BibleStudy1's Blog

This blog is about the Baptist church.  The verses I have listed are in reference to the King James Version which can be viewed at many sites on the Internet. 

The Bible says God sent John the Baptist to prepare the way.  In my opinion, John 14:6 is about Reformation that's discussed in Hebrews 9:8-11.  The Bible says to me that God sent John the Baptist with a message about the Reformation which is also spoken about in Jeremiah 31:28-34, Hebrews 12:24, and Matthew 17:10-13: “And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.   But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him (see Mark 6:3-29) whatsoever they listed.  Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist (Matthew 17:10-13)."

Concerning the water baptism of Jesus:  the Bible says that Jesus the Christ was never guilty of any sin (unrighteousness), that Christ Jesus had no reason to repent and be baptized in water for the remission of sin, because the Son of God was born JUST, meaning that Jesus was born righteous, born of the Spirit: yes, born from woman like us, but born clean of all sin, having NO need to be born again as stated by Jesus in John chapter 3.  Please also see 1 Peter 2:22; John 7:18; 1 John1:7; 1 John 3:5.  When a sinner is born again, his or her spirit is no longer united as one with the Devil, Satan, also known as the spirit of the world (1 Corinthians 2:12-14), a spirit which is not connected to the Spirit of God. 

So, Jesus' baptism by the Baptist in water revealed Jesus to be the Son (the Christ) of God.  Jesus' baptism on the cross was done to reverse what Satan did to all of us by what he did to the first son of God, Adam (man: both male and female - Genesis 1:27): to free us from our connection to sin and death, because of our connection to the spirit of the world (1 Corinthians 2:12-14) which is also stated in Romans 5:12-21 in reference to Genesis 3.  

So, I believe God sent the Baptist to introduce the Way, the Truth and the Life (God's Son: John 14:6) and/or the Reformation, concerning the law of sin, of death, of forgiveness, and of the receipt of eternal life (to be saved and/or to receive the gift of righteousness (Romans 5:17), which is the promise (Luke 24:49, Acts 2:39), which is to receive unity with the Spirit of Christ (Romans 8:9), Who is also known as the Comforter, and the Comforter is the Holy Spirit of God (John 14:26), which is the Gift of Life which is in Christ (1 John 5:11), which is given to those who have overcome the world (1 John 5:5; 1 John 5:1; 1 John 4:15) because they hear and truly answered the Call (Revelation 9:9; James 2:7; Matthew 22:14; Hebrews 9:15; 1 Corinthians 1:24; Ephesians 4:4; Colossians 3:15; Revelation 7:14: God's blessing as is stated in John 3:16.

I believe the Bible says God is telling those of the world (Matthew 5:14; Matthew 13:35-39; Matthew 13:49; Matthew 24:3; Matthew 24:21; John 1:29; John 4:49; John 8:12; John 15:19; John 17:6-24) that He loves them and wants to give them eternal life, but that many are unwilling to give up their love for  practicing unrighteousness (sin), and that God is sounding the alarm which started with a Baptist church named John.  God through Jesus and through the Apostles of Jesus and by followers of Christ has and still are sounded the ALARM, warning the world about the DANGER that God has said is coming, an ALARM which signals the end of THOSE of the world, and end that is coming like a tsunami, and so God is warning Adam (man, both male and female) not to follow Satan, but to COME to salvation, to be saved while the ALARM about the "second death" is still sounding.  Jesus has said that the "second death" will happen and/or come while people are sinning and/or when people are worshipping God, in a way similar to the day of Noe (Matthew 24:37; Luke 17:26-27 (Noah: Genesis 6:5-13) when Noah and his family was saved inside the Ark, back when God put an end to the evil works of those days. 

Right now, evil works of the spirit of the world in those of the world, are being put to death by the Operation of God (baptism) through the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus, each time a person hears and believes in the gospel of Christ: that Jesus was crucified to destroy man's connection to sin and death forever for each person who believes (God knows the heart) in the baptism Jesus received, a baptism (Luke 12:50) on the cross, not in a water baptism by a Baptist, and why?, because a Baptist must first hear what your *Witness bears before baptizing you in water.

Today, and/or these days, when you go to receive a water baptism at a Baptist church, meaning: a local church fellowship of believers of the gospel of Christ, know that these Christians believe that you have already heard and believe in the gospel of Christ, and that you are already born of God:  united as one with Christ and that God is your Witness when you testify that you believe Jesus is the Son of God:

"And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, [here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?  And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (Acts 8:34-37). And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as [he did] unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith (Acts 15:8-9).  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify (1 John 4:12) that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God (1 John 4:13-15).  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God (1 John 5:5)? 

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God (1 John 5:1):

*For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.  He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life (1 John 5:7-11).”