<TITLE>18. Par 154-159</TITLE>L-154 Now, I'm going to take your Scripture, Matthew 28:19, "Go ye, teach all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost." How was you baptized, "In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Ghost"? That's not even written in the Scripture. And I want some man...
You say, "The blessed holy trinity." Find me the word "trinity" anywhere in the pages of God's Bible. It's a man-made scheme, an old dirty church rag wrapped around to take the place of the sap Line of God's Holy Spirit. There's no such a thing. There's no such a thing. You find it and come to me. You're duty bound to do it as a Christian, if you find it. It's not in God's holy Writings. And the "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" is hatched out of hell; there's no such a thing as three Gods.
Now, I believe in the Fatherhood of God; I believe in the Sonship of God; I believe in the Holy Ghost dispensation of God; but It's the same God in every dispensation, not three Gods.

L-157 Now, "In the Name of the Father..." The Bible didn't say, "Go baptize in the name of the Father, name of the Son, name of the Holy Ghost." Said, "Go baptize," Jesus said, looking back, "the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." Not "name of the Father, name of the Son," that'd make them individuals; but It's not. "In the Name of the Father, and..." And is a conjunction, with your same subject. "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Not "in the name of the Father, name of the Son, name of the Holy Ghost." But, "In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." See?

L-158 Now, look. Here stands the anointed apostles going up to Pentecost to receive the Holy Ghost. They went right straight to Pentecost and received the Holy Ghost. Now, the Church is inaugurated, what are we going to do? The first thing comes out; the prescription's got to be made; Doctor Simon Peter has got to write the first prescription, because Jesus gave him the keys. "I give unto thee the keys, Peter. Whatever you bind, what prescription you write here on earth, I'll receive it in the Drugstore. Write it, and I'll accept it."

L-159 What did he do? When they all--men heard all this noise abroad--abroad like that, they said, "What meaneth this?" Others, speaking in tongues. And they said, "We hear the wonderful works of God."
What did Peter say? "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."
Now, what did they do? They added "Father, Son, Holy Ghost" here, which doesn't go in the prescription. That's right. What else did they add? "You don't have to get out and act like they did. It don't give you joy and power, and--and speaking in tongues, and all these things. You don't have to have it. Just make your confession; shake hands." That's some more poisoned dope of the devil. If it made them act like that when they took the Medicine, it'll make you act the same way...?... Take His prescription. Exactly right. What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten.


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