H20 as a rudiment of this world has no authority or power to perform salvation. It simply evaporates or up like smoke as rudiments
We cannot know Christ after the philosophies, oral traditons of the dying fathers
Theology is what we need for spiritual unseen eternal matters .
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest
any man spoil
you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Water like
blood or both working together represent the unseen work or the Holy Spirit. The pouring His Spirit on dying flesh in jeapordy of His own Spirit life
Baptism of the water of the word. the doctrines of God that come down like
rain and cause
new growth.
The baptism of the water of the word . The Spirt of Christ as a labor of Love working us cleanses our new hearts.
By the same washing of the water of the word earthly husband are to wash their wives with His doctrines .Not the doctrine of men oral tradition
Deuteronomy 32King James Version Give ear, O ye heavens, and
I will
speak; and
hear, O earth, the
words of
my mouth.
My doctrine shall
drop as the
rain, my speech shall
distil as the
dew, as the
small rain upon the
tender herb, and as the
showers upon the
grass:
Ephesians 5:25-27King James Version Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of
water by the
word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
It, I believe can be seen in a parable in Exodus God brings the living word down as rain called manna .Meaning what is it . The hidden word our daily bread a desire to know the will of God
Exodus 14-15 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the
hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw
it, they said one to another,
It is
manna: for they wist not what
it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the
bread which the
Lord hath given
you to eat.
Exodus 16:14-16King James Version And when the
dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the
hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
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