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I have no TV to watch televangelists...so that would be your own false assumption. Sounds like you have been listening to denominational preachers (the Church of Christ type) more than I have. I listen to biblical preaching...not what you call "denominational" preachers about 2 times a week. The rest of my time is spent studying God's Word and sharing the Gospel.
Okay, for how many times now? its been so many I forget?, Ill go over it again,
John the Baptizer tells us Jesus is the ONLY one who can baptize with the Holy Spirit :
Matthew 3:11 (NKJV)
[SUP]11 [/SUP]I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Now since Jesus is the only one that can baptize with the Holy Spirit, and John as well as all Christs disciples can baptize with water, as we see where Jesus commissioned it (as you quoted, what I quoted, how many times now) :
Matthew 28:19-20 (NKJV) [SUP]19 [/SUP] Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [SUP]20 [/SUP] teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
I know you like leaving the "baptizing" part out, but sorry we cannot, it is what Jesus told the disciples to do, He told them to "make disciples in all nations, BAPTIZING THEM",
Now note closely Jesus did not say "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, I will baptize them"
It is the disciples that are to baptize, not Jesus, the disciples can only baptize (like John the baptizer) with water.
Peter affirms that water baptism is the one salvific baptism of Eph 4:5 when he tells us that like in the days of Noah, like how water washed the world of sin, there is now an antitype (an antitype is like your face in a mirror, the same but opposite) he said there is now an antitype, now water washes our sins, and so you wont get confused thinking this is a washing like a bath, Peter emphasizes (not the removal of the filth of the flesh),
1 Peter 3:20-21 (NKJV) [SUP]20 [/SUP] who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. [SUP]21 [/SUP] There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Even with Peter and the emphases that this is not just getting wet but a spiritual representation of the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord, putting you "into Christ", spiritually putting you in contact with the cleansing blood of Christ...
and you still don't get it (actually you all get it, but you have to reject it because you have to toss your baptist manuals, confessions of faith, or what ever man made doctrine you follow besides the bible)
John the Baptizer tells us Jesus is the ONLY one who can baptize with the Holy Spirit :
Matthew 3:11 (NKJV)
[SUP]11 [/SUP]I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Now since Jesus is the only one that can baptize with the Holy Spirit, and John as well as all Christs disciples can baptize with water, as we see where Jesus commissioned it (as you quoted, what I quoted, how many times now) :
Matthew 28:19-20 (NKJV) [SUP]19 [/SUP] Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [SUP]20 [/SUP] teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
I know you like leaving the "baptizing" part out, but sorry we cannot, it is what Jesus told the disciples to do, He told them to "make disciples in all nations, BAPTIZING THEM",
Now note closely Jesus did not say "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, I will baptize them"
It is the disciples that are to baptize, not Jesus, the disciples can only baptize (like John the baptizer) with water.
Peter affirms that water baptism is the one salvific baptism of Eph 4:5 when he tells us that like in the days of Noah, like how water washed the world of sin, there is now an antitype (an antitype is like your face in a mirror, the same but opposite) he said there is now an antitype, now water washes our sins, and so you wont get confused thinking this is a washing like a bath, Peter emphasizes (not the removal of the filth of the flesh),
1 Peter 3:20-21 (NKJV) [SUP]20 [/SUP] who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. [SUP]21 [/SUP] There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Even with Peter and the emphases that this is not just getting wet but a spiritual representation of the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord, putting you "into Christ", spiritually putting you in contact with the cleansing blood of Christ...
and you still don't get it (actually you all get it, but you have to reject it because you have to toss your baptist manuals, confessions of faith, or what ever man made doctrine you follow besides the bible)
so Luke lied when he recorded what Paul was told by Ananias what to do?
Acts 22:16 (NKJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
No, he did not lie, but notice, water baptism washes away sins (Acts 22:16) and the Blood of Christ washes away sins (Rev 1:5) so then, there are either two ways to wash away sins (which there is not) or these are spiritually the same, Paul said :
Romans 6:3-4 (NKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? [SUP]4 [/SUP]Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Paul said "buried with Him through baptism into death"
The burial in water is where the spiritual contact with his cleansing blood washing away your sins happens, and as Paul said "that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life",
That is regeneration, the spiritual rebirth of John 3:5 putting you into the kingdom of God.
Acts 22:16 (NKJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
No, he did not lie, but notice, water baptism washes away sins (Acts 22:16) and the Blood of Christ washes away sins (Rev 1:5) so then, there are either two ways to wash away sins (which there is not) or these are spiritually the same, Paul said :
Romans 6:3-4 (NKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? [SUP]4 [/SUP]Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Paul said "buried with Him through baptism into death"
The burial in water is where the spiritual contact with his cleansing blood washing away your sins happens, and as Paul said "that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life",
That is regeneration, the spiritual rebirth of John 3:5 putting you into the kingdom of God.