Posted on 11/04/2011 12:06:23 PM PDT by RnMomof7
1. The precious blood of Christ has a REDEEMING POWER. It redeems from the law. We were all under the law which says, "This do, and live." We were slaves to it: Christ has paid the ransom price, and the law is no longer our tyrant master. We are entirely free from it. The law had a dreadful curse; it threatened that whosoever should violate one of its precepts, should die: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." By the fear of this curse, the law inflicted a continual dread on those who were under it; they knew they had disobeyed it, and they were all their lifetime subject to bondage, fearful lest death and destruction should come upon them at any moment: but we are not under the law, but under grace, and consequently "We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
We are not afraid of the law now; its worst thunders cannot affect us, for they are not hurled at us! Its most tremendous lightnings cannot touch us, for we are sheltered beneath the cross of Christ, where the thunder loses its terror and the lightning its fury. We read the law of God with pleasure now; we look upon it as in the ark covered with the mercy seat, and not thundering in tempests from Sinai’s fiery brow.
Happy is that man who knows his full redemption from the law, its curse, its penalty, its present dread. My brethren, the life of a Jew, happy as it was compared with that of a heathen, was perfect drudgery compared to yours and mine. He was hedged in with a thousand commands and prohibitions, his forms and ceremonies were abundant, and their details minutely arranged. He was always in danger of making himself unclean. If he sat upon a bed or upon a stool, he might be defiled; if he drank out of an earthen pitcher, or even touched the wall of a house, a leprous man might have put his hand there before him, and he would thus become defiled.
A thousand sins of ignorance were like so many hidden pits in his way; he must be perpetually in fear lest he should be cut off from the people of God. When he had done his best any one day, he knew he had not finished; no Jew could ever talk of a finished work. The bullock was offered, but he must bring another; the lamb was offered this morning, but another must be offered this evening, another tomorrow, and another the next day. The Passover is celebrated with holy rites; it must be kept in the same manner next year. The high priest has gone within the veil once, but he must go there again; the thing is never finished, it is always beginning. He never comes any nearer to the end. "The law could not make the comer thereunto perfect."
But see our position: we are redeemed from this. Our law is fulfilled, for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness; our passover is slain, for Jesus died; our righteousness is finished, for we are complete in Him; our victim is slain, our priest has gone within the veil, the blood is sprinkled; we are clean, and clean beyond any fear of defilement, "For he hath perfected for ever those that were set apart." Value this precious blood, my beloved, because thus it has redeemed you from the thraldom and bondage which the law imposed upon its votaries.
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Now Paul is OK to quote from again?
Scripture talks about several different baptisms.
The baptism of John, the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, and baptism into death.
We are baptized in water, with the Holy Spirit and fire, in the name of the Lord Jesus, into Christ Jesus, into Moses, and into one body.
Now, which baptism was it we were talking about again?
when one understands baptism placing a person “in Christ”, this post becomes shocking for not understanding Christianity.
Christians are all ONE in Christ, there is not any Jew or Gentile.
Christians are all baptized into the One Body, the Body of Christ.
Paul never used the term “spirit baptism”, does he?
Does water baptism save or not?
If it does, it does, faith or works notwithstanding.
If something can negate it, then it doesn’t save.
So, if only the eunuch had said, "There is some water, what prevents me from being water baptized", that would make it okay? A bit redundant don't you think? "Oh, there's some Snickers bars, what prevents me from eating one"? Oops, shouldn't it say "Oh, there's some Snickers bars, what prevents me from eating a Snickers bar?"
LOL! if this is true, when it was first introduced in the “latter part of the second century” where was the controversy from Bible believing Christians??
the answer? there was none, because all the Church practiced it and all acknowledged its Apostolic source.
what proof does this gentleman have for his assertion?
i have the Church Fathers and the Apostolic tradition that say otherwise.
What prevents me from being baptized?"
37 And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."
38 And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Last try ...
LOOK ... THERES WATER ... (SINCE THERE IS WATER) IS THERE ANYTHING THAT PREVENTS ME FROM BEING BAPTIZED NOW? ... IF YOU BELIEVE ... YOU MAY ... I BELIEVE ... they went into the water ... and he baptized him.
Now only someone who was already predisposed to reject water baptism could possibly see something other than what is clearly taught here ... water baptism.
I have suffered enough through your symantic games; but have only tolerated them due to the number of people that follow these threads who read along.
I will leave it to all the readers to decide who is interpreting the text correctly ...
I bid you good evening ...
just what i thought, there is none.
what’s lame is adding words to the Bible that don’t exist.
better tell that to Peter in Acts 2:38 and Paul in Acts 22:16.
the Holy Spirit baptizes us thru the Church as Jesus commanded in Matthew 28.
where’s the truth in that?
Jesus said He would build His Church and the gates of hell would not prevail against it.
and what happened?
2,000 years later, the words of Jesus are absolutely true, the Universal Church is still here!
62 Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity.
Strange! God says he will be found by all who diligently seek him. He is a "rewarder of them" who do so. It is God's will that ALL men come to the knowledge of the truth, so according to the CCC, God let's some "slide" on this? What they are really saying here is if somebody is a "good" person but doesn't seek the truth of Jesus Christ, God will let them be saved? Sounds like missionaries should stop trying to preach the gospel to every creature and just let them be the best they can be on their own without having to accept OR reject Christ. Almost like God doesn't care if they hear the gospel or not.
If you’re not going to post the verses along with the references, you forfeit any credibility you may yet have, little as it is.
Jesus NEVER taught that baptism was to be through the church.
what all Christians through the ages have held as truth BECAUSE it is backed up by the authority of Holy Scripture. I’m afraid YOU must deal with that.
LOL! you are making my point!! what i am teaching everyone is what all Christians have believed for 2,000 years.
this nonsense about “spirit baptism” and “water baptism” and “believers baptism” and no infant baptism are ALL 16TH CENTURY INVENTIONS, UNHEARD OF TO THE CHRISTIANS UNTIL THEN.
Christians, thru the ages, have always believed baptism is for the remission of sins and receiving the Holy Spirit.
that is my point, what i am fighting against on this thread is not the historical, orthodox, biblical Faith.
anyone who believes the Bible, believes in baptismal regeneration, not “sinners prayers”.
uh oh, no Trinity?
if one doesn’t know the One TRUE God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, baptism is the least of the problems.
The One Baptism commanded by Jesus, and taught by Paul that places one “ in Christ”, forgives sins and in which the gift of the Holy Spirit is conferred.
again, why do you persist in the unbiblical term “water baptism”.
i don’t know what that is, since the Bible doesn’t know what it is.
let’s talk about what the Bible talks about, namely “baptism”
heretics in the 16th century introduced nonbiblical language such as “water baptism” and “spirit baptism”
Peter spoke of “baptism”
Paul spoke of “baptism”
Jesus spoke of “baptism”
Christians have believed ONE BAPTISM for 2,000 years.
heretics, not withstanding.
the One True God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
it is in the name to be used in baptism.
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