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Much of the New Testament is written about this mixture being taught in the church. Indeed, they will say you are causing division if you address them.
UNDER GRACE (NEW COVENANT), WE ARE IN A “BLESSED ZONE”
But in the end, we have to go back to the Bible. God has given us His written Word as a standard for Truth.
If you ignore what it says, God is not going to protect you from deception — indeed, the Bible is His great protection from deception. This is not maybe. You can bank on it. This is why we must have an open heart to God, and to allow Him to do with us whatever is necessary to reveal to us Jesus Christ. See Christ and you will begin to understand the Bible. Indeed, you will never understand it any other way. That is also something you can bank on. We must see Christ, and not just understand theology. See Christ and the Bible becomes a living Word.
And the Bible itself tells us this very thing. If you are a born again believer, you already know that the Bible is the Word of God. The Holy Spirit is going to be in the process of guiding you into all Truth. This Truth will need to come to you by revelation — that is a fact. Thus, whatever we feel God has revealed to us must always be taken back to the Bible.
It is going to be ours. One of the biggest needs in the Christian church today is to see the difference between the Old and New Covenants. To see this difference is to see the difference between the law, which was a shadow, and Jesus Christ, who is the substance. And it is important that we see exactly when, how, and why the New Covenant came when it did. But now has he Christ obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant , he hath made the first old. Now that which is decayed and waxed old is ready to vanish away.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: Hebrews 8 is a reference to a prophecy from Jeremiah But note upfront this vital fact, right from the mouth of God: Do you see that?
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God Himself said so. Do you see the difference? Hebrews says much the same thing. Jeremiah reads just a little bit different, howbeit in harmony with the quote from Hebrews: The Old never offered this, and could not have offered it. Now, that is a rather simple way of stating this difference. Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints….. Read again the passage above from Colossians.
Christ could not be IN people, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, before Christ came and finished His redemptive work. Jesus Himself said so. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: And how does Christ dwell in us? Through the Holy Spirit. And WHEN did this become possible?
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When the Comforter came in Acts 2. Jesus could not dwell in people through the Holy Spirit before He ascended to heaven. The Bible says so. And consequently, we had better believe so. And yet there are millions of Christians who believe that the disciples were indwelt by Christ through the Holy Spirit prior to Acts 2. They believe that Acts 2 some a second blessing on top of that — a greater fullness. I have known Christians who have actually assumed — without checking out the Bible — that the disciples of Jesus, not to mention all of the Old Testament saints, were born again.
New Covenant: The Fullness of Grace
Christ could not dwell in anyone before Acts 2. Thus, there could be NO new birth before Acts 2, because we are born again through Christ in us. The New Covenant was ushered into the experience of people starting in Acts 2. This is as certain as the Covenants themselves. And Acts 2 was NOT a second blessing.
The Baptism of John.
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The disciples usually pray for them, lay hands upon them, and they receive the Holy Spirit. What is going on here? Those who believe that Acts 2 was a second blessing often point to these occurrences as proof that Acts 2 was a second blessing. This would mean that receiving the Holy Spirit on top of that — as a second blessing — could not equal receiving Christ all over again, but would have to be a SECOND blessing in addition to Christ.
Well, we have already quoted John That ought to be enough. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. Can we see that?
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The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. It is simply a baptism that indicated that a person had relinquished their old life — through repentance. In fact, these people had come under the fullness of the Old Covenant. John the Baptist was the last Old Testament prophet.
In fact, he embodied the Old Covenant. His ministry was to make a path in the wilderness for the Lord, which is exactly what the Old Covenant did. John brought to fullness everything God provided under the Old Covenant. His baptism symbolized salvation under the Old Covenant, which was a legal salvation, based in faith in the future Savior. That was possible only through the New Covenant, and the baptism with the Holy Spirit. There is perhaps no clearer a statement to this effect than the one that Jesus made about John: Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: John was the greatest of all ever born of woman — of all those ever born into this world through natural birth.
Thus, John could not have been born again. He was saved under the Old Covenant, indeed, was the full embodiment of it. John will be in heaven, as will all the OT saints. But the, "this life experience," of salvation was not the same for those under the Old Covenant as it was for those under the New. They were all saved by the same Jesus, and the same Blood. That was possible only once the New Covenant came to pass. Now, the conclusion here is inescapable. Neither were the disciples of Christ, and neither were any of those people in the book of Acts who said that they had received only, "the baptism of John.
It was not a second blessing any more than what the disciples received in Acts 2 was a second blessing. John the Baptist brought the fullness of the Old Covenant, and provided a salvation under that Old Covenant. Jesus brought the fullness of the New Covenant, and provided a salvation under the New Covenant.
The change of Covenants was made possible through the Redemption of Jesus Christ — culminating with His ascension. When those disciples received the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, it was the first time anyone had been born again. The Coming of the Spirit.