Category: Baptism

Who is baptized like Jesus? To answer that question, we must look and see how he was baptized.[1]

Who baptized Jesus? John the Baptist. John was a God called preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ.[2]

Who was the authority over Christ getting baptized? God the Father.[3] The Father sent both John to baptize, and Jesus to be baptized.[4]

Many of the first church members were baptized thus like Christ. The law of Christianity requires but one kind of baptism, which man can be obedient in accomplishing.[5] God, using John and Jesus, demonstrated that kind of baptism everyone should have by giving us the example of it as it is written in scripture.[6]

Can I follow the Lord’s example? Can I find the God called preachers who have been ordained through the Lord’s churches to preach and minister the gospel ordinances?

Was God the Father, God the Son, and God the holy Spirit pleased with the God called, God sent preacher to baptize Jesus and many of the first church members?[7]

How many, God called, God sent, Baptist administrators did God have in John’s days? Just one. Everybody had the one baptism. If a believer would have said no, I think I will get baptized by the temple priest, or baptized by my mom, these would have been improper baptism administrators., why? Because God chose his Baptist Preacher. God commissioned his Baptist preacher to preach, and to baptize the repentant believers. He was preparing a people for Christ. He came and submitted to the same Baptist and baptism, which God chose for His Son, and for the Lord’s church. All had the same baptism because they all paid attention to the details of the Bible. If we leave out the detail that God and Christ baptized by using God called preachers, we will not have the same baptism as Christ and the apostles.

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[1] Mat 3:13-17

[2] Mat 3:1-6, Mark 1:1-5, John 1:6-8

[3] Mat 21:23-25, John 8:29

[4] John 1:6; 33, Mat 3:15

[5] Eph 4:5

[6] 2 Tim 3:16-17

[7] Mat 3:17, 1 Jn 5:7

Who was I baptized by?[1] Some think you should never ask this question, that it is questioning their integrity. They somehow think that it is the sincerity of the fact that you got baptized because they or someone read it in the Bible. Reading is good, studying is better.[2] It is amazing that some will blindly follow a little truth, but think they are doing the will of God by rejecting the whole truth of a subject.[3] These blind leaders and deaf hearers are not rooted and grounded in an informed faith. the Jewish religious leaders thought that they were right and Jesus was wrong. When the knowledge of God comes to them, they, being teachers with itching ears, would rather kill the messenger, than to test the spirits.[4] Jesus said it is because the word of God had no place in them. therefore, they get easily offended if the truths of God’s word are expounded. They will not endure sound doctrine the way darkness cannot endure light that is shined upon it. Jesus wanted to show the way of God more perfectly, but they would not receive the New Testament. [5] The question, who was I baptized by, is meant for you to sincerely examine the act of such a good work and see if your baptism is as approved of God as it is of men.[6] What honour is there to stand before God with a baptism not  supported by the Scriptures?[7] Jesus was baptized by John because that was the Baptist administrator the Father authorized to baptize. There was no other Baptist, until God sent his Son. It is spiritually important to study and answer the questions of who was John. Why did Jesus seek him out? By what authority, by what mode, by what processes did God baptize believers? If I went to john, or Jesus in those days, what would be the original baptism? Were the Baptist administrators preachers of the gospel, then baptizers? Was the gospel pattern to go and preach the gospel, then the God called, God sent preachers baptized the believers? Those questions will be  answered. But for now, thanks for reading.

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[1] Luke 7:28-31, mat 21:23-27, Acts 7:21-22, Mat 3:13-15 Nobody but John had the Father’s authority, or commission, to baptize.

[2] Neh 8:8

[3] Mat 13:20-21, Isa 58:1-2, Isa 29:13, Isa 48:1, Mark 4:16-17, 2 Chr 26:15-16, mat 23:24

[4] 1 Tim 4:1, 1 Jn 4:1, Mat 21:23-27, Mat 21:38, Luke 22:2, John 5:18, John 8:37

[5] 2 Cor 3:14 Acts 18:26, 2 Tim 4:1-4, Prov 9:9, Acts 8:30-31, Acts 28:23, Prov 25:12, James 1:19 If we enter a conversation knowing what we know, but closed to other, deeper understanding, we could become deaf to spiritual instruction much like the Pharisees whom John the Baptist, the greatest Prophet sent from God, would not baptize because they would not hear the word repent without feeing insulted.

[6] 2 Tim 2:15, Mat 15:7-9

[7] 2 Tim 3:16, Luke 6:46-49

Who would make a good Baptist? Before there was a church which Jesus built, God the Father made a Baptist. When he got ready to have a Baptist, there were none. So, in his infinite wisdom and according to the prophets, he made his Baptist. God was founder of the Baptist movement.[1]

The authority behind John’s baptism was the eternal God who had planned this one baptism to last through the generations of Christ’s church age.[2] As long as Christ is the head of his church there shall be this one kind of baptism passed on which define the churches of Jesus Christ.

The question of who would make a good Baptist was answered when God called John to preach, and then to baptize those who believed the gospel message. John did not take this upon himself, he was simply the servant of the authority of heaven. John did not invent baptism, he simply obeyed the divinely given commandment. John was not the authority; he was the one sent by authority.[3]

A Good Baptist is one called to preach, and under the servitude of his master, he obeys his commission. The answer to, who is a good Baptist, begins with the study of the Baptist God made.

What was his name?

What was his title?

Who gave him that title and why?

Who made John, the Baptist?

Is not john’s baptism perpetually passed on from John, to Christ and his 12 gospel ministers, and finally to his church?

All the apostles, except for Judas, were good Baptist preachers. Christ put them in the first church whose membership had John’s baptism? This was common among them all. The commission was given to the church that only had John’s baptism. The only kind of baptism that could be passed on from them is what God instituted through John. That first church could not pass on to others something they did not have, unless they received some novelty, not the original baptism and thereby, giving up claim to the original baptism.

Did Christ ordain preachers, organize his church, continue the act of that original baptism according the the Father’s pattern? [4] Was that same baptism commissioned to the same apostles and same church which Christ built? Did Christ change the people he called to preach, or the mode of the act of baptism, in the giving the commission to the eleven gathered on that appointed mountain in Galilee?[5]

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[1] John 1:6; 22, Mat 3:3, Mark 1:1-5, Mat 21:25-27

[2] Mat 16:18, Mat 28:18-20

[3] John 13:16, John 15:20

[4] John 5:19-20, Mark 3:14, john 3:22-29, john 4:1-2, Mat 19:28

[5] Mat 28:16,(Ex 25:8-9), mark 16:14-16 Nothing changed. The same ordained ministry of the same church, carried on with the same baptism, only now it was to go to all nations instead of only one nation. A good Baptist is one who has been baptized with that perpetual, original, baptism and is called to preach it as the only baptism which has heaven’s authority behind it.

Baptism is a significant Christian practice rooted in the New Testament, symbolizing a believer’s faith in Jesus Christ through the act of full immersion in water. It represents in pictorial form that one receives the gospel, or death, burial, and resurrection of Christ as being God’s Salvation offered for the sin of the world. While baptism is an important step of obedience, and a public declaration of faith. Salvation itself is attained through faith in Jesus, not through the ritual. The authority to baptize originated from God, and is still the work of God through Christ’s church. In that way by God’s authority and name is perpetuated alway even unto the end of the world, His ordinance remains God’s work of righteousness and not a work of the men.

In the following post we will discuss the meanings and methods of Baptism.