<TITLE>02. Par 5-10</TITLE>L-5 I got to go to Phoenix right after this, you know, and we got... We start in at Phoenix on the twelfth, will be the Business Men's breakfast. And I don't know just where it's held. I think at the Ramada, will be held at the--at the Ramada. The Business Men's chapter have their regular breakfast there. And then on Sunday I start in, and Sunday, for about twelve days all around through the Maricopa Valley, Phoenix, Tucson. And I got a banquet on Monday night, the following Monday night, at Tucson, a--a banquet with the ministers and Full Gospel Business Men at Tucson. And so then come back to Phoenix, and I think at Glendale and different places. And then the convention begins on the twenty... What is it, Brother Fred? Do you remember just... Twenty-fourth, twenty-fourth through the twenty-eighth or twenty- ninth, some along there. And then, the Lord willing, be back home. We'll see how we've progressed here, see about the Seven Seals or the--from that time on, to see where we go from there.

L-6 Now, I believe someone told me we had some little babies here this morning to be dedicated. Is that right? Has some mother got a baby to be dedicated, something Doc told me. Well, maybe I was wrong. Oh, yes, yes. Yes, sir, these. All right, would you sisters or brothers bring your little ones up? Thank you, sister.
Think this is a very appropriate time to bring children; it's Christmas. Brother Neville, would you? Now, as these loved ones brings their little ones this morning, it's--it's just...
Now, many people in lots of churches, and--and if any of you was at that convention yesterday, how Brother Brown, Episcopalian filled with the Holy Ghost apologized to the Pentecostal believers of baptizing babies. So--so of course he said what he had to do, so the Episcopalian do baptize with sprinkle, what they call baptize.
And "baptize," to me, means "immersing, going under, a burial."

L-8 And--but many of them do that. That's an old... That's a form that come really from the Catholic church, and was brought out through the Methodists and the Episcopalian, Lutheran and many of them do that. The Methodists do it. That was the separation between the Nazarene and the Methodist church, was infant baptism. The Nazarene is every word a Methodist, only infant baptism, and so then it come out for that purpose.
The Church of Christ is a Christian Church, everything besides music in the church. And so, oh, those little issues that they separate and break up brotherhood and things. We are all one in Christ Jesus, by... You cannot join a church. You--you join a lodge, but you can't join a church (See?), because you have to be born in the church. It's a spiritual birth. And so different ones have their ideas, and we just go along with them; that's all right.

L-10 But to--to us here at the Tabernacle, we want to stay just exactly the way the Bible says do it. Just what... And there's no Scripture in the Bible for baptizing an infant. There's no Scripture in the Bible for sprinkling. And so the only Scripture there is in the Bible that Jesus said that, He was our Example, and when they brought Him children He put His hands upon them and blessed them, and said, "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not for of such is the Kingdom of heaven." Now, that's the way we try to continue.


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