SCRIPTURE must always be used.
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BAPTISM of WATER and of SPIRIT
This is my understanding.
The idea of the WATER BAPTISMAL
is the BEING BORN/COMING OUT/BEING SAVED
from the WATER.
Water is the only weapon YHSHWH GOD has ever used against us.
HE destroyed the inhabitants of the earth with water.
Then, HE PROMISED never to use water, as a weapon again.
GEN 9:11
And I will establish my covenant with you,
neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood;
neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
GEN 9:12
And God said,
This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you
and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
GEN 9:13
I do set my bow in the cloud,
and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
GEN 9:14
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
GEN 9:15
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you
and every living creature of all flesh;
and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
GEN 9:16
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh
that is upon the earth.
GEN 9:17
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant,
which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
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MT 3:13
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John,
to be baptized of him.
MT 3:14
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee,
and comest thou to me?
MT 3:15
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now:
for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Then he suffered him.
MT 3:16
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water:
and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him,
and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
and lighting upon him:
MT 3:17
And lo a voice from heaven, saying,
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
JESUS was submerged and when HE came out of the water,
HOLY SPIRIT "LIGHTED UPON HIM".
HIS WHOLE MINISTRY BEGAN.
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1PET 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit:
1PET 3:19
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1PET 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient,
when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is,
eight souls were saved by water.
1PET 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us
(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1PET 3:22
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God;
angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
My belief is
that we, as YHSHWH'S PEOPLE,
recognize HIS COVENANT
when we SUFFER/SUBMIT to WATER BAPTIZM.
HIS GIFT of HIS HOLY SPIRIT
in US , HIS BODY, is the BAPTISM of HIS HOLY SPIRIT.
Our SUFFERING/SUBMITTING to the BAPTISMAL of WATER
is recognizing HIS COVENANT with US, HIS BODY/HIS PEOPLE.
GEN 9:16
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh
that is upon the earth.
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Let US SUFFER/SUBMIT to YHSHWH'S WAYS,
as HE DID.
MT 3:15
And Jesus answering said unto him,
Suffer it to be so now:
for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Then he suffered him.
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Let us sumit (suffer) to HIS WORD
and we began to fulfill HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
LOVE, RICOEL
And I repped you for a post you made in another thread. I assume you do know that "dust my feet" was an extreme insult in New Testament times?
