<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-184-219 Now, when they were baptized at the day of Pentecost, they were baptized (Acts 2:38) in the Name of Jesus Christ. Is that right? Write it down, look it up.
The next, Philip went down, two days later, and begin to preach to the Samaritans, and preached to them, and heal the sick, and had a great meeting down there, and baptized them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter went down and laid hands on them; they received the Holy Ghost.
Peter went up on the housetop a few days later, was hungry; he saw a vision. God sent him over to the house of Cornelius. And while Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them, and they begin speaking in tongues and carrying on like they did at the first place. Peter said, "They haven't even been baptized yet." So he commanded them, every one, to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.

L-185-222 Every person in the Bible was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. Paul... I mean, John's disciples wasn't baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ; they were baptized unto repentance. Let's turn over to I Corinthians... I mean, let's turn over to Acts the 19th chapter just a moment, and read this just a minute, so you'll see, my friends, that it's not--it's not... We're not... The Scriptures doesn't contradict Itself. Look here:
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul... passed through the upper coasts of... Ephesus: he finds certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?... they said... We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.
... he said... then what was you baptized?... (Oh, they said, we been baptized. Said, How?)... said, Unto John, John...
He said, John only baptized unto repentance, saying that you should believe on him who's come... that is, on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And when they heard this, they were rebaptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Paul laid his hands upon them, and the Holy Ghost come on them; and they spoke in tongues, and prophesied.
The great Saint Paul...

L-185-224 But listen. What if you'd been baptized by John the Baptist, the same man that baptized Jesus Christ? A holy man, where Jesus said, "There never was a man born of a woman as great as John the Baptist." He's the chief of all the prophets. He led Jesus out in the water and baptized Him right in Jordan. Brother, if I was baptized by him, I'd feel pretty good about it. Is that right?
But Paul turns around and says, "That won't work now." Said, "You've got to be rebaptized again."
"Oh, we've been immersed though, Paul. We was immersed by John right out in the river of Jordan."
He said, "That won't work now. You've got to be baptized again."
"How?"
Said, "John baptized unto repentance. This is for the remission of sins, and no other name under heaven is given among men, only the Name of Jesus Christ." And they had to be rebaptized again in the Name of Jesus Christ.
And not one place in the Bible, or all the history for the first six hundred years after the death of the last apostle, did they ever baptize any other way but in the Name of Jesus Christ.

L-186-230 And go ask any Catholic priest that you want to; ask them who changed that, and see what they tell you. Get the catechism and read it; say, "Sure, some of the Protestants will be saved because they bow to our baptism." They changed it. They say they have the power and authority to do it, and you believe it. That's what they say; that's what they claim; that's what the Protestant church bows to. But Scripturally it's absolutely not one ounce of Scripture about it. They had to be baptized over in the Name of Jesus Christ.


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