'Endtime Overcomers' - Blood of the Lamb
Mat
28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke to
them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them
to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age." Amen.
Just before our Lord went back to heaven, His
final commandment was the Great Commission, whereby we are to reach all men
with the gospel of Christ, and then make disciples of them by teaching them to
observe all the commandments, words and teachings of Jesus in both the Gospels
and Epistles.
John
5:46 “For if you believed Moses, you
would believe Me;”
In the OT, John the Baptist and even our Lord
Jesus and His disciples taught the water baptism of repentance. Any Jew who
accepted the water baptism not only believed Moses, but also Jesus as his
Messiah.
baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
After the Jews had believed the gospel and
were saved, they were baptized in the name of
1. God the
Father
2. God the
Son
3. God the
Holy Spirit
This ensures Christians understand the
Almighty God is One but reveals Himself as the Triune Godhead or Holy Trinity.
Jesus
was the name given to His Son
Luke
1:31 And behold, you will conceive in
your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.
Jesus was the name given by God the
Father to His Son before He was even born of the virgin Mary.
John
17:12 While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in Your name (Jesus). Those whom You gave Me I have kept;
and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might
be fulfilled.
Jesus is God's name, which He gave to
His Son before His birth. Jesus, the Name above all names, is the only
name of our Almighty God. All His other so-called Names are just His
attributes.
John
17:26 And I have declared to them Your
name (Jesus), and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me
may be in them, and I in them.”
Jesus
the Name above all Names
Phi
2:9-11 Therefore God also has highly
exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on
earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Since God had exalted the name of Jesus above
all names and that at the name of Jesus all knees in heaven must bow, it is
clear that the name of our Almighty God (the Triune Godhead) is Jesus.
Baptized
in the Name of Jesus
Acts 2:38 Then
Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the
gift of the Holy Spirit.
Since Jesus is the name of our
Almighty Triune Godhead or Holy Trinity, baptizing new believers in the name of
Jesus is the same as baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
Col 2:9 For in Him (Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
