In What Way Do We Baptise Correctly?
1) Direct Answer
We baptize by immersion in water, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, after repentance and faith. Not using titles, but calling the one saving Name over the believer.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The command and pattern: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins…” (Acts 2:38). That is how the church began, and they never changed it.
- Samaria: “They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 8:16).
- Gentiles: “He commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord” (Acts 10:48).
- Ephesus: Those already baptized another way were re-baptized “in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 19:5).
- Personal appeal: “Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord” (Acts 22:16).
- Mode: Baptism pictures burial and resurrection—so it is immersion. “We are buried with him by baptism” (Romans 6:4).
- Authority: “Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Colossians 3:17). “Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name” (Luke 24:47). “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
- Matthew 28:19 says “in the name” (singular) of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The apostles, with their understanding opened (Luke 24:45), carried that out by calling the revealed Name—Jesus Christ.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Now notice: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are titles of the one God. A title is not a name. The Bible never records anyone being baptized by saying the titles only. Every example shows them invoking the Name of Jesus Christ.
- You see, it’s not three Gods and it’s not three names. It’s one God who was above us as Father, with us in the Son, and now in us by the Holy Ghost. The revealed covenant Name that carries that authority is Jesus Christ.
- Baptism is for repentant believers. Infants cannot repent or believe; sprinkling does not picture burial. Immersion does.
4) Short Reinforcing Statement
If you were baptized only in the titles, be baptized again in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the apostolic way, the Bible way, and God honors His Name.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Water baptism
59-0329M §43
Therefore, it is my convictions... No disregarding to people that wants to be sprinkled, poured or immersed, in Father, Son, Holy Ghost; that's deliberately up to you, my dear brother, sister. I would not disagree with you; I just... You are God's servant. But, to me, I must be faithful and true to the Bible. Therefore, Paul commanded people that had been baptized some other way besides the name of Jesus Christ, and constrained them to come and be rebaptized again in the name of Jesus Christ. To preach that same go...
Hebrews, Chapter 1
57-0821 §44
In Africa they baptize three different ways. They baptize once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost. The Apostolic Faith mission, they baptize three times face forward to His death. What they call the Full Gospel on the West Coast ... or the East Coast, baptize three times backward; "unto His burial." And he said, "When He died He fell forward." Another said, "No, you bury a man on his back." Just little old technic things, when they're both wrong---both wrong according to the Scripture. Th...
Water baptism
59-0329M §25
Now, there is many people and churches who sprinkle water on the people. Many of the churches believe in that. And that's their way, why, that's all right. Many pour water on the people, just pour it, get the water up and pour it on their head. Well, that's all right, see. It's a dedication. It's an expression of ... an outward expression that an inward work of grace has been done. So, I have nothing to say against that. But, in the Scriptures, they were baptized by immersing, down under the water. So, therefore, b...
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §96
We have water baptism---it's all mixed up. That's right. One sprinkles; one pours. One takes Father, Son, Holy Ghost; one takes this. One baptizes three times face forward---one for a God named "Father," another one for a God named "Son," another one for a God named "Holy Ghost"; the other one says, "You're wrong. You have to baptize backwards three times, that way." And oh, what a mess! But the whole thing has been wound up. Why, there's only one God. And his name is Jesus Christ, and there's not another name unde...
It becometh us to fulfil all righteousness
61-1001M §49
So, no matter how much they say, "There is no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Spirit. There is no such a thing as divine healing," it behooveth us, it is becoming to us, that we fulfill all righteousness, that we stand in this hour of trial, and pound away at the ark of the Lord! They say that "Brother, you're all mixed up in your baptisms, and so forth. You shouldn't be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus."