Much of the church today is made up of people that appear Godly, but in reality they are the product of false doctrine and many times not even baptized properly. Some of them unfortunately are found behind the pulpit preaching and teaching!

What do I mean by being properly baptized? For instance, if not truly taught about repentance, we go to the watery grave of baptism with the sin and iniquity we walked in while a part of the world is still attached to us. How can this be? Because we were baptized without severing the cords of iniquity or soul ties to people we know are presently walking in sin and partaking of the pleasures and morals of this world. Unfortunately, without this separation we were not successfully born again though we outwardly experienced baptism. We went through the motions, but without change. God says in II Corinthians 6:17-18 to be separate, come out from worldly people to become sons and daughters of God and received as His family.

So you see, if cords of iniquity have us bound to the wicked, our rebirth was aborted and we are therefore still a part of the old race of cursed people. It is absolutely not possible to come up from baptism as "new creatures" while connected to the "old man" or the cursed Adamic race. We may have been rightfully taught to repent of our own sins, but still, sin is attached without severance from the sin of others. This separation includes even our own natural family if they are not properly baptized and walking Godly. Besides, our real family from the time we are resurrected as new creatures in Christ, is God's family, or those that do the will of God. If you think about it, people that have been born again, and delivered from all God has cursed, are the ones we should want to be connected to anyway! How can we be the blessed if tied to the cursed?

Let me explain that this separation is spiritual not physical. We separate in our hearts and refuse to walk in their Adamic worldly ways. Therefore hopefully, because we no longer do the carnal things they do, we become an example for them to follow. However, if there is no change in those we are around after sharing the truth of God's word and the promises He makes to those that are His, then we must physically depart from them as well as spiritually. Their tainted fruit will begin to taint us if we stay attached. Remember God said in 2 Corinthians 6:17, "do not touch what is unclean."

Of course there are other reasons baptism can be ineffective as well. For instance, we may have been sprinkled rather than submerged. As the water represents our grave, we must be completely under it to be buried. We have to die to be resurrected into Christ. Sprinkling just won't do. Let us read how Jesus, our example, was baptized in Mark 1:9-10.

Now let us read Romans 6:3-4.

Perhaps we were submerged correctly, but were baptized in the titles of God: the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, rather than in the name of Jesus. The word says in Matthew 28:19 to be baptized in the name of the Father, the name of the Son, the name of the Spirit of God. Read Isaiah 9:6 and you will see the Son is the Everlasting Father.

He has many names, but the name He chooses for us to be baptized in however is Jesus. There is only one God, but He manifests to His people as the Father in creation, the Son in redemption and the Holy Spirit in the people that have experienced Pentecost. No one completely understands the Godhead, but let us read some scripture that will at least help us to see there is one God.

They meant there was one God, yet they are talking about two manifestations of that God. Malachi helps to straighten our minds from this false doctrine of three Gods.

So, if we all have one Father and one God created us, in Colossians we will see that all things created in heaven and on earth were created by Jesus. He therefore must be that one God!

So Jesus and the Father are one.

In John 14:9, Jesus Himself proved this

God was in the bodysuit of what this world saw as Jesus, just as He is in those properly baptized today. We are but vessels He lives through. He is one God in many body suits today. This is why when we are united we are called "the body of Christ."

Why is it so important to understand all of this? Because Jesus said at John 3:3 "indeed unless a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." In other words, the Kingdom of God is elusive to Adam, because they were cursed and barred from the garden after their fall.

For this same reason, as we studied before, Jesus Himself had to be baptized. He was born into the cursed race through His Adamic mother and was just like us. To be of righteous bloodlines and not cursed, He too had to be born again.

To be the perfect sacrifice for the sins of mankind on the cross, Jesus severed all soul ties and cords to His personal family. He explained that His mother and brothers, after His baptism, were those that did the "will" of God. You have to be born again to even begin to be in God's will, so we see as Jesus pointed out, that the Family of God is made up of only the correctly reborn people.

Satan has thoroughly confused the church on many issues and established incorrect methods of baptism in order to prevent rebirth and consequently stop the Family of God from growing. It is this Family the promises belong to. It is also this Family that will defeat Satan, be the Church Triumphant, and the fulfillment of I Corinthians 15:50-54.

Now that hopefully we are baptized correctly, we must ask ourselves, one: "are the friends I am associating intimately with doing the will of God?" Two: "is their lifestyle acceptable to be witnessed by Jesus?" Think about this, because He is in us and sees the things and people we are associating with. Unfortunately the precious Holy Spirit is exposed to all we are exposed to, so ask yourself, three: "is my personal family that I was born into, and attached to, a part of the correctly baptized born again people of God?" If we cannot answer yes to these questions, and we are bound to these ones, then we ourselves, even though we went through the motions of baptism, are still a part of the old Adamic race. Any church that accepts us in this condition, without helping us through the truth on separation, is a part of what God has named Babylon. We therefore have some real tough severing to do if we do not want to be a part of it. God said we are to stay away from the unclean and to come out from among them. He said this both to the early church concerning individual people through Paul in II Corinthians 6:17-18 as we read earlier, and again through John to us today, concerning Adam's worldly church with her many religions and denominations in Revelation 18:4.

Who or what was God telling us to come out of? Let us look at the earlier scriptures in this chapter for the answer.

She is the world's religions that harbor every sin, false doctrine and lie of Satan. She loves the hypocrite and as the above scripture pointed out, in her dwells the demons and every foul spirit which in turn attach themselves to her people. She is good and evil. The good can fool even the elect of God if they don't take the time to look behind the scenes.

Take God's advice to come out. Separate from any church if her people are not properly baptized or if they are not living as holy as their expected maturity level allows. Is sin covered over, do her leaders look for numbers rather than teaching truth that would possibly offend? Look a little closer, if they preach messages that allow the lawless a place among them, without requiring change, really beware! Look at the fruit to judge if you are eating from the tree of Life, or the tree of Good and Evil!

If you have repented for the sins you committed in the world and have asked God to separate you from the Adamic race and its curses, you have been properly prepared for baptism. If you were submerged in water, and baptized in the name of Jesus, then you died into Christ's death and came up from the water as a resurrected new creature, a part of the family of God and you are Israel. Congratulations, you are now ready to seal this by entering into covenant with God through communion to become a a new heir to the Kingdom of God. All that belongs to it will be yours also! We will discuss the covenants in the next chapter.

If you want to grow and mature into a true warrior of God, be a part of taking back this planet and its people as a part of the body of Christ, we invite you to enlist in God's Army and continue your walk with God as you enter Boot Camp!