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.

I have often heard criticism of Peter for his bold stance on the things in which he believed. While he was human and flawed and imperfect and may have done and said some things that he should not have, his boldness and direct approach to the need of the sinner in this verse is clear and impressive and necessary. The person who is without Christ needs to hear the truth of their peril if they do not turn from their wicked ways. They need to understand their fate if they die without coming to the saving knowledge of the LORD Jesus. They need to hear that there is no other way to come into the presence of the Father for all eternity without submitting their earthly lives to Son.

Peter preached with the authority of the Holy Spirit. He told his listeners to REPENT. The Greek word for repent is Metanoeo, which is very dogmatic in its definition. It means to make a drastic change. This word called for the hearers to turn from their lives of sin to submission to the one true God.

Peter continued by urging his hearers, once they had repented, to be baptized. Baptism is not a part of the salvation experience itself, but it is an external symbolism of an internal work of the Holy Spirit. In baptism, the believer shows the world that he is dead to sin and alive in Christ. He goes down into the water as his sin went into the grave with Christ; he comes out of the water just as Jesus came out of the grave victorious over death. This is why believers' baptism is in "the Name of Jesus Christ" so that there is no confusion as to whom the baptism is related.

The act of baptism has nothing to do with salvation. There are people who are saved who are never baptized (Luke 23:32-43) and there are people who are baptized who are not saved.

As a young girl, I walked an aisle and confessed a salvation that I did not possess and was baptized shortly thereafter. The leaders in that church had so little discernment that they had no idea that I was pressured into making a confession of faith. It wasn't until seven years later that I truly placed my faith in the Christ. The LORD convicted me over thirty years later that I needed to be baptized as a believer. My point is that my baptism made a statement, but it had nothing to do with my faith.

If you are a believer in the LORD Jesus and have not been baptized, do so as quickly as possible. Baptism as a believer is obedience to God. If you have not placed your faith in Christ, don't let this moment pass. You don't know when the LORD will require your soul. If you die without faith in Him, you will spend eternity in hell. Confess your sin to Him today. Ask Him to forgive you and be LORD of your life. Cry out to Him as if your life depends on it....because it does.

John MacArthur
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Good Morning Everyone

2 Corinthians
Chapter 2
1But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

2For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

3And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

8Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

10To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

11Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

12Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

13I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

14Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

16To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

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