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Originally Posted by revrandy
Following the Book...and using the Key to walk thru the Door into the Throne Room of God...
Repentance...
Baptism in Jesus Name...
and the Infilling of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in an unknown tongue...
Anything else is a Half-truth, if not false Doctrine...
The 120 including Mary the mother of Jesus and his brothers were there...
Even Mary who carried the Christ child had to be filled with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues....
Three steps is a complete misnomer..it is the entire experiance of the infilling and indwelling of God's Spirit in Man....
Anything else is simply not acceptable... how could it be??
Unless you take out the entire Book of the Acts of the Apostles...
Then the Comforter is of none importance and effect only impressionistic on the soul man instead of the infilling of the Holy Ghost...
God is the judge we know..but when it comes that time for me and you to stand before him... What will your answer be when you tell him you didn't believe His Spirit in You was necessary for Salvation... and His Plan wasn't your Plan??
I will tell you...YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!! And it's not just acceptance of a Good Word...but you MUST BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST!..... It's the only way a Supernatural Change will come into to your life...
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That whole speach without once mentioning the Cross of Calvary.
You go by way of
Acts 2:38 once.
You do not dip again when falling short in your walk.
You go back to the plan of Gods salvation.
His shedding "His" blood for you, before the foundations of the World.
Some spend their entire ministry preaching about what they have to do to be saved.
And gloss right over what God did for us...
I know you assume the world knows as you mention
Acts 2:38 you lump in the cross by repentance.
The sinner on the street has no way of knowing Repentance equals the cross...
You simply need to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified.
To them that believe "The preaching of the Cross". It is the power of God.
Do not put your repentance as a type of the Cross in the literal meaning of what Christ did for you.
Get a vision of the sorrow, shame and anguish he suffered for you.
Then repent and .....
SO many want to repent and call that their cross experience.
Your belief is Jesus dying for your sins preceeds repentance.
Otherwise your repentance is sorrow and not a turning of one's heart from sin towards the Cross of Calvary....
There is a deeper meaning for me regarding the cross of calvary then just a step in a salvational formula...
I do not overlook
Acts 2:38.
I preach the cross as the starting place for a sinner to repent.
How will they know the cross if all you preach is
Acts 2:38.
Period.