One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter August 2023
- One Hope Outreach
- Aug 22, 2023
- 2 min read
Read the August 2023 issue of THE HUB from One Hope Outreach here.
Dear friends and partners:
It is a great privilege to work together with so many in the kingdom of God. The fields of harvest truly are white for harvest. Thank you as always for partnering with us as do the work of ministry where ever God directs.
Baptized Into Christ:
Being born again is regeneration of the human spirit and this is referred to many times as being saved.
We are saved from God’s judgment and penalty for sin by God’s gracious gift to us. We receive His gift of salvation by faith--trusting only in Him--not anything else.
Becoming a Christian is not based on our wise choice of good behavior and exemplary character. We can only be right with God by believing in Christ as Savior.
A person becomes a Christian through the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the agent that brings new life into the one who trusts in Jesus.
Being born again is to be baptized INTO Christ. This baptism into Christ is the one baptism that all men must have to be saved. This baptism cleanses from sin and makes one a new creation in Christ Jesus. “Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor 5:16-17 (KJV)
When Jesus was crucified on the cross, He paid the penalty for sin and our debt of sin was paid in full. The sacrifice of His life on the cross was to pay the redemptive price for the salvation of mankind. Jesus was baptized into death and raised to new life.
Before we believed in Christ or [Baptized Into Him] our nature was evil. We were held captive to our sin nature.
Baptism into Christ signifies the death and burial of the old way of life, followed by the resurrection to new life with Christ.
The power of sin has been broken and we need no longer live under its power. Our evil desires, our bondage to sin, and our love for sin died with Christ.
Our baptism into Christ signifies our cutting off from the kingdom of sin. We are dead to the power of sin’s domination and by our union with Christ we are alive in Him.
To be alive in Christ is to have our affections and desires alive to God. And there is no living unto God without living through Christ.
What about you, are you baptized into Christ?
-Marvin Smith
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