WHY should we be baptized and HOW should we be baptized?
This is a transcript of a live video I did just the other day, so if I missed correcting something that doesn't sound right, forgive me!
The video, if you prefer, is here.
So let's talk about baptism now.
I'm gonna first take a look at a document that I have here because I've got a collection of verses here that I put on this page that are very, very relevant to this discussion.
I wanna start with this because this is you know, if baptism was this important to both Jesus and the apostles, then why do modern churches act like it really doesn't mean anything?
You know, a lot of the modern churches are just like, well, you can get baptized if you want to.
It's just an outward expression of your faith and nonsense like that.
Some churches require it for membership to the church. Right? Just like Catholicism.
If you wanna be a Catholic, you have to be baptized into the Catholic church.
And it takes away completely from the baptism of the Bible. Completely.
I hope that I help you to understand this the way God showed me.
And God showed me because I was reading the Bible over and over, and this is one of the things that I kept reading and saying to myself:
This just, you know, doesn't fit... (with the way it's taught in churches)
And I'm gonna talk about that in a minute, but I wanna first expose you to these particular verses and passages that talk about baptism and, why it's important.
Well, one of the things that I talk about is, you know, it's being obedient to the gospel. Right?
Being obedient to the gospel because the Bible tells us to obey the gospel. How do you obey the gospel?
Peter said it right here in a nutshell (Acts 2:38).
Repent, be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
That's how you obey the gospel right there. In a nutshell.
I talked about that just recently in a livestream.
We kinda went through that a little bit on what obedience to the gospel is.
But what we're specifically talking about today is baptism and why and how we're baptized.
And then notice, you know, they that gladly received his word were baptized.
3,000 people that day. Can you imagine?
But when they believed Philip preaching things concerning the kingdom of God, this is the people of Samaria that were baptized, after they believed in Acts eight.
And they were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
They believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ.
The name of Jesus Christ is very significant. Very significant.
And they were baptized, both men and women.
They were baptized in the name of the lord Jesus.
Be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Obey the gospel, in the name of Jesus.
Philip was sent to baptize and teach the eunuch, right, in Acts eight.
If you've read that, you know the story.
He was he quotes the scripture in Isaiah and asks Philip, what does this mean?
And he tells him and preached unto him Jesus.
And then when they came to water, the eunuchs like, here's water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?
So Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you may be baptized.
He said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.
And he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
Obviously, in the name of Jesus Christ.
There's no other way to do that in that scripture there.
You know, that's the thing about the churches.
Satan's got it's so twisted, and he just loves that he's taken the power of Christ out of the church.
And it's horrible.
Peter was sent to the Gentiles in Acts 10.
And after he preached to them and the Holy Ghost fell on them, he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
He didn't say, well, do it if you want.
If you want to, you know, you can have this outward profession of faith. No.
He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus.
Commanded.
In Acts 19, the Ephesians had been baptized under John the Baptist.
But when they learned that, what did they do?
They rebaptized them in the name of Jesus because that is the baptism we should all follow in obedience.
That is the baptism we should all desire, is to take on the name of our lord Jesus in baptism.
And I've got some scriptures to talk about that. Right?
Paul was baptized, and this is one of the things where, if you've heard my testimony, you know, that I've talked about a few times.
When I first became a Christian and I went to church, they didn't even have a baptismal.
I was reading in the scriptures about baptism, and they're like, oh, it doesn't matter.
I made an appointment with the preacher.
It was the very first preacher appointment I made, one of many, many, many.
I went to his office and talked to him about it.
And he said, well, it doesn't really matter. If you wanna get baptized, you can go somewhere else.
And you know what he said? He said Paul wasn't even baptized. So it doesn't matter if we are.
But wait a minute. Paul was baptized as it says in Acts 22:16.
He was baptized washing away his sins, calling on the name of the lord Jesus.
And then Paul tells us, as many of us have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.
Now we're baptized into Christ because he is now our high priest as it tells us in Hebrews.
Right? So that's literally why we are baptized into Christ.
We put on Christ, we take his name.
We've put on our high priest, Jesus Christ. We take His name on us.
If you love Jesus, you should want His name.
You should want to be baptized in His name
Right. To take on his name. Because we're buried with him in baptism, and we're risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead.
We're buried and rise, and we're made a new man.
As Paul says in Romans six, so many of us as we're baptized into Jesus 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.
For we have been if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall also in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth, we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Yes.
We follow Jesus into his death, burial, and resurrection.
This is why Peter says, repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit because we die to our self.
We're buried.
We rise, and we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, and we are transformed.
This is the why of baptism. Why do we get baptized?
To be baptized into Christ, to follow him in his death, burial, and resurrection, to be obedient to the gospel, to take on his name.
And you know what? I've had people tell me; that have been baptized into a trinity.
Oh, it's the same thing. No. It's not.
No. It's not.
Being baptized into three titles is not being baptized into the name of Jesus.
Ridiculous excuse is what it is.
It should be something that all Christians desire.
Why would you not want to take on the name of your lord?
You know, Jesus instructed his disciples in baptism. People say, well, he didn't baptize himself. No.
But he was there with his disciples as they were baptizing into Him.
He commanded everyone to be baptized.
And this is one this is one that it just blows my mind that people just ignore this or try to explain in a way as if it's irrelevant.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved...
But he that believeth not shall be damned.
And, you know, people bring up the thief on the cross all the time.
You know what?
God is just. God is loving and graceful and merciful and so much the perfect judge.
And tell me how in the world that thief could have possibly been baptized.
He was hung on the cross and died there.
He had no way. God knows that.
But you, my friend, are not hanging on a cross. You have no excuse. And God knows that, too.
That does not mean that you're getting to heaven because there's a lot of people that get baptized and they don't love Jesus.
Like Simon the sorcerer. Right? He believed and was baptized, but he wasn't saved.
And Peter rebuked him because his heart wasn't right in the sight of God.
You need to love the Lord. You know, that sorcerer just wanted the power that he saw.
What did what did, uh, what did Philip say to the eunuch? Right?
He said, if you believe with all your heart, you can be baptized.
That's the only requirement. The only requirement is to believe with all your heart.
So a lot of people say the command of Jesus in Mark 16 is irrelevant. No.
Jesus didn't say that for no reason to be irrelevant... no.
It's a command.
This is why Peter commanded Cornelius and his household to be baptized. It's a command.
This is why the jailer, when he believed and they sat down and taught him the gospel, him and his whole house were baptized that very night.
You know, you should want to take on the name of your Lord if you love Jesus.
In Acts 18, Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue believed and with all this house and they all got baptized.
The jailer that I was just talking about. Right?
They took them the same hour of the night, washed their stripes, and were baptized.
To follow Him in His death, burial, and resurrection, to be obedient to the gospel.
The last church we ever went to.
The pastor preached on act 16 and said, all they said was that you have to believe and that's it, period.
They didn't have to sit down with them and teach them anything.
So this is the verse that he quoted, stopped at the end of the verse, said all they had to do was believe on the lord Jesus Christ, and they were saved.
They didn't have to sit down with them and explain anything to them or do anything else. That's it. Period.
But then I was sitting there. Wait. Read the next verse...
"And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all that were in it."
So they sat down and preached the gospel to them, and then they all got baptized.
Yeah.
Yeah. That lying piece of garbage in the pulpit of that church.
But, you know, if the people weren't reading it, they're not gonna catch it. It's their fault.
This is what came of the protestant reformation. Right?
The they came out of the Catholic church, right, because they knew the error of the Vatican, but they brought all of that traditional doctrine garbage with them.
And, you know, well, you can't dispute what the pastor says, now...
This kind of attitude in churches. Right? You don't argue with the pastor...
You don't question the pastor. He knows...
Well, this is why I went to so many of their offices and talked to them to find out their true hearts.
And every single one of them believed lies and they didn't care.
Today's church is the daughter of the great whore, literally.
The churchianity is catholic churchianity. Right? They're Catholichurchians. They're not Christians.
Just like Catholics are not Christians, when you go to these Protestant, Baptist, whatever churches, and just go there.
Church is my salvation, and be baptized into the name of the church.
And some of the churches, you have to get baptized to join the church, or you do it just as an outward profession of faith.
Instead of reading the Bible and believing what it says and being obedient to God, they just do the churchian thing.
And it's sad that so many people fall prey to that because that's what Christianity is today.
The vast, vast majority of Christians have never even read their Bible.
And even when they do, they gloss over those parts that they believe are true, but the scriptures actually contradict it.
And then, you know, they just take the excuses that the pastor taught about those.
Right? Because they all teach excuses as to why that doesn't really mean what it says.
Uh, no.
We need to believe what the Bible says and be obedient to it.
And, you know, it's like first John chapter two.
Verse 27.
But the anointing which you have received of him of him abideth in you, the Holy Spirit, and you need not that any man teach you.
But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, you shall abide in him.
If we seek God, truly seeking his truth, and read his word, the Holy Spirit teaches us.
And if we're just gonna go believe some churchian that's been to bible college and revere him because he's been indoctrinated with the brainwashing of the church today, that's our fault.
We need to seek God.
I guarantee every person that loves God and was subject to that is gonna do what I did and go, wait, what?
And if you just ignore that, that's on you.
I'm gonna show you another little web page that I have because it's under my notes menu,
Because I note here in this article that I first learned the identity of Jesus Christ and the importance of baptism and why you were baptized.
And every time I got to Matthew twenty eight nineteen, I'm like, this just does not fit with the rest of the whole Bible at all.
And then when I saw this, I learned that first John five seven is an inserted verse.
It was added by the translators for better readability?
All of those words, all of them, were inserted, and this is why some versions of the Bible don't have that verse at all.
Like the ASV and many other versions. If you go to first John five seven.
And it is the Spirit that bears witness because the Spirit is truth.
There are three who bear witness, the spirit and the water and the blood.
And these three agree in one, and that is the original Greek that men added to.
When I learned that, I was like, now I know what happened to Matthew twenty eight nineteen. Because every single record of the apostles obeying Jesus, and I mean every record of the apostles obeying Jesus's command was to was to baptize in the name of Jesus Christ, every single time.
So he did not say that.
He said, go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations in My name.
That's what he said.
Because even the verse right before it, Matthew twenty eight eighteen, Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in My name.
That's absolutely what he said. All of the disciples, every record of baptism is in the name of Jesus Christ or the lord Jesus or the Lord, which is Jesus Christ, the name of the lord every single time.
Would the disciples have disobeyed Jesus? No way... There is NO WAY they would have disobeyed Him!
Did men change it? Yes. Just like they did 1 John 5.
This is them trying to create a proof text for the trinity.
They had to insert words into the Bible to try to give themselves proof text.
But people today are trying to argue that Strong's Greek Hebrew dictionary is wrong.
And it's funny because they're trying to make it true even though it's a known insertion into the Bible.
And then here's a couple other points that I noted.
Because when I was studying, this is what I saw in the scripture.
In Luke; Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations.
And then what did Peter say?
Be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins! In His name among all nations...
In Mark, he that believeth in and is baptized shall be saved.
And then, in My name, they shall do these things. In my name...
So this is how I came to the knowledge that, wow, they inserted words.
They changed Matthew twenty eight nineteen. They inserted words. They've been trying for centuries to change God's word.
Millennia, really, to change it, to turn it into a lie.
And they've done a really good job of it because you know how many people profess Christ and believe in a trinity?
Yeah. We did. Because it's taught everywhere, and people will argue till they're blue in the face.
And, you know, that's why I that's why I like to point out, under my biblical truth men menu on,
How many Gods are there, chapter 15.
I have a video at the bottom of that where I talk about how there's no three.
Because there is no three, because the Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit, which is the Father, which is the Creator.
The Father, the Creator, God the Father is the Spirit that's the father of Jesus.
The Holy Ghost. There's no two there. There's just one that is God, the Holy Spirit.
So, yes, you can add the body, the human being Jesus, because God became a man by being born into this world.
God became a man by Jesus Christ.
And he's the son of God as of the only begotten of the father, as it says in John chapter one, because Jesus is the son of God.
It's how God became a man.
He's the son of God because Joseph is not Jesus's father.
God is.
And that's why there's so much in the Bible which shows us that Jesus is God himself manifest in the flesh.
There's prophecy saying that he'll be the mighty God, the Everlasting Father.
There's so much about Jesus that shows us that He is, but that's the mystery of God. Remember?
The mystery of God is the identity of Christ, and that mystery will be over at the blowing of the seventh trumpet because then Christ will be revealed to the world when he comes with power and glory in the clouds of heaven.
And then I understand it why there's not three. If anything, there's two.
It's just the spirit of God and his body. Right?
So just like we have a spirit and a body.
Like the Bible says, the body cannot live without the spirit.
And, yes, Jesus was a man, fully God and fully man at the same time.
I know it's, like, impossible for the human mind to actually comprehend that.
But it is truth nonetheless.
Jesus is God who is a man. God is Jesus.
And if you truly seek and truly want the truth, God will show it to you too.
I'm confident of that, and you should be too.
We don't need someone with a college degree, someone with a seminary degree or bible college.
Nonsense. Really, you know, all they are is indoctrinated.
I feel afraid for anyone that goes to Bible college.
No matter what the denomination that hosts the college, I feel afraid for them because they all have numerous lies that they teach.
And all you're gonna do is get indoctrinated and brainwashed by those lies if you go to their school.
All we need to do is read the Bible.
What did it say in first John chapter two? We don't need a man to teach us.
We need an honest, loving desire to learn the truth and a Bible and the Holy Spirit.
That's all we need.
Now granted, it'll take time. I read the Bible over and over and over and over, and I've lost count a long time ago.
I have no idea how many times. I've studied it for many, many, many, many hours.
I used to spend two hours almost every day immersed in the word of God, for years.
I've got that behind me now. So I have a head start on most of you.
But if you've never even read the Bible from cover to cover, then start right now.
And that's really the whole reason for my website. That's really all my website is, is my notes.
As I've read and studied, I take notes, and I've just simply put them on the web and written them in such a way that other people can hopefully make sense of it.
And that's the whole reason for it. That's the only reason it's there.
And that's why I hope to help people to come to understand, and I give you the scriptures.
I don't want you to just believe what I say. I want you to read the Bible.
Read the scriptures and believe it because you read it.
So that's the whole reason for it.
That's what I wanted to talk about, and what I wanted everyone to understand, and to see why we should be baptized.
We should want to put on Christ. We should want to take His name.
We should want to follow Him in His death, burial, and resurrection because our He's our lord.
We love him. And, you know, when you read in Hebrews, he's our high priest.
And back before Christ, if you were a non-Jew and you believed in God and you wanted to become part of the promise and part of the Jewish religion before Christ, you could be baptized into the high priest and become a Jew.
Do you see the significance of being buried and baptized in the likeness of Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection, taking on his name and being baptized into Christ as our high priest?
Read Romans 9 through 11.
We're graffed into the tree of believing Jews. We become heirs to the promise.
We become heirs and joint heirs with the messianic Jews.
We become Israel when we become a Christian, and we obey in obedience to the gospel.
This is becoming part of the family of God by doing this.
Satan has twisted it so badly that people don't even realize.
And, you know, one of the things that gets me is, there's so much deemphasis put on Jesus himself.
And the whole the whole idea of a trinity where he's just part of the godhead instead of being the godhead.
You know? And as Catholics just put him under Mary and just he's, like, not even really a god.
You know? He's a deity, but he's just, you know, not...
But they call Mary a saint and make her a deity.
That's Satan.
Satan is trying to take the power of Jesus out of our lives.
And he's done a really, really good job of fooling the vast majority of supposed Christians.
And churches don't even believe in the gifts of the Spirit, which God doesn't change.
God has not changed. Only men have changed in their doctrines.
If you love Jesus, take on his name, follow him in obedience, obey the gospel and take on his name following him, in the death, burial, and resurrection of your spirit.
Be baptized in the name of Jesus as part of that.
Repentance comes first, of course. Dying to yourself, dying to that old man. Right?
Walking in newness of life, you know, being dead to that old man.
And we shouldn't have worldly goals and desires and everything that, you know, everything that used to be so desirous for me before I was a Christian are just so gray and meaningless now because I love God.
And I don't care about any of those things anymore.
You know? It really is important that that we put off the things of the world.
Love not the world nor the things that are in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life.
Because if you do, the love of the Father is not in you. It's what the scriptures say.
Those things should become gray. We shouldn't care about those things anymore.
It's really important.
I just wanna stress the importance of it for those that are reading this; it should be something you really, really want.
If you don't already have it, you should desire it.
Follow Jesus in obedience!