Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Peter turned the key and opened the Door to salvation.
To be able to repent there must be a revelation of what is wrong and right in the eyes of God.
Repentance is a result of this revelation when your life is not in line with God’s will for your day.
Repentance?
Unbelief in the true Word and the will of God is not the condition in which God wants you to be.
God had chosen Peter to give him the key to the Door of escape.
Jesus gave Peter the key: Matthew 16:19.
Turning the key, how hard can it be?
To open a locked door, you will have to turn the key entirely the right way.
Peter said to repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins so that you can receive the Holy Ghost.
We also see that even the apostle Paul turned the key the same way as the apostle Peter did: Act 19:1-5.
So you see that Paul and Peter had the same revelation concerning the water baptism.
Who maintained the right Baptism?
Now who was right? Peter, Paul, Jesus or all three of them?
In the name of….
Let us take the scripture Matthew 28:19 again: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Read that scripture carefully because it does not read: “in the names of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The scripture says “in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Ghost”.
So there is one name according to the scriptures and not three.
In which name did Jesus wanted believers to be baptized because He said that this should be done.
Was it in the name of the Father, the name of the Son or the name of the Holy Ghost?
Jesus said, “In the name.” So than the apostles had to baptize in a certain name.
Please be honest to yourself because “father”, “son” and “holy ghost” aren’t names.
You can have a person who is a father without knowing his name.
Examples
For example “father” is merely a title telling you that the concerning person is a father.
Another example is for instance “human” this is also not a name of a person.
Using the word “human” tells you that a certain being is a human; again this is not a name.
So if you take the words “father” and “son” these are titles and no names.
The words “holy ghost” refer to a certain type of being; it is clear that this is also not a name.
So neither Father, Son, nor Holy Ghost are names; they are just three titles that go to one Name.
By the way, we were looking for one name so please remember that.
If Jesus said here: “Baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” and Father is no name, Son is no name, and the Holy Ghost is no name then who’s name are we looking for?
Look now the Father of Jesus (Son) is God but Matthew 1:18-20 said: Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just [man], and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. But when he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew says that the Holy Ghost is the Father, Matthew never said or implied that Jesus has two fathers.
John 4:24 says: God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Is God the Father of Jesus or is the Holy Ghost the Father of Jesus because he cannot have both?
Since God is spirit and is also holy would it be so hard to accept that God and the Holy Ghost are the same?
Please also remember 1 John 5:7 says about the Father, Son and Holy Ghost: “These three are One.”.
Moreover Jesus would be an illegitimate child because there should be two fathers claiming to have Him as a son.
So there are two ways to Go from here; God and the Holy Ghost are the same or Jesus has two fathers. What part is supported by the scripture?
God (the Father) and Jesus (the Son) are one says John 14:11: Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. Jesus also said in Mark 12:29: And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Please also notice John.
John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The coherence between John 1:1, 14 and 2 Corinthians 4:4 is hard to find. John tells us that the Word of God was made flesh and so explains the form or dispensation through which Gods expresses Himself. John does not define a personality per expressed form or dispensation but he points out the personality what this all is about, God, and the forms and dispensations He uses to express Himself.
So again not several personalities but just one, baring this topic in mind, with 3 dispensations.
Take a look at 2 Corinthians 4:4: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
In Genesis 1:27 God created the human in His own image: So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Remarkably enough, we see in Genesis 2:7 that God formed man after He created him in Genesis 1:27. We know now that God created man in His own image and formed him from the dust of the earth: And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. So the human being, which we now can see and touch came forth after he was created in Genesis 1, was formed and received the breath of God into his nostrils in Genesis 2. Please notice! Scripture did not explicitly say that the manifestation, meaning the forming, was done in His image.
It is one God in three dispensations and not three separate personalities or beings.
The dispensation of the Fatherhood, Sonship and Holy Spirit are based on one God.
And when Jesus said, “Go baptize them in the Name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit,” It was in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ and that’s why he baptized in Jesus’ Name.
The name, in which man should be baptized, was revealed since the day of Pentecost.
This name we find in Acts 2:38 where it was commended to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
It was in Acts 10:48 where Peter asked if those who received the Holy Ghost should be refused to be baptized in the name of the Lord.
We see the apostle Paul performing the same baptism in Acts 19: 2-5: He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
When they heard [this], they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
John 14:8-9: Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father?