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Originally Posted by Falla39
Bro. Chosenbyone,
If you believe you are being led by the Holy Ghost to be baptized as
an adult although you were baptized as a "child", I would go for it. They
that are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Children should
look for parents for direction. Grown men and women at some point should
learn to look to God for direction. Paul said when he was a child, he did
childish things, had childish thoughts, etc. BUT when he became a man
he put away childish things. Jesus told His disciples that He DID only the
things His Father told Him. And said He spoke what the Father (Spirit)
told Him. Jesus was Spirit-led. Paul was so sensitive to the Spirit after
his "fall" on the Damascus road. David was sensitive after his "fall" with
Bathsheba, Samson was humbled greatly after his natural eyes were put
out. Many people have realized after their "fall" the things that are truly
important. The prodigal son was humbled in the pig pen. His father called
for the best robe, but I have a feeling the son longed for a "good washing"
or cleansing. His elder brother didn't feel he deserved anything. He had never
been to the "pig pen". I am sure he didn't feel he needed to be washed and
cleansed from anything. He had never gone anywhere, but what a terrible
attitude he had toward his brother who had left but came back home. Where
else could he have gone. After you've lived in the Father's house, there's
just no other place like home.
Now why do I believe the Holy Ghost is leading Bro. Chosenbyone!
You don't think the enemy is wanting him to have the Name of Jesus
called over him, do you! If you've never been where someone's been
you can't relate to their experience. I wouldn't want anyone else to
make my decisions for me. I know my Father personally! His Name is
JESUS!! Bro. Chosenbyone is an adult, he knows the Father. He wants
to be cleaned from where he has been, by the Blood of the Lamb and
by the word of his testimony!!
May we all seek to be led by the Spirit of Almighty God, in Jesus Name!
Jesus said "My sheep hear my voice and they follow me".
Blessings,
Falla39
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I had to come up to the top to apologize for the length of this entry, but the joy of the Holy Ghost has filled my room and I cannot stop rejoicing and praising my sweet Lord.
Sister,
I have thanked God nearly every day that you have come to be not only my friend, but someone so dear to my heart. God has used you in ways that you would never know to minister to the very core of my being.
What you have written was exactly what my heart was trying to convey when I asked the question on this thread. When I was 15, I didn't know who God really was though I really wanted to have what my Pentecostal friends had with the Lord.
As I wrote yesterday, it wasn't until several years later that two very patient brothers at New Life Tab took it upon themselves to answer every question and regardless of how the bible study turned out, they were there the very next week doing what they were lead to do. Many of us would have thrown in the towel, but I thank God for these humble men of God who preserved when many would have said I was hopeless. I wasn't in anyway disrespectful to those guys, I just knew what my Papa had instilled in me for so many years.
I remember what turned out to be the last bible study I had with those two. As usual we met Sunday afternoon around 2:PM after lunch for our weekly bible study. It started just like every one before with all of us fully prepared with our scripture, questions, and yes...arguements. But you see, that day would not end like the several before, because when I read again in Acts, Chapter 20 verse 28,
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood"...I froze. The two brothers continued a bit and they looked at me and cocked their heads wondering why I was so quite. I raised my head and cried out, "I see it...I see it"! I see who Jesus really is!!! What a day, what a day....a day that I received the
REVELATION of who Jesus really was.
When I read that the
Holy Ghost hath made you overseer to feed the CHURCH OF GOD that He purchased with His blood it was a one, two punch of heavenly revelation and truly one of the most significant moments in my spiritual walk. I loved the COG and I knew just like so many of my cousins, uncles and other family members that we were expected to go to Lee College to continue what our grandfather had lived his whole life. Many of them today have become overseers, evangelist, pastors and have known great success in their ministries.
Yet there were those of us that said we wanted to know without any doubt or consequences of going against the family who we would be working for....a Triune God or One God. Praise the mighty Name of Jesus Christ many now know and have never, ever comprised that truth.
My heart is overflowing just as the tears on my face this afternoon that I know Jesus. There truly is a revelation that comes to those seek to know Him and who study and wait on the Lord. I feel that too many of our people have not had that revelation, but they have just believed what they were told just like so many trinitarians have done for generations. We should weep for their souls that they would be restored and the truth burn within them to bring them forth preaching this truth to everyone.
If you have never been persecuted for your faith than I dare say that you have no faith. It is that faith that will save...it is that faith that will deliver...it is that faith passed down from the Apostles that will shine throughout eternity and will stand when all other doctrines have crumbled. Hold fast to your faith and never waver, never compromise, never surrender what God has revealed.
I may not be the true blue ultra-con I once was, but I would defend to my dying day this wonderful truth of the Oneness of our God. Those in other ranks speak of the mystery of the Godhead, because they haven't experienced the earth-shattering revelation of truth that will dispel the deceptive lies of those that tickle the ears of those around them.
Where has the burdened that so many had for the souls that are bound for hell living all around us. Have we become so complacent and comfortable that instead of weeping and reaching for those lost we just causally pass by without concern. We look at them and identify them as lost and many of us just let them continue to the drumbeat of Satan without any intervention whatsoever.
I want so badly to get up and tell everyone about what Jesus has done for them so that they might know true freedom, before it's too late. Many nights I lie here thinking if only I would have done more...If only I would have sacrificed more...If only I could have reached more...May God have mercy. It isn't our Father's will that any should parish, but we have stopped hearing His heart's cry for His lost sons and daughters.
Thank you Esther and everyone who have written here on this thread your thoughts on re-baptizing folks that have felt this need in their lives. I can tell you that my prayers have been answered and there remains no doubt that for me I must obey the Lord regarding this subject. My heart is full of such joy that I can't hardly contain myself. Oh, how precious my Jesus is to me and I owe him more than I could ever, ever repay.
Praise the lovely name of Jesus. I feel as though I could shout all over this room. I love Jesus so much.
Hybrid Mode
