THEY BELIEVED … THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

June 3 - Start Your Day Right Devotion

Acts 9:16 I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.

THEY BELIEVED ... THE NAME OF
​ JESUS CHRIST

​The Samaritans had fully met the conditions for receiving spiritual salvation and were Christians before the Spirit came upon them.

1. They “believed” and were “baptized” (Acts 2:38). Two facts make it clear that the faith of the Samaritans was genuine saving faith (the kind that gave them a legitimate personal relationship with God).

1. Both Philip (Acts 8:12) and the apostles (Acts 8:14; 14:4) considered the Samaritans’ faith to be valid.
2. The Samaritans publicly acknowledged their commitment to Christ by water baptism. Scripture affirms that “whoever believes and is baptized will be saved” (Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38). The baptism did not save them, but it was a means of identifying with Jesus (Romans 6:4) and publicly testifying to their faith in Christ. As a result of that faith, they had been spiritually “born again” (John 3:3-6) and had the Holy spirit living within them (Romans 8:9).

1. Their receiving the Holy Spirit several days later (Acts 8:17) was not for salvation. It was rather a receiving of the Spirit as the disciples did at Pentecost, to equip them with power to serve Christ and spread His message (Acts 1:8; 2:4). Luke uses the term “receive the Spirit” mainly in an empowering sense (Acts1:8; 2:38; 8:17; 10:47; 19:2), not in the sense of spiritual salvation.
2. Some have taught that the Samaritans’ faith was not a spiritually saving and renewing faith (the kind that brought them into a personal relationship with Christ). However, it is unreasonable to believe that Philip, a man full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom (Acts 6:3-5), would baptize, heal, and command demons to come out of people whose faith he thought was not genuine. 

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