Faith in his blood

>CQ> The question of SELF-BAPTISM is just weird enough that I can't give a certain answer.

Jonah's baptism was by the hands of others, as it is written, "So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea."

The "son of Jonas" was SELF-BAPTIZED, as it is written, "Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea."

"Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah."

"Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken." (Jn.21:11 - Not even one lost! :)

Jonah (a Jew) was baptized before going unto the gentiles in the city of Ninevah, but none of the gentiles had to be baptized with the water baptism wherewith Jonah was baptized.

The Lord Jesus Christ was baptized with our sins on the cross and he was buried (with our sins) and rose again from the dead after three days and three nights (without sin) for our justification through FAITH in his blood. Out of the heart are the issues of life! (Such love! such love! that God should love a sinner such as I. :)

The word of faith says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Grace be to them that love the Lord Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth. Amen. --Richard