So someone while immersing you said "I baptize you in the name of Jesus"?
Really? I was being "immersed" so do you really think I was thinking about what they said?????
The problem is that you think that what a person says is important, rather than thinking what the Lord says is important!
And me explaining that to you doesn't get you to thinking about actually listening to the Lord!!!
My friend - you are missing the fact that Jesus Christ is the Word of God, which means He will and indeed wants to talk to you - and that is truly the ONLY THING THAT IS NECESSARY!!
You could have figured that out from reading the Bible and believing it is correct, but somehow you don't that!! And it shows everytime you write something!
It is not what a person says over me, it is what the King of king says over me! And that applies to you also!
So will you hear Him say, "I never knew you", or have you already passed out of judgement because you already hear His voice and thus try to do what He asks?
Both times I got baptized I picked up Him via the Holy Spirit, even the first time when I was ten. Yet that first time the Holy Spirit communicating to me came across as a warm, wonderful, peaceful, feeling, exactly when the pastor of that Baptist church ask for people to come forward if they believed. And because I understood that was God communicating with me I went forward - but I don't remember what the pastor said over me when being baptized! I remember that God was communicating with me!! That was the important thing!!
And later, after I turned 40 and the Lord really came into my life, speaking to me with words which came from His Holy Spirit to my spirit, so that we walked and talked together and the Lord and myself became friends, I wanted to get baptized again; just to show my Lord how I cared for Him.
When a religious spirit overcomes a person, that person makes it about the things of God instead of the relationship with Jesus Christ the Lord our God!! And is shows up in what they do and say!!
You want to make it about the water baptism instead of the relationship we have from listening to Him, which is just another way of saying you are overcome by an evil religious spirit, who wanting to turn you away from our Lord has turned you to religious things. That is why Paul wrote to the Galatians:
Gal 3: 1,2 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed
as crucified? This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
The Galatians, who were early Christians, that were "bewitched" - attacked by evil spirits -, and those spirit which could be called "Religious spirits", because they turned the Galatians away from Jesus Christ in order to try a folllow a religious rule (the Law of their faith), had successfully gotten the Galatians to make it about the religious rule instead of actually turning to Jesus Christ and listening to Him via His Holy Spirit!
Therefore, the ONLY THING Paul needed them to answer concerned whether they were hearing by faith or not!!
But you have made it about "baptism" just like they had made it about "circumcision" and Judaism! Silly, silly Galatians. Having begun with Jesus Christ they turned back to religion (men's understanding of God) instead of continuing to listen to Jesus Christ for God's understanding! And so Paul reproved and rebuke them hard, for their own sakes!!
Gal 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
Gal 1:9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!
Do you still not understand that a "religious act", does not save you, but believing in Jesus Christ which means you will walk and talk with Him does save you!! It is the only thing that is truly needed!!
And if you want to know how I know that - it is because it Jesus Christ was revealed to me - just like Paul explained!!
Gal 1:11,12 For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but
I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
I know Jesus Christ!! We walk and talk together!! We talk together while I eat! We talk while I am in the shower - and sitting in my favorite chair, and often while I work and run the little business He gave me. We talk about my son's soccer team. We talk about my wife and her garden. We talk and we talk - but still I confess that I don't talk to Him and listen to Him as much as I should, maybe only a dozen different times a day, everyday called "Today".
If you even had a little clue as to what it really means to know Jesus Christ, you could not write what you do!!
But people come to this forum and write - which is a good thing - because it makes it possible to write back and tell them about Jesus Christ and the good news which is that He stands at the door and knocks and if anyone (even those people who have been 'bewitched' so that they preach a gospel contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ' decides to open up to Jesus Christ and hear from Him, then He will come into them and eat with them and they with Him! That is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, because He sends His Holy Spirit to indwell us so we can hear His words and find them near us, even in our heart and coming out our mouth! That is the Word of God which we are preaching!!
Rev 3:20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
Rom 10:8 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Rom 10:8But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
Is 30:1 “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD,
“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,
And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
In order to add sin to sin;
Is 30:9 For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who [refuse to listen
To the instruction of the LORD;
If we want to execute His plan we have to listen to Him to know what He wants us to do. Those who refuse to listen to Him, don't understand this and it shows in what they write and say.
Therefore, I got baptized twice, because He communicated with me, but neither baptism by water was the important thing, the talking back and forth with the Lord was the important thing. So I don't remember nor need to remember what the person baptizing said!! I need to remember that the Lord Jesus Christ wants to talk with me!! And anyone preaching a different gospel will be accursed! Not by me, but by Him they refused to listen to!
Mal 2:2 “If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the LORD of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and
I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.
Do we even know His name being referred to by Malachi?
Mal 1:1 The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.
An oracle is something spoken, so the one speaking to Malachi was called "the word of the Lord" Malachi was explaining that "the word of the Lord" was giving him the oracle that he was writing!
Rev 19:13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
Jesus Christ has always been named "The Word of God" because He has the words of God for us!! So to honor His name, means we listen to Him! It does not mean we just go around saying, "In the name of Jesus Christ" like that was some magic phrase like "alakazam"!! That is just demonic! But Christians do that - they start using His name "In the name of Jesus Christ" as if that was the magic phrase! That is not honoring His name. To honor His name you seek Him. Listen to Him. Go about obeying Him and thus doing what He asks you to do, because He is indeed your Lord and not just in saying 'your Lord". So we say, "In the name of Jesus Christ" to mean that He asked us to do or say thing - and I mean personally asked you, not you reading something He told someone 2,000 years ago to say. The Word of God we (Jesus Christ) preach is near us!!