False Prophets by BIlly Bass - 2009

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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but

try the spirits whether they are of

God: because many false prophets are

gone out into the world.

(1 John 4:1)


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!ontentsodgepodge.................................................9

3arning......................................................1

*he *est......................................................#5

aptism......................................................#9

*he oly +pirit..........................................49

*he *rinity.................................................59

$ iblical ,2ample....................................66

*he /ro7erbial %ine...................................8

!ommon $rgments..................................95

;*,: $ll +!&'/*otes

are paraphrased and emphasis added.


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Hodgepodge

*he ible is linear and not ?st a hodgepodge of

information. 'n general there is a chronological flow of

e7ents from enesis to &e7elation. &ealiAing this order of

things is critical to nderstanding the +criptres. 'n the

ew *estament the gospels come first the boo of $cts is a

reslt of the things laid ot in the gospels and the epistles

are a direct reslt of the boo of $cts.

The Gospels: Biographies of Jesus’ Life

*he birth of JessB is tra7elsB is teachingB the

choosing and training of is apostlesB and is death

brial and resrrection are presented in historic detail.

3hile physically positioned among the 7olmes of the

ew *estament the gospels co7er e7ents that occrred

nder the ;ld *estament. Jess was Cmade nder the lawBD

e was circmcised the eighth dayB e ept the feasts and

e taght in the synagoges. 3hen e healed the leper

e sent him to the priests to offer the sacrifice according to

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Eoses (Eatthew 8:#-4). Jess li7ed and died nder the

law.

'n the gospels Jess introdces the coming ingdom

setting the stage for the ad7ent of the ew *estament

!hrch. *he flfillment of many ;ld *estament

prophecies is recorded and 7erified by inspired witnesses.

*he first three boos Eatthew Ear and %e deal

mostly with is hmanityB John deals largely with isdeity. ,7en all the red letters were penned by these men.

Acts: The Church in the Bible

*he oly host (the promise of the Father) is gi7en on

the ay of /entecost the ingdom comes and the ew

*estament !hrch is born. *his boo is properly calledC*he $cts of the $postlesD becase the apostles C$ctD on

what Jess taght them in the gospels. *here is a word-for-

word record of the preaching of the apostlesB people are

sa7ed and the gospel is spread. *here are actal acconts

of ew *estament water baptism and actal acconts of

people recei7ing the gift of the oly host.

The Epistles: The Church Has Mail

&omans throgh &e7elation are letters written to

chrches and indi7idals sa7ed by the preaching of the

apostles and others in the boo of $cts. *he letters are not

instrctions telling the lost how to get sa7ed bt are frtherinstrctions to people already sa7ed. obody was baptiAed

in the epistles nobody recei7ed the oly host and

nobody gained entrance into the chrch. *he epistles do

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not alter rein7ent or spersede the chrch established in

the boo of $cts.

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Warning

&ead Eatthew 6:1-#6 7ery careflly. Jess tells of a

grop of people who ha7e set ot on a ?orney to hea7enG

a grop of people who thin they ha7e dedicated their li7es

to Jess !hrist. +adly they wonHt mae it. e warns that

the road to hell is broad and many people e7en many who

belie7e they are sincere !hristians are tra7eling that road.

+trait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life and

7ery few will e7en find it.

'n this particlar passage Jess doesnHt gi7e s a long

list of sins that will send s down the road to hell with the

mass of lost hmanity. t to those who desire to li7egodly e warns: “Beware of false prophets.

Eention false prophets and people con?re p 7isions

of aboriginal 7oodoo doctors or nscrplos *

e7angelists. 's this correct according to +criptreI ot

necessarily. 3hile a 7oodoo practitioner is a prophet of

sorts he doesnHt claim to be a prophet of Jess !hrist.

Frther it is possible for an nscrplos preacher to teach

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the trth and a sincere preacher of impeccable character to

be in gross error.

*he ible tells s plainly that we can recogniAe the

false prophets by their frits by what they teach. *hey

wonHt appear to be false prophets thoghB they will appear

to be ministers of righteosness (# !orinthians 11:10-15).

*hey will say they lo7e the %ord they lo7e the 3ord and

they lo7e yo. *hey will persade yo to call on the %ordfor sal7ation bt they will instrct yo to call on the %ord

?st a little differently than the apostles taght. *hey will

preach right ot of the ible bt they will change the

gospel in some way. +o mch of what they preach will be

tre howe7er that the nwary wold scarcely notice the

changes.

Eost preachers today teach that ?st abot e7eryone

who e7en claims to belie7e in the %ord shall be sa7ed bt

Jess clearly warns s that not e7eryone who says C%ord

%ordD shall enter in. e tells s many people will plead

with im on Jdgment ay saying C%ord %ord ha7e we

not prophesied in thy nameI and in thy name ha7e cast otde7ilsI and in thy name done many wonderfl worsID

*hen Jess tells these people to get away from im and

calls them worers of ini>ity saying C' ne7er new yo.D

(Eatthew 6:#)

ow these appear to be some pretty serios !hristians

that Jess tosses into hell. 'f accepting !hrist belie7ing

and faith were the only re>irements for sal7ation these

fols shold ha7e been sa7ed. 't taes a lot of faith to cast

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ot a de7il and they woldnHt do it in JessH name if they

didnHt belie7e in im. *hey accepted imB they called im

%ord. oodoo practitioners wonHt be casting ot de7ils in

JessH name. ot inds. ot ew $gers. !ommon drns

and thie7es wonHt be woring for Jess. t these people

are ob7iosly some type of !hristian preaching casting

ot de7ils perhaps praying for the sic and 7isiting the

afflicted. et Jess calls them worers of ini>ity. 3hyI

3hy wold Jess pt them in hellI ecase of false prophets. ecase they thoght they were sa7ed when they

were not. +omething other than belie7ing other than

considerable faith other than casting ot de7ils and other

than prophesying in JessH name was re>ired and these

people were lacing whate7er it was.

3hen Eoses bilt the *abernacle in the wilderness it

had to be according to odHs plan. 3hen oah bilt the

ar it had to be according to odHs plan. $nd when we

come to od for sal7ation it mst be odHs way.

*here are false prophets in the world today many false

prophets bt they donHt loo lie false prophets. *hey loolie priests and pastors ministers of righteosness.

$ conterfeit twenty-dollar bill colored hot pin

woldnHt fool anyone. *o pass as real it wold ha7e to loo

real. *he same holds tre for false prophets. *heyHre not

going to loo lie e7il slobbering beastsB theyHre going to

loo lie sincere and caring ministers of the gospel.

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$s !hristians then we donHt need to consider the

credibility of a 7oodoo priest. *o weed ot a false prophet

weHll ha7e to search among those who appear to be Creal.D

+ince the road to hell is paced with !hristians who

donHt now they are lost people who ha7e been decei7ed

by false prophets we need to >alify all preachers to mae

sre that we arenHt decei7ed. 's it remotely possible that the

7ast ma?ority of todayHs modern preachers are false prophetsI 3hat abot some of the big radio and *

e7angelistsI $re they preaching the whole trth according

to odHs instrctionsI 3hat abot the aptists or the

EethodistsI 3hat abot the !atholicsI 3hat abot yor

own chrch or yor own pastorI 3hat abot yoI

&emember the poor sols in the se7enth chapter of

Eatthew. *hey were sincere enthsiastic people who did

many wonderfl wors in the name of Jess. *hey thoght

they were sa7ed and on their way to hea7en bt they were

mistaen. ecase their chrch taght them a Csal7ationD

not consistent with the 3ord of od they were doomed to

hell.

't is hard to belie7e that so many people who de7ote so

mch of their li7es to godly endea7ors cold actally miss

ot on hea7en. 't is hard to belie7e that the gospel preached

by many pastors on +nday morning cold send yo

straight to hell. t ?st becase a lot of people belie7e

something that doesnHt mae it right. onHt forget

e7eryone once belie7ed the earth was flat. $nd not long

ago almost e7eryone in the world thoght the sn re7ol7ed

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arond the earth. $ll the scientists and philosophers of the

day belie7ed it. alileo was one of the few who had the

corage to stand against the tide of poplar opinion and he

pro7ed the whole world to be dead wrong. *hey didnHt

than alileo for showing them the trth thogh. e was

moced ridicled and persected becase his ideas

contradicted what they had been taght all their li7es.

Eany went to their gra7es belie7ing in something

completely false.

Jess teaches s in Eatthew 6 that the decei7ed

!hristians on the broad road far otnmber those on the

narrow. ecase of false prophets 7ery few will e7en find

the strait gate and the narrow way. +ome people nai7ely

refer to this as Cthe straight and narrowD bt itHs two

separate things. *he gate is the entrance to the narrow way.

*he gate is not a straight gate bt a strait (s-t-r-a-i-t) gate.

$ strait gate is a gate of restricted access. $nd the way is

narrow with no room for de7iation.

3hen yo loo ot o7er the world today yo will see

millions of !atholics millions of aptists millions ofEethodists /resbyterians ,piscopalians /entecostals and

others. 3ho of these mltiplied millions will be the 7ery

few to find the strait gate and the narrow wayI 3ho of

these are on the broad road that leads to hellI *he priests

and pastors of all these chrches essentially appear to be

the same. *hey all appear to be leading people to od btsome of them many of them are false prophets and their

followers will hear Jess say “"epart from me . . . # never

$new you.

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+ome false prophets trly are sincere and caring

indi7idals who ha7e ?st been misgided or misinformed.

*heir sincerity maes it all the more difficlt to belie7e

they cold be false teachers. eing an e7il person doesnHt

mae a false prophet falseB ha7ing the wrong gospel does.

$ really nice preacher with false doctrine can send yo to

hell as srely as an e7il one.

oes it seem totally impossible that a sincere ministercold be in sch error as to be a false prophetI !onsider a

little grade school e2periment. $ teacher ga7e a small

written message to the first ppil in the classroom. *hat

stdent ept the written message bt whispered it to the

ne2t person. $nd so the message passed from person to

person arond the room. *he last stdent recited to the

class what he had been told and then the first stdent read

the written message alod for comparison. $fter being

repeated only abot #5 times the message had changed

beyond recognition. $ll the stdents belie7ed they had

heard the 7ery same message and belie7ed they had passed

it on e2actly as they had heard it bt the message was

completely changed from the original.

ow thin of the thosands of preachers who ha7e

passed arond the gospel. ;ne minister teaches aspiring

yong preachers and they in trn teach others as they were

taght. /reacher after preacher for centries.

*hatHs why od ga7e s the written 3ord the original

message e ga7e to the apostles. 3e can read what the

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apostles actally preached in the chrch in the ible and

compare that to the preaching of any minister today.

Jst becase a preacher >otes from the ible it

doesnHt mean heHs preaching the trth. e can tae a 7erse

ot of conte2t to try to pro7e a point that od wold not

appro7e. $nd he may do so with all sincerity ?st teaching

what he was taghtGpreacher to stdent preacher to

stdent a little change here a little change there.

+till most people ?st tae whatHs dished ot to them

withot >estion trsting that the preacher is a tre man of

od. 't is a matter of life and death that we stdy the

original message. 3ith od thereHs only sa7ed and lost

hea7en and hell a tre preacher or a false prophet.

*his stdy will focs on many passages and principles

that will mae it possible for yo to nmas the false

prophet. ,7en thogh he will ha7e all the appearances of a

tre minister of the gospel yo need not be decei7ed. o

can penetrate the religion of the false prophet and disco7er

the error that hides within.

*he ible does not contradict itself. 't is the 3ord of

od. $lthogh men penned the +criptres they wrote as

they were mo7ed by the oly host. Een wrote the ible

mch lie a secretary taes dictation. *he secretary sits at

the eyboard bt her words are not her own. +ome of the

old prophets wrote of things that were not to come to passfor hndreds or e7en thosands of years. *hey had no idea

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what they were writing abot. ;nly in the process of time

wold the meaning of their writing be re7ealed.

*he ew *estament !hrch began on the ay of

/entecost as recorded in the second chapter of $cts and it

will contine nchanged ntil Jess comes bac for it. *hat

gospel the apostles preached two thosand years ago is still

the only one that will sa7e s today. *o see if weHre trly

sa7ed we mst rightly di7ide the +criptres to find othow the apostles taght repentant belie7ers to be con7erted.

*he ible warns of adding to or taing from the

+criptres bt to ignore a 7erse or to tae one ot of

conte2t amonts to the same thing. 'f any passage

contradicts what we belie7e then we mst reconcile or

beliefs to the ible. 3e cannot se one portion of scriptre

to spport a certain doctrine while ignoring others that

contradict that doctrine.

,2ample: *he Jeho7ahHs 3itnesses tae ,cclesiastes

9:5 C*he dead now not anythingD to mean that a dead

person is totally nconscios obli7ios to anything. $ person in sch a state wold ha7e no feelings no

perceptions of any ind and therefore hell cold not be a

literal place of fiery torment. o flames no wailing and no

gnashing of teeth.

'n order to embrace this doctrine the 3itnesses ha7e to

rein7ent many many passages that clearly describe aspecific place of torment od has prepared for the de7il

and his followers. For instance when the rich man died in

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%e 1K:#: CL in hell he lift p his eyes.D *he rich man

was tormented in the flames he cold see and recogniAe

%aAars and he was praying for his brothers bac home.

e was there and he was conscios. &e7elation #1:8 tells

s that mrderers whoremongers idolaters and all liars

shall ha7e their part in the C%ae which brneth with fire

and brimstone.D *hese two 7erses alone completely

contradict the Cdead are nconsciosD theoryB bt e7ery

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chrch teaches a doctrine that is contrary to only one 7erse

yo ha7e a problem.

Fig trees bear figs and peach trees bring forth peaches

bt the frit of a false prophet is false doctrine and

ltimately false !hristians. 3hen a chrch or preacher

preaches the trth there will be no contradiction of

+criptre. od is the athor of the ible and od is not the

athor of confsion.

*his short boo cannot and indeed shold not

con7ince anyone of who a false prophet is or whether

anyone has been trly sa7ed or decei7ed. *he ible is the

only tre yardstic and cannot be impro7ed pon. %et the

ible con7ince yo.

istory shows s repeatedly that the opinions (and

gospels) of men change all the time bt the 3ord of od is

fore7er settled in hea7en. onHt tae the teaching of any

preacher at face 7ale bt weigh it against the +criptres.

Eae sre his preaching doesnHt contradict the ible. Eae

sre that heHs not plling the wool o7er yor eyes. $nd/h..Hs donHt come from odB they come from schools

where men are taght poplar contemporary religion

where men are taght to be good speaers.

$postle /al warns s in &omans 1K:16-18 that

preachers who preach a gospel different from his do not

ser7e the %ord and to stay away from them: Cow ' beseech yo brethren mar them which case di7isions

and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye ha7e

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learnedB and a7oid them. For they that are sch ser7e not

or %ord Jess !hrist bt their own bellyB and by good

words and fair speeches decei7e the hearts of the simple.D

3ith good words and fair speeches they decei7e. *he

sermon of a false prophet will contain a lot of trth a lot of

biblical trth bt not enogh. 't will sond sincere

religios and C!hristianD bt it cannot sa7e yo. &at

poison contains abot 99M good wholesome food bt thatother 1M otweighs all other ntritional considerations .

't is not the intention of this boo to condemn anyone.

owe7er ' ha7e no >alms abot condemning false

doctrine. 3e wold be poor witnesses for Jess if we saw

someone on the wrong road the broad road that leads to

hell and didnHt at least try to warn them.

$ friend of mine ased his father this >estionGC'f yo

cold be shown proof that yor chrch has drifted away

from the trth of the ible and is teaching false doctrine

wold yo changeID *he man replied C' will ne7er lea7e

the chrch that ' belong to. ' wold go to hell with thischrch.D ow what ind of logic is thatI *he whole

concept of !hristianity is to be reconciled to od and a7oid

going to hell.

id this man really want to go to hellI ot liely. e

probably ?st too the negati7e insinations abot his

chrch as a personal offense. *o admit that he had beendecei7ed might mae him feel stpid or something. +o

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rather than pro7ing his faith with the ible he was

mistaenly trying to defend his honor with stbbornness.

3hat cold be sadder than for a person to spend a

lifetime de7oted to a chrch thining the whole time that

he was on his way to hea7en ?st to wae p in eternity to

find ot that his chrch was wrong abot what it really

taes to be sa7edI

*he people in the se7enth chapter of Eatthew thoght

they were sa7ed. *hey had cast ot de7ils in JessH name

prophesied in is name and done many wonderfl wors

in is name bt Jess threw them in hell anyway

(Eatthew 6:#). *hey went to hell becase they had been

decei7ed by a preacher who did not preach the gospel

according to the ible a false prophet. $ll their chrch

attendance all their praying all their worship and all their

sincerity meant nothing when Jess said Cet away from

me ' ne7er new yo.D ow many times might they ha7e

left chrch on +nday morning saying how wonderfl it

was to be a !hristianI ow often did they pray for a sic

friend and re?oice to see that friend miraclosly healed bythe hand of odI ow often might they ha7e nelt by their

bed and prayed for od to sa7e their friends and familyI

*hey had no idea that they were on their way to hell.

/erhaps one thing cold be sadder. *he decei7ed

!hristians of Eatthew 6 probably did get many of their

friends and family con7erted to their same chrch

con7erted to their 7ery same destiny.

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+light 7ariations notwithstanding most modern

preachers arond the globe whether they are independent

or denominational preach essentially the same gospel

today. 'f yo were to go to any of their chrches and as

them to tell yo what yo mst do to be sa7ed this is abot

what they wold say:

C$ll yo ha7e to do to be sa7ed is repent trst !hrist as

yor own personal +a7ior and accept him into yor heart

by faith.D

*o seal the deal yo wold be told to recite theCsinnerHs prayerD which goes something lie this: Cod '

now that ' am a sinner. ' now that ' cannot sa7e myself.

' am trsting in Jess !hrist as my +a7ior. ' belie7e that

is death and resrrection pro7ided for my forgi7eness. '

trst in Jess and Jess alone as my personal %ord and

+a7ior. *han yo %ord for forgi7ing me and sa7ing me.

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*hey wold tell yo that at this point if yo trly

belie7ed what yo prayed if yo trly trsted !hrist as

yor +a7ior e7en if yo didnHt say the prayer alod yor

sins are atomatically forgi7en and yo atomatically

recei7e the oly +pirit. o are born again and assred of

a place in hea7en. +ome wold e7en say that once yo

accomplish this thoght process yo can ne7er be lost.

*hey will tell yo that yo oght to be baptiAed in

obedience to the %ordHs command bt baptism is not a partof sal7ationB therefore sch obedience is not really

essential. +al7ation comes first simply pon belie7ing

then baptism wold follow. o need not spea in other

tonges when yo recei7e the oly +pirit. 'n fact there

wold probably be no otward sign that yo had recei7ed

it. o wold ha7e to accept it by faith only ?st as yoare sa7ed by faith only.

*his is the gospel of most preachers today. 'f yo are

affiliated with any of the contemporary denominations this

is more than liely what yor chrch teaches. 't is often

referred to as C*he &oman &oad.D

+ome chrches do encorage speaing in tonges bt

do not attach any significance to sal7ation. ;ne is sa7ed

first and then may recei7e the gift of tonges at some later

time. %iewise baptism is strongly rged in many

chrches bt e7en then baptism wold occr as a reslt of

sal7ation.

;f corse there may be e2tenating circmstances.

+omeone might get sa7ed and then die in an accident

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before their schedled baptism or get con7erted on their

deathbed and woldnHt ha7e time to be baptiAed or

anything else. +rely in these circmstances od wold

not condemn anyone for not being baptiAed and speaing

in tonges woldnHt e7en enter into the pictre.

+ince this gospel of sal7ation is representati7e of so

many of todayHs modern preachers we ha7e volunteered

them to stand before s that we may e2amine their gospeland compare it to the gospel preached in the chrch in the

ible. 3ill the 3ord of the %ord confirm that these

preachers are tre men of od or will they be e2posed as

false prophetsI ,ither way the ible is tre and mst be

the deciding factor.

ow donHt get in a lather and stop right here ?st

becase we ha7e dared to >estion other preachersH

gospels. *he apostles warned s to test all preachers so

that we arenHt decei7ed. John warns the chrch in 1 John

4:1GCelo7ed belie7e not e7ery spirit bt try the spirits

whether they are of od: becase many false prophets are

gone ot into the world.D

Eodern preachers do not bac p from what they teach

we are not going to ?dge their personal character and they

coldnHt be false prophets anyway nless we learn

somewhere down the line that their preaching contradicts

the ible in some fashion.

ow can we Ctry the spiritsID *he only way to pt a

preacher on trial to see if he has the spirit of trth or the

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spirit of error is to compare his teaching to the ible. od

tells s in eteronomy 4:# and &e7elation ##:19 not to

add anything to the +criptres or to tae anything from the

+criptres. $ false prophet will not bild on the roc. e

will add something or tae something away from the 3ord

of od not by openly blotting ot a 7erse or physically

writing a new one bt by artfl interpretations by

appealing to the original langage in an attempt to cancel

ot the ibleHs plain ,nglish wording or by sing one passage to try to defeat another.

*his stdy will bring to light many things taght in the

ible regarding water baptism the gift of the oly +pirit

the odhead and ew *estament sal7ation. &ead

careflly becase some things clearly spelled ot in the

ible are simply not taght or are openly denied in most

chrches today.

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'n John :5 Jess said C,N!,/* $ E$ , ;&

;F 3$*,& $ ;F *, +/'&'* , !$;* ,*,&

'*; *, =';E ;F ;.D

'f a person cannot enter into the ingdom of od nless

he is born of water and of the +pirit it is of the tmost

importance that we now and nderstand e2actly what this

new birth really is. Jess doesnHt mince words hereB if

weHre not born of water and of the +pirit weHre not getting

in. %etHs start with Cborn of water.D

+ome people claim that Cborn of waterD refers to thewater in the motherHs womb associated with natral

childbirth. First of all not one 7erse of +criptre spports

that theory. John the aptist was the greatest prophet born

of a woman not born of water. 3hen the fllness of time

was come od sent forth is +on made of a woman not

made of water. owhere in +criptre is any reference

made to natral childbirth as any birth of water. +econdly

if Cborn of waterD referred to natral childbirth then

natral childbirth wold become a condition of sal7ation

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that mst be met by e7ery adlt person. t letHs go ahead

and rewrite the 7erse to see how it worsGC,2cept a man

be born of natral childbirthLhe cannot enter into the

ingdom of od.D *his renders the statement an absrdity.

'n John : Jess told icodems C,2cept a man be

born again he cannot see the ingdom of od.D %ie many

today icodems didnHt nderstand and in 7erse 4 he

tried to mae the new birth a natral physical birth. 'n7erse 5 Jess dealt with icodemsH misnderstanding

saying C,2cept a man be born of water and of the +pirit

he cannot enter into the ingdom of od.D *here are two

prepositional phrases sed as ad7erbs and both modify the

7erb Cbe born.D C,2cept a man be born (owI) of water

and of the +pirit.D ;ne new birthGtwo elements.

't is commonly taght that the CfleshD of 7erse K

e2plains the CwaterD of 7erse 5: C*hat which is born of the

flesh is fleshB and that which is born of the +pirit is spirit.D

owe7er only 7erse 5 defines the elements of the new

birth. 'n 7erse K Jess simply states that flesh begets flesh

and +pirit begets spirit. Eoreo7er for their concept to betre they ha7e to either nowingly or sbconsciosly

rewrite the 7erse to read C*hat which is born of !ater is

fleshB and that which is born of the +pirit is spirit.D

*o get a tre nderstanding of what it means to be born

of water in John :5 we wold ha7e to find the record of

someone actally being born into the ingdom and see if

water plays a part and whether it is reglar water or

amniotic flid.

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Jess did not spea those words directly to yo and meB

e ga7e them to is apostles to gi7e to s. ow did the

apostles respond to is instrctionsI ow did they preach

repentance and remission of sins in JessH nameI ow did

they baptiAe people in the name of the Father and of the

+on and of the oly hostI 3e mst trn to the boo of

$cts to follow throgh and find ot how they obeyed the

Creat !ommissionD Jess ga7e them in Eatthew #8:19

bt we mst remember that Ear and %e are a part ofthat !ommission. Eatthew doesnHt stand alone the ible

cannot contradict itself and the apostles were chosen to

show s the way.

'n the second chapter of $cts we find that after the

oly host fell on the ay of /entecost /eter stood with

the other apostles and preached the first sermon of the ew

*estament !hrch. /eter had the eys of the ingdom (the

chrch) the eys to nloc the door of sal7ation. Jess is

the door bt e ga7e the eys to /eter and e told /eter

bac in Eatthew 1K that e wold stand behind what /eter

preached. ear the end of /eterHs sermon ($cts #:6) the

people belie7ed /eterHs words and were con7icted in their

hearts. *he belie7ers ased CEen and brethren what shall

we doID *hatHs a logical response to the message of !hrist.

$nd what were /eterHs straightforward instrctionsI

&epent, and be bapti'ed every one of you in the

name of (esus )hrist for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. ($cts

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*his deser7es carefl consideration. /eter told the

belie7ers to &,/,* ($nd what elseI) $ ,

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gospel acconts might show somewhat of a transition from

the ;ld !o7enant to the ew !o7enant bt the boo of

$cts is clear and consistent.

'n case thereHs any dobt that $cts #:8 was /eterHs

7ery plan of sal7ation consider $cts #:40. /eter said

C+a7e yorsel7es...D (a call for action on the part of the

belie7ers). 'n $cts #:41 C... they that gladly recei7ed his

word were baptiAed: and the same day there were addednto them abot three thosand sols.D $dded howI

;bedience to /eterHs call to be baptiAed. *he colon after

CbaptiAedD is simple yet ample proof: that which follows

the colon e2plains that which precedes it. erse 4# says

they contined steadfastly in the apostlesH doctrine. *he

only apostlesH doctrine recorded p to this point is spelled

ot from $cts #:14 to $cts #:41. Finally 7erse 46

specifically says people were added to the chrch. *he

boo of $cts is the only boo in the ible with the record

of people actally gaining admittance into the chrch

being born again into the ingdom. ot the boo of John.

ot &omans. ;nly $cts.

's there a contradiction between Eatthew #8:19 and

$cts #:8I $bsoltely not. $cts #:8 flfills Eatthew

#8:19: C*each....baptiAing...in the name.D 'f there were a

contradiction then we wold ha7e to pic and choose one

portion of +criptre o7er another. *hat wold place s as

the final athority. 3ho wold dare to say C'Hll taeEatthew #8:19 o7er $cts #:8D or 7ice 7ersa. *o say C'Hll

tae JessH words o7er /eterHs wordsD is tantamont to

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,ither Jess told the apostles to baptiAe in the titles and

they rebelled or Jess told them to baptiAe in the name of

the Father and of the +on and of the oly host and they

accrately nderstood that name to be Jess.

'f there appears to be a contradiction in the ible we

mst stdy ntil we find any other related passages that

will mae e7erything agree or harmoniAe. *he ible does

not contradict itself. 't is the 3ord of od and weHd betternot try to change it bt rather find ot e2actly what it says

and conform or opinions to that.

id the apostles thin a person cold be sa7ed withot

being baptiAedI ;P %isten to /eter as he emphasiAes to

the chrch what baptism is all abot. 1 /eter :#0-#1 tells

abot oahHs ar: C#0Few that is eight sols were sa7ed

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*he $r was odHs plan of sal7ation for oah. oah

passed throgh the water and escaped the ?dgment of od.

*he other people represented sin. *he same water that

oah passed throgh washed away the other people. $nd

only eight persons were sa7ed. ,7eryone else recei7ed

odHs ?dgment. $ll the people of e7ery single religion

were destroyed no matter how sincere. *hose who li7ed in

remote places and ne7er heard of the ar were destroyed.

,7en if there were e2perienced sea captains with greatships they too wold ha7e perished. *here was only one

plan of sal7ation: C$nd few there be that find it.D 3e are

baptiAed for the remission of sins.

*here are many sch e2amples in the +criptres. *he

children of 'srael passed throgh the &ed +ea on their way

to !anaan. 3hen the ,gyptians tried to follow they were

all washed away. /al said in 1 !orinthians 10:1-K that this

was done as an e2ample for the ew *estament !hrch.

*he children of 'srael were baptiAed nto Eoses. owI 'n

the clod (+pirit) and in the +ea (water). elie7ers pass

throgh the water bt sin cannot follow. *he same water

that sa7es belie7ers washes away sin.

t doesnHt the blood of Jess tae away or sinsI

+re it does bt the >estion is how is the blood

appropriatedI 3e canHt dn orsel7es in a 7at of JessH

blood. 3here in the gospel of the apostles was there a way

to ha7e sins taen away by is bloodI 3ater baptism inthe name of Jess. *hatHs where the blood is applied.

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'n the *abernacle of Eoses the priest had to wash his

hands in the la7er of water after the altar of sacrifice bt

before entering into the presence of the +pirit of the %;&.

*his was a CtypeD of baptism. $nd it was essential too.

ad the priest failed to wash in the water he wold ha7e

died. 'f we are not washed in the waters of baptism we

also will die.

od too a rib from $damHs side to mae his wife btto obtain the bride of !hrist when Jess the second $dam

was pierced on the cross there came ot of his side Cblood

and water.D 'n 1 John 5:8 we are told C*here are three

that bear witness in earth the spirit and the water and the

blood: and these three agree in one.D o wonder yo canHt

get into the ingdom of od withot being born of water.

aptism is where the sacrificial blood of Jess is mingled

with water to wash away sins. $nd with sins washed away

remo7ed from odHs record boo we are Cborn againD to

start a new life with a clean slate.

3hen the +amaritans Celie7ed /hilip preaching the

things concerning the ingdom of od and the name ofJess !hrist they were baptiAed both men and womenD

($cts 8:1#). From this we now that the cr2 of the gospel

of !hrist that /hilip preached was water baptism. 3hen

they belie7edGthey were baptiAed. elie7ed whatI 3hat

he preached. /reached whatI ;b7iosly Jess-name

water baptism. ow did /hilip baptiAe the peopleI 'n thename of the %ord Jess ?st lie /eter did ($cts 8:1K).

either the titles nor the Cbelie7e-onlyD doctrine were a

part of /hilipHs gospel.

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re7ealed to /alI Jess. 3hat name did /eter se to

obtain remission of sinsI Jess. id /al get his sins

washed away by calling on the titles Father +on and oly

hostI o he was told to call on the name in7oe the

$E,.

!an yo ha7e yor sins forgi7en other than by water

baptismI *he apostle /al coldnHt. $fter he belie7ed and

repented after he recei7ed di7ine healing after he accepted!hrist and after he recei7ed the oly host he still had to

be baptiAed in the name of Jess to ha7e his sins washed

away. *his is significant. ad he died on the way to the

ri7er to be baptiAed he wold ha7e died in his sins. ad he

made it to the ri7er bt been baptiAed in the titles he wold

still ha7e died in his sins. *he *rinitarian formla simply

ser7es no prpose in ew *estament water baptism.

id /al go then and preach that same messageI

%oo at the 19th chapter of $cts. /al met twel7e disciples

at ,phess. e identified them as belie7ers. /al new

they were belie7ers bt he did not now if they were born

again so he ased them if they had recei7ed the olyhost since they belie7ed. *hey answered that they had

not. /al didnHt say lie some preachers today C;h yo

got the oly host when yo first belie7ed and accepted

Jess as yor personal +a7ior. o were born again the

moment yo prayed the sinnerHs prayer.D oP e new

that ?st belie7ing was not the same thing as obeying thegospel not the same thing as being born ;F 3$*,& and

;F *, +/'&'*.

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+o mch for /al changing his gospel with the /aline

epistles. +o mch for the &oman &oad philosophy.

*he co7enant of circmcision od made with $braham

in the ;ld *estament was an e7erlasting co7enant. *hat

means it can ne7er be broen. 3e are adopted into the

family of $braham. 3e mst also be circmcised. t

howI 'n the second chapter of !olossians /al tells s that

when we are bried with !hrist in baptism we arecircmcised with the circmcision made withot hands

(circmcision of the heart).

'n the ;ld *estament those not of the circmcision

were ct off from od not partaers of the co7enant.

*oday Jess tells s Ce that belie7eth and is baptiAed

shall be sa7ed.D $ person not baptiAed in the name of Jess

is no better off than an ncircmcised /hilistine and not a

partaer of the co7enant. *hat person is lost.

Eany people go arond saying theyHre in the body of

!hrist. 3ell how does one get into that bodyI Jst by

belie7ingI $ccording to &omans K: we are baptiAed into!hrist. +ome say /al is taling abot +pirit baptism bt

7erse 4 says Cwe are bried with him by baptism into

death.D erse 5 goes on CFor if we ha7e been planted

together in the lieness of his death we shall be also in the

lieness of his resrrection:D o this is water baptism.

$nd notice the Cif .D *hat means itHs conditional. 't goes

withot saying that if yoHre ;* planted in the lieness of

is death (water baptiAed) then yo wonHt be in the

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+imilarly alatians :#6 states: CFor as many of yo

as ha7e been baptiAed into !hrist ha7e pt on !hrist.D 'n

7erse #8 /al says...Ce are all one in !hrist Jess.D ow

does he say we become one in !hrist JessI y being

baptiAed into !hrist. Finally in 7erse #9 /al says thatHs

how we become $brahamHs seed and heirs of the promise.

aptism. *his ties in perfectly with !olossians #:11-1#:

C11'n whom also ye are circmcised with the circmcision

made withot hands in ptting off the body of the sins ofthe flesh by the circmcision of !hrist: 1#ried with him

in baptism wherein also ye are risen with him throgh the

faith of the operation of od who hath raised him from the

dead.D &ead these two passages from the 3ord of od and

then see if yo can reconcile them to the baptism-is-not-

essential-to-sal7ation philosophy.

oes yor preacher twist Ear 1K:1K arond to read

Ce that belie7eth only is atomatically sa7ed and baptism

has nothing to do with sal7ationID 'f he is telling yo that

yo can be sa7ed withot being baptiAed he is openly

contradicting the words of Jess. Jess tells s Ce that

belie7eth and is baptiAed shall be sa7ed.D

oes yor chrch baptiAe in the titles the Father the

+on and the oly host instead of in *, $E, of the

Father and of the +on and of the oly host called for in

Eatthew #8:19I Eatthew #8:19 certainly does not tell s

to be baptiAed in the titles. Eillions of people arond theworld are relying on one 7erse Eatthew #8:19 to 7alidate

the trine formla of baptism bt as we shall see in a

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+o weHre going to analyAe Eatthew #8:19 bt before

we do that (and e7en thogh many may now this 7erse by

heart) letHs go ahead and ha7e a loo at it again.

Matthe! "#:$%

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, bapti'ing

them in the name of the Father, and of the +on, and

of the Holy Ghost:

elow is a grammatical diagram of Eatthew #8:19. 't

may help to CseeD how the different parts of the sentence

interact with each other. For those who are interested the

diagram follows the standards of the &eed-=ellog

diagramming system.

$nd now for an e2planation of the part of the diagram

weHre particlarly interested in: in the name. #n the name

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is an adverbial prepositional phrase that modifies the 7erb

bapti'ing . aptiAing howI &n the nae' *hatHs itGno

other word or phrase in this sentence tells ;3 to baptiAe.

*hat settled letHs mo7e on to the three prepositional

phrases: (1) of the Father (#) of the +on and () of the

Holy Ghost . *hese are adectival phrases and they do not

modify bapti'ing B they modify the singlar non name.

$d?ecti7es answer the >estion which one what ind orhow manyI 'n this case these three phrases are answering

the >estion !hich name-

*he +criptres cannot contradict themsel7es. Eatthew

Ear and %e mst agree with each other and with the

boo of $ctsG&,/,* $ , $/*'O, ,,&

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+earch yor ible. ot one person was e7er baptiAed

with the *rinitarian formla. *rinitarian baptism is a post-

scriptral man-made doctrine. ,7en history records that

nobody was baptiAed in the titles ntil a cople hndred

years after !hrist. $t the !oncil of icaea after the

!hrch of &ome ?oined forces with !onstantine they

stopped preaching one od and started preaching three

gods wrapped p in transparent tape. *hatHs when they

established the whole *rinitarian philosophy.

*here is a Father +on and oly host bt these are

three offices or manifestations of the same person the same

od. ' am a father son and hsband bt ' am not three

persons. Father is not my name and son is not my name.

*hese are ?st titles offices or terms of relationship.

od is a +pirit and od is holyGoly +pirit. od is

;,. e was the Father in creation e too on hmanity

(the +on) to reconcile the world nto 'E+,%F and e

li7es in or hearts as the oly host. *hree officesG;,

;. *he name Jess broght down by the angels

literally means Jeho7ah +a7ior or Jeho7ah is becomesal7ation.

*he +on was ?st the %amb the physical body

employed by od to manifest imself and redeem

manind. od the Father was manifest not od the +on.

Jess was ne7er called od the +on in the ible. e was

both man and od. *he +on (hmanity) was a man. *he

+pirit (the i7inity dwelling inside the +on) was Jeho7ah

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+a7ior the ,ternal od. *wo natres not two persons.

Cear ; 'srael the %ord or od is ;, %;&PD

Jess (the man) speaing to the Father (omnipresent

+pirit) said C' ha7e manifested thy name.D (John 16:K).

3hat name did e manifestI Jess. Jess said e wold

send the oly host in is own name. e also said C'

will not lea7e yo comfortless ' will come to yo.D *hen

there is C!hrist in yo the hope of glory.D 3ho is in yowhen yo recei7e the oly hostI 3ho is the +pirit of the

departed !hristI Jess. /eter actally did baptiAe the

people in the name of the Father and of the +on and of the

oly host and that name is Jess.

3e cannot be Csa7edD apart from ha7ing or sins

forgi7en. ot one apostle e7er preached that ?st belie7ing

or confessing Jess as yor personal +a7ior wold wash

away yor sins. *hey all preached that baptism in the

name of Jess washes away sins. othing else. 3aling to

the front of the chrch wonHt tae away sins. &eciting the

sinners prayer wonHt. *hey taght only one way and

e2plained how the e2amples of the ;ld *estament led p to ew *estament Jess-name water baptism.

*he ew *estament !hrch is the ingdom of od on

the earth in the last days. *his is not to be confsed with

the millennial ingdom that will be set p in 'srael after the

%ordHs physical retrn. *o be Cin !hristD is to be in the

body of !hrist which is to be in the !hrch which is

synonymos with being in the ingdom.

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Finally from the birth of the chrch on the ay of

/entecost throghot the historical record of the chrch in

the ible when people were Cborn againD into the ingdom

of od neither the titles nor amniotic flid were e7er

mentioned. ;n the ay of /entecost /eter ne7er

mentioned natral childbirth or the titles. either did

/hilip $nanias or /al e7er mention them bt they all

preached Jess-name water baptism for the remission of

sins.

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*E+CE,T A MA- BE B./- .0 WATE/ A-1 .0

THE ),&/&T2 HE CA--.T E-TE/ &-T. THE

3&-G1.M .0 G.1'4

*o be born again of the +pirit means to recei7e or to be

filled with or to be baptiAed with the oly host.

3hat happens when a person recei7es the gift of the

oly hostI 's there a way to tell whether or not someone

has recei7ed itI

%etHs start at the beginning. *he ew *estament

!hrch began on the ay of /entecost a few days after

Jess ascended ($cts #). ;n that day the first 1#0 people

recei7ed the oly host and they all spoe in other tonges

as the +pirit ga7e them tterance. ;ther than whatI ;ther

than their own. +peaing in tonges wasnHt a wor

initiated by the disciples. *he oly +pirit that filled them

cased them to spea in tonges. +ome onlooers who

obser7ed the e7ent thoght the disciples were drn on

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new wine and wanted to now what all the tonge-taling

meant.

/eter stood with the rest of the apostles and preached

the first sermon e7er preached in the ew *estament

!hrch ($cts #:14-K). e said the people were not drn

on wine bt C*'+ '+ *$*D ($cts #:1K) prophesied by

the prophet Joel where od said C' will por ot of my

+pirit pon all flesh.D (not ?st this 1#0). TH&) speaing intonges that yo are witnessing is THAT the otporing of

the +pirit. *he disciples were waiting for the C/&;E'+,

;F *, F$*,&D the oly host ($cts 1:4-8 and %e

#4:49) and /eter said C*'+ '+ *$*.D 'n $cts #:

/eter went on to say C*herefore being by the right hand of

od e2alted and ha7ing recei7ed of the Father the

/&;E'+, of the oly host he hath shed forth this

!hich (e no! see and hear'D

/eter told the crowd that what they were witnessing

what they were seeing and hearing was 1#0 people

recei7ing the promise of the Father recei7ing the oly

host. 3hat were they seeing and hearingI /eoplespeaing in tonges ($nd staggeringI 'saiah #8:11 Q #9:9).

*wice in his first sermon in $cts #:1K and $cts #: /eter

nmistaably declared that speaing in tonges reflected

the fact that the disciples had recei7ed the oly host.

$t the end of his sermon the people were priced in

their hearts and ased /eter and the other apostles what

they had to do ($cts #:6). /eter told them in $cts #:8 to

repent and be baptiAed in the name of Jess !hrist for the

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remission of sins and they too cold recei7e the same gift

of the oly host that they were witnessing. /eter said it

was the promise of the Father and in 7erse 9 he said CFor

the promise is nto yo and to yor children and to all

that are afar off e7en as many as the %ord or od shall

call.D C3hat yo are seeing and hearing is the promise the

gift of the oly host and this promise is for e7eryone that

od calls.D *he %ord is still calling people today and the

promise has not changed.

'n 7erse 40 of the #nd chapter of $cts /eter e2horted

the people to sa7e themsel7es. 'n 7erse 41 they that gladly

recei7ed his word were baptiAed and the same day there

were added nto them abot three thosand sols. $nd

finally in 7erse 4# the ible says they contined

steadfastly in the apostlesH doctrine. ;n the ay of

/entecost o7er 000 people were added to the chrch by

obeying the gospel that /eter preached. *hey were

baptiAed in JessH name and recei7ed the promise that they

were seeing and hearing.

e2t /hilip who wasnHt an apostle bt an e7angelistwent down to +amaria and preached !hrist to them ($cts

8). *hey belie7ed they accepted !hrist they were

baptiAed in the name of the %ord Jess they had de7ils cast

ot they were healed and they had great ?oy bt they '

;* ha7e the oly host. *hey did not recei7e it

atomatically at repentance not at acceptance and not at baptism. 't wasnHt ntil the apostles /eter and John came

down from Jersalem and prayed for them that they

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recei7ed the oly host. &ecei7ing the +pirit was a

separate e2perience from belie7ing and miracles.

3hile the ible doesnHt specifically say that the

+amaritans spoe in tonges there are se7eral 7ery

important things to consider. (1) /hilip was most liely

con7erted directly nder /eterHs preaching and /eter

taght that tonges is the e7idence of recei7ing the oly

host. (#) *he response of the people indicated that the plan of sal7ation /hilip preached was the same that /eter

preached in $cts #:8. () &ecei7ing the oly +pirit

definitely did not occr at the moment the people accepted

!hrist. (4) *here was some e7idence or lac of e7idence

that let the apostles now whether the +amaritans had

recei7ed the oly host. 't wasnHt a long-term thing that

yo cold see played ot in their li7es bt an instant

recogniAable sign. (5) +imon the sorcerer didnHt offer

money when he saw de7ils cast ot or healing bt when he

saw the people recei7e the oly host by the laying on of

the apostlesH hands he was impressed enogh to offer

money.

+e7eral years after /entecost /eter preached to the

hose of !ornelis ($cts 10). 3hile /eter was still

speaing the oly host fell on all of them and they all

spoe in tonges. *hatHs e2actly how /eter new that these

entiles had recei7ed the gift of the oly host: CF;&

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the oly host. 3e arenHt told what the missing sign was

in +amaria bt we are told here of a 7ery definite sign.

+o we ha7e the first otporing in $cts # where they

all spoe in tonges and /eter said C*his is that.D e2t

came the +amaritans who did not atomatically recei7e the

oly host. ow we ha7e the hose of !ornelis

recei7ing the oly host where speaing in tonges is

definitely shown to be the e7idence the only e7idence.From this we can only conclde that the missing sign in

+amaria was tonges. *hatHs how the apostles new that

the +amaritans had not recei7ed the oly hostB they did

not hear them spea with tonges.

$cts 19 is another blow to the oly-host-is-recei7ed-

atomatically-with-no-physical-sign theory. *he ,phesians

were already belie7ers when /al met them. *hey had

already repented accepted !hrist and been baptiAed. *hey

were disciples. +till /al ased them if they had recei7ed

the oly host since they belie7ed. *hatHs a pecliar

>estion if people are spposed to recei7e the oly host

atomatically when they accept !hrist as their personal+a7ior when they belie7e. 3hen they answered that they

had not recei7ed it the first thing /al wanted to now was

how they were baptiAed. e re-baptiAed them in the name

of Jess bt they didnHt recei7e the oly host

atomatically then either. 't wasnHt ntil /al laid hands on

them that they recei7ed it and when they recei7ed the olyhost they all spoe in tonges ?st lie in the beginning

on the ay of /entecost.

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3hile there are only three acconts of people actally

speaing in tonges in the boo of $cts the conte2t clearly

demonstrates that tonges is the e7idence (the sign) of

recei7ing the oly host. 'n the boo of %e Jess told

the thief that he wold be with im in paradise. *he same

accont in Eatthew maes no mention of paradise. id the

thief go to paradise or notI e went of corse. Eatthew

didnHt ndo %eHs accontB it ?st focsed on a different

aspect. %iewise if tonges is clearly and nmistaablyshown to be the e7idence of recei7ing the oly host in

the 7ery beginning it isnHt 7oided later simply becase it

isnHt mentioned. %ie baptism it canHt be essential in one

place and not essential in another. 3hen the 000 obeyed

/eterHs gospel on the ay of /entecost they wold ha7e

recei7ed the same oly host e2perience that /eter didand so wold the +amaritans becase what they were

seeing and hearing was promised to e7eryone that od

calls.

*he three instances of people speaing in tonges in the

boo of $cts wasnHt some random sampling either sch as

C;h by the way eight or ten of these one hndred twenty

people spoe in tonges when they recei7ed the oly

host.D o it was a fndamental trth established in the

beginning. C*his is thatD otporing of the +pirit ($cts

#:1K). Jess recei7ed the C/&;E'+,D and has shed forth

the oly host that yo C+,, $ ,$&D ($cts #:).

't was the missing sign that re7ealed that the +amaritanshad not recei7ed the oly host ($cts 8). /eter new

!ornelis had recei7ed the gift of the oly host CFor

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they heard them spea with tongesD ($cts 10). $nd nder

/alHs ministry C*he oly host came on themB and they

spae with tonges and prophesied.D ($cts 19).

%etHs e2amine another lesson of the boo of $cts

eeping in mind what Jess said in John :-5: 3e mst be

born again of water and of the +pirit or we cannot enter

into the ingdom of od. 'n $cts # the message is first

taght: &epent and be baptiAed e7ery one of yo in thename of Jess !hrist for the remission of sins and ye shall

recei7e the gift of the oly host. *here are two ey

elements after repentance: water baptism and recei7ing the

oly host.

$cts 8 gi7es an e2ample of people who belie7ed and

were baptiAed bt who did not recei7e the oly host

right away. *hey had to tarry ntil the apostles came and

prayed for them bt they had to e2perience both things.

$cts 10 is an accont of people who belie7ed and recei7ed

the oly host immediately bt who were not baptiAed.

+o afterward /eter commanded them to be baptiAed in the

name of the %ord. *he same two elements. $cts 19 shows baptiAed belie7ers who had accepted !hrist and were

baptiAed bt who were not baptiAed with the name of Jess

called o7er them and who had not recei7ed the oly host.

/al had to bring these people throgh the birth of water

and the +pirit. e re-baptiAed them in the name of Jess

and then they recei7ed the oly host speaing in tonges ?st as in the beginning. *he people in each e2ample

obeyed the same gospel in the same manner and recei7ed

the same promise. *he difference was ?st in the order of

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occrrence. &epentance and baptism were commanded.

&eceipt of the oly host was promised. $ll three were

essential.

Jess said in John :8 that the wind blows where it

wants to. o canHt see the wind come and yo canHt see

the wind go bt yo 3'%% ,$& *, +;idswold also follow the belie7ers bt there is no e7idence

that lins those signs or casting ot de7ils with recei7ing

the oly host. +peaing in tonges on the other hand is

definitely shown to be the sign of recei7ing the oly host

and follows throghot the boo of $cts and the epistles.

/al tells the chrch in 1 !orinthians 14:## that tonges arefor edifying the saints and are for a +' to nbelie7ers.

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$re yo one of the creatres who heard the gospel and

belie7edI 3as there a sign of tonges when yo recei7ed

the oly hostI 3as there a sondI 'f yo didnHt spea in

tonges maybe the gospel yo heard was a little different

from that preached by the apostles.

*he passages we ha7e ?st re7iewed show that tonges

is the e7idence that someone has recei7ed the gift of the

oly host and not the e7idence that someone has recei7ed

the gift of tonges. 3e need to nderstand the difference.

*his difference will be co7ered in a later chapter.

*he record of people being con7erted by the ew

*estament ospel is in $cts # $cts 8 $cts 10 and so on.

*he general introdctory teaching of Jess in John :1K is

not how the apostles preached sal7ation to the lost. Jess

did not tell icodems to tae Cbelie7e onlyD into all the

world beginning at John :1K. $nd neither is the

discssion abot confession in the 10th chapter of the letter

to the chrch at &ome an e2ample of ew *estament

sal7ation.

3hen people were con7erted by the gospel of the

apostles they repented they were baptiAed in the name of

the %ord Jess !hrist for the remission of sins and theyrecei7ed the oly host. $nd when they recei7ed the oly

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*he *rinity doctrine represents that od e2ists in three

persons: od the Father od the +on and od the oly

+pirit. 't frther teaches that these three persons are co-

e2istent co-e>al and co-eternal. *he ible howe7er

does not e7en imply that there are any CpersonsD in any

odhead nor does the word *rinity e7er appear. From

beginning to end the ible repeatedly proclaims that ;

'+ ;,. $nd the one od of the ;ld *estament is the 7ery

same od of the ew *estament.

*he Father is od the oly host is od and Jess is

od. ow can these three be one and not be three separate personsI

First of all consider some attribtes pecliar to od

alone. 3e now that Cod is a +piritD (John 4:#4).

3hate7er else we belie7e abot od mst agree with od

is a +pirit. C'n the beginning od (od is a +pirit) created

the hea7en and the earth.D od is a +pirit and e is holy.

e is therefore a oly +pirit. 3e now that the %ord is

omniscient omnipresent omnipotent and e is in7isible.

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e is all-nowing and all-powerfl. e fills the whole

ni7erse e doesnHt tae p space and e has no mass.

e is e7erywhere at once and we canHt see im. et for

all of this the ible states that od created man in is

;3 'E$,. 'f od is an in7isible +pirit how did e

create man in is own imageI Eaybe the answer to this

riddle will gi7e s a better nderstanding of od.

3hen od created man in is own image $dam wasthe man e created. ,2actly how then was $dam created

in the image of odI &omans 5:14 states that $dam was

patterned after Jess. ,7en thogh $dam came 4000 years

before Jess the ible says $dam was C*he figre of him

that was to come.D

3ell then if $dam was created in the image of od

and $dam was patterned after Jess is Jess the image of

odI !olossians 1:15 tells s that Jess is indeed the

'E$, ;F *, ''+'%, ; (od is a +pirit).

!olossians #:9 also tells s that all the fllness of the

odhead (eity) dwells in !hrist bodily (flesh). $nd #

!orinthians 5:19 says: C*o wit that od WA) &- !hristreconciling the world nto 'E+,%F.D ow what does

this 7erse really tell sI od was in !hrist. od (*he

in7isible +pirit) was in !hrist (the flesh) reconciling the

world nto imself. *he Father was in the +on i7inity

was in hmanity. 'n John 14:10 Jess said Celie7est

tho not that ' am in the Father and the Father in meI thewords that ' spea nto yo ' spea not of myself: but the

0ather that d!elleth in e he doeth the wors.D ebrews

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1:1- says it e7en plainer: Jess is the ,N/&,++ 'E$,

of odHs person.

;ne of the first things the Jews had to learn is recorded

in eteronomy K:4: Cear ; 'srael: the %;& or od is

;, %;&.D Jess confirmed this in Ear 1#:#8-0 as

the greatest commandment and the scribes agreed in 7erses

# and saying Cone other bt e.D

C*he %;&D is translated from the ebrew proper

name Jeho7ah. %etHs re7iew a cople of ible passages

which show s that Jeho7ah was the only od of the ;ld

*estament. 'saiah 4:: CFor ' am the %;& (Jeho7ah)

thy od (,lohim)(od is a +pirit) the ;% ;, of

'srael thy sa7ior.D 'saiah 44:#4: C*hs saith the %;&

(Jeho7ah) thy redeemer and he that formed thee from the

womb ' am the %;& (Jeho7ah) that maeth all thingsB

that stretcheth forth the hea7ens $%;,B that spreadeth

abroad the earth by E+,%F.D

+o did od the Father ha7e any help in the creationI

3as Jess there physicallyI 3as e a separate di7ine person with the FatherI 3as e also omniscient and

omnipresentI 3as e an in7isible +pirit the +on of an

in7isible +piritI 3as e the eternal +on as the *rinity

doctrine declaresI 3hat eternal mother wold ha7e gi7en

birth to this ,ternal +onI *he ible ne7er refers to Jess as

the ,ternal +on bt the egotten +on. ,ternal +on and

egotten +on are opposite terms. For that matter ,ternal

and +on are mtally e2clsi7e terms. ,ternal means

withot beginning and withot end. $ son on the other

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hand has a beginning by definition as he cold not e2ist

ntil he was fathered by another. $nd to say that the +on is

eternally begotten is simply ridiclos. Jeho7ah said that

e made all things by imself alone.

$nd now letHs get bac to Jess being the image and

7ery person of od. 3e are told in Eatthew 1:#: C$nd

shall call his name ,mmanel which being interpreted is

od with s.D 3hen was the one od of the ;ld*estament with sI $nd in what formI ow we see od

(Jeho7ah i7inity +pirit 'n7isible Father) with s in the

form of a man (lamb slain from the fondation of the

world made of a woman made nder the law).

*he Father (in7isible +pirit) robed imself in flesh

(body +on). ;ne od ;ne /erson ;ne ody. ' ha7e a

body sol and spirit bt ' am only one person. 1 *imothy

#:5 states that there is one mediator between od and men

the E$ !hrist Jess. 3e see here that mediator refers to

the hmanity of Jess. *he distinction is not between

persons bt between di7inity and hmanity between the

,ternal +pirit and the flesh. Jess the man was not od atall bt Jess the %ord was Jeho7ah +a7ior. alatians :#0

states: Cow a mediator is not a mediator of one bt ;

'+ ;,.D $nd 1 *imothy :1K tells s that ; was

manifest in the flesh. od (;ne +pirit eity Father) was

manifest in the flesh (man hmanity +on). /al wrote in 1

!orinthians 8:K Ct to s there is bt ;, ; theFather.D +o who was manifest in the fleshI *he Father.

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is baptiAed only in the name of Jess the Father od and

+pirit od may be offended. t there is no remission of

sins in the titles. 3ithot remission yo wold therefore

die in yor sins.

'f the apostles didnHt gi7e s the *rinity then who didI

*he same fols who ga7e s bowing to states conting

repetitios prayers with beads calling priests CFatherD and

praying to a dead woman. $ll these things are opposed tothe ible. *hese things are gross sin. $nd to worship a

trine conglomeration in7ented by men is idolatry. 't robs

od of is glory. *he od of the ible is the only tre

od. *he three-in-one god in7ented in the early centries

is an idol becase it is not the od re7ealed in the ible.

3e might as well bow down to a golden calf as to worship

a *rinity.

Jeho7ah the od and +a7ior of the ;ld *estament

came to earth in a hman body and while e has sed

other names to re7eal imself in the past in Jess !hrist

e has made nown is greatest name (/hilippians #:9).

e was Jeho7ah-+halom or peace and Jeho7ah-Jireh or pro7ider bt Jess is CJeho7ah +a7iorD or CJeho7ah is

become sal7ation.D Jess encompasses all that od e7er

was or is. Jess is or peace or pro7ider or healer or

e7erything.

,7en thogh od was in !hrist when e waled the

earth it did not diminish is omnipresent +pirit that fills

all things. 't was also no great feat for the omnipresent

+pirit to spea from hea7en while Jess the man was

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being baptiAed and the do7e descended (which was ?st a

sign for John the aptist and not the identification of a

person).

' gess the %;& Jeho7ah (prophesying abot the

+on that wold be born 600 years in the ftre) sms it p

pretty well imself in 'saiah 5#:K C*herefore my people

shall now my nameB therefore they shall now in that day

that ' am he that doth speaB behold '* '+ '.D 'saiah #K:19is e7en clearer C*hy dead men shall li7e together with my

dead body shall they arise.D o can see this flfilled in

Eatthew #6:5#-5 C5#$nd the gra7es were openedB and

many bodies of the saints which slept arose 5and came ot

of the gra7es after his resrrection.D Jeho7ah the ;ne od

of the ;ld *estament referring to Jess !hrist said CE

;.D

3hen the rich man of %e 1K died Cin hell he lift p

his eyes.D 3ho went to hellI *he rich man. ear in mind

thogh that he didnHt tae his body with him. *he body

was ?st the physical image of the rich manHs person. *he

rich man was in hell while his body went to the gra7e andthe spirit that animated his body retrned to od.

3e are spirit beings li7ing in bodies of flesh. Jess was

a spirit being li7ing in a body of flesh. t who was the

person li7ing in JessH bodyI Cod was in !hristBD C*he

Father that dwelleth in meD and Cod was manifest in the

flesh.D 3e are not eternal so before or bodies were born

we didnHt e2ist bt before od made is body e was

still the great C' $E.D

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$dam was the figre of im that was to come. $dam

was created in the image of od. *he image of od is

Jess. $damHs body looed lie odHs body. C*he first

man is of the earth earthy: the second man is the %ord

from hea7en.D (' !orinthians 15:46).

*he apostle /al new that Jess was Jeho7ah manifest

in the flesh and not ?st Jeho7ah Jr. e wrote to the

,phesians C*here is one body and one +pirit e7en as yeare called in one hope of yor callingB ;ne %ord one faith

one baptism ;ne od and Father of all who is abo7e all

and throgh all and in yo all.D (,phesians 4:4-K). 3ho is

in yo when yo recei7e the oly +piritI *he C+piritD of

!hrist the Father. od is a holy in7isible +pirit. /al also

wrote to *its C%ooing for that blessed hope and the

glorios appearing of the great od and or +a7ior Jess

!hrist.D (*its #:1). *he +on of od was a man bt Jess

was more than a +on and more than a manB e was

,mmanel od with s. Jess is or great od and

+a7ior.

*he confsion occrs becase some people ha7e triedto retrofit the +criptres to pro7e that the one tre od

e2ists as three members of a race of gods. John 1:1 is sed

by *rinitarians to try to pro7e that Jess was physically

with od in the beginning. C'n the beginning was the

3ord and the 3ord was with od and the 3ord was

od.D C3ordD here is translated from the ree wordC%ogosD which means thoght or i7ine ,2pression.

C3ordD does not translate +; or !&'+*. +o when

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reads: 'n the beginning was the +on and the +on was

3'* od and the +on was od. *hey want this to mean

that Jess was a separate god person beside or 3'* od

the Father. *his is to say that the +on was od Calso.D

C*he +on was od bt not the Father od.D *his is

e2actly how the Jeho7ahHs 3itnesses got the idea that Jess

was Ca god.D *hey say e is Ca godD bt not Cthe od.D

*he following are ?st a few passages that mst beharmoniAed with John 1:1...

1. et. K:4: *he %ord or od is ;, %;&.

#. John 4:#4: ; '+ $ +/'&'*.

. 'saiah 4:10-11: efore me there was no od

formed neither shall there be after me. ' e7en '

am the %;&B and ,+', E, there is ;

+$';&.

4. 'saiah 4:15: ' am the %ord...the ;% ;,.

5. 'saiah 44:K: ' am the first and ' am the lastB and,+', E, there is no od.

K. 'saiah 44:8: 's there a od ,+', E,I ea

there is ; ;B ' now not any.

6. 'saiah 44:#4: ' am the %ord that maeth all thingsB

that stretcheth forth the hea7ens $%;,B thatspreadeth abroad the earth E+,%F.

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8. et. #:9: ' e7en ' am he and there is no od

C3'*D me.

3eHll go ahead and rewrite John 1:1 thogh

sbstitting C+onD for C3ordD bt this time weHll also

sbstitte CFatherD for CodD the way the *rinitarians want

it: C'n the beginning was the +on and the +on was with the

Father and the +on was the Father.D &ewriting scriptre is

tricy bsiness. *he 3ord was od imself not odalso. *he 3ord was odGod was the 3ord.

$nd now 7erse : C$ll things were made by him.D

3ho made all thingsI *he one od of the ;ld

*estament...C'n the beginning od...D

erse 14: C$nd the 3;& was made flesh and dweltamong s.D 3ho was the 3;&I od imself. e is a

+pirit in7isible e7erywhere at once...*he e7erlasting

Father.

erse 14 contined: C$nd we beheld his glory the

glory $+ ;F the only begotten of the Father.D 3hose glory

did we beholdI odHs glory. ow did we behold odHs

gloryI $+ ;F a +on. 3e did not behold odHs glory as of

the spreme creator of the ni7erse bt $+ ;F the only

begotten of the Father. *his is 7ery clearly confirmed in

ebrews 1:1-: Cod...hath in these last days spoen nto

s by his +on...3ho being the brightness of his glory and

the e2press image of his person...D 3hose gloryI odHsglory. Jess is the brightness of odHs glory and the

e2press image of odHs person.

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'saiah 9:K declares that the +on wold be none other

than the e7erlasting Father. *his is the only place in the

=ing James ible that the term ,7erlasting Father is sed

and it is attribted to Jess. $s srely as Jess is the /rince

of /eace e is also the e7erlasting Father. od is a +pirit

the +on of od was a manGJess is both.

3hen +tephen was being stoned he looed p into

hea7en and saw the glory of od and Jess standing on theright hand of od ($cts 6:55). id he see the Father sitting

on is throne in all is glory and Jess standing on is

right handI o he coldnHt. *he Father is an in7isible

+pirit that fills the ni7erse. Co man hath seen od at any

time.D e saw the glory of od in the face of Jess !hrist.

+tanding on odHs right hand is figrati7e and merely

shows Jess in a position of athority. # !hronicles 1K:9

says: CFor the eyes of the %ord rn to and fro throghot

the whole earth.D *his doesnHt literally mean that od has

a big pair of eyes rnning all o7er the place. %iewise an

omnipresent in7isible +pirit wold not ha7e a literal right

hand. *he only person +tephen cold possibly ha7e seen

was Jess.

*hen notice how +tephen called on od: C+tephen

calling pon od and saying %ord Jess recei7e my

spirit.D e saw the brightness of odHs glory. e saw

Jess !hrist. *hen he called on od bt he called od by

the name that is abo7e e7ery name he called im Jess.

$fter the resrrection the flesh and +pirit were

permanently nited in the glorified body of Jess. Jess

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said in Eat. #8:18: C$ll power is gi7en nto me in hea7en

and in earth.D Jess is now the head of all principality and

power (!ol. #:10). $ll the fllness of the odhead now

dwells in !hrist bodily (*he ible ne7er says that !hrist is

in the odhead bt that the odhead dwells in the body of

!hrist). odhead simply means di7inityB it isnHt some ind

of a thing with persons in it. 'ndeed &omans 1:#0 speas

of Cis odheadD Cis i7inityD (possessi7e). $nd

doesnHt this go hand-in-hand with # !orinthians 5:19 Codwas in !hristDI *he only od any of s will e7er see is

Jess !hrist. *o im shall e7ery nee bow and e7ery

tonge confess that e is %ord of %ords and =ing of =ings.

3hat Jeho7ah was in the ;ld *estament Jess is in the

ew. Jeho7ah was the ' $E Jess is the ' $E. Jeho7ah

was the =ing of =ings Jess is the =ing of =ings.

Jeho7ah was the &edeemer Jess is the &edeemer.

Jeho7ah created all things Jess created all things. $nd we

cold go on and on and on. Jess is the e2press image of

odHs person. 3hen we call on od today we call im by

is greatest name. 3hate7er we do in word or deed we do

in the name of Jess. 3hen John went p into hea7en in

the boo of *he &e7elation he saw one throne and ;,

that sat on the throne. e saw the $lpha and ;mega the

beginning and the ending *he $lmighty and is name was

Jess.

*ae a loo at any artistic depiction of the *rinity. 'nmany cases three separate beings are clearly shown. ;f

corse occasionally there will be a single being with three

faces somehow merged together in some odd way on a

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single head. =eep in mind that the ible clearly states we

are made in is image (enesis 1:#K). %ast ' checed there

are not too many of s going arond with three faces

smooshed onto one head. ot too many of s going arond

as three persons in that case either.

' challenge yo to loo at this 14th centry depiction of

the *rinity and say to yorself “# B/#0 #1 21/3 21

G2"4H 5#+%+ #1 %H& P&+21+.

C3aitD yo say C # donHt belie7e od is three

indi7idalsID 3ell this is an accrate description of the

*rinity. &ead some of yor chrch dogma or loo it p in3ebster. *he *rinity doctrine really does claim that od

e2ists in *&,, /,&+;+. $ person is an entity an

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indi7idal a being. *he only way to say that the *rinity is

one is lie saying that the !ity !oncil is one. *he !ity

!oncil is made p of three hman persons bt they are

one concilGone grop of hmans. *he *rinity is made

p of three god personsGone grop of gods.

elow are a copies of two entries from the 196 edition

of !orld*s Popular ncyclopedia Gone for *rinity and one

for aptism.

ree thoghtI ree /hilosophyI !ol. #:9: Ceware

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deceit...D *he flly de7eloped *rinity was the wor of the

early centries. /olytheism is the belief in more than one

od. *he *rinity is not a mysteryB it is a lie.

From the earliest times aptism was ,++,*'$%.

*he *rinitarian formla has been >estioned. obody in

the chrch in the ible was e7er baptiAed in the three titles.*he con7erts were always baptiAed in the name of Jess.

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obody was baptiAed in the three titles ntil a cople

hndred years after !hrist.

ow hereHs an entry from a more modern boo: the

199 edition of Grolier*s ncyclopedia...

*hree persons nited or ?oined together into one od

all each sharing.

$nd how abot thisI C*he doctrine of the *rinity is

post-scriptral.D /ost-scriptralP $fter the ible. ot in

the ible. ow plain cold it beI o matter how mch

people try to !hristianiAe it the *rinity is three gods in a

one-god mas. *he worship of trine or mltiple gods has

its roots in abylonian paganism.

*he proponents of the *rinity tell s that there are three

di7ine persons and this grop of persons eternally ?oined

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p to be one od. *he ible says Cear ; 'srael: the

%ord or od is ;, %;&.D

/erhaps one final point shold be made before we lea7e

the *rinity.

*he ;ld *estament was written basically in the ebrew

langage and the ew *estament was primarily written in

the ree. !riosly the word %rinity is deri7ed from a

%atin word. 't didnHt come from the ;ld *estament

prophets or the ew *estament writersB it came from

&ome.

*he *rinity doctrine was not created in a corner either.

o can go to the library and disco7er the names of the

men who in7ented it and when they introdced it into thechrches. o can also disco7er that it too a few hndred

years to flly de7elop.

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*he eighth chapter of $cts gi7es a detailed record of a

tre ew *estament preacher an e7angelist carrying the

gospel from Jersalem to another town: C/hilip went down

to +amaria and preached !hrist to them.D

,7eryone in town belie7ed /hilipHs preaching. *hey

were then Cbelie7ers.D *hey accepted the preaching of

/hilipG/hilip preached !hristGso they CacceptedD !hrist.

Eany had de7ils cast ot many were healed and there was

great ?oy. *hese people were ha7ing chrchP ,7en +imon

the sorcerer belie7ed and followed /hilip arond watching

all the miracles.

Jess said that e2cept a man is born of water and of the

+pirit he cannot enter into the ingdom of od. From all

that we ha7e read in the +criptres so far Cborn of waterD

is baptism in the name of Jess and Cborn of the +piritD is

the in-filling of the oly host e7idenced by speaing in

tonges. /hilip is a tre man of od who was con7erted by

/eterHs gospel and certainly not a false prophet. id water

and the +pirit play a part when /hilip preached !hristI

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$cts 8:1#: C3hen they belie7ed /hilip preaching the

things concerning the ingdom of od and the name of

Jess !hrist they were baptiAed both men and women.D

!arefl e2amination re7eals that preaching !hrist

amonted to preaching the Cingdom of od and the name

of Jess !hrist.D 3hile we arenHt gi7en any of the words

that /hilip preached we can now from the response of the

people that he preached Jess-name baptism. *he

+amaritans were baptiAed in the name of Jess as the directand only response to /hilipHs preaching of the name of

Jess !hrist. erse 1K pro7es that he baptiAed in the name

and not the titles. ;ay thereHs the water.

/hilip preached the birth of the +pirit too. erses 14-

1K tell s that when the apostles at Jersalem heard that

+amaria had recei7ed the gospel they sent /eter and John

to pray for them Cthat they might recei6e the Hol( GhostD

becase Cas yet he had fallen on ;, ;F *,E: only

they were baptiAed in the name of the %ord Jess.D /hilip

preached ew *estament sal7ation ?st lie /eter did and

the +amaritans obeyed the same way the people in $cts #

obeyed /eter. *he people belie7ed were baptiAed in JessH

name and now are waiting tarrying for the oly host.

'snHt this criosI *his taes place some years after the

chrch was established on the ay of /entecost. *his is the

same !hrch $ge that we li7e in today. *he people had

de7ils cast ot they were healed they had great ?oy theywere belie7ers they were baptiAed and they accepted

!hrist bt they ' ;* ha7e the oly +pirit. *hey mst

not ha7e recei7ed it the moment they recited the sinnerHs

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prayer. $nd they cannot enter into the ingdom of od

withot it.

ereHs another crios thing: +imon the sorcerer ne7er

offered money when he saw healing. e didnHt offer

money when he saw de7ils cast ot. t when he saw the

people recei7e the oly host he plled ot his wallet.

3hat did +imon obser7e that impressed him soI 3old

+imon pay money if he saw someone recei7e the olyhost in yor chrchI

$fter stdying the e7ents in +amaria the following

>estions are offered to pro7oe thoghtfl consideration:

1. 'f a person is Csa7edD has his sins forgi7en and

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