<TITLE>02. Par 8-12</TITLE>L-8 And now tonight remember the Gospel services here at the Tabernacle. Everybody come out. You around Louisville, I'm to speak at the Church of the Open Door tonight for a couple of hours, at seven-thirty till nine-thirty at Brother Cauble's. I was going to come twice here and then he such a nice man and he called up and... Brother Cauble is a very fine gentleman and brother. You, I'm sure you're acquainted, very fine brother, and I just couldn't hardly turn him down like that. And pray. Above all things, pray. And pray that God will give us the right decision to make.
Now, before we start the Gospel message, we got a morning we're to dedicate little children. And I got a little fellow here to dedicate too to the Lord. Now, many times in many churches... (Can you hear all right way back? If you can, is it all right? These fans here, I just--you can't hear yourself. Well now, that's all right. I'm afraid I'd perish without it.)

L-10 So they, the little children, sometimes they sprinkle them in the church, when they're little bitty babies. And of course, that come from the Catholic church by christening the little children, or baptizing them as they call them, when they're just little fellows. The Methodist church brought it out in--of infant baptism, and many... and I think, several more... I think that's the difference between the Nazarene and old fashioned Methodist, was the infant baptism and then little break-offs and so forth, but whatever way, it doesn't... I don't think it matters too much. Because after all, I think Calvary spelled the thing out right there to all of us. 'Cause Jesus died there to save little children, and save the world.

L-11 And a little child, no matter what kind of a parent it's got, how sinful (that wouldn't make any difference), for the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses. See? And this is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. That baby cannot repent. It don't know how to repent. It has no reasons of being here of its own. It can't tell you why it's here; but God sent it here. And the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses it the very moment that it comes into the world, and it's until it's the age of accountability, and then it knows right and wrong. And then what it does, it's got to repent for what it knows that it's done wrong. That's right. So some of them sprinkle them and think they don't go to heaven.

L-12 And there's the teaching that says if the baby's borned of a Holy Ghost parents, well, the baby will go to heaven. But if it isn't, there's no more to it, the baby just is no more. That's strictly an error. What difference does it make whether it's a Holy Ghost parent? It's all sexual desire, and the baby's born the same way. So it's all borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. That's--that's the Scriptural terms of it.
So in... And then the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses and makes an atonement for that child. If it dies, he perfectly, go right into the Presence of God. And if it was born from the most sinful parents in the world, until it's the age of accountability where it knows right and wrong, and then what it does from then, it's got to be forgiven for that. It's got to ask its own repentance from then on. But while it's a baby...


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