<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-32-4 That's why I constrain people to come, like it's going to be this morning, some of them rebaptized again. Paul did. Paul met people who was just so happy and filled with God's goodness and things, shouting and praising God and having a great meeting. He said, "But have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed"? (Acts 19).
They said, "We not know whether there be any Holy Ghost." Said, "We're just Baptists," in other words. See? Their--their pastor was a Baptist preacher. Exactly right. He was a converted lawyer, Baptist preacher.
Paul said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
They said, "We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost."
He said, "Then to how was you baptized? What was you baptized? Which a-way?" How, what...
"We been baptized by John."
"That won't work no more."
Said, "We was baptized to John."
He said, "John only baptized unto repentance." Just as much water as you could put them under. See? Unto repentance; not for remission of sins, because the sacrifice wasn't killed yet. Said, "Unto repentance, saying that you should believe on Him that was to come, believing on Jesus Christ." And when they heard this, they walked right out into the water and was rebaptized again in the Name of Jesus Christ. What the Bible... And Paul, in Galatians 1:8 said, "If a angel from heaven..." Now, listen, what am I getting back? This hybrid stuff, get away from it. "If a angel from heaven come preaches any other Gospel than this, what I have taught you (Paul, rebaptizing the people again) let him be unto you accursed," let alone a preacher or a bishop or a pope or a priest. If an angel, bright angel come down from heaven and said anything contrary to what he said, let him be accursed.

L-33-2 How are we going to stand up to it, friends? Now what... Now you could be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ and your heart just as smutty as it could be. That don't save you, but it's one step of right. You're saved by your faith through Jesus Christ. That's right. But when you come to this spot and see this, and then reject it, then you go back.

L-33-3 This little story, I'm closing. I've told it before, I--maybe here. A chaplain once said that they called him in where a guy had been shot with a machine gun, and he was dying. He said, "Are you a Christian"?
He said, "I used to be."
"Used to be?" He said, "Where'd you leave Christ?"
He said, "I don't remember."
He said, "You better be thinking, because your lungs are filling with blood." Said, "You--you'd better hurry because you're right across the bottom of your lungs, you're shot."
He said, "I know it."
He said, "You're dying."
Said, "Yes."
He said, "And you once knew Christ?"
"Yes."
He said, "Now, think real hard, 'cause you haven't got..." said, "Captain, you just got a little bit of time now, think." Said, "Think hard now. Where did you leave Christ?"
He just struggled, struggling, trying to think. Directly a smile come over his face. He said, "I remember. I remember."
That's what you got to do. Remember when you come against a truth of God, you'll leave Him right there. You'll leave Him right there. See? And it won't do you no good to go on this way, because you've got to come back to this. You're on a detour all the time. I don't say you're not Christian, but you're--you're--you're on a detour. They were Israelites, but not all saved. See? That's right. See, you're on a detour right then. You come back to that.


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