<TITLE>06. Par 29-36</TITLE>L-29 All these little ones, you all love the Lord? My, that's fine. Once in a while, I preach just to little children, you know. How many was here when I told the story about little Moses? You know, that little ship, you know, that this little baby was hid in here. You remember that? And all of you come up around the altar and--and dedicated your life to the Lord Jesus. Now, today we are celebrating His resurrection. You still love Him? All of you that love Him, raise up your hands, you little boys and girls here. Oh, how nice. That's fine, a hundred percent. And I believe that too with all my heart, that they love Him.

L-30 Now, we are coming just now for the baptismal service; we never know just how many is to be baptized. It's part of the Gospel. The resurrection message was, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; and he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe," as it was read this morning to us out of Mark 16. Now, we're going to read some Scriptures for the--the water baptism.

L-31 Now, there's many people and churches who sprinkle water on the people. Many of the churches believe in that. And that's the way, why, that's all right. Many pour water on the people, just pour it, and get the water up and pour it on their head. Well, that's--that's all right. See? It's a dedication. It's a--it's an expression of a--of a outward expression that a inward work of grace has been done. So I have nothing to say against that. See?
But in the Scriptures they were baptized by immersing down under the water. So therefore, being that I am an old fashion Catholic, I had better go just the way the old fashion church did it, you know, by being immersed, covered over.

L-33 Jesus was completely sealed away. He was put down into the ground, and a big stone was rolled over the grave. Buried, He carried our sins far away. Therefore, we believing that what others do, that's all right; we do not have no controversies with them. But for ourselves, we believe in being immersed.
And now, we do this immersing according to the early apostolic teachings of the Church. Some of those who immerse yet today, got away from the--the beginning ritual of the apostolic belief. In the beginning the first baptism that was ever baptized after Pentecost, was to be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And every baptism afterwards, was every one baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And some of the people, we'll read in a moment, that were baptized by immersing by John the Baptist, just unto repentance, not for remission of sins. And they had to come and be rebaptized over again in the Name of Jesus Christ in order to receive the Holy Ghost.

L-36 Now, today we have substituted Acts or--Matthew 28:19, where Jesus Christ commanded His church, "Go ye therefore into all nations, teaching them to observe whatever things I have taught you; baptizing them in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." Peter, ten days later, commanded them be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. And nobody, nobody in the Bible was ever baptized in the name of the "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." It's not in the Scriptures; no one was ever baptized.


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