Truth

Pilate asked Jesus--"What is truth?"

• Do you know what truth is?
• Is your truth only a subjective truth?
• Do you have an objective truth?
• Do you know the difference between objective and subjective?

The Apostle Peter was faced by just such a dilemma. He needed an objective measure of a truth.

No Gentile had been allowed into the fledgling church. He had had the audacity to go preach to a house full of Gentiles. And then he returns to the leaders of that Jewish church and tells them he had baptized those Gentiles in water.

The questions was, how did he know the truth of their repentance? The Italian and his family had not proven themselves as Jewish procelytes. How could he have included them in the church? They were "unclean" Gentiles, excluded from the community of faith!

Peter did not say, "I knew it in my heart. I sensed their sincerity. They were really happy!" He may have had these subjective proofs to share with the other Apostles. However, he did not use those as vindication of baptizing them in water.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.

An objective proof of their salvation.

Do you ever wish for an objective truth of your salvation? Seek the Baptism of Jesus with the initial physical evidence of SPEAKING IN TONGUES.