InLoveWithMyCreator wrote: JSteinsholt wrote: Mark 16:16...He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned. The First thing we must do is believe. Acts 2:38...Then Peter said unto them, REPENT, and be BAPTIZED every one of you in the NAME of Jesus Christ for the REMISSION OF SINS and ye shall receive the gift of the HOLY GHOST. Acts 5:32...And we are witnesses of those things; and so also is the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.  Matthew 10:22 �And ye shall be hated of all men for my name�s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. Believe,get baptized, endure to the end. I just wanted to add this scripture, Mark 16:17-18....And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. I agree with everything JSteinsholt and Bro. Ginder have said! God bless!!

Oh how I LOVE Jesus.  I so Love the scripture you brought out here, becuase it also defeats the thought "Once saved always saved"

Matthew 10:22 �And ye shall be hated of all men for my name�s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

We must endure, its a journey, a destination, not a train ride, its a walk.  Glory!! Thanks God Bless

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The rich are not those who have the most. They are the ones who need the least.

By grace are ye saved through faith, it is the gift of God Eph. 2:8

we repent and put our faith and trust in Christ that is when we are saved, look at my blog on biblical salvation, at all the people who weren't baptized, but believed on the Lord!

Then Peter said unto them, REPENT, and be BAPTIZED every one of you in the NAME of Jesus Christ for the REMISSION OF SINS and ye shall receive the gift of the HOLY GHOST.

once you repent,and put your faith in trust in Christ you are saved. 

then you get baptized, an outward sign of what has happened already inwardly in your heart. baptism doesn't save. It is Christ's blood that washes away sins.

John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot recieve because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him; but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

to say your not saved till you speak in tounges is wrong then.

ye shall recieve the Holy Ghost, now you can't recieve the Holy Ghost, until you have put your faith in Christ, to say you not   saved until  you speak in tounges is going against what Jesus said,

Mark 16:16...He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Notice it was believe!!  He said , He that believeth not shall be damned.

many people who weren't baptized yet were believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

thief on the cross, zaccheaus, cornelius' house heard the word recieved the Holy Ghost, then were baptized, and others in the blog saved without water baptism.

God bless you .

last one John 3:5 Jesus answered , Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

regular water? no, Jesus is talking about spiritual things, if it was regular water wouldn't nicodemus  know these things? v.10

water is used in a figurative sense of salvation (Jn.4:14, Isa. 12:3) of the Spirit baptism ( Jn.7:37-39), and of  cleansing by the word of God. (Jn.15:3; Eph. 5:26). Since men are cleansed and born again by the Word ( Jas. 1:18, 1 Pet.1:23), it is clear that being born of water means being born again by the Word of God.

 God bless you

John 3:5

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"~The most powerful weapon on earth is a soul on fire for the Lord!~"

Even in your own text you see the word "AND".  IT can not be avoided.  The requirements are plainly written.  If you believe on him then you will indeed follow in obedience to his word, and you will be saved if you are obedient to his plan.  Its not our plan but his plan.

I so appreciate the disecting of his word, but not at the risk of losing its intended message.  Being wrong is a life or death reality.

 

God Bless

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The rich are not those who have the most. They are the ones who need the least.