<TITLE>03. Par 19-34</TITLE>L-19 It did to Paul. They asked how they had been baptized. They said they had already been baptized by John, the man that baptized Jesus. Paul said they had to come and be rebaptized, again, in the Name of "Jesus Christ." And not one person in the Bible was ever baptized in the Name of "the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."

L-20 No people was ever baptized like that till the organizing of the Catholic church at the Lao-... Lao-Nicaea, Lao-Nicene Council at Lao-Nicaea, Rome. That's where the first person was ever baptized, using the titles.

L-21   A fellow said to me the other day. I said, "Well, if... The 'Lord Jesus,' that's His Name." He said... "Well," I said, "if a fellow come to you..."
He said, "I don't think it makes any difference."

L-22 I just caught him in his own doctrine. I said, "If a man come to you and said, 'I am baptized in the Name of the Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, and the Morning Star,' would you say 'amen' to that?"
He said, "No, sir."
I said, "How would you... Would you rebaptize him?
Said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "How would you baptize him?"
He said, "I would baptize him in the Name of 'the Father, Son, Holy Ghost.'"

L-23 And I said, "That's the way I would baptize him, yeah, in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost." I said, "Now, 'Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, and Morning Star' is no name."
He said, "That's right. It's a title."

L-24 I said, "So is 'Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.' Now I would baptize him in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is 'the Lord Jesus Christ.' Exactly. So I say..." And he saw it.

L-25 It was Brother Joseph Mattsson-Boze, of Chicago, the hardest fellow I've ever had to break through, with it. And I suppose I've got around three or four thousand natives to baptize now, when I get over in Africa with him, and to be baptized over again.

L-26   Now, so we are grateful for the Gospel Light. And so now, Jesus said, when He was here on earth, "I, what I hear, that I speak." And now I'm going to say... just for our next, about ten minutes, or fifteen, just before I take my text, and a very short text, and then we'll have the prayer line. I have come to a place in my ministry, to where I'm... I've got to--to say something. And I...

L-27 Jesus said it. That what He heard, that was what He spoke. And He said, "I called you My friends, and a friend tells his friends all things."

L-28 Paul said, in Acts 20:27, "I have not shunned to declare to you the whole Counsel of God." See?

L-29 And may I join in, tonight, and say the same thing with that great saint of old. To the best of my knowledge, I have not... I have not shunned, but declared to you the whole Counsel of God.

L-30   Someone was playing one of the tapes, the other day. And just because it made somebody angry, they shot at them through the window, and a woman wounded.

L-31 So perhaps someday I'll seal my testimony. But when that time comes and it's... I'm ready to go. Until my time comes, there is nothing going to hurt me until that time. See?

L-32   Now, we believe in the same Gospel, just the way the Bible is written. It's zeroed. And--and if the gun is exactly zeroed, and in tune; if it strikes the target the first time, it'll strike it the second time, and every time.

L-33 If a tree, or a limb, vine, puts out a branch, and that branch bears a certain fruit; the next time the--the vine puts out a branch, it'll bear the same kind of fruit.

L-34 And if Jesus is the Vine, and we are the branches; and the first Branch, Church, that that Vine put out, they wrote a Book of Acts behind it. And that first Branch baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. And they had the living God among them, that did the same things among them that He did when He was on earth. Therefore, the people taken notice to them, though ignorant and unlearned, that they had been with Jesus, because His Life was through them.


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