording

that is to be understood, as implied.
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Undoubtedly in Matt. 20:22, Mk. 10:38,

and Lu. 12:50
Jesus was Speaking
of a Figurative Baptism
which is demanded by context
and is obvious that there is

a connotation of the wording

that is to be understood,
and in this case implies
Jesus’ Immersion
in the Sufferings of the Cross.
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Jesus’ Usage of Figurative Language,
Employed the Scriptural Picture
depicted by the specific Truth,
that Baptism means “to dip”,
“plunge”, or “immerse”,
to symbolically express another Reality,
which was Jesus’ Immersion
in the Sufferings of the Cross.
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So the baptism in fire
mentioned in Matt. 3:11 and Lu. 3:16
is evidently not a dipping in water,
but Figurative Language,
Employing the Scriptural Picture
again depicted by the specific Truth,
that Baptism means “to dip”,
“plunge”, or “immerse”,
to symbolically express another Reality,
of

Jesus Burning the dross,

briers, wood, hay and stubble,

which depicts lost Souls,
WITH FIRE.
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JESUS is in the next verse,
“Who’s Fan is In His Hand
and
He Will Thoroughly Purge His Floor
and
Gather His Wheat into The Garner;
but
He Will Burn Up the chaff
with Unquenchable Fire.”
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Jesus Baptizing with Fire
is a reference
to the lost in the Lake of Fire
(Rev. 20:15),
in which case the Baptism

is quite literal,

except that it is

Jesus Baptizing with Fire,

instead of water.
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“He Will Burn Up the chaff

with Unquenchable Fire.”
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Next we come to the purpose

of our detailed exploration of
Jesus Churches and Scriptural Baptism,
by seeing the Figurative usage made of
Baptism In The Holy Spirit.
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One brief note, first,

concerning any Bible discussion

of

Baptism

“In” The Holy Spirit

needs to be pointed out

and that is that

Baptism

“with” The Holy Spirit
is not mentioned in the Bible,
Literally or Figuratively.
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The Bible only Speaks of
a Baptism “In” the Holy Spirit.
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ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH
Baptism “with” The Holy Spirit
IS MAN-MADE/ SATAN INSPIRED.
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The Reason is that
Baptism “In” The Holy Spirit
actually represents
AN EXTREMELY GOD-HONORING
SPIRITUAL REALITY.
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The Bible Speaks of
a Baptism “in” the Holy Spirit
SIX TIMES.
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Matt. 3:11; Mk. 1:8; Lu. 3:16;

Jn. 1:33; Acts 1:5, 11:16

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So, it is in these six Passages
and nowhere else
that we read that Jesus was to
Baptize in the Holy Spirit.
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JESUS BAPTIZED
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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The Reason is that
JESUS BAPTIZED
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS
AN EXTREMELY GOD-HONORING
SPIRITUAL REALITY.
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PLEASE NOTE:
“THE HOLY SPIRIT”
IS NEVER SPOKEN OF

IN THE BIBLE

AS EVER “BAPTIZING”

ANYTHING.
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ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH
“THE HOLY SPIRIT”
EVER “BAPTIZING” ANYTHING.
IS MAN-MADE and SATAN INSPIRED

and

is dismissed as Non-Biblical heresy.
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GOD SPEAKS IN HIS WORD OF
JESUS BAPTIZING
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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THE ETERNAL, GOD-HONORING
SPIRITUAL REALITY
IS THAT
JESUS BAPTIZED
JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD,
as The Bride of Christ,
the House of God,
the Pillar and Ground of the Truth,
OVER WHICH HE IS THE HEAD,
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,
on The Day of Pentecost.
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JESUS BAPTIZED
JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD,
in the Holy Spirit
on the day of Pentecost,
SYMBOLIZING

JESUS’ DEDICATION

AND

ACCREDITATION
OF THE LORD’S
CHURCH-ASSEMBLIES,
AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION.
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Jesus Used Figurative Language,
Employing the Scriptural Picture
depicted by the specific Truth,
that Baptism means “to dip”,
“plunge”, or “immerse”,
to symbolically express another Reality,
which was

Jesus’ Immersion of
HIS ASSEMBLED CHURCH,
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
ON The Day of Pentecost,
TO SHOW GOD’S DEDICATION
AND ACCREDITATION
OF THE LORD’S
CHURCH-ASSEMBLIES,
AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION.
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Just as Scriptural Baptism in water,
of a Saved Individual,
symbolizes their dedication to Jesus
for having Died, and being Buried
and Raising Again From The Dead
for them
and their Fellow brothers

and sisters are giving their accreditation,

as
AN ORGANIZED CHURCH-ASSEMBLY
of JESUS CHRIST,
to the Testimony
of that individual believer,
who is stating that Jesus Died,
was Buried
and Rose Again for them
IS ACTUALLY A CHILD of GOD.
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That individual believer,
who is being Lead
by God The Holy Spirit
to be Scripturally Baptized
as a member into
THE CHURCH JESUS BUILT
as HIS Divinely Instituted
BODY
and

His Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD
is being Observed and Witnessed
by their Fellow brothers and sisters
as
AN ORGANIZED CHURCH-ASSEMBLY
of JESUS CHRIST,
and

AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION

they are giving their accreditation,
to the Testimony of that individual
regarding the genuineness
of their Salvation Experience
and

their Sincerity of Being Lead
to Follow The Lord Jesus in Baptism,
JUST AS JESUS

WAS LEAD TO BE BAPTIZED,
BY

JOHN THE BAPTIST.
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Additionally,

just as an individual believer

is Scripturally Baptized in water

ONLY ONCE,

so JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD,
ASSEMBLED THAT DAY
IN CORPORATE CAPACITY,
as an institution
was Baptized in the Holy Spirit

ONLY ONCE.
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JESUS BAPTIZED
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT ONCE,
WHEN JESUS BAPTIZED
JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD,
as The Bride of Christ,
the House of God,
the Pillar and Ground of the Truth,
OVER WHICH HE IS THE HEAD,
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,
on The Day of Pentecost.
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JESUS BAPTIZED
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT ONCE,
and

that was on the day of Pentecost.
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The additional Manifestation
Showing the Holy Spirit

ON THEIR HEADS

LIKE TONGUES OF FIRE

in the house of Cornelius

was simply
A CONFIRMATION
to convince Peter
and

other Jewish church members
that Gentile Believers

rightfully belonged in the same
CHURCH THAT JESUS BUILT,
as a Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD,
as The Bride of Christ,
the House of God,
the Pillar and Ground of the Truth,
OVER WHICH HE IS THE HEAD,

as we see in Acts 2:3, when:

“there Appeared to them

cloven tongues like as of fire,

and

it sat upon each of them.”

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Baptism In The Holy Spirit
was Not of An Individual.
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Never in all the New Testament

is a single individual said to be
Baptized in the Holy Spirit,
MUCH LESS “WITH”
OR “BY” THE HOLY SPIRIT !
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ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH
a single individual said to be
Baptized in the Holy Spirit,
MUCH LESS “WITH”
OR “BY” THE HOLY SPIRIT
IS MAN-MADE and SATAN INSPIRED

and

is dismissed as Non-Biblical heresy

AND

AN ANTI-CHRIST DENIAL
OF THE BIBLE TRUTH THAT
JESUS BAPTIZED
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT ONCE,
WHEN JESUS BAPTIZED
JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,
TO BRING GLORY TO GOD,
as The Bride of Christ,
the House of God,
the Pillar and Ground of the Truth,
OVER WHICH HE IS THE HEAD,
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,
on The Day of Pentecost.
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Jesus’ Baptism of JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization

IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,
on The Day of Pentecost,
was a Baptism of
The Church That Jesus Built,

IN ORGANIZED CORPORATE CAPACITY,

AS AN INSTITUTION, as such,
and
not “a Baptism” of ANY KIND
of single believers as such.
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Let us not confuse

a Saved Individual’s Fillings

with the Spirit
or Genuine

Spiritual Gifts of the Spirit,
with

Jesus’ Baptism
OF HIS CORPORATE CHURCH
AS AN ORGANIZATION,
in the Spirit,
WHICH WAS A ONE TIME EVENT,
ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST.
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If we are members of

JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization,

as a Scriptural church,
in Scriptural succession
from that First Baptist,
in Organization, Doctrine and Practice,
which was the Lord’s church in Jerusalem,
then our church was
Baptized in the Holy Spirit,
BY JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF,
at Pentecost, once for all.
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If we have not such a “church”,
no fake “Pentecost” will change the fact.
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THIS IS THE VERY SAME

BAPTISM
IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
that THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
in The Bible Speaks of these six times,
in which

Jesus Baptizes JESUS’ OWN
Divinely Instituted

Church-Assembly Organization

IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,
on The Day of Pentecost,
symbolizing GOD’S Dedication
and
Accreditation
of the JESUS’ CHURCHES,
as an Institution,
THAT IS:
THE FULFILLMENT
of PROPHECY TO DANIEL,
which pointed to the Time
THE PROMISED MESSIAH WAS:
“To Anoint the Most Holy Place.”
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“To Anoint the Most Holy Place”
WAS A PROPHECY
of the Coming of the Holy Spirit
upon the Disciples of Jesus Christ,
on the Day of Pentecost,
thereby

Anointing
The CHURCH THAT JESUS BUILT
“the Temple of the Living God”
(see 2 Corinthians 1:21)
(2 Corinthians 6:16).

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Adapted from:

CHRIST’S CHURCH AND
BAPTISM
By ROSCO BRONG, D.D.

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