<TITLE>20. Par 148-154</TITLE>L-148 If your doctor wrote you a prescription, and you took it down to the drug store and some quack druggist, you know, he could kill you with that prescription. You see, that doctor writes so-much in that, because he's trained to that. And he writes. There's so-much poison, and he puts an antidote in there to kill so much of that poison. He has to set something to upset the other drug. And if that prescription isn't filled just exactly the way that doctor writes it, it'd kill you.

L-149 And that's, God is the Doctor. He's the Doctor of the soul. He's the Doctor of salvation. And He educated a man in His Own Theology, Peter, an unlearned man. He couldn't even read his name when it was wrote before him. But He give him the Holy Spirit, and give him the pencil to write the doctrine about. So on the day of Pentecost, he wrote the prescription. Let's see what he wrote. Doctor Simon Peter, let's see what your prescription is for salvation.
Let's see what it was wrote out for.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts, and said unto Peter and... the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what can we do? (Watch out, you got the keys.)
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of You in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
That's the Prescription. Don't doctor it up; you'll kill your patient. That's what's the matter with a lot of these people talking this "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," they're killing a lot of spiritual people, doctoring with the wrong thing.

L-150 There's no such a thing, nobody ever baptized in the name of "Father, Son, Holy Ghost," in the Bible. There never was such a ceremony ever said till the Catholic church; the Catholic church is the mother of that. Search the Scriptures, search the history and find out, the first order was ever done by "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" was a Catholic priest. They sprinkle them. Sprinkling was ordained by the Catholic church: mother of harlots.
Come right back down to a harlot. It says in the catechism, "Is there such a thing as a Protestant ever being saved?"
Said, "Sometimes, of course, because they admit the--the Catholic doctrine." They won't take their Bible. They baptize in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," and they have no Scripture for that. Said, "But the Catholic church started it," and they admit it. "By the Catholic orders, there might be some saved." No such a thing, nobody ever baptized that way. Nobody ever sprinkled in the Bible, poured, or any other way but immersing in the water in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. What did we read awhile ago, and I told you we'd get to it later? That repentance and remission of sin should be preached in His Name. To where? Just to Jerusalem, to the Jews? To all nations, all the world, beginning at Jerusalem.

L-154 Now, Doctor Simon Peter wrote out the prescription. What about you doctors? Why are you trying to put something with it? Don't add nothing to it. Take it the way it is. That's the commission of the church. That's how you get into it, by repenting and being baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins; and a promise that you will receive the Holy Ghost. Now, that's what the Bible said, "Baptized into the church, baptized into the church..."


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