<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 Someone has always accused me by being Jesus Only. Jesus Only in the baptism, using the Name of Jesus Christ, I certainly agree with that. But when you're baptized unto regeneration, I cannot believe that, that water forgives sins. No. I believe the Blood of Jesus Christ atones for sin. So not baptism unto regeneration, but baptism unto confession... Your baptism is your confession that you believe that this inward work of grace has been done. Therefore, I go with the Baptist people when they say, coming into the Baptist church you make your confession, baptized into the--into their church. That would be all right as far as you're baptized into that church or that Baptist belief.
But now, to come into Christ, you're baptized by the Holy Spirit, borned again. Then when you come to the church, only thing that baptism does, is just a--is a testimony that you believe that--that Christ died and rose again the third day, and you've accepted Him as your personal Saviour; and you are dead any more to the things of the world, showing to the world that you die with Him, and are raised with Him in the resurrection. It's an outward expression that a inward work of grace has been done. It has nothing to do with giving you salvation, 'cause the Blood of Jesus Christ...

L-9 Only thing you had to do is just say, go ahead and be baptized, and Jesus wouldn't have had to die. It taken death to bring life, always, because we only live by death. Anything can only live by death. Dead substance is what we live by when we eat. Every day you eat, something has to die for you to live physically.
"Well," you say, "I don't eat meat."
Well, I don't care what you eat you; something died. That's right. You eat a potato; it died. You eat kale; it died. You eat bread, wheat died, corn died. Whatever it was, some form of life dies, 'cause you only live by dead substance. And then, if you have to live natural by dead substance, how much more does it take in Something that died that you might live eternally? Christ died that man could live again. And that only has Life, is in Christ.

L-10 Now, these outward expressions... And we see Brother McKinney, who is an ordained Methodist minister, who has seen the Light of full Gospel. We believe him. A lovely brother, got a nice family, and he's come to us. And he's trying to hold a little group together there in--in Ohio, with Brother and Sister Dauch, and the rest of the brethren there. And we love him here, and we believe him to be a man called of God.
So as we did to Brother Jim Sink, to Brother Graham Snelling, to Brother Junior Jackson, to Brother Willard Krase, to every one that we send out from here, we bring them before this congregation, giving this testimony as like manner as you've heard. Laying hands upon them that we believe that they're called of God, and give our sanction to it, and ask God's blessings to go with them. You find something different in... out of the Bible. If you do, it'll be out of the Bible.
That's exactly the way they did it in the Bible times, was lay hands upon them in ordination. They laid hands upon the deacons and put them in the church. Everything was by laying on of hands; not signing up a bunch of papers, and joining a certain creed, or something like that. They laid hands on and turned him loose in the Holy Spirit, and let him go. Amen. God lead him the way He wants to. That's all. That--that's the way we believe in doing it.


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