<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 Now, many people sprinkle these little babies. And they call it a infant baptism. Now, if your church does that, that--that's all right. But you see, if they do, it's a order of the church. It is not a Scripture. The Scripture does not support baptizing or sprink... The Scripture does not support sprinkling in any manner. There's no one ever sprinkled in the Bible. They was... Everybody was baptized by immersing in the Name of Jesus Christ.
But now, the babies in the Bible, they brought them up and dedicated them to the Lord. They brought little children and dedicated them to the Lord, gave them into arms of the Lord Jesus.

L-15 It's all right, sister. Bring your little one on. And any other ones, got their little ones, that wants them dedicated, why we'd be glad to do that, make it a dedicational service for our little babies.
Now, Jesus in the Scripture, the... Now, in this church here, we have mixed up organizations of all kinds, some of them Protestant, some Catholic, and even have Jews that come in here, that's Orthodox Jews. That's the reason we strictly call ourselves interdenominational.
And now, so that you would understand, we try at--at this church to be a Scriptural church, just staying with the Bible. Wherever the Bible says anything, we follow that right exactly that way.

L-16 Now, the first church, and all Christians, and you ministers will admit, that this is the history of the first church. We all know that. This is exactly what took place.
I was speaking to a priest (a Catholic priest, lives up here on the road), recently. And he said, "Mr. Branham," said, "are you a--a non-Catholic or a Protestant?"
I said, "A Protestant."
He said, "Then you protest us."
I said, "No, sir. I do not protest--protest the people; it's the--the church, the doctrine of the church."
He said, "Are you... Then do you call yourself Baptist or Presbyterian?"
I said, "No, sir, just a Christian."
And he said, "Well, where do you form your form of doctrine? To be a Christian, you will have to have a basic to form a doctrine."
I said, "That is true." I said, "It's the Bible."
"Well," he said, "that's the history of the Catholic church."
And I said, "Well, is that... The apostles were Catholics?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "All right. I'm going to admit that that's right." He.. I said, "Then why don't you also stay with the Scripture?"
He said, "You see, Christ gave the Church power to change the Scripture any time they want to."
"Well," I said, "then you've changed and got it what you got it today?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Then I want to ask something: Then Christ must not be pleased with it, because upon the first Church He poured out the Holy Ghost. They healed the sick, and raised the dead, and cast out devils, and done great mighty miracles, under the doctrine of the first Catholic church, and it hasn't been seen in the Catholic church since they changed the doctrine."

L-17 Now, let's go back and be original Catholics. Let's go back and be what the Bible says--what they were. Christ walked with those. And that's the reason, friends, that we try (not to condemn any church, any of the people in the churches) but we try to keep it just as the Bible says.
Now, in the Bible there never was a baby ever baptized. There never was a baby sprinkled anywhere in the Bible. But here's where... In the Bible it said, "They brought little children to Jesus, that He might put His hands on them and bless them." And He said, "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of God." Now, that's exactly true.
Now, therefore, we bring the little children and offer them up from the mother's arms or the father, to our heavenly Father, and give them in dedication.


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