In Free Choice Is Salvation Given Souls Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

in free choice is salvation given souls
accept reject appointed angels harvest
fine wheat from waste chaff separated
people name baptized fire Holy Spirit
“I am the one needing to be baptized”
in reply Jesus said to John the Baptist
“Let it be so now; it is proper for us
to do this to fulfill all righteousness.”

John consented; now the wise must
ask why? “Christ was circumcised,
and observed all the other ordinances
of the law of Moses, not with a view
to his own justification; but to fulfill
the dispensation committed to him by
the Lord, the God and Creator of all
things.' Justin Martyr stated declared.


Quotation from Matthew 3: 15 (New International Version, ©2011)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock