<TITLE>07. Par 37-47</TITLE>L-37 And then someone would say... Now, see, it was ordained as the Catholic church, the faith of our--or, "Facts Of Our Faith"... In the Catholic book the facts of Catholic faith, says that "the Protestants do recognize our baptism." The Catholic diocese, in the about the six--about the fourteenth century, baptized a man by sprinkling him in the name of "Father, Son, Holy Ghost," but it's not a Scripture for it. The church... Wesley come out, and Luther, with the same thing from the Catholic church. Some of them still carry the Catholic catechism; some still carry the Apostles' Creed, and so forth, which come out of the Catholic church. Which if God makes a Christian out of a man like that, I have nothing to say against it. You understand? See?

L-38 But, to me, I must be an old fashion Catholic; I must stay with what the early church did. And I must baptize according to the way the early church baptized, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now, we try to keep that.
Now, that I might say this in Matthew 28:19, Jesus said, "Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptize them into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."
Well now, one of them, He never said, "in the Name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Ghost," He said, "in the Name," singular. Great scholars like Scofield and those, and the original Greeks, all, and in the--all translations, it's "in the Name," not "names" or "in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son." It's "in the Name" of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

L-41 Well, "Father" is not a name, neither is "Son" a name, and neither is "Holy Ghost" a name. It's titles that goes to one Name. See, there's one Name. Then if the revelation that we are trying to bring to you, surely must've been the same revelation that the apostles had when they stood by Him, listening at Him give that commission.
Someone said, "Well, I don't care what the apostles done, Jesus said this."
If the apostles disobeyed Him, then the Scriptures are wrong. You have to make the Scriptures perfect, or They're not nothing. It's every Word right or it's none of It right. I don't know which would be right if It all isn't right. If part of It isn't inspired, then the rest of It might not be. But there's not a contradiction in the Scriptures.

L-44 So if Peter said, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ," and all after that was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and Jesus said, "Go, baptize in the Name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost," that's a blank contradiction looks like; but it isn't, if you'll just know.
You remember, "The Scriptures are hid from the eyes of the wise and students." Did you know that, "And to be revealed..." The Scriptures doesn't contradict Itself; It only declares Itself.

L-46 Now, if you'll turn back... If you was reading a story, like you said, "John and Mary lived happy ever after." As some of you, we're all guilty of reading stories. And if you didn't know who John and Mary was, the only thing you can do is turn back to the first of the book, and read through, and find out who John and Mary was.

L-47 If Jesus commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and Father's not a name, and Son's not a name, and Holy Ghost is not a name, we'd better go back and find out Who "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" is, and what Its Name is.
So if you would turn with me to the 1st chapter of Matthew, like you would of any book, It said now, begin their genealogy, It said:
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise:
When... his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph,... (engaged, otherwise)


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