<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>59-0329M, Water Baptism, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 99 min
L-1 And everything that we do must be based upon the Scripture. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"...Catholic church," he said that, "with your sincerity..."
"Well," I said, "I am a Catholic."
Said, "Yes?"
Well, I said, "Now, according to the teaching of the Catholic church, that Jesus Christ established the Catholic church, and the apostles were His first priests, and Peter was the first pope. That's according to the teaching of the Catholic church, and that this Bible was written of the early Catholic church, well, and then the Catholic church has power to change anything they wish to, because they are the church."

L-3 And I said, "Since the early days that you all have changed it. You have substituted sprinkling or pouring for immersing. You substituted holy communion instead of the Holy Ghost." And I said, "I'm just one of the old fashion Catholic that stay with the original belief, that stand..." I said, "The strange thing is, that Peter, being the first pope, said, 'There is no other mediator between God and men, but that Man Jesus Christ.' And today you all have Mary, and Saint Cecilia, and hundreds of women that's died, and so forth, to be intercessors. There's something happened between the first pope and this pope (See?), if it doesn't change or alter."
I said, "Then again, what do you do with Saint Paul, which was the great saint of the early Catholic church, that said, 'If an Angel from heaven preaches any other Gospel than this has already been preached, let him be accursed'?" I said, "What about Jesus Christ Who established the catholic Church, said, 'If any man shall take any Word out of this Bible, or add anything to It, the same will be taken out, of his part, of the Book of Life'?"

L-5 Therefore, all things that we do, to my opinion, as a Bible believer, must be based upon the Scriptures. All revelations, all visions, everything, must be solemnly based upon the Scripture, for That's the foundation that we rest on as THUS SAITH THE LORD.
In the Scriptures we do not find where they ever sprinkled, or poured, or consecrated little children in that manner. But in the Scripture we find that they brought infants unto Jesus, that He might bless them. And He took them up in His arms and said, "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of heaven." And He blessed the little children. And that's all the Scripture that's written concerning it. That's the way we try to continue. Now, if the...

L-7 Like in the Methodist church, and the Nazarene church, and many other churches who has the in... I don't think the Nazarene church does. The Methodist church does, and many of the others or the Evangelical thinkers, that does christen little children by sprinkling them.
Now, that's all right, any form that you want to dedicate them to, but just so that you see that we don't put water on them. We just lay hands on them, trying to follow the example of our Lord. And that's the way we want the mothers to understand that why we don't sprinkle water on them, because we don't have any Scripture for that. We don't have Scripture for sprinkling water on adults or children.
So the child is too young to be baptized. And baptism is a--the outward expression that a inward work of grace has been done. And the child cannot express it, because there hasn't been any inward work of grace (You see?), because it's just a baby.
It's the parents bringing the baby to God Who gave them the child, giving it back to Him in dedication. So that's how we use that here.

L-11 Now they're going to bring some little fellows for dedication. I'm going to ask the sister if she'll give us just a little chord on the piano of "Bring Them In," I believe, Sister Gertie or ever who the young lady is here...
And so, while just before we do that, let's have a word of prayer for the mothers and the people that's bringing their loved ones.


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