<TITLE>12. Par -</TITLE>L-18-7 When a mother can take her little fat, black baby about that long, and throw it into the mouth of a crocodile for the love of her god, I wonder how sincere Christianity is. When a man can afflict himself in such a way, would put in a thousand hooks through his flesh, like that, hanging with balls of water, holding him down like this, and walk through a streak of fire, from here to the end of that tabernacle, back and forth, and it white hot, fanned like that, for the sacrifice of his god, an idol there with ruby eyes in it and so forth, I wonder where Christianity is. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So don't think sincerity; sincerity is not it. Sincerity's all right if it's placed on the right thing.

L-19-1 Like a doctor giving medicine, he might give you arsenic, sincerely; and he might give you sulfuric acid, sincerely; you might have your prescription filled wrong, and you might take it in sincerity, but that don't save your life. See? No, sir. You've got to know what you're doing. And anything contrary to God's Word, I don't care what it is, and how long it's been in existence, it's still wrong.

L-19-2 Peter give them an eternal prescription on the day of Pentecost. He said, "Repent every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for this prescription is to you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That's right. It's an eternal prescription.
Now, some quack druggist could get ahold of that and kill you. See? Certainly. You know, there's so much poison in a prescription to poison the germ; and the--the doctor knows just how much can--your body can stand. If he over-poisoned, it would kill you. And if you haven't got enough of it, then what would it do? Would do you no good to take the medicine. He knows what your body can stand.
Now, and that's the way these prescription of God is. No matter how much somebody else says it must be done this way or that way, don't you believe it. When you follow the Word exactly to the letter, that's it. That's right. Hold on to It.

L-19-5 Now, we've got the--those who say you must be sprinkled. They got those say you must use the titles of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; there's no such things in the Bible, no such place anybody was ever baptized in the Bible any other way besides the Name of Jesus Christ. That's a dogma that was added in the Roman Catholic Church and has carried down through traditions. We'll hit that tonight.

L-20-1 But notice, then amidst of all that, the prescription remains. That's why we got so many sick children, because they're not listening to what the Doctor said. The absolute--when you've tied to That, that's it; That's God's Word; It cannot fail. Christ-centered life, very religious, but it wasn't Christ-centered; so many of us have that today.
And when you get this Christ-centered life, it makes you do things you ordinarily wouldn't do. It makes you act different than ordinarily you would act. I don't mean act silly; I mean act in the Spirit, something that's real, something that's genuine. And when you see somebody acting silly, you know they're only putting on something. They're only trying to impersonate where that genuine thing is.
When you see a bogus dollar, remember there's a good dollar it was made off of. See? When you see a bogus, it's absolutely a off-shadow of something that's real; it's something that--that is genuine it's copied off of.


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