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SOME PEOLE SAY THAT WE MUST ONLY BE BAPTISE IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND OTHERS SAY THAT IT SHOULD BE IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT; BUT THE CONFUSSION IS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT SEE AND UNDERSTAND WELL
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In truth, the things of God are not those of man where this last will show his intellectual level or present his diplomas obtained during years of biblical studies in order to understand the language of God. But God reveals himself to whom he want and to those who humiliate themselves not in words, but with the heart recognising that it is neither by their diplomas, nor their intelligence and less because of their age that they will understand the language of God.
In this world, many people are confused on what concerns the baptism by immersion. Some people say that we only have to be baptised in the name of Jesus, and others say that it is in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit to the point where we always hear people say: “you have been baptised in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but this baptism is not valid, you should instead be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ”. To baptise in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit or in the name of Jesus is and remains the same thing.
In truth, it is not the fact to immerge somebody in water and say: “I baptise you in the name of Jesus” or again: “I baptise you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” which is firstly something, but it all goes from the teaching, because without the veritable teaching, there is no veritable baptism no matter the practice, this remains a simple bath in water. It is in the belief and practice of the veritable teaching of God’s word that the veritable baptism is accomplished. That is why the Lord Jesus says: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28/19). Because he says to make all the people his disciples or faithful in baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, because it is only the veritable word or teaching of Christ that make the people his disciples or his true faithful. Therefore, it all goes from the teaching. Because he was saying: “Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16/16). He who will believe in him, him being the word and who gives the veritable teaching for the transformation into his glory, in spirit and truth for those who practice it. What has made me to understand that there are many people who are not baptised, it is because I have met even the pastors who say to be Pentecostal admitting their ignorance on baptism, but during this time, they baptise the people and the baptised in their turn are happy of this baptism.
The baptism by immersion is only a will of God, the Lord and the Holy Spirit. To immerse someone in water while saying to him: “I baptise you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” or again “I baptise you in the name of Jesus” remains the same thing. But this is what is important for baptism, it is for man, after listening to the word of the spirit of truth which is the life of Jesus Christ, and through this life listened, he discovers his state of death, it is at this moment that he can if he want, to return in the state of life, by making him to understand that if he repent from this death and be baptised in the name of the life of Jesus, his sins will be forgiven. We make this person to understand through writings that when they were bringing down the Lord Jesus form the cross, he was death because of our sins and he was buried in the ground where he spent three days, and while coming out, he left the flesh which carried our sins in the ground and he came out with the spiritual body. In the same way, the person to be baptised found on the riverside, must confess that he is death by the sin that he practices and that if he repents or regrets to have acted wrongly in the face of God and that of the people. At that moment, the person to be baptised death spiritually by the sin like Jesus Christ death in the physic, will be immersedin the water for few seconds like Jesus was buried in the ground for three days, and the baptised person will be lifted up (resurrected) abandoning the carnal thought, feeling and life (as the Lord Jesus left the flesh of sin in the ground) and will walk in the newly life of the Lord Jesus.
It is not by the feeling, the thought and the spirit that the Lord Jesus has carried our sins, but it was by the flesh that he took. That is why he left this flesh in the ground. Therefore, for us, it is not our flesh which carries the sin that we leave when we enter the water, but it is our thought, feeling and spirit that find pleasure in sin that we leave while coming out with a different thought, feeling and spirit that hate the sin. The lord Jesus coming out of the grave or the ground, it is not his thought and feeling, that he had changed, but it is his physical body, and us, coming out of the grave which is the water, it is not the physic that will change, but it is our thought, feeling, spirit, conduct and life. That is why the Lord Jesus talks of the birth of water and the spirit that comes back to the spirit and not to the physic, and that there is only one baptism which comes from the only Lord and God.
Because after teaching someone on what is death, resurrection and the forgiveness, during his burial or baptism of water, if they say to him that he is baptised in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, it does not means that this baptism is null. People should understand that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit form a single person. Because When the Lord was saying to the disciples: “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you” (John 14/18) or again: “ Ifanyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him”, he was talking of the Holy Spirit (John 14/23). When it is said that Christ is like Son over his house and his house is us, it talks of the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 3/6). Because it is said: “Do you not know that you are God's temple…” just because the Holy Spirit lives in us (1 Corinthians 3/16). Because it is said that those who are led by the Holy Spirit are Sons of God and it is this spirit which bear witness that we are Sons of God (Romans 8/14; Romans 8/16). In truth, all those who say that we do not baptise in the name of Jesus and that we only baptise in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit or we do not baptise in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but only in the name of Jesus have not received the baptism, that is to say; they have not listened, heard or received the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Because the Lord Jesus knew that it is the Holy Spirit (he) that will teach us when he says: “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (John 14/26).
In truth, it is the gospel or the teaching on how man should live and conduct himself like the Lord Jesus Christ that must be received with joy and that is what can bring this one to be immersed in water into death and resurrection of Christ and that is what we call; to baptise in the name of Jesus or in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit because the immersion of man in water without the knowledge, belief, reception of Christ, even if we declare that we baptise him in the name of Jesus or in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, this only remains a simple bath. That is why Apostle Paul was saying: “For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power” (1 Corinthians 1/17).
In truth, the baptism in the name of God is defined firstly by the teaching. Because the Lord Jesus has carried our bad life on the stick and in his flesh in order to destroy it in giving his life to us in thoughts, the feeling and conduct which is our cross to be carried, that is to say; by living as he lived on earth in his physical body. That is why he says: “Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14/27); (1John 2/6). Because the Lord Jesus has carried a cross (our death life) and us, we must carry a cross (his living life).
In truth, looking at the teaching that is given today by most people, I understand that many people enter in water for simple baths and not for a veritable baptism which is manifest in the knowledge and believe, the belief in the teaching, and the teaching not coming from the letter, but by the revelation of the spirit and of power (1 Corinthians 2/4-5; Romans 10/13-15). Those people who do not understand or see well should not raise a scandal on what they ignore concerning the will of God. Because if we baptise in the name of Jesus, it means that we baptise in the name of the Father’s will who have love us so much by sending his only Son in order to deliver us from the eternal death. We baptise in the name of the Son who has sacrificed himself for us in order to take away our sin in the case where we receive him, in the name of the Holy Spirit that is sent in order to comfort us, to teach us and to guide us; and if we baptise ourselves in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, it means that we baptise in the name of the Lord Jesus. In truth, to understand the things of God is only a matter of grace and not of diplomas, intelligence and age. Thanks.
CHAMPI Apostle not behalf of man, nor by a man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father. God’s power is the knowledge. To know, avoid sin and to be free from the eternal death. (John 8/32)