whitestone
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Don't stop at 19:2
Act 19:4
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.
Act 19:5
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Act 19:6
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
They were baptized THEN Paul LAID HIS HAND ON THEM then they received the Holy Spirit.
Consider Nicodemus,he was a Pharisee,a leader of the people who during that dispensation was told he must be born of water and spirit which would have then been true,that is both the washings fulfilling the law and another "born of the Spirit".
Now on the other hand if you are no longer in that dispensation(one Nicodemus was in),but in another,and in it,it is not so that you are to both fulfil the Law(old test. washings) and be born of the spirit then laying aside the law is there not today one baptism,one spirit we are baptised in?
I say this because when Jesus said that to him he(Nicodemus) was still under the "law"... the question is, is it not proper to say to those who then were still under the law both the things of the law and the things coming?
If so then and we are no longer under the law how then is it proper to say to us who are now,in this dispensation we are to fulfil the law?