What Being A Missionary Baptist

Means To Me....

Missionary is......

(Matthew 28:18 -20) And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Baptist is....

(Matthew 3:1-2) In those days came John the Baptist,
preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
And saying, Repent ye:
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
(Matthew 3:13 -15) Then cometh Jesus from Galilee
to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
But John forbad him, saying,
I have need to be baptized of thee,
and comest thou to me?
And Jesus answering said unto him,
Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to
fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
(John 3:5) Jesus answered, Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
(John 6:44) No man can come to me,
except the Father which hath sent me draw him:
and I will raise him up at the last day.
(Eph 2:8-9) For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Salvation

Why Should You Be Saved?

(Romans 5:12)" Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death past upon all men, for that all have sinned."

(Romans 6:23) "For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

What Must You Do To Be Saved?

(Acts 16:30) "...Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
(Acts 16:31) ".... And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved"
It's as simple as that. We acknowledge, through prayer, our sin and our need to be forgiven accepting God's gift of his son who died for our sins. This begins our walk with the Lord. Once we have accepted Christ as our Saviour, we need to confess Jesus as our Lord and be Baptized. This will no doubt require the services of a scriptural church. We need fellowship with other Christians and most of all, we need to pray and read God's word (the Bible) continually in order to grow in His ways.
SALVATION IS FREE TO YOU ... YOU CAN NOT EARN IT !!
(1 Corinthians 15:3-4) "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures."
(Romans 3:23-24) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
(Ephesians 2:8-9) "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast."
(Romans 4:5) "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
(Romans 10:13) "For whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved."

The Church Ordinance of Baptism

There are only two ordinances of a New Testament church:
Baptism, followed by the Lord's Supper.
First I will tell you my thoughts on baptism, which is the first act of obedience,
after salvation is experienced and confession or
profession of faith in Christ is made public.

Much is being said today about "Believer's Baptism." This is true as far as it goes, but it is not all the truth about baptism. When I hear this stated, it leaves me with an impression that I 'm being told that's all that is required for baptism. I prefer the term "Scriptural Baptism," because there are other prerequisites for receiving Scriptural baptism, namely as follows:

(1). IT TAKES A SCRIPTURAL SUBJECT:
A person that has repented of sin and placed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; being born again; saved by grace; washed in the Blood of the Lamb. I'm talking about someone who has believed from the heart (Romans 10:9). This is not a historical belief, believing about Christ; (we've believed this way for as long as we can remember); neither is it intellectual belief it is not of the head, but of the heart. Someone said, "There is only about 18 inches between Heaven and Hell;" the distance and difference from the heart to the head. If a soul has truly been converted by the grace of God, that is a one time experience that will last throughout all time and eternity and if a person has been baptized in a Scriptural manner, it is a one time experience, never to be repeated. In (Ephesians 4:5) we read, "There is...One Lord, one faith, one baptism." There is no such thing as a person "being saved again;" salvation is always in the singular in the Bible; and by the same token, there is no such thing as "getting baptized again." Sometimes "church members" get saved, or lost sinners get saved, who have their names on the church roll they went through the motion of baptism before, but it was not Scriptural baptism, because they had not been saved. Now, since they have been really saved, they are baptized into the fellowship of the church,and not "baptized again."

(2). IT TAKES A SCRIPTURAL MODE:
Baptism comes from the original Greek word "baptizmo," which means to dip, immerse, or plunge. Baptism is a burial in a watery grave, picturing the old man, with his ways, is dead and buried and a new creature is raised to walk in the newness of life (Romans 6:4-6).
And John also was baptized "in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized."(John 3:23) When Jesus was baptized "He went up straightway out of the water." And this pictured His death, burial, and resurrection. When the eunuch was baptized in Acts 8, both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him, and they came up out of the water. So, we see that "sprinkling," or "pouring" cannot picture a burial (baptism); thus these "modes,"
for baptism, are not taught in the Word of God.

The Church Ordinance of The Lord's Supper

The Lord's Supper is the second ordinance of a New Testament church, preceded by The Ordinance of Baptism. There is another term, in the Bible, that refers to the Lord's Supper, found in (1 Cor. 10:16), which is "communion." And this means having fellowship. Participating in observing the Lord's Supper; sharing together in fellowship around His Table as the members of the church partakes of the emblems that represent the Lord's Body and Blood: namely, unleavened bread and the unleavened fruit of the vine. But no where, in the Bible, is the Lord's Supper refereed to as the "Eucharist" or "Sacrament" which is "regarded as a means of grace," or "having power to save." Neither baptism or the Lord's Supper have saving power; only Jesus saves, "by grace, through faith...and not of works...
"(Ephesians 2:8-9.)"
"Grace" is God's unmerited favor to hell deserving sinners. We keep these Ordinances, because we are already saved and not in order to be saved, or kept saved for that matter. Only Jesus does all the saving and all the keeping. I would remind you that He did all the dying; all the suffering; made the complete sacrifice and paid all our sin debt. I like all of the account in the Book of Hebrews, but let me point out just one verse: (Heb. 1:3), "...when He had BY HIMSELF purged our sins..." The Lord's Supper is a church ordinance, or something for the church to do, when the church is assembled in one place. (1 Cor. 5:4-8; 11:2, 17-18.) The church is not commanded to observe it every Sunday, or at any particular time, But "as oft as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till He comes."
(1 Cor. 11:26) Note: It does say "oft," which mean it should not be neglected. There are Scriptural prequisites for observing the Lord's Supper; there are certain restrictions that are placed around the Lord's Table and He has placed them there:
It is His supper and He has all the right to say who partakes.

1. IT TAKES A SAVED PERSON:
No where in God's Word do we find where lost people were invited to partake of the Lord's Supper. Jesus said, "This do in remembrance of me." And you can't remember someone you have never met and do not know. The saved soul remembers what Jesus has done for him or her and could not remember the experience if it had not occurred. The participants declare, by observing, that they have partaken of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus, spiritually by faith in Him, in the salvation experience. Judas Iscariot, though a church member in name only, never partook of the Lord's Supper; when Jesus instituted it in the Upper Room on the night of His betrayal. Judas did partake of the last Passover meal, but then satan entered into him and he went out; after which Jesus took the same elements of the Passover and instituted His Supper, to be observed by His church, until He comes again. Judas was close enough to kiss the
"Door of Heaven," but he never entered in.

2. IT TAKES A SCRIPTURALLY BAPTIZED PERSON:
This is in keeping with the Great Commission, given to the church in
(Matthew 28:19-20), Jesus said, in essence, get people saved first,
then baptize them and after this teach them to observe all things that
He had commanded. This will exclude all unsaved
people from coming to the Lord's table. This is a "Christian Ordinance,"
that is, something for all saved people to do,
but that saved person must be Scripturally baptized.

3. IT TAKES A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH
THAT IS OBSERVING THE SUPPER:
It is not a "Denominational Ordinance," that is,
"just as long as you've been saved and baptized
and a member of some other Baptist church,
of like faith and practice,
you may partake." But it is a church ordinance;
something for the church to do. Now we must realize that a church,
as known in the New Testament, is always a local visible body.
There is no such thing as "The Universal Church,"
But there are independent local New Testament Churches.
An Association or Convention is not the "Church,"
but is made up of churches.
Each church should practice "Closed Communion."
Because the Lord's Supper
is to be observed by each local church alone.
When Jesus instituted the Supper
not all were invited; just the eleven apostles partook,
because they were the only members of His church, at that time.

4. IT TAKES A MEMBER IN FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD AND
THE CHURCH OBSERVING THE SUPPER:
People not right in their fellowship
should not observe the Lord's Supper,
(1 Cor. 5:4-13) Before coming to the Lord's table
every member has an opportunity to get right with God
and each other, "But let a man examine himself, and so let
him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup."(1 Cor. 11:28).
There is time for reflection, inspection, and correction.

5. IT TAKES A PROPER MANNER:
"Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord,
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord."
(1 Cor. 11:27). Please note the word "unworthily.
" No one is "worthy" to partake of the Lord's Supper,
but "unworthy" is an adverb showing how it is not to be observed,
"not discerning the Lord's body."
(1 Cor. 11:29). and the following verses tell how God's judgment
fell on certain members of the church: many were weak
and sick and many had been stricken with death.
Also, the Lord's supper should be observed with the proper elements or emblems:
Unleavened bread and the unfermented fruit of the vine.
In closing, the emblems are not the actual Body and Blood of our Lord,
but are symbols of them. They represent His sinless body (leaven stands for sin)
and His sinless blood (The pure blood of the grape, used to represent His Blood
should be as pure as the bread that represents His Body).
The reason to partake in the Lord's Supper is "And he took bread,
and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying,
this is my body which is given for you:
 this do in remembrance of me."
This can be found in (Luke 22:19).

The last thing I want to say is that as a Baptist I do
believe that if a man is once saved, he is always saved.
You cannot lose your salvation.
I personally feel that no doctrine we
hold is more abundantly supported by the
Scriptures than this one.
Jesus said of the man once saved that "he shall never perish";
that he "shall never thirst" and therefore can never go to hell
because in hell they do thirst.
"And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus, that he may
dip the tip of his finger in water,
and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame"
(Luke 16:24); that he shall "in no wise be cast out";
that "neither shall any pluck them out of my hand."
"And we know that all things work together for good to
them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow,
he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image
of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover whom he did predestinate,
them he also called: and whom he called,
them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified" (Romans 8:28-30),
Paul shows us that all God foreknew will be called,
justified and glorified. Beginning back in God's foreknowledge and
reaching out beyond time to final glorification,
Paul plainly says that not a single one whom God
foreknew would be saved, will ever fail to reach final glorification.
Therefore apostasy is impossible.
"For I am persuaded, that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39).
He shows that nothing in life "death nor life
" nothing in heaven or hell,
"angels, nor principalities nor powers,"
nothing in time, "things present nor things to come,"
nothing in space "height nor depth"
and then for fear something had
been left out he adds "nor any other creature,"
which includes the believer himself, "shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Baptists believe those once saved are always saved,
because the Bible says so.

Baptists believe the Bible should be their
only rule of faith and practice.
That is why I am a Missionary Baptist.
And if you CAN'T read it in the Bible it isn't Baptist doctrine;
And if it IS Baptist doctrine you can find it in the Bible.

The thoughts contained on my webpage are mine alone.
However, I believe that the Bible proves me correct.

The link below is to Our Home Church, we now live in Alva, Oklahoma....

This is the link to the First Missionary Baptist Church of Redlands Web Page...

(John 3:16,17 & 18)
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be saved.
He who believes in Him is not condemned;
but he who does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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