"Born again... of... the Holy Ghost"

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Pentecost Tuesday

[Peter and John] laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost (from today's Lesson, Acts 8.14-17). The Lord and Savior taught that unless a man be born again of water AND the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (Jn. 3.5). Those called to the sheepfold of God are baptized either by the Apostles themselves or the Deacons they ordained; and, conferred upon the might and power of the Holy Ghost (Whom they have already received in a Catholic Trinitarian Baptism recreating them unto a new creature in the image and likeness of Christ) to withstand sin and temptations, the evil and corruption of the world, the inordinate cravings of the flesh, and the attacks, subtle and filthy snares, schemes, and suggestions of the impure rebel spirit. Those adhering to the so-called #BornAgain #IglesiaNiCristo #AngDatingDaan #JehovahWitnesses sects of perdition (2 Pet. 2.1) therefore cannot enter into the kingdom of God lacking the episcopoi ("bishops," Acts 20.28 - placed by the Holy Ghost to rule the church of God: the Apostles, who received the power to bind and loose things (Mt. 16.19; 18.18; Jn. 20.23), and their perpetual (Mt. 28.20; Jn. 14.16) successors (Acts 1.25-26).