Blessed day to everyone. Trust we are doing good. Am Sis Hope Atuma and am doing this post to share my benefits from the Mass indoctrination,Day 14.
There is a true baptism which is powerful enough to change our hearts; like i have learnt, there are four kinds of hearts of which three are evil. Which soever the type of heart is,if a man is willing and come whole heartedly to God, HE is more than able to renew any heart of a man. In the book of Acts 22: 16, baptism is the washing away of our sins, baptism means change and it is for the remission of sins that have past, therefore the need for a true doctrines of God toward the true and right baptism. Paul was asked to arise ,be baptized and get his sin washed away.
According to Ezra 7:23, all the commandment should be done in the house of God where there is jurisdiction for the law. The obedience to the law, should be done in the house of God and in the book of 1 Timothy 3:15, the house of God is the Church of God. Therefore, inside the house of God is where we should obey the law, baptism is the law of God and as such should be done in the house of God which is the Church of the living God and the ground and pillar of all truth.
There is a place chosen by God to put His name and that is the house of God as written in the book of Deuteronomy 12 :5 God and in Ephesians 3:14-15, the house of God is the Church of God, where the name of the Lord is. Also 2 Chronicles 7:16, the house of God is the Church of God, where the name of God is in.
As a proof that the house hold of God is the Church of God, 1 Corin. 12:13- says, baptism should be done in one body, no matter the different tribes we come from and in that same 1 Corin. 12 :14, it says the body is not one member but many. Therefore the body is the Church by which Jesus is the head as it is written in Colossians 1 :18. There is one body with one spirit where Christ is the head and there is one Lord as we are called in one hope according to the book of Ephesians 4:4-5.
Baptism is an act of faith, for we become members of the body of Christ by baptism as we are called in one hope, one Lord, one faith and one baptism. I learnt in course of the teaching that there is no re- baptism or someone can not be baptized twice or more.
Many will take the name if God to different places as written in the book of Matthew 24 :5; but the name of the true God is in His house and the house is the Church of God. In Corinthians 3:16, the Spirit of God is in the Church, in the people who are part of the Church ( the body of which Jesus is the head). The Holy Spirit dwells in the people(the true believers in the Church is there the Holy Spirit dwells). Through baptism one is called into one hope, one faith to be part of the true believers where in them the Holy Spirit dwell and has Jesus Chris tas their head.
I would want to encourage us to be part of the teaching as more questions about baptism would be answered by Br Eli Soriano with scriptural backings to all answers. God bless us all
