Acts Chapter 2 Discussion Page 18

Yes Justin, when we receive the Holy Ghost after our water baptism, He guides us into all truth. When we read God 's word and speak the Bible 's truths we are really blessed by God. I thank God for His gift of the Holy Spirit! Isn 't it awesome to see the Holy Spirit work in hearts ready to receive God 's Holy Word, save our souls and make us wise! Hallelujah!

this is really the spirit of God at work and we always ask God to baptise us with his holy Ghost so that we ministers speak only the truth.

Geraldene, Jacob on Acts Ch. 2. on comment 1-08-2015am...You got it right in a nutshell.

Jimmy, yes, if only people would study the Bibles and have a stronger prayer life, many mountains, obstacles could be moved. We are so fortunate to have God 's Holy Word and believe and live God 's word being the hands and feet of Jesus as we go. The Holy Spirit is with us as we trust and obey Jesus 'word.Hallelujah!

The holy ghost power is right any how, when God get ready we got to move

WHAT SOME WONDERFUL WORDS OF GOD CAN YOU IMAGINE TRREE THOUSAND SOULS BEING SAVED AT ONE TIME. IF WE AS GODS CHILDERN WOULD OBEY THE HOLY GHOST WHAT A CHANGE WOULD HAPPEN IN AMERICA

The entire Bible is about the grace of God and love brought down to man. The Great Commission of Christ still stands today, so people deciding to follow Christ must first believe in all He is about and what He can do for them. Some followers of Christ believe you are saved before baptism some after. Baptism is still required today. After baptism, a believer is added to the church, kingdom. Colossians 1:13-14 Colossians 2:9-14. I love Jesus, our kinsman Redeemer, who redeemed us when no one else could. God bless you Jacob.

Around the circle reasoning merry go round we go. Tongues are for a sign 1 Cor 14:22 and Jews require a sign 1Cor 1:22. The Jews in Acts 2 are getting the gospel of the Kingdom preached to them, not the gospel of the Grace of God. The second coming is in view here. Joel 2 was not completely fulfilled. Notice especially that the events of verse 19 and 20 never happend. The signs are there to confirm the word Mark 16:20 because the New Testament wasn 't written yet. No one is saved like Acts 2:38 again. In ch 8 hands are laid. In Acts 10 no baptism required. Acts is a transitional book from the law to pure grace. Peter starts getting straight on his doctrine in Chapter 10 then by Chapter 15 he is convinced that it is by grace through faith. No works Eph 2:8thru9. Rightly divide. Who is the verse talking to? All Scripture is for you but not all is TO you doctrinally. Jesus is always the same, yes. But He certainly deals with men differently in different time periods. You can eat pork today but under the law you couldn 't. Baptism was a part of salvation under the gospel of the Kingdom but not under grace. Acts 2:38 is condemned under the church age Gal 1:8-9.

Hello Joni G.: Please read my answer I gave to Robert and James under Acts 10 and remember God looks at the heart.

Joni G Tongues when spoken can be understood by all that hears the Holy Spirit speaking through them. Every one no matter what country they come from knows what that person is saying because it 's God doing the talking. It happened once as an example so we will know and listen for when it happens again in the near future when the election are delivered up to the one world system churches of Antichrist. People have done it to make it appear that they are speaking in tongues to have others believe that they are close to God or they are in an emotional high but if you can 't understand it well it 's just making a bunch of noises.

God has the last word. I have spoken what I perceive and know I am saved. Hallelujah! We will agree to disagree. I know what the Bible says. You say you know what the Bible says. The Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. May God be glorified in all our lives.

Hello Joni G.: I am glad that God brought you back from near suicide. If you have the correct baptism then I am happy for you. However, your experience is not yet complete. You need the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the spirit of God gives you utterance. Paul, 1 Corinthians 14: 39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and FORBID not to speak with tongues. These tongues he is referring to is the evidence that a person has when they are filled with the Holy Ghost. The word covet means to want ardently esp. something that another person has . If I can say it like this, Paul was saying to us and the Corinthian church that we should want this gift and evidence of speaking in tongues. The Holy Ghost experience did not just end in the 1st Century. What about Azusa Street experience in the 20th century? I have experienced this myself. I speak in other tongues as the spirit of God gives utterance.

A godly grandmother I had became a widow at age 56. She was faithful to the Lord until she died. Completely selfless. She was still working taking care of the elderly at age 85. She loved the book of Acts also. She prayed without ceasing. Believed we are saved by the blood of Christ. By grace are we saved through faith. She believed we were made new creatures in Christ and made to do good works for his glory. Amen. She believed she was saved before she was baptized. I was raised that way but was later taught baptism is like a final leg of a journey to get on the right path being under the water is where you come in contact with the blood. When you come out of the water, you are a new creature. We know there is life in the blood and Jesus was the perfect Lamb of God. Christ 's death on the cross is what made a way for us to be in Heaven someday. I love 1 John 5. God will judge all of us and loves us so much. He wants us to understand His Word. We can ask God believing and He will guide us into all understanding!

I believe in Acts 2:38 and was baptized into Christ 's death so I know I am saved. I had godly sorrow to the point of near suicide so I feel so happy that God saved me. His mercies are new every morning! Praise God! Tongues, languages died out in the first century! I worship God every Sunday and everyday in Spirit and in truth. There is abundant happiness in Christ and can be found no where else! Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

A Bible believing christian doesn 't have to follow a teacher who doesn 't know for sure where she is going after she dies as far as I can kick this building I 'm sitting in 1 John 5:13. In the Chruch age we have a KNOW SO salvation and are sealed by the Holy Spirit. According to Colossians 2:11-12 there is an operation of God made without hands and the word of God Heb 4:12 cuts your soul away from your flesh and the sins of the flesh can 't touch the soul. You soul is SAVED but your body isn 't until you get your new one Rom 8:23. The christian can lose their testimony, and many other things, but salvation is not one of them. Now if those who want to believe in works and tongues and baptism to be saved a time is coming where they will have to endure till the end, Matthew 24:13, if they want to try it.

Hello Joni G.: We are not exactly saying the same thing. You deny the speaking in tongues whereas I agree with the word of God. There are examples that prove this to be right. A person after receiving the Holy Ghost does speak in tongues. A person must feel that godly sorrow that pricks in the heart that worketh repentance to salvation. You can be baptized either before the gift is given or after the gift is given either way baptism is part of the salvation plan. It does not stop there. When God knows, he looks at the heart, and then he will give you his gift. I am sorry that you do not speak in other tongues, but this still does not mean that it is not truth.

Since receiving the Holy Ghost at baptism I have grown a lot in Christ. I have learned to pray for my enemies, turn the other cheek. I still make mistakes but ask God to forgive me. The blood of Jesus makes me new every morning and every moment. I am learning to give God the glory for successes in my life. I give Him thanks in all things. The Holy Spirit is with me all the time and helps me. I pray for wisdom and humility for I am nothing without Jesus, my rock, my redeemer. Thanks be to God!

Amen Marvin amen!That is the word RIGHTLY DIVIDED. Baptism is a command and if water baptism saves as they teach 2Tim 4:3 and someone is unborn of God before they are baptized, that means unborn Sons Jn 1:12 are obeying commands which they cannot do Jn 8:47, 2Cor 2:14. Also if you believe that you can lose your salvation after you get water baptized wouldn 't your best bet be to drown in the baptistry? Everywhere you see baptism you are seeing water when there are seven baptisms mentioned in the Bible and they are not all water baptisms. Spirit baptism places you into Christ 1Cor 12:3 and in the Church age you are sealed unto the day of redemption Eph 4:30.

Hello Chatauna Robinson, comment on 1-o1-2015,2:32 pm... Well I wasn 't sure now you 've made it clear when you said, if a person have not followed Acts 2:38, what Peter declared on the day of Pentecost they are lost. First Mathew 7: 21 is law itself chapters 5 thru 7. Second your first 5 words, I quote, UNDER THIS DISPENSATION OF GRACE that dispensation was only given to the Apostle Paul later. Ephesians Ch. 3: V.2 I quote, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the Grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38 KJV. We know that hearing the gospel is necessary, believing that you have sinned and need a Savior and believing in Jesus as the only way to eternal life, repenting, turning your back on sin, confessing Jesus as your Lord and Savior before immersion under water and finally being immersed into Christ under the water and into his death, raised out of the water to a new life, a new spiritual being in Christ and with the gift of the Holy Spirit to help guide you into all truth. Hallelujah! What a Savior!

A person needs to be baptized like the example in Acts 2:38. Don 't know how much plainer than I can be. We are saying the same thing. That is what the Bible says. Peter didn 't say repent and be baptized and you must speak in tongues when you come out of the water. My King James Bible does not say that. Please look. Repent and be baptized in the name of Christ everyone of you and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38

Hello Marvin and Joni G.: Under this Dispensation of Grace if a person have not followed Acts 2: 38, what Peter declared on the day of Pentecost they are lost. There is no way around it. There will be a lot of people who will say LORD, LORD but will not enter into the kingdom of God, Matthew 7: 21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

To the People that stands with Chatanua Robinson, Mark 's Gospel Chapter 16 verses 15 thru 20 that is Christ 's Gospel of the kingdom for Him to be on earth then. It 's even called the Gospel of the Kingdom that 's given to the Apostle Peter and the other eleven the Gospel That ran up to the calling of the Apostle Paul after Christ had risen. Peter and the others was the Gospel of the Kingdom and not the Gospel of Grace given to Paul in 1Cor. Ch.15 Vs. 1 thru 4 that Paul declares of Himself. Back to Mark Ch.16 Vs. 15 thru 20 read verse 16, believeth be baptized and thou shall be saved for Christ 's Gospel to be on earth, the kingdom Gospel truth. But now read verse 17 of these signs, cast out demons, don 't hear too much on this one, speaks with new tongues, oh this is something special, I thought it was supposed to cease. Well what about verse 18 take serpents or drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them. Why haven 't Chatanua Robinson told you these signs to do too? The signs was for Peter and others to win Jews for Christ kingdom on earth then and the Father would have sent Christ back. Read Acts Ch. 3 Vs. 19 thru 21. Remember the Gospel of Mark ends preceding Acts Ch. 2,38.

Just looked at Acts 16. Wow! How exciting! The jailer is on duty for the night never dreaming when he went to work, he would hear songs of praise, experience an earthquake, find his prisoners in their cells with unlocked doors, ask how to be saved, then believe and be baptized! What joy he must have felt that night! Now a child of God. Think of the impact he must have had after that. Praise God! The hymns too. I have an eBook of hymns of the first 3 centuries. Words of course . No musical notes. Those were added later!

Jacob, your 1:05pm, 12-31 comment was interesting. That is right about the preachers giving different parts of the salvation plan at different places in the Bible. The Jews had shredded hearts after they heard Peter 's sermon in Acts 2.So, Peter didn 't say believe in Christ first. They believed so then Peter said repent and be baptized in the name of Christ and you will be saved. I almost cry each time I read about Stephen 's sermon and stoning.Jesus stood for him! Amazing!He sits now in glory with everything under His feet. Jesus says believe and be baptized and you shall be saved in Mark 16:15-16. He doesn 't say repent there but of course we must. No following the world and Christ. Thanks for your insight. It is appreciated.

The evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life will be seen in your obedience to Christ! Do you grow daily in Christ? Do you lead others to Christ? Are you a selfless person? Do you lose your life in Christ? Not speaking in tongues. That gift died out in the first century. It is sad to see the lost right under our noses while we talk on and on about something no longer needed. The world longs to see Jesus in us. They want to understand and believe. We need to be leading others to Christ not talking about something no longer needed. Satan wants us to argue. Jesus wants us all to believe and teach the same thing so the world believes in Christ. Read John 17.

To all you people that believe that Acts Chapter 2 Verse 38 is the plan of Salvation for the Church, what about Charles Spurgeon, D.L. Moody, Oliver Green, Ed Young Jr., John R. Rice, Adrian Rogers And James Kennedy? From James Kennedy back to Oliver Green by which he led me to the Lord Put no emphasis on Acts 2,38 for Salvation, how about all these converts, are they all going to Hell?

Hello Jacob: Yes, in Acts 2: 37 they did ask what they shall do. Then Peter told them in Acts 2: 38. Then in Acts 2: 39 he stated, summing it up, that it was for the Jews, their children, and to the rest of us. We deduce that Acts 2: 38 is the salvation plan, because in Acts 2: 40 Peter stated And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from the untoward generation . Then about thousand souls were added to the church. Then as a witness to this being for everyone in Acts 10 were the first Gentiles. Then to validate further Paul then rebaptized those 12 men in Acts 19: 1 thru 7. Paul stated FORBID not the speaking in tongues is correct in 1 Corinthians 14: 39.

This this only to saved Acts chapter 2:38

Part 2. Acts 16:31 is what we must do to be saved. God was dealing with the nation of Israel Acts 3:19 that was getting a second chance to receive their Messiah because of Jesus prayer in Lk 23:34. The Father forgave them and they had a second chance to receive their Messiah and the desciples had the SIGNS to Jews 1Cor 1:22,14:22 to confirm the word Mark 16:20 because the N.T. wasn 't written yet. Don 't go to hell in Acts 2:38 when you can go to heaven in Rom 10:8-13.