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usually only sorry for having disobeyed their conscience or their
church.
They don't
real~y
REPENT! They aren't broken up about the
wretched state of their lives and their own human VANITY and sel.fish–
~
which expresses itself constantly in all of us.
After baptism
in
a worldly church ., such people don't
immediately begin to study and
UNDERSTAND
the Bible. They just
continue o go along with the
customs,
the ways and the traditions of
their friends and of this world. Their lives are not actually CHANGED.
They don't come to
persona~ly
KNOW
GOD:
Sucb people have
NOT TRULY
REPENTED,
and their
baptism~
probably not valid! Their's was only
a. ritualistic "dunking" in the water.
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wonde.ri.ng
about your
baptiam.~
ask
yOUZ!Jielf
wmr
YOU –
were baptized in the first place. Were you baptized si.mply because
many of the members
of
your family were baptized, and you felt looked
down upon, or had that "left out' feeling? Did you stand in the water
and go through the ordinance
of
baptism simply to "join" the group with
whom you bad been fellowshipping? Were you baptized because you
temporarily thought it was the "right thing to do?"
If
you were baptized for
ANY
of these reasons--YOUR
BAPTISM
WAS
PROBABLY
NOT A VALID
BAPTISM, because your motives were not right!
You may have doubts about whether you are properly baptized,
and
you
need to
be~!
Care£ully read
Acts
2:38; Romans 8:9;
and I
Corin-
thiao.s
12:13;
and if there remains any uncertainty i.n ·your mind, it is
important that you counsel with a true minister of God about it. Nation–
wide baptizing tours are organized each summer to visit those who have
requested baptism.
u ·
you want a fai tbful servant of God to counsel
with you about your baptism, t hen send your name and address immediately
to
Mr.
Armstrong, Box 111
1
Pasadena, California.
Don't put this off any longer! It means so mucb to your
spiritual growth.
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