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]
[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.
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