One is either obedient to the teachings of Jesus or they are not. If they have faith in Jesus they will repent of their sins. If they repent of their sins they will want to obey and be baptized. If their Christian desire is genuine they will want to be filled with the Holy Ghost. There's no way around it. If one says they have faith in Jesus but doesn't want to repent of sin...that isn't saving faith. If one says they have repented of sin and desire to live an obedient Christian life and yet they refuse to be baptized in Jesus name...that isn't repentance unto salvation. If they don't desire to be filled with the Holy Ghost...can they be said to have true Christian desire?
Faith without works is....dead.
Faith without repentance is dead.
Faith without obeying the command to be baptized is dead.
Faith without wanting the Holy Ghost is dead.
Dead religion. Outside of
Acts 2:38 all one has is faith without works. The three-steppers contend that we should show our faith by our works...for without our works our faith is dead.
Down through history there have been outbreaks and revivals of this truth in various times and places throughout Christendom. And the Trinitarian church has waged all out war against it. One God Christians have been burned at the stake for refusing to believe in the Trinity or the triune baptismal formula. This isn't the time to back off the message....this is a time to get with the message.
Muslims love their Allah enough to fly planes into buildings and blow themselves up....yet we water down the original teachings of our Lord Jesus and the Apostles he called. Would it be fair to say that the Apostolics we're seeing here don't love the full application of the gospel as much as Muslims love Islam?
Shake yourselves and awaken from your slumber my brethren. This is no time to retreat into the "average" Christian faith and practice of traditional Christian religion. This is a time to stand up and be counted...to prepare for war. To storm the very gates of Hell.
The idea that
Acts 2:38 isn't essential is a lie from Hell and smells like smoke.
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