"THE APOSTOLIC WAY"

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Acts 2:38-39

"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.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call."

Through this sermon on the day of Pentecost, The way to salvation was given to us. There are six basic steps to salvation, and they are:

1. Hearing the full Gospel.

2. Believing the Gospel.

3. Repentance from sins.

4. Baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ.

5. Baptism of the Holy Ghost.

6. Living a Holy life.

HEARING THE FULL GOSPEL

Before a person can be born again, he must hear the Gospel. To hear brings us in contact with God. It puts us in the position to believe and know God. If a person does not believe in God, he will not come unto God.

Heb. 11:6

"But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

Romans 10:12-13

"For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

These two verses emphasize that there is no respective person with God. Therefore, both Jew and Gentile, Black and White, Male and Female, must be saved the same way (Acts 10:32-35; 11:14-18; 15:7-11).

Romans 10:14-15

'How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher/ and how shall they preach, except they be sent?"

HOW SHALL THEY HEAR WITHOUT A PREACHER

"How shall they hear without a preacher?" From this scripture, we can see the necessity of having a preacher to tell us the Word of God. So many people are in darkness today because of not hearing the preacher. But every preacher who claims to be a preacher is not a preacher.

Jeremiah 23:21, God said:

"I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied."

From this, we can see that many preachers who are preaching and God have not sent them.

"The Preacher whom God hath sent speaketh the Word of God."

If God has not sent a preacher, and the preacher goes forth, he will not speak God's word but his own.

Deuteronomy 18:20-22

"But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods; even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." (Deut. 13:1-5)

BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS

Matthew 7:15-16

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?"

There are so many churches and false religions today because there are so many false teachers and preachers.

God Bless

Love

Bishop T. W. Jackson I, ThM