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Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;
The correct procedure of obtaining salvation is one of the principles of the Apostles’ Doctrine. Advancing from that, is learning to live holy in this sinful world, and the learning about Yeshua (Matt 11:29).
Of course, there are those who will still want to cling to the false Catholic/Protestant teaching of “the Trinity,” the “no works” (faith alone) doctrine, “the (unbiblical) sinner’s prayer”, or other non-sense that can’t be found in the bible, such as “just accepting Jesus into your heart”. It grieves my spirit to see all of the lies put on the internet. If you think you can board the flight to Heaven with something other than the documented credentials, you are mistaken. Depending on who will be your judge at the White Throne Judgment, because of your unbelief, you may be cast into the Lake of Fire to be tormented forever. It is well worth the extra effort.
One popular (defensive) argument is that “the thief on the cross wasn’t baptized”, which is another example of spiritual laziness. Why wouldn’t you want to be baptized? The blood of Yeshu had not yet anointed the Mercy Seat, and the thief died before then. Also, false teachers often point to the jailor in Acts 16:26-31 and stop at verse thirty-one. They avoid verse thirty-three, where the jailor and all his house were baptized.
Woe unto them that only base their salvation on what they read in the epistles, instead of the directives in the book of Acts. The first altar call made by the church is found in Acts 2:38 which says:
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
You will find this baptism procedure given to converts in Acts 8:16, 10:48, and 19:5. Many perform what is called “the gospel long jump”. They run as fast as they can through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, then take a big leap (over the book of Acts) and land on Romans 10:9, which says,
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.
They avoid the directives in the book of Acts. That is spiritual laziness and a trick of Satan, embraced by those that try to counterfeit their way to Heaven. They bypass the “no trespassing” warning sign given at Romans 1:7, which says,
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
You have to become a saint first before Romans 10:9 applies to you.
Another falsehood that Satan’s minions use is the misuse of Ephesians 2:8-9. The correct understanding of the two verses is that nothing that mankind created or installed on his own, provided salvation. Again, they run past the “no trespassing” sign at Ephesians 1:1, which says the letter is for the saints, and not for sinners.
Those that follow the “watered down” gospels are the ones that need “assurance of salvation”, because they have not experienced the real rebirth yet.
Now it is up to you to decide what path in eternity you want to take. If you want to make the rapture, you must
(1) repent of all wrongdoing,
(2) be water-immersed using the name of Yeshua (Lord Jesus),
and
(3) receive the Ghost of Yeshua. It does not matter if you receive the “Ghost” first, before water baptism.
Remember, Matthew 28:19 in the English bible is a Catholic forgery. Jesus never said any such thing. However, if you just want to live forever in peace in this universe, just repent, be righteous, and do not take the mark of the beast. But you will stand trial at the White Throne Judgment, and you will have to hope that whoever is your judge will let you live forever in serenity.
One concern that I have is the dilemma of Trinitarian Pentecostals, such as the Assemblies of God denomination. They have the Ghost of Yeshua, but do not have remission of sins, since they water immerse using the Catholic forgery. They could very well be caught up in the rapture, but still be sent to everlasting torment.
Please read the following verses in Matthew – 7:21-23, 8:11-12, and what I think is the rapture – 25:31-46. It could be that even having the Ghost of Yeshua, and making the rapture, not having remission of sins may cause them to be later cast into everlasting torment, because of their unbelief in His name. But I don’t know.
However, I do know that they will be separated from those that have taken on the name of Yeshua the Messiah, to a place that they do not want to be.
In closing, please go read Matthew 13:24-30. It is the “wheat and the tares” parable that Yeshua gave to His disciples.
Now let me explain. After the Apostles died, many men started inventing their own doctrines. Constantine wanted an “universal religion” for his empire, so Babylonian sun god worship was blended with parts of early Christianity that evolved into Catholicism. Using a man named Muhammad, Catholicism gave birth to Islam, because the Pope wanted control of Jerusalem. With awareness of the evils of the Catholic church, but out of ignorance of the truth, various Protestant faiths were born out of the Reformation.
Also, there have been evil men that have started religions, and people have been foolish enough to follow them. Ever heard of Joseph Smith, Charles Taze Russell, or Elijah Robert Poole? There are presently thousands of churches, even with huge memberships, that merely “water down” the gospel. That is why so many people flock to those assemblies. Only the original Apostles’ Doctrine will provide salvation from sin and spiritual death. Satan could not destroy the original faith, so he created many false religions in order to hide the true faith.
Therefore, with this information that has been given to you, the choice is yours to make. What do you think Yeshua will accept?
The end.
Staff Writer; Herman Cummings
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In His conversation with the rich young ruler, Christ did not teach that we are saved by the works of the Law. The Bible’s message is that salvation is by grace through faith (Romans 3:20, 28; 4:6; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:9; 2 Timothy 1:9). Rather, Jesus used the man’s love of money to show how the man fell short of God’s holy standard—as do we all. The rich young ruler needed the Savior, and so do we.
The Great White Throne Judgment, described in Revelation 20:11-15, is the final judgment where all the dead, both great and small, will stand before God. This event is often depicted as the ultimate moment of divine justice, where the eternal destinies of all people are determined.
However, it’s important to understand that believers in Christ are not subject to this judgment for condemnation. Jesus Himself said in John 5:24, “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.” This means that believers have already passed from death to life and will not face judgment for their sins because they have been fully forgiven through Christ’s sacrifice (Hebrews 10:14).
The Great White Throne Judgment is primarily for those who have rejected Christ. Their names are not written in the book of life, and they are judged according to their deeds, which cannot save them (Revelation 20:15). This judgment results in eternal separation from God, often referred to as the “second death” or being cast into the lake of fire.
For believers, the assurance is that their sins have been forgiven once and for all, and they are eternally secure in Christ (Colossians 2:13-14; Hebrews 10:17-18). They will not face this judgment because their names are written in the book of life, and they are part of God’s family forever (John 10:28-29).
The Great White Throne Judgment is the final judgment for those who have not accepted Christ. Believers are assured of their eternal security and will not face this judgment, as their sins have been fully forgiven through Jesus’ finished work on the cross (Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:24; Hebrews 10:14).
What is missed here and in most sermons today is that God’s activities toward men occasionally changes and so do His expectations of them. Check the changed expectations in early Genesis where men were beating up on each other, so He drowned them all except for 8 of Noah’s. Then after several global failures to meet with God’s expectations God found a single individual and worked with just him and his descendants to give man another chance to be honorable towards each other.
More recently, God actually submitted to material being, thus giving up some intimacy with the Father in order to be close to mankind. Thus another change. Jesus should have been honored as Israel’s messiah but wasanent, So, after rejection by Jews (John 1:1-14) He was given a false trial, crucifixion and wonder of wonders became alive after 3 full days in a new body that proved to his contemporaries that the grave was inadequate to hold him, Satan was not victorious, and resurrection becomes assured for ALL those who seek Him as savior – not just Israelites. Now, some of the Law is moved from primacy in salvation to a guide for saved individuals. But this will end soon so get with God’s plan NOW to remove the risk of eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
A baptism is an IMMERSION. A person who has been baptized is a person who has been immersed in something, because that’s what the word means.
Many have the idea that all baptisms are WATER baptisms, but this isn’t true. In Matthew 3:11, John the Baptist speaks of THREE different baptisms in one verse. He mentions WATER baptism, HOLY GHOST baptism, and FIRE baptism. One gets you wet, one gets you into the body of Christ, and one gets you into Hell! There’s more than one kind of baptism, so we need to avoid using the word too loosely.
A person is baptized by the Holy Ghost the very moment they receive Christ as Lord and Savior (I Cor. 12:13). This particular baptism is a SPIRITUAL baptism, and it should never be confused with WATER baptism (although it usually is). This spiritual baptism can be found in I Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 4:5, Romans 6:3-4, and Galatians 3:27. It is not a water baptism, for water baptism places no one into the body of Christ. A person is saved by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8-9). Paul said that Christ sent him not to baptize, but to preach the gospel in I Corinthians 1:17, and “the gospel” does NOT include water baptism (I Cor. 15:1-4). Water baptism puts you into water! The city sewer system does not remove sin and babies being sprinkled puts them into nothing.
As far as water baptism, almost every covenant had a sign or token along with it. For Noah, it was the rainbow; for Abraham, it was circumcision; for Moses, it was the Sabbath; and for the new covenant of grace, it is baptism by water. None of these were the covenant itself but a token of one’s entry into a covenant with God. All were visible means for the participants in it. Baptism is to identify with a person, a group of people, or the message. As Christians this has been practiced as an ordinance. It is a symbol and witness of the change of ownership that has taken place for us and of course a baby cannot do.
This is nothing more than man-made foolishness.
YEP!
Quotes: “When Yeshua ascended for the final time to Heaven (June 10, AD 28), ten days before the Day of Pentecost, He physically merged with Yehovah, such that they became one being.”—Answer: Physically merged with Yehovah? I remember reading these verses, Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; (Yeshua’s resurrected human body became Yehovah’s “ARK of the new covenant” just as the old testament Ark , made by Moses–now Yeshua’s resurrected body not made by human hands but GOD. And there’s only one true GOD, John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know “thee the only true God”, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.–Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and “there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament:”, yes sir, Yeshua’s resurrected body became the dwelling place of GOD’s SPIRIT in “ONE THRONE” in heaven. And also about Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost posted here somewhere by the same author of Black man, —I remember Jesus saying in John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. 26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.(Jesus human spirit(ghost) cannot be everywhere and in every believer, but the Holy Spirit of Almighty GOD can do that only.
It may not be man-made. This organization identifies clear departures from Scripture but gets some things right also. Remember how Satan approached Eve with truth, half-truth followed by an outright lie.
1) Writer shows superior understanding by considering the audience in the record. Paul writes nearly exclusively to the REDEEMED while Jesus spoke to Israel as the MESSIAH of a disobedient people. And James writes not the Church (to the saved of this dispensation – see vs 1 of Chap. 1). James writes encouragement and challenges to Jews under pressure to revert to OT conduct or worse, worse than those addressed in the Hebrews.
This writer helps expose the common error of holding all scripture as applicable to all people for all time, a grave error but then he commits worse errors.
The thief on the cross didn’t get baptized nor the dedication ceremony was not effective to be saved those days, actually “all” in the days of Noah, waited to hear the Gospel from Jesus/Yeshua himself , in 1 Peter 3:19 by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.–and in 1 Peter 4:For for this cause was “the gospel preached also to them that are dead,”(those spirit in prison in Noah’s days) that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. Water baptism requirement to be saved started during the day of Pentecost, in Acts 2:38 where 3 thousand souls were baptized for the remission of sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, the beginning of the CHURCH.
And may I include the importance of water and blood that poured out HIS side, when the soldier pierced his side to make sure HE was dead–that’s why baptism required water and blood that poured out of HIM, for the remission of sins and the water symbolized death—-every believer’s flesh must die, to be born in water and in the spirit, you must be born again! If you’re not baptized in Jesus/Yeshua’s name—you’re still an “unbeliever” period according to HIS own words”—John 3:5, Mark 16:16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Both of you called it works—but the doctrine of Yeshua/Jesus in Mark 16:16 is a command — He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. So, it is in OBEDIENCE and not work, same as Abraham told to sacrificed Isaac—it is in Obedience to the command. Anyway, GOD in heaven required or demands “water baptism” in Jesus/Yeshua’s name (Acts 4:12, 2:38). —-John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.—–Yes water baptism saved, 1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: –Those believers in the Trinity and got baptized in the trinity titles, will be “left behind” like the 5 virgins with no oil in their lamps—Revelation 3:8 “and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.”, yes sir, trinitarian did not obeyed Jesus Christ doctrine and denied “Jesus/Yeshua’s name in their trinitarian water baptism, that’s the only place where those believers “denied” HIS name.
That’s the reason only the Philadelphia Church given the promised in verse 10 of “caught up”–10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.—-The other 6 Churches ( trinitarian?) all had “rebuked, repent command or else. Only the Philadelphia beleivers then and now, who are/were baptized in Jesus/Yeshua’s name and followed/obeyed HIS doctrine will be the 5 virgins with oil in their lamps. Amen, Maranatha Lord Jesus/Yeshua
Good article, but a few disagreements. 1 What can a child do to be born? Nothing, the parents did it all. So I do believe the no works doctrine, just acceptance. Meaning I do not work to get saved, I work because I am saved. Christ paid it ALL, not some.
2. If a person is raptured, they are with Christ, they will be judged on their works for their rewards, it is like going to a banquet, you are waiting on your trophy, not your punishment, remember the greatest reward is being with Christ. As he told Abraham in Genesis 15, ” I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.” The Great white throne judgement is for sinners, it determines their total punishment, it is not for those who have accepted Christ.
3. Constantine allowed Christianity to flourish without being punished as in Rome, he had nothing to do with it being started, nor could he end it. Remember these Christians had been tortured, put in the animal skins and released to the wild dogs and other animals to be killed, burned at the stake and even set on fire and used as lights to light the streets at night in Rome. God is to great to allow man to dictate His word and work.
The thief on the cross is an interesting debate, who said he was not baptized, he was a Jew and could have been baptized after his dedication ceremony, which all Jews did. It is probably an answer we may never know, so I have to tread carefully.
Salvation is not free, it Cost Jesus His Life and Blood, but to us it is just accepting what He did. Read the Parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22). The King sent INVITATIONS (meaning no cost, price paid, room reserved, and the KING WANTS YOU NEAR HIM) to anyone his servants could find, with the results of the wedding hall being filled (verses 8-10).
I truly hope this makes sense and thank you for your bravery in post such a subject.