<TITLE>03. Par -</TITLE>L-4-1 And then, two days after that, three days, after I was going on to my meeting, where I had scheduled in Canada, the man, without knowing anything about this, called me back and had to postpone the meeting. See? I'd have been on the road out there if the thing hadn't happened like that. See? And so then, call back, and I have to take the meeting, the Canadian meeting; and that will be in July, the last weeks in July. Then I'm going on to Dawson Creek, then to Anchorage, Alaska, the Lord willing.
Now, none of these meetings I have any leadings to go to, not a one. But I can't think of setting here all summer, setting around here, and people dying everywhere. I got to sow seeds wherever it is, no matter what. If it don't come up, if the birds of the air get it, if whatever it is, I want to sow seeds, 'cause He give me some to sow. So I--I'm going to sow the seed anyhow.

L-4-3 Now, we have a time here... Now, many people, what, they call, "baptize" little babies in the Christian faith. Well, that's all right. If you do that, that's up to you. 'Course they don't really baptize them; they just sprinkle water on top of them. But to me, I like to stay with just what the Bible said do. Therefore, just what the Word said, that's what I want to do, just whatever It said. And now, I--I don't find any place in the Bible... In the Old Testament they brought the children for fleshly circumcision, the little males, and the mother offered a offering for purification: two turtle doves or a lamb. But in the New Testament the only place that I can find to commemoration of this great service of... It was a dedication. They brought infants to Jesus, and He picked them up in His arms and blessed them. That's what the parents did of His day. And His life was an example of what we should do. See? These things He did for an example.

L-4-4 Now, we just take the little ones, and they bring them to us, and we just hold them up to God, and ask God's blessings upon them, and pray a prayer of dedication from the mother and father to God, as they present their child. And dedicate them in the Name of Jesus Christ, until they're old enough to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. And now, He said whatever we do in word or deed, do it all in the Name of Jesus Christ. So--so that's what we wish to do.


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