THE TRUTH ON WATER BAPTISM Part 2

TITLES OR NAME?

In Matthew 28:19 we can read Jesus' great commission unto His disciples saying, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, BAPTIZING them in the NAME of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."

In Luke 24:46-47 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in HIS NAME to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

According to the scriptures ALL the eleven apostles including Peter, were present when the Lord Jesus gave this great commission. The Lord Jesus Christ never told us to baptize in the NAMES (plural), but in the N-A-M-E (singular). Both Matthew and Luke wrote NAME. We know HIS NAME is the LORD JESUS CHRIST

Take note that 'Father' is not a NAME. 'Son' is not a NAME either; neither is the Holy Ghost a NAME. These are but TITLES of the ONE true GOD.

To illustrate this point using Abraham Lincoln, the 16th American President, he was born a SON to Thomas Lincoln. He became a HUSBAND when he married Mary Todd. When they had their four sons, he became a FATHER to their children and to the rest of Americans, he was the PRESIDENT. Abraham Lincoln by being a Son, a Husband, a Father and a President, did not make him FOUR persons but still the same ONE person but with different titles.

In the same manner, God ABOVE was FATHER (Psalm 89:25, Isaiah 9:6, Malachi 2:10), the same God WITH US in human flesh was the SON (Isaiah 9:6), and now the same God IN US (John 16:17) is the HOLY GHOST, and therefore the NAME of this one true God is the LORD JESUS CHRIST.

In the Old Testament, God the FATHER was always called LORD (with capital L); in the New Testament, we find JESUS was the name given to the SON of God and in our age when the HOLY GHOST was given since the day of Pentecost, He is called the CHRIST or the Anointing of God.  

We can therefore conclude from the these basis that the TITLES of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost refers to only one compound Name, which was given on earth whereby man must be saved (Acts 4:12)- and that NAME is nothing else but the NAME the LORD JESUS CHRIST, the complete NAME of GOD!

We can read throughout the Bible that ALL of Jesus' disciples baptized in water in no other name but the Name of Jesus (References: Acts 2:38; Acts 8:14, Acts 10:46-48, Acts 19:1-5). 

NEVER can we find the entire pages of the Bible where anybody was ever baptized using the TITLES of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Look it up and you will never find one.

No wonder the scriptures say in Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

The apostles understood that baptism in those TITLES was not a LITERAL command, just as when Jesus told them, 'Except you EAT my FLESH and drink my BLOOD, you have NO Life in you.' Nowhere in the Bible can we find they literally ATE the flesh of Jesus or DRANK his blood. That would make them cannibals and vampires if such command was followed to the letter. But the thing is that it was revealed unto them that eating His Body means 'partaking of His Word' and drinking his Blood meant 'receiving His Atoning sacrifice' into their lives. In Water Baptism, it was revealed also unto them WHO really was the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and what the NAME of God really was. "Lord Jesus Christ," that's the complete Name of God.

The third and final part of the Truth on Water Baptism will follow shortly.

God bless you.