So why do you regret getting baptized
I'm beginning to think that you're toying with me, as I'll now copy and paste the clear answer, to you, for the second time.
"My "church" didn't teach me the True Gospel, nor did they tell me about True commitment, thus, immediately after I was water baptized, with still wet hair, I walked one block down the street and stole a bag of rubber bands for my paper route business. I was 12 years old. I wish that my "church" hadn't ever allowed me to be baptized, as I then spent the next four-plus decades believing that I was Truly saved. Unfortunately, I was not. I then learned about all kinds of sin and simply became worse . . . and worse . . . and worse . . . and worse . . . and worse."
I know that I wasn't saved because with hair still wet from baptism, I stole from a 7-11 convenience store. But five+ years ago, I had the most remarkable experience with God. It was at this moment that my heart received the Spiritual Circumcision of Christ. Instantly, I had an entirely new life that I could not ignore. When a person experiences the Raw, Almighty Presence of God to the degree that His Power nearly took my life, no one can ever remain the same. I learned, that day, that I am alive because He allows it. That day, I developed genuine, True Fear of the Lord. That day, I began to change to reflect the Glory of the Lord more and more. And, the more that I tried to control my life, the less I was able to be in control. There is no possible way that I am in control over my life, considering all that has taken place since that incredible day.
But as for the Transformation, it is best expressed by looking at the life of king Saul. What happened to Saul's thinking process when the Spirit of the Lord was taken from him and he was then given an evil Spirit? His thinking changed; his behavior changed. He went from a kind king whom many loved to a king who sought to murder David. His thinking changed. He felt different. His life became different. In reverse, this happened to me, much like it happened to Saul, later to be renamed Paul. When we both met the Lord in the most Powerful of ways, our Transformation began and there was no turning back. Just as Saul knew to call our "Lord" before he knew that this Power that blinded him was the Christ, he knew that it was the Lord.
When the Sinful Nature is lifted, a person knows it. There is no mistaking the change of thinking, of which behavior is sure to follow. Think of the difference in the way Adam and Eve felt after having only known perfect thinking, to later received the Curse of the Lord, thus thinking in alignment with the Devil. Drastic! Horrible! Awful! When a person is lifted of the Mind of the Devil, they know it . . . it is clear and conclusive. There is no mistaking the difference in how a person feels, thinks, and begins to act once alleviated of this Adamic Curse as described in Romans 5. Furthermore, when a person receives this Circumcision of the Heart, and they read Colossians 2:9-15, it all makes sense, for they, just in that moment, Truly understand what has happened to them.
Colossians 2:9-15 NLT - "For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. 10 So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority. 11 When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. 12 For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. 13 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross."
Any True Christian, or True Jew, will read these Seven perfect verses and understand, clearly, what has happened to them. These verses will slowly begin to make more and more sense as time goes on. But when they read of the Circumcision of the Sinful Nature, this act by Christ explains why they have Transformed, just as Paul explains in Romans 12:2.
Circumcision of Heart is the Purpose of Christ, and it is much of the Work of Christ, and it results in the Holy Effect of Christ. And as said, those who have received this Spiritual Circumcision, all things begin to change. ALL things in their life, hence, Romans 12:2. Colossians 2:9-15 is the single most context-filled set of Scripture that explains the entire Bible.
I'll stop, as I could literally write a book on this topic. And considering that I have written these things probably 100 times now over the course of being here nearly one year . . . it's tiring writing the same old thing . . . over, and over, and over, and over, and over. I don't need to write these things over and over, for all that a person needs to do is read the Bible for themselves and judge themselves and their lives based upon all of Scripture; not just little bits and pieces that seem to explain their sinful, wretched, pathetic lives . . . all the while calling themselves "Christian." It's time for people to stop determining the meaning of Scripture-based upon their lives, but to begin determining who THEY are based upon Scripture.
