<TITLE>20. Par 176-185</TITLE>L-176 Christ was smitten once. That's the original experience. That's the original way. On the day of Pentecost, Peter said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ."
"We sprinkle in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, give all kinds of creeds and everything else about It." When we get off the Word, no wonder we can't get nowhere...?...

L-178 God teaches us a lesson. Moses wasn't supposed to say, "Now, we'll start a new something here now, and we'll organize, and we'll make the Catholic church." That's the first thing they done. No, then after while, "Well, we'll start something new off of that; we'll make the Lutheran." Then come the Anglican, and then the Baptist, and whatmore, and Campbellites, and Church of Christ, and antichrist, and all other things. See? They all started going, one after the other one, one after the other one, making denominations and organizations. That wasn't it. See there what they're doing? They're smiting the Rock again to start something new. We don't need a new doctrine.

L-179 Every man in the Bible was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. Every man in the Bible that's got the Holy Ghost come God's way, exactly the way God do--performed at the...?... They did the same thing. They had the same experience. The same signs followed them. The same works followed them. Why? They lived by the Rock. They got the same Water.
And today, the reason we got so many creeds and denominations, is because we're starting something new. We don't need nothing new. Go back... Moses wasn't supposed to smite the Rock again, start something new. He was supposed to speak to them of the original Rock. Oh, I hope you getting that. Moses was supposed to speak of the original smitten Rock, not try to smite It again, not try to start a new thing, but to speak to the old Thing.

L-182 God, help me. If I die a pauper in the pulpit, I'll speak of the original Rock. I'll speak of the original experience. I'll speak of the original Scriptures that gave them the baptism of the Holy Ghost: "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." The ever-presence of the flowing Waters from the Rock is still with us. It'll bring forth the same thing. It'll bring forth visions. It'll bring forth healings. It'll bring forth prophesies. It'll bring forth every thing that they did.

L-183 When Israel got lined back up in the Scriptures again, and got back on the road, they went on to the promised land. But taken them forty years.
Pentecost has been about forty or fifty years, wandering around in the wilderness. Come back to the Rock. It's in sight. Here it is written right here on the Word. The Holy Spirit's here performing the same thing He always did, so the ever-presence of the Water is here. Just come back to It, come back to the former, the original.

L-185 How was it in the original? "Well, they shook hands with the preacher." No such a thing. "They was baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost." There's no such a thing. There's no persons in the Bible, anywhere, or outside, three hundred years outside of the Bible, was ever baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That's a Catholic creed, not a Bible doctrine. See?


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