To understand how the act of New Testament baptism fits into God’s eternal plan for man’s redemption and salvation, we must see the link between baptism and blood of Christ.
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How we view the Bible will determine whether or not we join in the general apostasy of the church. Therefore we must view the Bible as the perfect revelation from the perfect God.
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The conversion of Saul is unique in some ways, but in other ways it serves as a model of every true conversion to Christ.
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Philip, after taking the gospel to the Samaritans, was sent to preach to an Ethiopian nobleman. What we learn from this event will clear up some common misconceptions regarding salvation.
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In Acts chapter eight we have a record of the first preaching of the gospel to those who were not fully Jews. Samaritans were a mixed race and held in utter contempt by most Jews (cf. Jn 4:9). The conversion of the Samaritans to Jesus Christ will teach us several great lessons.
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In the Book of Acts we can follow Peter, Paul and others preachers as they preach the gospel of Christ and pave the way for many souls to be converted to Christ and thus saved from the consequences of their sins. In this lesson we are going to examine those cases of conversion.
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“For by grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph 2:8-9). When Paul wrote these words, he was responding to false teachers among the Jews who taught that Christians had to keep the Old Testament Law to be saved (cf. Gal 4:10, 21; 5:2-6). Paul declared that one is not saved by the works of any law, but through faith in Jesus Christ (Gal 2:16).
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Paul wrote, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (Eph 2:8-9). On the surface there seems to be a conflict between this passage and Peter’s statement, “There is also an antitype which now saves us-namely baptism…” (1 Pet 3:21). However, we will discover that there is no contradiction between the scriptures noted above.
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Many people have divorced any action of man from his salvation, except perhaps some degree of faith in God. I suppose there are many reasons for this, but two that come to mind are, first, people like to think that God has already worked out who is going to be saved (given a home in heaven) and who is going to be lost (confined to a place in hell). Secondly, many want to believe that since God is love (1 Jn 4:8, 16) then the salvation He offers ought to be available to people of all religions, even the religions that have no connection to Jesus Christ.
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These two lesson will address the controversy over whether the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John contain teaching from Jesus Christ that is binding upon New Testament Christians, or does everything recorded in those books simply pertain to the Jews and the Law of Moses.
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