The invitations have been sent…
The table has been set…
The location has been chosen…
The Groom is waiting…
Is His bride prepared?
Pastors
have a priceless mantel.
They are tasked with preparing His bride, the church, for the beauty and sanctity of marriage.
His bride must be washed into Him.
Washed. Cleansed. Reborn into Him.
Our sins have separated us from our Savior.
Jesus taught Nicodemus that one must be "born again"
to enter the kingdom of God.
Water and Spirit.
Baptism is fundamental, non-negotiable. Jesus was baptized.
A shepherd will stand before God for hundreds or thousands of souls.
When the bride is married, she takes on her husbands name.
Her soul is now engrafted into Him. The two souls are now one.
The name of Jesus is the unity & the oneness of the eternal marriage.
Her new name isn’t “the name”. “the bride” is not a name.
We are the bride of Jesus.
Will your sheep stand before Him with Jesus name?
The Great Commission Mathew 28:19
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
His disciples immediately began baptizing in Jesus name. The only name to salvation.
Why?
Did the disciples misinterpret his commands?
Did they intentionally disobey their beloved & newly risen saviors commands?
Maybe we are right, and the disciples were wrong, or…….
Relationship…The disciples were divinely chosen by Jesus.
Obedient unto death.
Divinely chosen by Jesus because He knew when we got it wrong….
His disciples would get it right.
The name of Jesus must be invoked into the rebirth during baptism.
Once baptized into John’s name, now into the name of Jesus.
Religion or relationship…
His disciples knew him better then anyone.
They were His students.
They baptized in Jesus name.
They followed His command.
Shepherdship…The New Testament Disciples.
When you stand before God in accountability, will your sheep have the son’s name?
I implore you.. If you must speak, consider
“in the name of the father, son and holy ghost, I baptize you in Jesus name”
We cannot omit the name of Jesus.
No other name has caused more controversy, carried more weight, or changed the world more significantly.
His Holiness
When you stand before the one true Holy God, and account for your sheep, will they be accepted by Him into the identity of Jesus name?
The name (singular) of the father, son and holy spirit denotes a singular name.
If I were to tell your wife to write:
the name of her husband, the father of her children and her best friend,
she would write YOUR NAME. one name.
She would not write “name of the husband, the children’s father and best friend.”
We were once born into the Name of John. Not the “name of the cousin”.
The apostles understood that.