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  • Baptism

    When you believe in Christ, you “follow” Him into His death, burial and resurrection.

    The nanosecond you believe the gospel, you are “crucified” with Christ, “buried” with Him – putting off the old, dead, sinful flesh – your inner man is spiritually reborn, and then you are “raised” with Him to newness of life. This resurrection will be manifest in the resurrection at the rapture.

    Christ was the first to be resurrected into His new sinless, incorruptible, spiritual body. There will be another resurrection for the believers – believers both in heaven and alive on earth – at the rapture.

    In the resurrection at the rapture, Christ will descend into the clouds, and the believers that have already died will be resurrected into their new spiritual, sinless, incorruptible bodies, then they will be caught up into the clouds with Christ. Then the believers who are alive and remain, their bodies will be transformed into their new spiritual, sinless, incorruptible bodies, and will then be snatched up into the clouds with Christ, and then He will take us all to heaven for seven years.

    During that seven years, Christ will pour out His wrath on an unbelieving world for seven years. This is called The Tribulation.

    Water baptism by a pastor in a church is not required for salvation. Only believing the gospel for spiritual baptism by The Holy Spirit is required.

  • Where to Find a Grace-only Church

    Lol. Can you find one anymore? A church that doesn’t preach some sort of front loaded or back loaded works-based salvation? It’s impossible. Especially not after the rapture – the snatching away of the only true Christians that have faith alone in Christ alone – no works. For, who will be all the “christians” left behind? Those that trusted in their works. So who will preach to you the truth? No churches that are left. That’s for sure.

    How to find a true church:

    1. Do they know the Gospel?
      That believing alone that Christ died for all sins, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day? 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
    2. Do they think you have to have any sort of works to be saved?
      Run! *See the note: The Works, The Will, The Command, The Overcomer, The Righteous, The Obedience
    3. Do they think you can lose your salvation, other than taking the mark of the beast?
      Run! You cannot lose your salvation. *See note: Eternal Security for details.
    4. Do they think that the “proof” of one’s salvation is their “changed life, sinning less, following the law, producing “fruit”, going to church, getting water baptized, speaking in tongues, tithing, helping the needy, etc.?”
      Run! The only proof of one’s salvation is the testimony of what they believe in — if they believe the gospel alone found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 — that Christ died for all their sins, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day – no works added. *See note, “You can know you’re saved” for details.