In hurt, or was it anger I set my target upon my foe.
Interestingly enough my foe had no idea we were in a battle minus my verbal and non-verbal communication.
I lived nowhere near these words.
Colossians 4:6 (KJV) - Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
This rage built within did not come in a single day.
No.
Read this:
Guy Siverson's answer to When your world fell apart, what did you do to regain your faith?
What was his response?
He said, “I’m in” and…
We began studying God’s word together.
Slowly but surely I began to realize the truth of what Scripture says and as I did I came to realize its truth and my error.
These Scriptures became alive to me.
1 John 4:1-6 (KJV) -
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
I found that the foundation I had built upon reflected adversely these thoughts.
Matthew 7:24-27 (KJV) -
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
I had been through Bible College, served as both Pastor and Child Evangelist, and lived as a child of Christ most all my life only to find myself wrestling with the Word of God.
Not just for a single night.
Genesis 32:24 (KJV) - And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
But days upon weeks leading to months.
Deuteronomy 4:29 (KJV) - But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
And to think that it all started here.
With a simple statement.
A statement anyone can ask for public Evangelism.
Mark 16:15-16 (KJV) -
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 damned.
The statement?
“Show Me”
Had now brought me to the point of knowing without question that I needed to be rebaptized due to everything I had learned.
This shook the world of many people including friends and family.
And my sister.
Want to know what my sister's response to my rebaptism was?
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How Did Your Sister Respond When She Learned You Would Be Rebaptized?
Entering into the baptismal we were there.
Romans 6:3-8 (KJV) -
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
We were all there.
- The Pastor.
- Myself.
- And her.
Who?
Oh, you mean who was this 3rd person in the baptismal at my being rebaptized?
Great question.
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Who Was The 3rd Person In The Baptismal When You Were Rebaptized?