you know there's a lot of biblical words in the Bible that have been twisted by
false religions that have been misused misinterpreted and unfortunately they
have a connotation with the unsaved people of this world for example when we
think of the word repentance repentance is a biblical word but if you tell the
average Joe Schmo who's not saved they're not churchgoers they don't know
anything about the Bible what is repentance they will automatically say
well that means you got to turn from your sin which there's instances in the
Bible that that is true but when it comes to salvation it's not true the
Bible never tells us to repent from sin in order to be saved why well because
God commands us to do things that are possible okay you will never command us
to do something that is impossible and repenting or turning from our sin is
actually impossible because here's the thing you're surrounded by sin so once
you give your back and turn turn your back on one sin you're facing another
you understand you're always gonna be sinning this side of eternity you will
always have this corruptible flesh this side of eternity and so repentance is
not necessarily a word we want to use when we're preaching the gospel because
it confuses people you said what should I use well just tell them this believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ that's a simple phrase and term to understand and
believe okay so let's let's look at the baptism of repentance I'm gonna read to
you from Mark chapter 1 verse 4 you're in Acts chapter 19 mark chapter 1 verse
4 says John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of
repentance for the remission of sins so here in Mark chapter 1 we actually have
two things that John the Baptist is doing it says that he is baptizing in
the wilderness this is referring to the physical baptism and then it says that
he's preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins two separate
things and if they weren't separate he could just say he's baptizing for the
remission of sins and that's it but the reason there's a comma there the reason
there's two statements being made there's because there's two separate
actions he's baptizing physically but he's also preaching the baptism of
repentance for the forgiveness or remission of sins and that's referring
to salvation let's prove it acts 19 verse 4 then said Paul John verily
baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people be baptized in
water in order to be saved so it says no that they should believe on him we
should come after him that is on Christ Jesus so acts 19 is a commentary on mark
chapter 1 verse 4 right we read mark chapter 1 verse 4 we see the baptism of
repentance we read acts chapter 19 of verse 4 and it operates as a commentary
it basically expands the meaning of what baptism of for the remission of sins
really means okay it means to believe on Jesus Christ that's what it means okay
so when John the Baptist is in the wilderness he's preaching the baptism of
repentance he's telling people believe on the Lord Jesus Christ which should
come after me okay