Romans 6:3: (NKJV) Or do you not kow that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptised into His death?

Eph. 3:27(NKJV)- For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ

1 Cor. 12:13- For by one Spirit were were all baptized into one body- whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free- and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

Recent events have had me pondering a question. The increase in the spirit (I’ll write more on this later) of Christian Nationalism (it’s always been around, just waxing and waning throughout time) calls for the inquisition of folks’ stance. This movement has taken hold with people who are claiming to be Christian. We cannot question the confessions folks have made and we cannot know the heart of man. However, as I wrote in another post, we of the Christian faith have the duty to question the FRUIT of our brothers and sisters. Hence, then I find myself asking “What have you been baptized into? Scripture tells us that those who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, that is the Jesus we find in Scripture, the Savior, the Anointed One, The Christ, have been dressed in Christ (Eph. 3),. That means that we look like the Christ of Scripture. I see, as Frederick Douglass did * a vast difference in the Christ of Scripture and the false christ that is being paraded before the nations in this hour. The Christ of Scripture is gentle, mild, kind, loving, the express example of the fruit of the Spirit. If scripture says that there is a baptism into the Christ of Scripture, then there must be a baptism into something else, something not Christ. Whatever you have been baptized into, you will bear fruit of that baptism.

How can you know what you have been baptised into? What fruit are you bearing?  Is it the fruit of hate, fear  and discontent? Or, is it fruit that makes others hungry for the Living God? Scripture cautions us to examine ourselves to make sure we are in the faith (2 Cor. 13:5). That faith is faith in Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith.( Heb 12:2) This is a daily exam. Paul says “I die daily” (1 Cor. 15:31)

Check your baptism folks. Make sure you are baptized into Jesus the Christ.

  • Frederick Douglas quote: “for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference–so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked.”