Daily Devotional, Year 3 – April 9 (Baptism By Full Immersion! Part 2: “The Endless Bible Study!”)
By admin On February 13th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – April 9
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Baptism By Full Immersion!
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Part 2:
“The Endless Bible Study!”
TO READ PART 1, CLICK HERE…January 6th (Baptism By Full Immersion (Part 1)
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“Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ also loved the church,
and gave Himself for it;
That He might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the Word…”
Ephesians 5:25-27
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Another hotly debated issue within the Christian community is about the nature of baptism, and exactly how it is to be performed.
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Some believe in “sprinkling”!
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Some in, “immersion”!
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Some require a baptismal class to learn the basic tenets of Christianity.
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Others require a person to have first quit smoking and drinking!
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Others have absolutely no requirements!
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Jordan river baptism – cropped image – Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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This website insists on “full immersion”!
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Exclamation Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“WASHING OF THE WATER OF THE WORD!”
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Listen… “Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ also loved the church,
and gave Himself for it;
That He might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the Word…”
Ephesians 5:25-27
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So here it is revealed in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, that our true washing and cleansing come from, “the washing of water by the Word”!
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“THE WASHING OF THE WATER by THE WORD”
Ephesians 5:25
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Listen again…
“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:
but He that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:”
Matthew 3:11
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And so, by putting these two verses together, there begins to be seen a much greater fulfillment to the idea of baptism: “the washing of water by the Word”, and the baptism, “with the Holy Ghost and with fire”!
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DAY & NIGHT MEDITATION
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There are many Bible students who suppose that they can do a 15-minute Bible study per day.
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And such an abbreviated Bible study might not be such a bad thing if it was followed up by a day-long meditation of God’s Word.
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“But his delight is in the law (Word) of the LORD; and in His law (His Word) doth he meditate day and night.” Psalm 2:2
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Yes, the fact is, true Bible study is a 24/7/365 endeavor.
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No, the Bible student needs not spend the entire day searching through the Bible.
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But those who are filled with the Spirit of Truth will naturally search out truth in their minds as they go about their day.
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Even God’s creations in nature can be instructive and are worthy of our contemplation, and our children’s contemplation too!
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Father & Son – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“WITHOUT ME, YE CAN DO NOTHING!”
John 15:5
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And what we need to understand is that it is only through the power of the Holy Spirit that this kind of Bible contemplation can happen.
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Those who are still filled with the spirit of the world would, most likely, find this kind of total immersion in God’s Word to be a somewhat repugnant idea!
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Lunch Break – Wikimedia Commons – Share-alike License
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SHEEP ALWAYS NIBBLE!
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But God compares His people to “the sheep of His pasture”. Psalm 100:3
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And one thing about sheep is, they never quit nibbling the grass!
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And the Christian is no different! All through the day and night, the Christian nibbles a little bit here and a little bit there.
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This is the joy which comes from the abiding presence of God’s Spirit.
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sheep – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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PUTTING BIBLE INTO PRACTICE
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Oh yes, the Christian must engage in his or her daily duties.
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And those duties which require full mental concentration might prohibit one from consciously thinking on Bible verses.
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But even here, decisions must be made, requiring God’s Word to be put into action.
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And so, inquiring of God’s wisdom can be one’s contemplation even during these demanding moments!
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Building Inspection – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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FULL IMMERSION IN GOD’S WORD!
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And so, O my soul, if I fully immerse myself in God’s Word, allowing that Word to wash me from my old worldly ways, then I have the true baptism of
the Spirit.
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And now, I begin to cease from the vain conversation of the world, and begin to live by “every Word that proceeds forth from the mouth of God!” Matthew 4:4
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So yes, this website endorses full immersion!
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That is, this website endorses full immersion in God’s Word, by the indwelling power of the Holy Ghost!
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No baptismal ceremony in literal water is needed, as such ceremonies are merely a shadow of the one and only true baptism: “the washing of the water by the Word”, via “the Holy Ghost, and with fire”(Ephesians 5:25-27 & Matthew 3:11)
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USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – public domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to experience the true baptism in Thy Word, by the indwelling of Thy Spirit! Give me the joy of fully immersing myself in Thy Word, throughout my day…
Praying Hands – Otto Greiner – Wikimedia – .bassenge.com – Cropped image – Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…March 13 (How To Breeze Through The Coming Crisis! Part 6: “Great And Precious Promises!”), or you can also read… ” May 17th (The Marinated Christian!)”
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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Then Job answered and said…
but how should man be just with God?…
Which alone spreads out the heavens…
Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades,
and the chambers of the south.
Which does great things past finding out;
yea, and wonders without number…
Can you bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?
Or loose the bands of Orion?”
Job 9:2-10 & 38:31
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This photo is of the Pleiades Cluster. Does it appear to you like an angel? Well, if it does, then you are encouraged to keep reading.
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The above two verses concerning the Pleiades is what the Bible has to say about the Pleiades. But if you will read this article, you will discover that the Pleiades represents concepts which span much of the Bible. This is partly because Pleiades is a constellation within a constellation. And this double-entendre constellation presents perhaps, a picture of the greatest truth regarding the Church, found in the Bible. And The Heavens Declare.net will attempt to unravel this mysterious phenomenon in the night-sky, and will, hopefully, also interpret these two verses to show just what all this means, and how it might apply to our lives.
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TWO WOMEN IN PLEIADES
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Just who are these two women? And how can this be, that nobody has ever seen the Pleiades as a constellation of a woman? This article will discuss this great paradox of these two women, found in the Pleiades, and what it means scripturally to us: we who comprise the global community of Christians.
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Because this constellation, or should we say Constellations, plural, have very much to do with us: those of us who are living right now on the threshold of eternity. And as you might expect, the Bible holds the key to understanding all this.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Pleiades: The Captive Angel & Mystery Harlot Constellation”
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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TOMORROW:
April 10 (How Do I See These Signs of Heaven? Part 2: “A Marked Trail”)
Oregon state capitol building pioneer on top – wikipedia – share-alike license
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90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM
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ALL‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM
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Harold Camping December 3, 2009 on The Open Forum (youtube.com)
above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain