Acts 2:38 ?

Question

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.

My question is why are there few christian church that do this?

And I hear the one's that do, people speak (most) terrible against them.

If you believe in Jesus Christ and the Cross and rose again on the Third day,
and the Day of Penecoast,

Why not what Jesus Christ Appointed Apostals preached about that day?

Peter Said this, and Peter at the gate to Heaven......

Also if it was just for that day only

I Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues.

God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost

Are they not ONE?

I know how Jesus was baptized, he had know sin...............we all do........

That why he died on the cross

On the day of Pentecost are we not told by God Apostal what we should do...

Even the Jews that Crusifed the Lord Jesus Christ

Believe People what you want too,

It in the Holy Bible,

I just add some questions

Also acts 2:38 has Matth 26:28 and Mark 1:4

JESUS IS GOD

1 John 5:7

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these THREE are ONE

Answer 1

You are completely correct.

Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as have been BAPTIZED into Christ have put on Christ.

Mark 16:15-16
15-And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16-He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be DAMMED.

Matthew 4:16
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and lo the heavens were opened unto him, he saw a dove, and lighting upon him.
17-And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

The scriptures go on and on.

Acts 1:5
Acts 2:41
Acts 8:12
John 3:23
Acts 16:15
Romans 6:3
Gal. 3:27
1 Cor 1:13
1 Cor.12:13
Matt 28:19
This is only part of the verses.

To answer your question, People do not follow the WHOLE Bible.

2 Timothy 4:2-4
02-Preach THE WORD; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
03-For the time will come when they WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE; but after their OWN LUSTS shall they heap to themselves teachers, HAVING ITCHING EARS;
04-And they shall TURN away their ears from THE TRUTH, and shall be TURNED TO FABLES.

Jesus had and has no sin. He was baptized because we are commanded to be baptized. If he had not been baptized then he would have been guilty of the sin of omission. He is our sinless example.

Answer 2

There is some debate among those of The Christian Faith as to what Baptism this refers to... I am of the understanding that it is the baptism od The Spirit. I personaly know I was saved in an instant by The Holy Spitit... I was not baptised untill over a year later... But my assurance of my place in Heaven was from that moment of my repentance and acceptance into The Church of which Jesus The Christ is The Head.

Answer 3

At the moment you ask Jesus into your heart and ask him to forgive you of your sins, you recieve the gift of the Holy Spirit. As to speaking in tongues like they did back on the Day of Pentecost, God gives everyone of his children special gifts. It may be preaching, teaching, etc. Not all have the gift of speaking in tongues, but that doesn't make them not filled with the Holy Spirit. We are to use our gifts to uplift each other. Not just ourselves. Hopefully one of these days people will realize this.

Answer 4

There are many churches that baptize in water and in the Holy Spirit. I am not sure where or what kind of churches that you have been too. If they aren't practicing baptism into the kingdom, then by water and by fire, perhaps you should look for a different church.

I am not sure if that answered all you wanted to know perhaps if you added more details


NO, Jesus didn't have sin, He died as the perfect sacrifice for our sin. He who was sinless....

Answer 5

Remissions of sins? Did not Jesus pay the ultimate price for our sins? Baptism to me is a dedication to God that you Will serve him. What is to receive the Holy Ghost? Is not the Holy Ghost a helper for man to understand the word of God, to help preach? I think that Jesus' disciples were the only ones that received the gift to speak in tongues and raise the dead and heal others. This gift died when the disciples died. Think about it, people who claim to speak in tongues benefit no one. The disciples spoke in tongues to communicate with people of different languages. People who speak in tongues now a days usually just speak in prayer or to themselves. No one understands them. People can not heal other people like Jesus did or his disciples did. I do believe in the power of prayer, but not the power for one to heal another. And no one, NO ONE has raised another person from the dead since Jesus' disciples.

Answer 6

The biggest problem faced by the Pentecostals (and other "tongues"-evidenced religions) regarding their acceptance by mainstream Christians is simple: too many fake it.

Aggravating that problem is the religiosity crowd, who insist that there must be immediate evidence of belief through the utterance of a language not ordinarily decipherable: that's both a complete bastardization of the faith and a lie.

On the 3 occasions that I've had utterance in a language that I couldn't recognize (despite being liberally educated), I was physically alone in my home, and simply enjoying prayer.

Having so stated, I have been in several group assemblies, in which a few (out of many hundred -- and in at least one instance, out of several thousand) persons uttered a language that I didn't recognize, and yet, I believed I understood.

In more than 25 years of experience as a Believer, having spent the majority of that time in the company of "charismatics," I have met or been in the company of perhaps a dozen persons having evinced that "gift" as you've described it.

It NEVER was used as an indicator of genuine conversion, despite the attempts of modern-day control-freaks and thieves hiding among the clergy and the exalted laity to make it so.

My first such utterance came about 17 years after I accepted Christ; does that make me a retarded Christian? No: it simply means that, despite my having been an exemplar of piety and righteousness among man, God had other priorities for my life.

If we believe that God is the omnipotent sovereign, we must also believe that He is not constrained by the doctrines of man.

It is a simple thing to teach emotionally unstable people to babble, and to lie to them and cause them to cling to a fleeting experience for the evidence of their salvation -- but it is not so with God.

The new tongues with which we speak are our everyday voices and actions (in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, this is called "speech"), which evince the fact that we have been transformed from our former selves.

There are plenty of people today employed as translators of various tongues, not all of whom believe in the Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible.

Pulpits throughout the world are filled with posers and robbers either having not understood the faith their corruption mocks, or having understood and rejected the gifts of salvation and redemption.

Be aware also that some conflate the utterance of "spirit language" with the experience set forth in Acts 2:4-12, despite the clear and unmistakable wording -- each LISTENER heard the utterance in his (and presumably, "or her") NATIVE language.

Those mocking weren't hearing the babbling of spiritual idiots or charlatans: indeed, had not they understood the utterances of those having gathered in the upper room (Acts 1&2), THEIR comment would have been nonsensical:

It was *because* they recognized the language and (at least in an intellectual sense) understood the words being spoken, that they marveled at the reaction of the sundry others -- whom they also knew were persons of diverse (KJV "divers") tongues (native languages).

Imagine it like this: you only speak English, and you're in the company of several English-speaking unbelievers when you happen upon a man that the others in your group know understands and speaks only Thai.

You speak to the man in what is obviously English, and the man hears you in Thai. Now add to that the power of the gospel to change his life, to set him free from every burden. You can't imagine "where he was" when you gave him this knowledge.

On the other hand, you should be able to remember what it was like for you when you made the connection, when you first *really* understood that *you* could be saved -- and that you could enjoy fellowship with the Creator.

Wow! It's been over 25 years ago for me, and I still get excited about it, but I'm now a lot more reserved in my expressions. So there are the others, hearing your words and knowing the other guy only speaks Thai -- and they see his giddiness.

They see him perhaps dancing or simply praying or crying -- or doing something that demonstrates the fact that he's overwhelmed by emotion -- and they hear his words in Thai, but they speak and understand only English.

So, to them, the man appears perhaps drunk. Remember what happened with Hannah, when she was caught in prayer -- and that didn't even involve different languages!

On a different note, I was baptized by immersion in a creek. I'm not bragging about that, but I have to wonder how -- in a nation abundant with streams -- people find "need" to install indoor baptistrys (some of which are heated); others use artificial swimming pools.

Baptism seems to serve only a ceremonial purpose, being a symbolic outward expression of an inner spiritual reality. Having so stated, and considering the extraordinary lengths to which Jesus went for us, doesn't it seem like a trivial inconvenience to go 30-or-so miles (probably a lot less for most folks) to a creek so you can at least somewhat replicate the "old school" way of doing things?

There has always been provision for the infirmed: I'm not saying bed-ridden patients should be carted out to the river and dunked -- but those of us having an able body are without excuse. There's a reason the water was moving.

Answer 7

Hmmm... I think that Jesus did not talk about this much so His Apostals would follow his example...

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are 3 distinct beings.. the first two have Physical bodies while the latter one does not.. they all serve the will of God the Father.

Answer 8

The Gift of the Holy Ghost is different from the GIFTS of the Holy Ghost. The Gift of the Holy Ghost is the have Him as your constant companion. The Gifts are spiritual abilities.

Answer 9

To each his own. I heard one preacher this weekend say that if you prayed in tongues, the Holy Spirit hears you better and will send you a solution to your problems immediately. I feel God's presence around me all the time, but for the life of me I can't pray in tongues.

Answer 10

We all repent, we all are supposed be baprized (although it's certainly not rquired for Salvation), & we're all indwelled by the Holy Spirit.

If you're talking about Tongues, it's not the only Gift, nor is it the defining gift, as some denominations teach.