Matthew Stuck here from Verity Baptist Church Manila providing you another video on the topic
of repentance moments. And one argument that people will use to say that you have to repent
of your sins to be saved is to say that John the Baptist preached the baptism of repentance. And
so this is what it says in Luke 3-3, it says, and he came into all the country about Jordan
preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. So the Bible is very clear
that if you want your sins forgiven, hey, you have to, you know, the baptism of repentance,
that's what John the Baptist preached. And you know, people will quote this verse and use this
verse. And they act like they've just, you know, hey, they've got you as if you've never seen that
verse in the entire Bible. And unfortunately, I think with a lot of these people, they actually
haven't gotten past the Gospels in their Bible reading. Now, obviously, throughout the Gospels,
you see, believe, believe, believe, believe. But the baptism of repentance is made very clear in
the book of Acts, Acts 19, verses three and four. Here's an example where unsaved people were
baptized. And it says in verse three, and he said unto them, unto what then were you baptized? And
they said, unto John's baptism. So here's people that have not even so much as heard of a Holy
Ghost. And, you know, they think they're saved. And then they're asking them, well, what were you
baptized on to? They said, well, unto John's baptism. So in Acts 19, verse four, then said
Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they
should believe on him which should come after him, that is on Christ Jesus. So what was John
the Baptist preaching? Well, he was preaching the baptism of repentance, saying that people should
believe. So the baptism of repentance is being defined as believing on the one who would come,
believing on Jesus Christ. So once again, it doesn't say repent of your sins in order to get
the remission of sins. No, the baptism of repentance, when you cross reference, is defined
as believing on Jesus Christ. Why? Well, because other parts, it talks about John the Baptist,
you know, preaching repent and believe the gospel, because you've got to change your mind about what
you believe to believe on the gospel, to believe on Jesus Christ. And so John's baptism of
repentance, what he told people was you must believe on him who is to come. And that's the
message he preached before people got baptized. Now, so why did John the Baptist baptize false
converts? All of us will have false converts. If you're a soul winner, you will have false converts.
If you're out there preaching gospel to as many people as you can and doing everything you can to
get people saved, hey, sometimes you're going to get false converts. That's the way it is. And so
that's the same with John the Baptist, but it doesn't change the fact that the message
he preached was to believe on Jesus Christ. Thank you and God bless.