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Many people have inherited religious viewpoints from their mothers and fathers and have by no means stopped to compare those beliefs with our holy guidebook – the Bible. There are also “blind leaders of the blind” (Matthew 15:14), who have never been born again themselves and therefore cannot properly understand the truth of the Bible. The natural man cannot recognize the things of the Spirit, for they are spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).
The death of Jesus Christ acquired a far greater salvation than most people know anything about today. Many people believe that by repenting of their sins and trying hard to live as best as they can they experience all there is to salvation. But as Paul said, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God and how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” (Romans 11:33). God longs to give all of us righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost (Romans 14:17), and receiving the Holy Ghost is a very definite experience with precise supernatural evidence. Peter and the Jews with him assumed that the house hold of Cornelius had received the Holy Ghost “because they heard them speak with tongues” (Acts10:46), and we should accept the same evidence today. Because Since many people do not, they mistakenly believe that they have received the Holy Ghost when they have not. For this reason, there is numbness in many churches and much emptiness in the lives of professing Christians.
On the Day of Pentecost, when the New Testament church was established, the Holy Ghost filled all who were waiting for Him, and they all spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave thenm utterance (Acts 2:4). Peter stated, “This is what which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And is it shall come to pass in the last days”, said God. “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh” (Acts2:19-17). If God worked in this way in the days of the apostles, then why do some people tend to call the same experience today the work of the devil? If we do not understand something, we should gradually go and see whether it is in the Bible, lest we are found fighting against God and He would say to us as He did to Saul, “It is hard to kick against the pricks” (Acts 9:5).
When Peter preached his amazing sermon on the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost pricked the hearts of the hearers with conviction, and they cried out. “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” (Acts 2:37). Peter gave them the only New Testament means of receiving salvation: 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” (Acts 2:38). How appallingly this method has been changed and twisted today! No wonder that many churches do not have the outcome that the apostles did. If it is to stand the test of these last days, a person’s knowledge must be “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:20). In fact, Paul stated “Though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel…let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8).
There has been a measure of truth in most churches and therefore they have brought a measure of blessings but God has planned an prolific salvation for the whole person – spirit, soul and body. Most of the profound truths concerning salvation are either called by heresy today or else we are told that they were only for the apostles. But God is no respecter of persons. He will do for us just what He did for the apostles if we meet the same circumstances.
First, we must be remorseful, turning our back on all sin and turning to God in faith. Repentance is provoked by godly sorrow and it includes confession of sins to God. Second, we have to be baptized (immersed) in the name of Jesus Christ.
In Matthew 28:19, Jesus told His disciples to baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. He did not baptize in the titles. If this command literally meant to use titles Father, Son and Holy Ghost, then there would be a great contradiction in the Bible, for the disciples never baptized in any way but in the name of Jesus. (See Acts 2:38; 8:16; 10:48, 19:5; 22:16). But Jesus said to baptize in the name (singular) of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. These titles are no the appropriate names of God, but terms that describe God’s relationship to mankind.
These three roles of God are divulged to us in the name of Jesus. The name of the Son is Jesus (Matthew 1:21). Moreover, Jesus said that He came in the Father’s name and that the Holy Ghost would be sent in His name (John 5:43; 14:260. The one saving name of God is Jesus, which literally means Jehovah-Savior. Jesus was the one God of the Old Testament, who came in flesh to be our Savior. “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). “Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name” (Luke24:47). In Jesus dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9), so to fulfill Matthew 28:19 we must baptize in Jesus’ name.
Third, God will pour out the gift of the Holy Ghost on us as He did on the disciples, and we will receive the same Bible evidence – speaking in other tongues. (See Acts 2:4; 10:46; 19:6.) As Jesus said, “These signs shall follow them that believe and they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17). It takes all three steps to complete God’s plan of deliverance for the New Testament church.