<TITLE>20. Par 128-134</TITLE>L-128 When Jesus made the issue in Matthew 28:19, Peter ten days later said, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." The next time baptism was mentioned when Philip the evangelist went down there and preached to the Samaritans. And he baptized every one of them in the Name of Jesus Christ. Paul, Peter came down--Peter and John, rather, laid hands on them; they received the Holy Ghost. Then they went on up there. Peter went straight then to Cornelius' house and when Cornelius... "While Peter yet spake these words the Holy Ghost fell on them." Peter said, "We can't forbid water, seeing that these have received the Holy Ghost like we did in the beginning." And he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

L-129 Now, Paul passed through the upper coast of Ephesus; he finds some Baptists. And they had a--they had an apostle up there, an apostle of the Bible, and his name was Apollos. He was a lawyer converted, and he was proving to the people that Jesus was the Christ by the Bible. He said, "The--the Messiah's supposed to do certain things. This Man was the Messiah."
And they had a big bunch of people there, and they were rejoicing, and shouting, and having a big time of it. Aquila and Priscilla had--had went over there and joined up with them, having fellowship with them. They didn't have no denomination. They was having fellowship. And so they seen this man was a great man, oh, he was smart, an attorney; he was--he was a smart man. So he--they said, "Now, you--you're very good on what you know, but we got a little brother named Paul; when he comes, he's had some experience; he knows what he's talking about. He'll teach you the way of the Lord more plainer if you'll just set and listen to him. Now, don't try to push something off on him, 'cause he ain't going to stand still for it. (See?) But you just--you just go ahead, listen to him."

L-131 And Paul come through; he listened at him watched over there. He said, "That's very good, but have you received the Holy Ghost, you Baptists, since you believed?"
"Oh," they said, "haven't we got it?"
"Don't think so." See?
"Well, why?"
"Well, how was you baptized?"
"Oh, we been baptized. We been baptized."
"Well, who baptized you, and how was you baptized?" The Bible says, "unto what?" The Greek--or the original says, "unto how," and this says, "unto what." Said, "What was you baptized?" In other words, "How was you baptized?"
"We was baptized by John the Baptist, the same man that baptized Jesus Christ, same hole of water." That's pretty good baptism, don't you think so? Looks like that'd stick all right, don't it? Looks like it'd be all right if--if the man that walked into the water with our Lord Jesus Christ and baptized Jesus... And God sanctioned it till He come down in the form of the Holy Ghost and went into Him; and He said, "This is My beloved son in whom I'm pleased to dwell in," right after that baptism. Looks to me like that baptism had been all right.

L-134 Paul said, "Won't work any more now: won't work any more."
"Why won't it work any more?" See?
"You got to be baptized over again."
"You mean that we who have been baptized by John that baptized Jesus, has to be rebaptized?"
"That's right."
Said, "How must we be baptized?"
Said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ." And Paul took them out there and baptized them all over: Acts 19:5. And when they, heard this, they were baptized again now, in the Name of Jesus Christ; and Paul laid his hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
If Paul constrained men and women to be baptized over again in the Name of Jesus Christ, if I preached any other Gospel, then my spirit is not right like Paul's was. "Let him acknowledge what I write is the commandments of the Lord."


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