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Be Not Confederate with Christianity

"For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he shall be for a sanctuary… " (Isa. 8:914). So how does this old testament passage apply today? There is only one body of Christ, which is the only congregation of God in the world; and there is only one way to be a part of it: "For BY ONE SPIRIT are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit" (I Cor. 12:13: Eph. 4:4,5). There is not one single sect of Christianity, including the Pentecostal affiliations, that teaches the above stated pure simplicity of truth about the new birth experience. Yes, the baptism of the holy Ghost is allowed for, but not as the new birth. To call the Spirit baptism which Jesus suffered and died to provide, something other than the only born again experience, is a perversion. Therefore just on that note alone you should do as the Lord instructed Isaiah, and not acknowledge that someone is in the body of Christ when in fact they are not. God’s people have been confederate, or allied with those [non Spirit baptized] who are NOT God’s people of a long time, by adhering to the false new birth doctrines of Christianity that are not the baptism of the Spirit with the accompanying sign of speaking in tongues. Furthermore you should leave any and every affiliation that does not uphold the only true new birth experience for what it is, so that you are not a part of the “confederacy” that the body of Christ has with those who have not fully repented and believed on Jesus unto being baptized with the holy Ghost into the one body of Christ (Jn. 7:38,39; Acts 5:32). So where should you go then? As Isaiah was instructed by God, GO TO GOD for sanctuary, but certainly not to another ‘church’ that is confederate with the erroneous traditions of modern Christianity. “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Rom. 15:4). Amen.