LOOK
# 29
You
must come Gods way
Brian
Kocourek
PP.
148A) <read>
IF
YOU'VE NEVER REPENTED, REPENT IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BAPTIZED IN
THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, BE BAPTIZED. YOU'VE
GOT A PROMISE OF
GOD THAT YOU'LL RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST.
ACTS
1: REPENTANCE
2: BE BAPTIZED IN THE CORRECT
FORMULAQ
3: YOU SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF
THE HOLY GHOST
You
must come God's provided way or don't bother to come at all,
because
you won't receive the promise any other way than what He
said.
Most people think, "If I get baptized in the name of the
Lord
Jesus Christ, He promised to give me the gift of the Holy
Ghost.
But that's not what He said.
He said you've got to repent and then show forth a sign of that
repentance by total immersion which signifies that you
have died
out to your own thinking and then you shall
receive the Gift of
God.
Tonight by God's Grace we want to examine this
formula for
receiving the promise of God, because you could
be baptized in
the correct name of the Lord Jesus Christ and
still not receive
the Baptism in the Spirit. If you don't fully repent
you will go
down a dry sinner and come back up a wet one, so
what good does
baptism then do you.
# 1) REPENTANCE.
AS I THOUGHT ON MY WAY
"We
cannot alter God's Word, we have to alter our thinking
to His
thinking. Let the
mind of Christ be in you. Then you'll
think
like He thinks."
I
COR 10: 1 - 6 <read>
What
good did baptism do for them?
ACTS
2: 28 <read> REPENT! What is
it? REPENT = met an oeo
It means to think differently. You've got to have a
change of
heart.
II
COR 7: 8 - 10 <read>
Repentance
is not sorrow, but a change of the heart.
HEBREWS
12: 16 - 17 <read>
ACTS
The
Holy Ghost fell upon these men even while Peter yet spake.
Notice
ACTS 11: 18 It is repentance unto LIFE.
MATT
3: 8 <read>
If you
ar etruly repentant,
if you have truly come to a place
where you are willing to let your own thinking go-then
there must
be outward signs in your life as an evidence to
your change of
the mind.
EZ
11: 19 - 21 <read>
HEART
= LEB , stony unmoveable,
stubborn, obstinate. Very widely
used for the feelings; the will; even
the intellect.
Mostly
used for
the understanding.
EZ
36: 26 - 27 <read>.
So we
see the 1st requirement of God is that you must truly be
willing to change your thinking.
#2)
BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
What
is Baptism? BAPTO = BAPTIZO = BAPTISMA.
To
make whelmed. Full immersion. A
cleansing by washing. To make
clean. In fact
we see it in the O.T. also as
we see namaan
washed clean by immersion.
EPH
4: 5 There is only one Baptism. So It
does matter how you are
Baptized.
ACTS
19: 1- 7 <read>
We see
here that these men had been baptized and Paul told them
to be rebaptized correctly.
ROM
6: 3 - 4 <read> Synonymous with death. A dying to
oneself.
GAL
3: 27 <read> Put on the new man.
I
PETER
#
3) HOLY SPIRIT BAPTISM
- the Promise!
ACTS
The
seed must be buried in the ground before it can come forth in
a newness of life manifesting what life it had on the
inside.
So
what is this HOLY SPIRIT that they receive?
JOHN
6:63 <read>
JOHN
JOHN
ACTS
2: 15 - 18 <read>
EPH
1: 13 - 14 is not 15 - 17. <read>
EPH
4: 23 <read>
I
PETER
prayer