For this reason, and this reason alone, it is never wrong for a person to
receive water baptism.
Those who got baptized in Johns Baptism (after the resurrection) had to
receive water baptism in Jesus.
Not exact matches
When you
receive the Holy Spirit, through the
baptism of the Holy Spirit, you are baptized with
water and fire.
Thus, he commanded his disciples to stay in Jerusalem and
receive baptism in holy spirit «because» John [only] baptized in
water, but holy spirit was going to be first poured out in Jerusalem.
If
water baptism was all that was important and necessary for salvation, there would have been no need for the disciples to wait in Jerusalem or
receive the gift of holy spirit.
If it is good enough for Jesus to be baptised then its good enough reason for me to as well that was why i wanted to be baptised.He says that it was necessary to fulfill all righteousness verse 15 in that sense he could have been talking of fulfilling the requirements of the law and in Jesus we fulfill the requirements of the law.I do nt believe that it is neccesary step to be saved as some of the gentile believers Peter spoke to
received the holy spirit before they were baptised.Its a good picture of the old being washed away and we are raised up as a new person in Christ.When i was baptised in the holy spirit and spoke in tongues it was exactly like a
water baptism i felt the
water washing over me as it washed i just started speaking in tongues.brentnz
Many Jews would have
received the
baptism of John, which is a
baptism of repentance, as well as the
water baptism for the Christian which is an outward symbol of the inner Spirit
baptism.
Spirit
baptism happens automatically as a result of
receiving eternal life, and
water baptism is just an outward symbol, an outward sign, of what happened to us inwardly.
Hence the need for proxies to
receive the corporeal
waters of
baptism.