https://steve-finnell.blogspot.com/2017/01/
HAS BELIEVED AND BEEN BAPTIZED!
by steve finnell
Jesus made the terms
for salvation very simply. Mark 16:16 He who has believed and has been
baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
(NASB)
Repentance and
confession are connected to belief and water baptism. Terms of
salvation: Belief-Repentance-Confession-Water Baptism.
BELIEF
Acts 2:36-37
Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made
Him Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified." 37 Now when they
heard this they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest
of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall do?"(NASB)
REPENTANCE AND BAPTISM
Acts 2:38 And Peter
replied, "Each one of you must turn from sin, return to God, and be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins;
then you also shall receive this gift, the Holy Spirit. (The Living
Bible-Paraphrased)
The 3000 converts on
the Day of Pentecost believed, repented, and were immersed in water.
That was the first day of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
BELIEF
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, (NASB)
BELIEF, CONFESSION AND BAPTISM
Acts
8:34-38.....37[And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you
may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God."] 38 And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went
down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him.
(NASB)
BELIEF
John 3:16 "For God
so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in
Him shall not perish , but have eternal life. (NASB)
REPENTANCE
Acts 17:30-31 Therefore
having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men
that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day
in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He
has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from
the dead." (NASB)
BAPTISM
Matthew 28:19 Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. (NASB)
CONFESSION
Matthew 10:32-33
"Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him
before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men,
I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven. (NASB)
BELIEF: Mark 16:16, Acts 8:34-38, John 3:16, John 6:40, John 14:6, John 8:24, Acts 16:30-31, Acts 10:43
REPENTANCE: Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Luke 24:47, Acts 17:30-31.
CONFESSION: Matthew 10:32, Luke 12:8, Romans 10:9-10, Acts 8:34-38
IMMERSION IN WATER: Mark
16:16, Acts 8:12, Acts 22:16, Romans 6:3-7, Galatians 3:27, Titus 3:5,
John 3:5, Ephesians 5:25-27, Acts 2:38, 40,41,47.