Since God is sovereign and His will is paramount, He alone has the right to specify the conditions that man must meet in order to enjoy redemption, provided by God’s grace and the blood of His Son. Jesus said, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned” (Mark 16:16, KJV). What is baptism? Baptism is faith refusing to be supplanted by emotion. God designed man with an intellect, the ability to think and reason. The Bible addresses this aspect of man’s nature. “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son” (Hebrews 1:1-2, KJV). This text contains four great truths: God is; God has spoken; God spoke in the past by the prophets; God has spoken to us by His Son.
These four truths embrace the whole of the Bible. Hebrews quotes from or alludes to the Pentateuch, the prophets, Psalms, and Proverbs. Jesus said He had fulfilled all things “which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me” (Luke 24:44). The Bible in its entirety is a revelation from God. It addresses the mind. It speaks to man’s intellect.
-Special thanks to Frank Chesser, longtime and respected gospel preacher for this series.
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