I did it friends. I went down to the river to pray. Story inside.
(media.greatawakening.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (17)
sorted by:
Yay! water baptism is very important. it deals with a person and his relationship to sin. it washes it away yes, but it also transforms you. the old sinner man is dead and a new man raises up with jesus. romans 6:7 is an eye opener for many. you raise up and are freed from sin. holy spirit in you, equips you to go and sin no more, you don't serve sin. the sin nature is changed. (ya, you can still commit sin but it is profoundly different in your new walk). jesus came to save you -- from your sin and free you from your sin nature.
Romans 6:3-7 KJV Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? [4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. [5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: [6] Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. [7] For he that is dead is freed from sin.
some people will claim romans 7 contradicts and you're still bound by sin, but carefully notice that romans 7 is addressed to the unsaved jews (first verse). paul is taking a pause with romans 7 to revisit your old life and address jews who are not baptized. then read romans 7:24,25 and romans 8:1-2 and you can see that you are transformed
Romans 7:24-25 KJV O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? [25] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. [8:1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
The sin barrier between you and God is broken down. Now receive holy spirit and walk in the spirit. The rest of romans 8 tells you, walk in the spirit, pray in the spirit, put away the carnal mind. you are now equipped to do this.
Thank you so much for posting this. The pastor that baptized me and my son had a sermon that morning talking all about baptism and what the Bible says. I had went to my mother in laws church instead to a Sunday school class I was interested in instead. I kinda wish I had gone to the other church to get the sermon, mainly to get the real details. I found later he had posted it online so others could watch it. The words “buried with Christ, raised to new life” is what he said for each of us, as our heads went under water. Looking down the river, I knew my sins of old were washed away. I haven’t watched his sermon yet, but the things you have just posted is as good as it gets, for the education I wanted. Of what the Bible says and probably what he preached about that morning. So a huge thank you for posting this. I’m going to pass this around, to a few this morning.
I had mentioned to him, the pastor, about this forum. Told him the name, and how this forum was apart of my journey to that river. The people apart of it, whose names I don’t even know, just there words have helped me more than they know. If your reading this and preach about our Lord here in these forums on occasion, I’ve probably read it. Your helping more people than you know. So never stop. Never stop showing our fellow brothers and sisters the Father in Heaven. Your love of Him. It helps people. Your helping deliver us. And someone like me can’t thank you enough. Thank you Jesus for the people of The Great Awakening. You’ve placed people in my path my whole life, you never give up, and we’ll never give up on you. We love you, we worship you, in your Holy name Jesus Christ, Amen.
Thank you. 🙏
Yay! So to summarize, you use to be romans 7, you got baptized and transformed described in Romans 6. Now you have to be discipled to walk in romans 8. So focus on romans 8 and and pay attention to mentions of the spirit. Then maybe we can talk offline and I can explain this stuff. (I do this often). This will equip you to learn and grow and walk in the spirit and the word.