<TITLE>24. Par -</TITLE>L-40-5 Notice, when they got back... When these saints of God trying to hold up that Word, Rome come right in and accepted dogmas instead. Now, let's just see what she did, some of her false doctrines, what was done.
Water baptism. Where they were commissioned... Peter said on the day of Pentecost under the influence of the Holy Ghost, the Word of God, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins."
What did Rome do with it? Turned it around and said, "Be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost," making it a creed, not a doctrine of the Bible. What did he do? That's that cankerworm eating. Sprinkling instead of immersing in the name of the Father...

L-41-1 Father, Son, Holy Ghost is no name. There's no such a thing. Father's not a name; Son's not a name; and Holy Ghost is not a name. When Jesus said, "Baptize them in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost," it was the "Lord Jesus Christ"; exactly what Peter and them did, and all--everybody in the Bible was there... There was nobody... I challenge anyone to bring me one piece of Scripture or one piece of history, where anybody was ever baptized any other way than in the Name of Jesus Christ, until the Roman Catholic church.

L-41-2 Now, do that; and remember this tape goes around the world. I've held congregations of ministers, with hundreds of them, and bishops and everything, say, "Stand to your feet." or "Come here with your Bible, or hold your peace forever." They hold their peace, till they get around behind you, and then they start talking about you. Not the very audacity to stand to your face, common decency to stand and tell you to your face, they're afraid to do it; they know it's wrong. But that's what that cankerworm started eating (See?), eating away that real thing.
Now, you say, "It's not essential. Any way I'm baptized is all right."

L-41-3 Is it? Paul said in Acts 19, when he--Paul passed through the upper coast of Ephesus; the Bible said he found certain disciples (them's followers). Apollos, a Baptist preacher, under John the Baptist, was teaching them the Word, and they were having great joy. And Paul just went over to see them; and he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
"Oh," they say, "I'm a believer."
"But that's not what I'm asking. Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
They said, "We not know whether there be any Holy Ghost."
He said, "Then to what was you baptized?" See? In other words, "How was you baptized?"
They said, "We've been baptized."
Said, "How?"
He said, "Under John," he said, "the same man that baptized Jesus, wouldn't that be all right?"
Paul said, "No. Not now, no." Said, "You've got to be baptized over again." And Paul baptized them over again in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, laid his hands upon them, and the Holy Ghost came on them. And Paul said, "If a angel from heaven (let alone some preacher)--if a angel (let alone this cankerworm)--if a angel from heaven preaches anything else than this to you, let him be accursed." That's right.
So you see what it was, the cankerworm got to eating. It eat away the baptism of the--of water in the Name of Jesus Christ.

L-42-2 The next thing this cankerworm did, he'd taken away the baptism of the Holy Ghost; 'cause as long as you're going to have that Holy Ghost, It's going to shed light on that Word, as long as you do that. So they had to--to do it different.
Now, just think of how many Lutherans, Protestants, how many Catholics this morning was confirmed (what they call it, taking first communion). And they call that "Holy Eucharist," which means (the Latin word) "Holy Ghost."


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