{"id":13103,"date":"2022-07-17T01:13:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13103"},"modified":"2022-07-17T01:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:13:04","slug":"iron-kingdom-excerpt-on-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13103\/iron-kingdom-excerpt-on-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Kingdom Excerpt on Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I\u2019ve finished reading the section on Baptism in the new Iron Kingdom book.\u00a0\u00a0It is good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In the Section on \u201cThe Essential Rite\u201d, it was a new thought to me that the baptism of Apollos foreshadowed Christian Baptism.\u00a0\u00a0Neither of them is the same as the baptism of John.\u00a0\u00a0John the Baptist was a\u00a0<u>messenger<\/u>\u00a0sent to Israel.\u00a0\u00a0And his message was about the one coming after him who would baptize with the holy Ghost and fire.\u00a0\u00a0There would have been no point of him baptizing the Israelites in water if he did not tell them about their Messiah and his baptism of Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0(What would he be baptizing them to?)\u00a0\u00a0I have heard you teach many times about John the Baptist\u2019s baptism including a message, which I understood, but somehow reading this section made that clearer, and that the water baptism that Christians practice is not the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And then you said, \u201cBaptism in water became the essential rite of the Apostates\u2019 religion, replacing the baptism of the Spirit as the means of new birth into the body of Christ.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Wow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It stuck out to me how concerned the Apostates were with the preciseness of their ritual, more so than about Jesus or anything from him.\u00a0 The ritual replaced the baptism of the Spirit, like you said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">The Section on \u201cCyril\u2019s Late Entry in the Contest\u201d\u00a0made me feel sad for people who might have gone through that ceremony, thinking it was doing something good for their souls, but it was empty.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you for sending this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Lyn<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, I\u2019ve finished reading the section on Baptism in the new Iron Kingdom book.\u00a0\u00a0It is good.\u00a0 In the Section on \u201cThe Essential Rite\u201d, it was a new thought to me that the baptism of Apollos foreshadowed Christian Baptism.\u00a0\u00a0Neither of them is the same as the baptism of John.\u00a0\u00a0John the Baptist was a\u00a0messenger\u00a0sent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}