Have ye suffered so
many things in
vain? if it be yet in
vain. Gal 3: 4
........ He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit,
and worketh miracles among you,
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doeth he it by the
works of the law,
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or by the hearing of faith? Gal 3: 5
........ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Gal 3: 6
What is the meaning of
"believed" God? Was this FAITH ONLY?
And I will make thy
seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed
all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; Gen 26:4
BECAUSE
that Abraham OBEYED
my voice, and kept my CHARGES, my COMMANDMENTS, my STATUTES, and my LAWS.
Gen 26:5
But, God, I have been
telling people to keep your commandments is pure legalism. So, in the
study of Peter, David repudiates a later statement that God wants ALL
men to repent becuase it seems to contradict Peter's earlier
statement about the ELECT.
The Paul who wrote Galatians
3:6 took pains to make us wise enough not to be trapped by future
"calvinists".
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Circumcision is
nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the
commandments of God.
1Co.7:19
> For in Jesus Christ neither
circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but
faith which worketh by love Ga.5:6
And ye are complete
in him, which is the head of all
principality and power: Col 2:10
In whom also ye are
circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting
off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:11
Buried with him in
baptism, wherein also
ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead. Col 2:12
> For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Ga.6:15
Therefore, Paul said nothing
about FAITH ONLY but saving faith is the FAITH OF ABRAHAM which kept
all of God's commands.
Know ye therefore
that they which are of
faith, the
same are the children of Abraham. Gal 3:
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Abraham lived BEFORE the Law
of Moses, the Jews trusted the Law of Moses, therefore, Paul is
warning about the rituals of the law of trusting any misunderstanding
that THEY were predestinated. This predestination view necessarily
held that OTHERS were not favored by God and COULD NOT repent or be
saved and go to heaven.
The Old Testament does not
teach predestination. However, scripture PREDESTINATED that all would
be united in Christ:
And the scripture,
foreseeing that God would justify
the heathen
through faith,
Gal 3: 8
........ preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be
blessed.
Paul leapfrogs over the Law of Moses and proves that the Jews had
no lasting favor based on their DNA. Therefore, faith and not Mosaic
law is what God approves as righteousness BECAUSE it obeys God's
commandment. More importantly as with John's Baptism faith DOES NOT
reject the counsel of God for the Pharisees lives that they be
baptized.
So then they which
be of
faith are blessed with
faithful Abraham. Gal 3: 9
For as many as are of the
works of the
law are under the
curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one
that continueth not in all things which are written in the
book of the
law to do them. Gal 3:
10
From the tables you can see
that the LAW or MONARCHY period was a parenthetic period. Israel rose
up to PLAY which was musical idolatry. As a result God turned most of
the nation over to WORSHIP THE STARRY HOSTS (Stephen, Acts 7 etc.,).
Those who were approved by God walked by faith. That means that they
kept God's commandments. God never condemns anyone for obeying His
laws. However, the Jews were almost always worshipers of pagan
Gods.
The problem for Paul and
others is that the Jews looked at the BLACK HOLE of the Law period
and trusted themselves because they thought that CHOSEN FOR A PURPOSE
was predestinated to righteousness.
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So then they which be of
faith are
blessed with faithful Abraham. Gal 3:9
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But that no man is justified by
the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just
shall live by faith. Gal 3:11
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For as many as are of the
works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law
to do them.
Gal 3:10
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The gospel plan is not legalism: the Law says do this
and I will not punish you. The Christian system of faith says: Do
this and I will give you something impossible to you and eternal life
with God. One is WORKS and the other is grace through faith.
Law says "do every jot and title
of this Law and you will prove yourself righteousness." However,
James says that even showing partiality is a sin and this "little" sin brings the entire Law
down on your head.
Grace through faith, however,
says "Just express your faith in being baptized" because being dipped
in water is one of the LEAST WORKS- INTENSIVE thing one can do.
Nothing is more work's intense than to labor trying to get the SIGN
that you are predestinated and being legalistic in rejecting God's
commands for fear that one might LOSE their predestination. Just
trying to explain what not even John Calvin could explain is a grand
scheme of WORKS.
GOD PREDESTINATED THAT "ALL"
WOULD BE DECLARED SINNERS. This gets any trust in the LAW or of the
Jew's ARROGANCE that they were PREDESTINATED:
A LEGALIST is one who seeks to
be justified by the Law of Moses which wwas added because of
transgression:
And the law is
not of
faith: but, The man
that doeth them shall
live in them. Gal 3:12
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree: Gal 3:13
Jesus did that at the cross:
was everyone saved at that instant?
God PREDESTINATED that purely
natural Jews were not His Elect: only those who are spiritually related to Abraham
will be saved:
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But that no man is justified by
the
law in the
sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. Gal 3:11
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That the blessing of Abraham
might come on
the Gentiles
through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit through faith. Gal 3:14
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And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them
shall live in them. Gal 3:12
Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us: for it is
written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: Gal
3:13
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Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it
be but a mans covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth,
or addeth thereto. Gal 3:15
Now to Abraham and his seed
were the (predestinated) promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of
many; but as of
one, And to thy seed,
which is Christ.
Gal 3:16
And this I say, that the
covenant, that was confirmed before of God
in Christ,
the law, which was
four hundred and thirty
years after,
cannot
disannul, that it
should make the promise
of none effect. Gal 3:17
For if the inheritance be of
the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Gal 3:18
The predestined plan was a system of Faith which obeyed
God's laws. The LAW was God simply ENDURING the Jews until the
PREDESTINATED plan would be fulfilled in Jesus Christ. That
predestined plan INCLUDED Gentiles.
Predestination
demands PROOF or a SIGN
that one has been saved. But how can I TRUST the sign? Did the "holy
spirit" just stir my FLESH or was it the charismatic music. Was
missing that little girl on the street a MIRACLE or was it just a
"lucky event"? I know that I spoke in tongues but I cannot repeat it.
I spoke in tongues under the influence of a charismatic leader; the
charismatic leader was caught in adultery; why is it that I have lost
my faith in SPEAKING IN TONGUES to prove that the "spirit" was doing
it but has suddenly stopped. In the early awakenings it was not
uncommon for someone to HEART the spirit telling him to kill himself.
He did and now everyone wants to kill themselves a proof that I TOO
have the "spirit." But, they are RESCUED from the evil preacher, get
drunk at Duncan's Tavern on the way home, and never DARKEN THE DOOR
of a church for the rest of his life.
Faith which leads to baptism
can SEE NOTHING. He TRUSTS that God is not a liar (Lk 7:29-30) and
forgives his sins and he can PROVE NOTHING by his external looks.
Therefore, looking for proof is LEGALISM while just trusting or
having FAITH IN THE
OPERATION OF GOD is the
only true FAITH.
Promise stands opposed to
Mosaic Law. The FAITH
is the faith in the OPERATION OF GOD Who raised Jesus. The promise of
Christ the ELECT was also PREDESTINED BY angels IN THE hand OF A
MEDIATOR. There has never been but one Mediator:
Wherefore then
serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made; and it was ordained (preached by evangelists) by angels
in the hand of a mediator. Gal 3:19
The BECAUSE OF transgression
was the Jews (God's predestinated people) rising up to PLAY at Mount
Sinai. This was charismatic MUSICAL IDOLATRY including sexuality and
perversion. Even at the time of the latter Jezebel it is recorded
that she taught that "HOMOSEXUALITY bound the flesh and spirit
together." THEREFORE, the predestination view of the Jews that they
could not be lost let SATAN into their "worship." As a result, God
TURNED THEM OVER to worship the starry hosts (Acts 7). This was the
worship of Chiun or Saturn whose number is 666. The musical madness
recorded in Amos 5, 6 and Isaiah 5 was the result of God turning them
loose to go into captivity and death lead by their kings.
The resulting Law of Moses was
given by God to LAWLESS men. There has never been a time when People
were not justified by obedience to God's laws. God is both God and
the Mediator.
Now a mediator is
not a mediator of one, but God is one. Gal 3:20
Is the law then
against the promises of
God? God forbid: for if
there had been a law given which could have given life, verily
righteousness should have been by the law. Gal 3:21
Again the table shows that
the LAW was a parenthetic period of judgment. However, this judgment
period does not change God's predestinated purpose that all, both Jew
and Gentile are to be saved by THE FAITH and not THE LAW.
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Now to Abraham and his seed
were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many;
but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Gal 3:16
And this I say, that
the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ,
the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none
effect. Gal 3:17
For if the inheritance
be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to
Abraham by promise. Gal 3:18
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Now a mediator is not a
mediator of one, but God is one. Gal 3:20
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Wherefore then serveth the law?
It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should
come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by
angels in the hand of a mediator. Gal 3:19
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Is the law then against the promises of God? God
forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have
given life, verily righteousness should have been by the
law. Gal 3:21
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The Gentiles, usually lawless, lived under natural
law. The Jews lived under revealed COVENANT but because they were
lawless God gave them the Law of Moses. Paul explains to the Jews as
he did in Romans 9-11: no, God's predestinated selection of the Jews
has not failed because I declare that the selection is for the
Gentiles also. No, the Word of God did not fail because you are
declared NOT the predestinated: the failure was your WANTING to see
yourself as EXCLUSIVELY God's choice which He COULD NOT TAKE
BACK.
God's predestinated plan was
that the Pre-Promise be made available to ALL mankind. The test was
not PREDESTINATION on a personal basis but based on faith that Christ
was the ELECT GOD and the HEAD of the ELECT LADY.
If predestination worked,
believed the Jews in Romans, then God COULD NOT conclude them in sin.
But, Paul said that the plan was based on the faithful obedience of
ABRAHAM.
All are OUT: the way to get
IN is not eternal predestination but obedient FAITH:
But the
scripture hath concluded
all under sin,
........ that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that
believe. Gal 3:22
The Jews under the law could
live by faith and be justified by faith without the Law. However,
they lived under a SYSTEM of Law and this restricted their contact to
the Word of God through the priests now turned over to a pagan-like
sacrificil syste. Therefore, they wee shut up to THE FAITH which is
when THE LAW is not used to just stir up more sin.
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the
faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:23
Wherefore the law
was our schoolmaster to bring us unto
Christ, that we might be justified by (the)
faith. Gal 3:24
........ But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Gal 3:25
Does God MAKE both Jew and
Gentile SINNERS?" No, He KNEW that all had sinned and come short of
the PRE-PLAN for all people. Therefore, the Jews are not unique based
on an assumed PREDESTINATION. Now the TRUE purpose or predestination
of God has been reveled:
FOR ye
are ALL the children of God BY FAITH in
Christ Jesus. Gal 3:26
FOR as MANY of you as have been BAPTIZED
into Christ have put on Christ. Gal 3:27
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But the scripture hath
concluded all
under sin,
that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that
believe. Gal
3:22
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For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:26
For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Gal 3:27
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But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards
be revealed. Gal 3:23
Wherefore the law was
our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. Gal 3:24
But after that faith
is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. Gal 3:25
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This is a parrelism: those who become children of God
by FAITH are those who are baptized INTO Christ and become part of
the ELECT LADY or church. Remember that God said that:
Abraham was
justified by FAITH
Because he kept all of God's
laws.
Now, leaving his home town
COULD NOT force God to SAVE Abraham as opposed to sending him to
hell. Whatever we are called upon to do, our work cannot justify us;
we are justified by FAITH. But having FAITH and refusing to "accept
Gods counsel for their lives" would be spitting in God's
faith.
What is that PREDESTINED plan?
None are justified by keeping the LAW OF MOSES. IN Jesus Christ, BOTH
Jew and Gentile are One Body. The PREDESTINATED PLAN was made by the
Spirit of Christ to Abraham:
There is
neither
Jew nor Greek, there is
neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are
ALL ONE in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:28
........ And if ye be Christs, then are ye
Abrahams
seed, and heirs
according to the PROMISE. Gal 3:29
Abraham lived BEFORE the Law of
Moses and therefore was justified WITHOUT THE LAW. However, God says
that Abraham was justified BY FAITH when he
kept God's commandments. Look at it again because this is GOD'S
definition of FAITH which saves:
And I will make thy
seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed
all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; Gen 26:4
BECAUSE
that Abraham OBEYED
my voice, and kept my CHARGES, my COMMANDMENTS, my STATUTES, and my
LAWS. Gen 26:5
There, God has said it:
Abraham was justified by keeping God's LAWS. Why would He say that if
Abraham was PREDESTINATED? Paul says the same thing. We repeat that
Paul did not speak of FAITH ONLY which had no connection to
obedience. True faith is the means of God to His grace and it NEVER
demands human works or law works.
Circumcision is
nothing and uncircumcision is nothing.
Keeping God's
commands is what
counts. 1 Co.7:19
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any
value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Ga.5:6
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what
counts is a new creation. Ga.6:15
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing
........but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1Co.7:19
There, Paul has said it.
Therefore, Paul is not denouncing obedience in baptism but the Law of
Moses where they trusted in circumcision and keeping the Law which
had been added as a curse.
Baptism can not be a law
because water cannot remove sins. However, faith submits to Baptism
as the time and place where we REQUEST a clear conscience or A holy
spirit.
Did God's PROMISE cause all to
be ELECTED? No, ALL receive the PRE-promise who are baptized into
Christ. God's promise is God's pre-destined will for everyone.
Promise is:
Epaggelia (g1860) ep-ang-el-ee'-ah; from 1861; an
announcement (for information, assent or pledge; espec. a divine assurance of good): - message, promise.
For the
promise, that he
should be the heir of
the world, was not to
Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of
faith. Rom 4:13
It is outrageous to say that
obeying God's will is legalistic. Paul was speaking of LAWS like the
speed limit signs. If there are no speed laws it is still unlawful to
drive fast and kill people. However, when the signs are posted for
35mph most of use have an urge to drive 40mph and so we break the
Law. You are not rewarded for driving legally.
However, God promises us eternal life (humanly impossible) simply by
"driving safely." A PROMISE of something impossible for a human to
achieve DOES NOT WORK WRATH.
Because the
law worketh wrath: for where no law is,
there is no
transgression. Rom 4:15
Therefore it is of faith,
that it might be by grace;
to the end the PROMISE
........ might be sure to all the seed;
........ NOT to that only which is of the law,
but to that also which
is of the FAITH of
Abraham; who is the
FATHER of us all, Ro.4:16
No, the Jews were not
predestinated because God gave them a LAW to regulate the lawless.
No, the Gentiles were not "dogs" just because they were not Jews.
There is no one able to be so righteous that God OWES them salvation,
or that have the power to resurrect their dead bodies. God translates
us into a HEAVENLY kingdom simply by BELIEVING that He is and that He
is a rewarder of those who SEEK or worship Him.
Baptism cannot be legalistic
because it is the time and place where we call upon God and REQUEST
or BEG Him to give us a clear conscience or consiousness or a holy
spirit so that God can dwell in our hearts by faith and where he ONLY
PLACE for worship is in the human spirit or mind. No member of the
church of Christ has ever placed the faith in the water. Partaking of
the Lord's Supper is a DIRECT COMMAND. However, it is not a legal ACT
OF WORSHIP. If the "team" is humming, singing, clapping or oohing and
ahhing it is IMPOSSIBLE for us to discern the Body of Christ which
can only take place in the quiet, dark place of the Holy Place where
we meet God.
Therefore, the CONVERTED
LEGALISTS are exactly the same people who want to hire a PROFESSIONAL
MUSICIAN to lead us into the presence of God. Doesn't that repudiate
GRACE which Jesus Christ privides as the ONLY Mediator?
SINGING is not an ACT OF
WORSHIP. For instance, Paul prescribed "that which is written, the
Spirit or the Words of Christ." If we sing false doctrine then we are
not GIVING HEED to Christ and His Word and CRUSH the "giving heed" as
the true worship in the spirit. The converted LEGALISTS are exactly
the ones who want the NEW STYLE praise books where we COME TO GOD'S
AID as encomiansts or paganistic PRAISE SINGERS.
Listening to sermons is not an
act of Worship. MOST preachers have been seduced by Satan into
believing that preaching FROM the Bible no longer works. Therefore,
if there is no WORD or if there is ANTI word then you cannot GIVE
HEED to the Word and there IS NO WORSHIP IN THE SPIRIT. The LEGALISTS
who have fallen at the FOOT OF THE OLD BABYLON TOWER are exactly the
ones who legalistically PROHIBIT the power of the Words of God if we
will only GIVE HEED to them.
Giving is not an act of
worship. If people are coerced to give Paul would call it extortion.
The building of a mega-temple with the secret agenda of turning
church or the school of the Bible into a THEATER FOR HOLY
ENTERTAINMENT or A VENUE FOR ROCK AND ROLL is stealing from the poor
to support the rich. The ANTI-LEGALISTS who are MUCH MORE LEGALISTIC
are forcing TITHING under the scam that they are priests and only
they can be GOD HANDLERS.
Therefore, while there are many
legalists, the church has never seen its work as WORKS OF LEGALISM
meaning that they are SAVING UP POINTS for heaven. Therefore, the
term LEGALISTS is a pre-arranged code word where the MANTRA seems to
have been written by a skilled lawyer to, as Hegel, Hitler or
Machiavelli, dissociate you and make you believe that you are EVIL.
Only by deconstructing you are they able to rebuild on the ashes but
with YOU having paid for their new THEATER. The new Legalism has an
organization structure of concentric circles, baseball diamonds or
even PYRAMIDS or towers of Babylon. The minister is the master. The
elders shepherd the Senior Minister or pastor. The elders are
assigned HIRED COMPANIONS to run the ministeries. Grand BURDEN LADING
PLANS are constructed and the LEADERSHIP feels the arrogant need to
keep you BUSY every night of the week and make you feel guilty if you
are not there as FODDER for their cannons. They ride out on their
reclining desk chairs to the mission field by sucking in seekers with
paganistic music.
When anyone alludes to you as a
LEGALIST be assured that the person has never arrived at the feeling
of assurance so that he can REST with Jesus from the LADED BURDEN
which is "spiritual anxiety created by religious rituals."
No individual has ever been
predestinated to HELL. Therefore, do not let the widow riders destroy
your assurance so that you can come to them for a program of
ACHIEVING spirituality or even speaking in tongues to PROVE that they
have SURFACED your destiny and your PREDESTINATED MINISTERY in THEIR
church.
Forget the eternally failing
Jews. Forget the Law added because of their musical idolatry after
God had given them THE GOOK OF THE COVENANT or an Abrahamic covenant
of faith which obeys God's commands Paul sees us as living in a
Patriarchial rather than tribal life in the local congregations. And
remember that the PREDESTINATED PLAN was to include both Jew and
Gentile based on their FAITH which must be LIKE that of
Abraham:
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FOR ye are ALL the children of God BY FAITH
in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:26
> FOR as MANY of
you as have been BAPTIZED into
Christ have put on Christ. Gal 3:27
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for ye are ALL ONE in
Christ Jesus. Gal 3:28
........ And if ye be Christs, then are ye
Abrahams
seed, and heirs
according to the PROMISE. Gal 3:29
Repent ye therefore, and be
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the
times of
refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord; Acts 3:19
And this was Zacharias
prophecy:
And his father
Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
Luke 1: 67
Blessed be the Lord
God of Israel; for he
hath visited
and redeemed his
people, Luke 1: 68
........ And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant
David; Luke 1: 69
As he spake by the mouth of his
holy
prophets, which have
been since the world
began: Luke 1: 70
How?
Searching what, or what
manner of time the Spirit
of Christ
which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Pet 1:11
That we should be
saved from our
enemies, and from the
hand of all that hate
us; Luke 1: 71
To perform the mercy promised to
our fathers, and to
remember his holy
convenant; Luke 1: 72
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, Luke 1: 73
........ > To give
knowledge of
salvation unto his people
........ > by the
remission of their sins, Lu.1:77
The Spirit of
Christ made the promise and Christ fulfilled it by remitting
sins;
That the blessing
of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit
through faith. Ga.3:14
The Bible (mine) clearly
connects baptism and remission of sins.
Don't let ANYONE destroy your
confidence by causing you to DOUBT whether you are one of the CHOSEN
so that you are driven to "exercises" and never coming to a knowledge
of the truth and the assurance of salvation promised only at the time
nd place of water baptism. Anything else is destructive
LEGALISM.
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