Water Baptism Is Not Able To Make One A New Creature In Christ For it is without such ordination January 21, 2016 Apostle E. White The spirit baptism of Holy Ghost and Fire is the only baptism capable of bringing about the new creature of which the spirit of the Lord is calling. For unto the coming of Christ water baptism only served as means of sanctification of a carnal spirit and not a baptism for the death of that spirit, because up unto the same time as Christ coming, no means of death had been brought about to kill the carnal spirit of man, neither a place in which it could be buried from where a new creature could be resurrected and dwell among men. This meant that water baptism was simply a means of sanctifying one’s carnal self. It served as a covering by which God covered an individual’s spiritual flaws and by doing such allowed him to come into the presence of God and render service unto him by the influence of the Holy Spirit, but it stopped short of allowing him entry into the Holy of Holies, the very essence of God. For water had been ordained with power only to sanctify the carnal man but not power to detach him his connection to the natural man Adam. The spiritual Holy of Holies is a place ordained into which only the crucified Lamb of God can enter and thereby they that are created (born) in him. Now although preachers, when baptizing in water, think themselves to be burying the old man of a believer within a watery grave they greatly err because nowhere in scripture does God refer to water as means of one becoming detached from his connection to the first man Adam for to become a NEW CREATURE. The spirit of the carnal man has to DIE and the only means by which such a death can occur is within the spiritual body of Christ. When a believer is baptized with the Holy Ghost and Fire (for it’s not known the length of time associated with such spiritual performance) his carnal spirit dies within the process and thus causing a complete detachment from the first man Adam and subsequently all things natural. For it wasn’t until the resurrected body of Christ that means were established and a place provided by which the carnal spirit of man could be crucified, buried, resurrected and become a member of the selfsame body in which he died and was buried. One cannot attain unto the stature of having become a new creature in Christ thinking to have done so by the performance of water baptism. It has to be understood that water was ordained to sanctify but not crucify, and in order to become spiritually new there has to be a crucifixion of spirit by spirit which can only occur within the spiritual ordination of the Holy Ghost and Fire baptism. Now without such one might lay claims to having become new but such claim is made void by the very essence of the thing of which they professed made the new, even water. For all souls not found new shall be judged by Christ and those who are members of his body. Only those who are members, meaning having died and rose in him, shall escape judgement because they became new creatures not by water, but by the eternal spirit of the living God. An individual seeking forgiveness of sin and spiritual cleansing of the heart has to be baptized from within by the living water of God of which Christ made reference when stating to Nicodemus that a man had to be born of water and of the spirit. Unto what place does one apply the water of which Christ spoke when he conversed with the women of Samaria whom he met at the well. For within that setting were two type waters, one natural and one spiritual, but Christ vividly showed that the natural were far removed from being on par with the importance of the spiritual. Now with such explanation as we have in scripture, concerning the living water, how can any man turn away from it in an effort to establish the natural water as being more sacred for sanctification of the soul? Christ did not come to continue the performances that were established under the old covenant, but closed it out and established a new covenant. One now that is not held up through and by the conduct and performances of men, but by the grace and mercy of God. For the baptism under the grace covenant is one unto death, where the conscience is purged from dead works and renewed in righteousness by the spirit of Christ that lives within the heart. For the act of reconciliation is performed through the baptism that occurs within the resurrected body of Christ and not in any type natural water. Now for an individual to acquire the spiritual baptism that the Lord commands they must be led into it by exercising love and obedience unto God.

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