Find out, your Assembly/ Church may have deviated long ago and continue to deceive you. Wake up and be corrected!
Collated & Authored By: Charlie Saquian
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 (Ἰησοῦς , Multi Languages)
John was sent by the Almighty YHWH/ יהוה / 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 / God to prepare the Highway of The True Light as foretold.
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He was then called John the Baptist. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That light is prophesied in Isaiah 53.
Isaiah 53:1 “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?”
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He instituted the First water baptism of the First believers of The Messiah as foretold. Jesus Christ / יהושע / Ἰησοῦς / 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 and
The Twelve Apostles and the rest were then baptized with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, as Jesus had promised: "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence" (Acts 1:5). "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance" (Acts 2:4)
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The Torah and the Prophets were until John the Baptist; since then the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone strives violently to go in [would force his own way rather than God's way into it].
Jesus Christ Commissions all believers ( The Great Commission).
Believers in the 1st century...
Believers of today.
If your Assembly/ Church/ Group/ Sect/ Religion/ Belief having the True Faith conforms with the Gospel summary in 1 Corinthians Chapter 15, then you are among the remnants having the true elect heritage.
Baptists are also one among the remnants.
Who, then, are Baptists? Firstly, and most importantly of all, Baptists are people not a denomination. They are people who, in every age and against all adversity, have held firm to the true teachings of the New Testament. Banding together in groups or assemblies they lived, and often died, to preserve intact the truths of the Gospel. Over the years they have been misunderstood, scorned, persecuted and murdered in their millions. Not thousands -- millions! And they have been called everything from political agitators to heretics.
So what is it that makes these people so special? Why should we, as twentieth century Baptists, be proud, yet humble, to be numbered along with them? To discover this we need to go back to the beginning. To a time around the year A.D.30, when a man, dressed roughly in camel hair and skins, stood in the waters of the River Jordan and, pointing to a figure coming towards him, said, "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world."
For some time John the Baptist had been preaching repentance and the need to signify the same by the cleansing witness of baptism.
Matthew's gospel tells us that he was reluctant to baptize Jesus being deeply conscious of his own unworthiness. But our Lord chose to suffer baptism at John's hands making it the first significant act of His ministry and setting an example which has been followed by His people ever since.
Today, with so many different denominations and sects, you may well ask how one can tell which is a true church. There is one criterion, and one only, for recognizing a true church. It is a church based firmly and irrevocably on the foundation of the New Testament. It is built on the rock of Christ and His teachings. Any church deviating from these principles is NOT a true church; make no mistake about that. A true church, therefore, is not a Baptist Church or any other denomination or group but one, regardless of name, that holds steadfastly to the teachings of the New Testament. Briefly these are as follows:
The absolute authority of Scripture.
Salvation by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work on Calvary.
Eternal security of the believer.
The Person of the Holy Spirit.
Two ordinances -- Baptism and the Lord's Table.
By now you are probably wondering if this is going to be a Baptist Church history or a history of the true church. The answer is, both, for they are inseparable.
Some Baptist writers have taught Baptist successionism: that churches holding beliefs similar to those of today's Baptists have existed in every age since John the Baptist, who baptized Christ. Groups often named include the Montanists, Paulicians, Cathari, Waldenses, Albigenses, Lollards and Anabaptists. Most historians, Baptist historians among them, do not accept an unbroken line of churches, because several of these groups held doctrines Baptists reject and no records join them as one body. [1] What can be traced is a continuity of faith: in every age the Lord has kept believers who held to His Word, as He promised, "upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18).
[1] W. Morgan Patterson, *Baptist Successionism: A Critical View* (Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1969); H. Leon McBeth, *The Baptist Heritage* (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1987).
They hear & endeavor the Smyrna & Philadelphia character and practice; or they are the hearer what the spirit says to the churches of Ephesus, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, & Laodecia. They adhere to the teachings of Jesus Christ ( Iēsou Christou ), the Apostles and the first century church up to the present as written in the New Testament. [Commentary on God's Assembly/ Church Growth Plan.
The Baptist churches successions up to the present time. ( more: 1.Baptist History, 2.Baptist History preservation, 3 Thousands of Anabaptists were executed in the 16th century, and Thomas Helwys, pastor of the first Baptist church in England, died in prison about 1616 for pleading for liberty of conscience. "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (2 Timothy 3:12).]
Another one among the remnants also is the "least of the flock" (Jeremiah 50:45), heeding the Lord's word to the church of the Laodiceans: "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent" (Revelation 3:19), the יהוה 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 כבוד יהושע 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 קדשים. Like & follow us.
John’s Writings to The Seven Churches.
The 7 churches’ remnants hear and endeavor the Smyrna & Philadelphia character and practice; or they that hear & heed what the spirit says to the churches of Ephesus, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, & Laodecia.
Is the Gospel your church is teaching conforms the Scripture? If not watch the embedded links of the 7 churches above, and be corrected.
The central theme of the Old Testament (OT) is the Nation, the New Testament (NT) is the man. The OT is the NT concealed, and the NT is the OT revealed.
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