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Preface: Believe and Be Baptized . And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (Mark 16:15,16)Unfortunately, most generally the custom is to think of baptism as what takes place in the baptistry of the church. Or in the case of the Swaggart ministry, the only baptism in the oft repeated words of Donnie is the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of the speaking in tongues . It is sort of a salvation there of works where the work of speaking and in unknown tongues, provides proof of both salvation and their distorted doctrine of glorification, which will be covered in this book, especially from Romans. Also this every week practice in worship is very comparable to the Catholic Confessions of Sins each week or so, then ignored the rest of the week. Not so in the Bible of Jesus and the Apostles where baptism most generally refers to what takes place inside the life of the believer before entrance into the baptistry. All the great teaching scriptures about baptism from Romans, Peter, and Jesus are more concerned with the internal change in the believer when they believe that is created by the Holy Spirit of God. Believe is what we do for salvation: baptism is what God does inwardly in the believer when there is real faith. Granted, baptism in the baptistry is instructed by Jesus as an act of obedience, and it does preach a message of salvation that should have already happened inside the believer; but far more important is the inward change of baptism by the Spirit of God, that can be called nothing less than salvation. Why do you think in the seven major doctrines of Ephesians salvation is not in the summary of all the majors such as one God, one Christ, one Spirit, one body, one faith? Well, that is covered by the one baptism. Who is saved above, Jesus said, He who believes and is baptized ? We believe and God baptizes through the Spirit and based on what Jesus did on the cross. Would you not much rather have God's baptism than any other baptism, no matter how outlandish the claim is about the benefits of baptism by this or the other church?

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