<TITLE>32. Par -</TITLE>L-199-316 I said, "Mr. Bohanon, the only thing that you got, you got three different things mixed up, calling it the Bride. You're calling the hundred and forty-four thousand who stood with the Lamb on Mount Sinai the Bride. They were not. You're calling the ones... Spurted the water out of his mouth to make war with the remnant of the woman's seed which was not the Bride; that was what was left. The Bride was in heaven, the hundred and forty-four thousand there, and the nominal Christian going here to the persecution. And that's right." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
199-317a      Read, brother, now if you have it.
[Brother Neville begins reading I Corinthians 15:29: "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all, why are they then baptized for the dead."--Ed.]
Now, my brethren, there's one--one people that believes that. They baptize for the dead; that's the Mormons. Now, I've been in their temples many times; they're very fine people. You may be a Mormon. Now, I am not trying to hurt your feelings.
But my dear friend, you can't be baptized for your father. That's a act he had to do. The way the tree leans, that's the way it falls.
Paul speaking here was talking of the dead Jesus Christ. If the dead rise not, why are you baptizing in Jesus Christ's Name then, if the dead rise not? See what I mean? Then you're... He said, "Let them eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die if the dead raise not."
But he goes ahead and glorifies God for the resurrection of the dead. And we're baptized in Jesus Christ, unto His death, burial, and resurrection. That's why we're baptizing for the dead.
199-317c      All right. I believe now this is just about one more after this one.
Brother Bill, please tell me how to--to obtain the baptism of the Holy Ghost? If it is by prayer, surrendered life, accepting it as we do healing? I know what it is to have faith for healing when you prayed for me here. Do you pray and lay hands on for the baptism of the Holy Ghost? I was baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Please tell me if I should be rebaptized in the Name of Jesus, as you spoke recently.
Now, my dear Christian friend, I am not telling you what to do. I'm only laying the Scripture down. And you know what--how the Holy Ghost can come right now while we're speaking. The Holy Ghost is a gift of God. See? That's a gift of God; it could come while we're speaking. And I'll tell you, when...
If the people was taught right... Some of you old-timers here, let me ask you something. You old-timers that's been in the Tabernacle, watch when I baptize people, and you ministers take this for an example. I taught those people till they had that life cleaned up before they went to that water. And I had them believing that God was obligated to keep His promise. As soon as they was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit was right there to receive it, and when they come up out of the water they received the Holy Ghost. That's right.
If you just... Shepherds, teach your sheep; get them in the Bible here. Get away from that old textbook of some church and get down here in the Bible where God talked, and you won't have those troubles.
Yes, laying on of hands is how we can receive the Holy Ghost, by some anointed person laying on of hands.

200-Q-L-48-50 48. Brother Bill, it is... Is it out of order for someone to get up and give messages in tongues while the preacher is giving the--out the Word?

L-200-Q-49 And this person's got three questions here, and the other one is:
49. Also, is it out of order to do likewise when the altar call is being made?


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