1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,680 To stand with me today we're going to try to continue on the 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:10,040 journey from a few weeks ago. I'm going to turn to Acts 3 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:16,440 chapter #2 here this morning. I'm breaking glasses left. 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,480 I think I've broken like 3 pairs of glasses in like the last 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,080 month. So my glasses inventory is 6 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:27,680 getting low, so I don't want to be left without it. 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,080 We'll have to get out the Super ginormous giant size Bible 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,040 print. I'm not ready to upgrade. 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:45,440 Acts chapter #2 verse #37 Few weeks ago we talked about things 10 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,520 you must do. We talked about repentance this 11 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,320 morning. Want to talk about one of the 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,080 things that you must do? You must be baptized. 13 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,000 Acts 2, verse 37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,440 their heart, and said unto Peter, and to the rest of the 15 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,360 apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? 16 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:14,800 Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized everyone 17 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,160 of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of 18 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:23,600 sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 19 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:31,200 I wanted to be clear today that as I talk about baptism, I'm not 20 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,600 talking about some sign of you joining the first Apostolic 21 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,800 Church, because that's not what baptism is around here. 22 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,920 It's not about joining the first Apostolic Church, for that 23 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,520 matter. Baptism is a part of of that 24 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,680 formula or that plan that really gets you born into the church, 25 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:59,160 right into the church. I'm not talking about some a 26 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,600 sign that's saying, well, I've been saved. 27 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,560 And this is an indication that I've been saying, no, it's not 28 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,400 what the Bible teaches us. The Bible teaches us that it is 29 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,080 a cog in the wheel toward salvation, right, Amen. 30 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,920 And so I want to talk about that today. 31 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,720 Father, I come to you, I thank you, Lord, for your goodness. 32 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,200 I thank you, Lord Jesus, for your people not to thank you, 33 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,280 Lord, for your word that is forever settled in heaven. 34 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,040 The grass may wither and the flower may fade, but the word of 35 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,920 God will stand. I pray, O God, we're thankful 36 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:34,360 for that word and it is the Lord, the very Lord, origin and 37 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,400 point of origin. Lord, for what we speak about 38 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,560 today, the lovely name of Jesus Christ, I pray Amen. 39 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,880 Everybody say Amen, Amen. You may be seated in Jesus name. 40 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:52,080 Things you must do, you must be. You must be baptized, and I say 41 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,560 must this morning, because even in John 3, whenever Jesus had 42 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,960 His dialogue with Nicodemus there, and Nicodemus was 43 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:03,200 wondering what a person must do in order to enter or see heaven, 44 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,680 the Lord told him that he must be born again. 45 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,320 And he broke that down a little further in John three, that he 46 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,280 must be born of the water and the Spirit. 47 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,480 He told him. Then he followed that up again 48 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:19,240 with the fact ye must be born again, and part of that born 49 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:24,760 again experience is being baptized in Acts chapter #2 just 50 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,800 kind of so that we understand who it is that needs to be 51 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,480 baptized today in Acts 2. Peter, on the day of Pentecost, 52 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,720 had a mixed crowd of people that he was speaking to. 53 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,280 There were all kinds of people, samplings of people from 54 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,440 different nations and places that had joined together at this 55 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,000 feast called Pentecost. As it often happened, people 56 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,360 were gathering all around. As a matter of fact, the city of 57 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,000 Jerusalem would increase its population many times over 58 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,200 because of the number of people that had gathered together for 59 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,040 this particular feast. Just a little sampling of the 60 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,720 people that you can read up in Acts chapter #2 The Bible tells 61 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,400 us there were people of the Parthians that were there, the 62 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:12,480 Medes, the Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, 63 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,880 Pontus, and Asia. Just a sampling of some of the 64 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,600 people that are there, and you can even find others in Acts 65 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,400 chapter #2 But he told them this people that are gathered, these 66 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,280 variety of people were gathered. He told them that every one of 67 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:31,480 them must be baptized. And so right away we understand 68 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,520 that this just wasn't for those at Jerusalem, but it was for 69 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,080 everyone that was there. There were different sects of 70 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,920 people, different, different races of people that were 71 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,080 gathered together here at Jerusalem. 72 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:46,040 And he told them that they must be baptized. 73 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,120 As a matter of fact, before this day of Pentecost, before Jesus 74 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,160 ever ascended, after his death, burial and resurrection, before 75 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,400 he ever ascended into the heavens, he told his 11 76 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,400 disciples, people that he had walked with and talked with and 77 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,040 taught, and those who'd seen him do several miracles. 78 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:09,720 He told them in Matthew 28 that they were to teach all nations 79 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,760 baptizing them. And the them refers back to who 80 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:18,520 the all nations baptizing all nations in the name. 81 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,880 And so we see early on in the book of Acts that the Jews were 82 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:27,080 baptized, and we would seem to that, but we also see, like in 83 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,120 Acts chapter #8 that the Bible tells us that the Samaritans 84 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,160 were baptized people who were considered half Jew and half 85 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,040 Gentile. We also read there that Philip 86 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,960 had a wonderful conversation with the Ethiopian eunuch, and 87 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,280 he began to preach to him. Jesus, he said, starting really 88 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:48,400 from the book of Isaiah. He preached Jesus to him. 89 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,560 And after it was all said and done, that Ethiopian eunuch also 90 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,800 was baptized. Here's water, he said. 91 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,480 What death hindereth me from being baptized in Acts chapter 92 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,680 #10 it's there that we read of Cornelius of the Italian band, a 93 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:08,400 Gentile, that he and his household also are baptized Jew, 94 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,080 Samaritan, Gentile. We're getting many, many 95 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,240 different nations and people groups that are being involved 96 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,040 in this. So Peter tells us that we should 97 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:25,080 repent and be baptized. Everyone of you, in the name of 98 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:30,840 Jesus Christ, everybody say for, for the remission of sins. 99 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:35,200 That word for is important. That word for is a preposition 100 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:41,200 that means to or into a place, time, or purpose. 101 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,240 Whenever you're baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, you're 102 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:50,600 baptized with a purpose and the purpose comes after the four. 103 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:56,520 It is for or the purpose of the remission of of sins. 104 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,960 And if that be the case this morning, if baptism is for the 105 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,640 remission, which is just a fancy word for removal, if it is for 106 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,160 the removal of sins, if that be the case, then that tells me 107 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:14,200 that anyone and everyone that is a Sinner needs to be baptized 108 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,400 because the only way that your sins can be removed is through 109 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,320 the act of repentance and baptism. 110 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,880 Amen. Can there be a removal of sins? 111 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,960 And we all need that. Everybody say all, We all need 112 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,440 that. The verses in Scripture tell me 113 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,680 all have sinned according to Romans 323. 114 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,240 As a matter of fact, it even states that plainly. 115 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,880 Again in Romans 5 and verse 12, all have sinned. 116 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:47,480 And so if sister Sheila, we all have sinned, then we all need to 117 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,720 be baptized. As a matter of fact, when we 118 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,440 read in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark and Luke and John, the 119 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:59,560 man Christ Jesus, God in his earthly ministry, the man Christ 120 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:04,200 Jesus came to John the Baptist to be baptized. 121 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,760 And one might think, man, if Jesus was baptized, surely I 122 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,280 need to be baptized. Here's the fact concerning 123 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,160 Jesus. Jesus was leading and leaving us 124 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:16,840 an example because the Bible tells us that Jesus knew no sin. 125 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,960 According to First Corinthians 521, He knew no sin. 126 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:25,440 The Bible also tells us in Hebrews 415 that Jesus was 127 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,960 without sin. The Bible tells us in first John 128 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,919 35 that in Him is no sin. Amen. 129 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:35,440 And so he said, well, brother McGee, all sinners need to be 130 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,919 baptized. Yes, but Jesus was doing this, 131 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:42,799 leaving us an example. The Bible says in first Peter 2 132 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,360 and verse #21 these words 4 even here and two were he called 133 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:55,400 because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that 134 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,600 ye should follow his steps who did no sin. 135 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,800 Neither was God found in His mouth, who when he was reviled, 136 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,240 reviled not again when He suffered, He threatened not, but 137 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:11,160 He committed himself and to him that judges righteously, who his 138 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,200 own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree that we 139 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,120 being dead to sin should live into righteousness, by whose 140 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,360 stripes he were healed. For ye were as sheep going 141 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,080 astray, but are now returning to the shepherd and the Bishop of 142 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,000 your souls. He said this Christ Jesus, he 143 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,080 suffered. Yes, and he left us an example 144 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,240 that we should follow in his steps. 145 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,840 We could not follow in his steps of being sinless. 146 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,800 That's not what it's alluding to here. 147 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,480 We could not follow in His steps of being sinless. 148 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,680 We were all born into a world and a condition, the adamant 149 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:50,880 nature of sin. But the steps that we could 150 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,440 follow in was of His suffering and of His burial and of His 151 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,840 resurrection. That's the example that He left 152 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,880 for us to follow, the steps that we should walk in. 153 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:08,400 The Bible says even in Romans 6 and verse #4 that we are buried 154 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:14,280 with Him in baptism. We are following his steps, we 155 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,040 are following the example that he has left. 156 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,280 David said even the Old Testament Scripture of Psalms 157 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,600 51. He said that in in iniquity I 158 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,440 have been shaping, and my mother conceived me in sin. 159 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:33,520 We are sinners and we need a remission and a removal of sin 160 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,120 because Scripture tells us no sin will enter heaven. 161 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,680 I pause importantly and and specifically today because we 162 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:49,320 need to let that set in. If that is the case, then 163 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,240 baptism is just not some formality of joining the local 164 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:59,480 church. If that is the case, there's a 165 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:04,480 lot of leverage that's on baptism whenever baptism is is 166 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:09,000 in aiding and helping entrance or no entrance into the Kingdom 167 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,680 of heaven. The Bible tells us in the Book 168 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:14,920 of Revelation 2127. Look what the Scripture says, 169 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,880 and there shall in no wise enter into it. 170 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaking of heaven, anything that defileth neither whatsoever 171 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:28,680 worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they which are written 172 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,640 in the Lamb's book of life. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, no 173 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,080 sin shall enter in, not anything profane, not anything unclean, 174 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,960 not anything defiled. It will not enter in. 175 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,640 Well, pastor, how do I get rid of that which is profane and 176 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,080 unclean and defiled? One way is through your 177 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,400 repentance and your baptism. It removes the profane, it 178 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,840 removes the unclean, it removes the defiled. 179 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:57,760 You stand before God differently after baptism. 180 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,840 Amen. Now granted John, the Bible says 181 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,800 John the Baptist baptized many. His disciples also baptized 182 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,840 many. But the Bible tells us that the 183 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:15,000 baptism of John was a baptism unto repentance only, and they 184 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,600 could be nothing more, because at that period of time Christ 185 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,600 had not yet died or been buried or had risen from the dead. 186 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,760 Amen. So John's baptism could only be 187 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,760 a baptism unto repentance. As a matter of fact, the Bible 188 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,520 says whenever people would come to be baptized to John the 189 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,120 Baptist, they would come emitting their sinfulness, or 190 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,440 they would come, the Bible says in Matthew 36, they were 191 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:45,040 baptized confessing their sins. And yes, that's important, Amen. 192 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,400 Because if we confess our sins, our God is just right. 193 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,000 He'll forgive us of those sins, Amen. 194 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,760 But you still need a baptism to remove, huh? 195 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,240 You don't just need sins forgiven, you need sins removed, 196 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,720 Amen. You confess with your mouth and 197 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,200 that can bring about a, a forgiving of sin, but you need a 198 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,840 removal of sin. Amen. 199 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,440 By which baptism happens. And so they would come and they 200 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,440 would confess with their mouth. And we understand though another 201 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,880 reason why John baptized Jesus or Jesus allowed John to be 202 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,840 baptized because John the Baptist even told Jesus, he 203 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,560 said, I need to be baptized of you. 204 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,080 And the Lord says, and we'll look at the scripture in just a 205 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,000 little bit. He said suffer it as such for 206 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,040 now. He says because I need to do 207 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,040 something, I need you to baptize me. 208 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:36,480 John said one of the reasons why he went forth baptizing. 209 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,880 You can read of it in John chapter #1 verses 31 and 33 is 210 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:46,560 because in his baptizing there would come a revelation about 211 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:52,120 who the Messiah was to Israel. Because the Spirit of the Lord 212 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,160 had already spoke to John and said, whoever it is that this 213 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,640 dove comes down and lights upon and stays, he'll be the one that 214 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:05,480 not only baptizes a man with Holy Ghost, but also with fire. 215 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,480 He says, and you read it, you'll read it in John #1 John's 216 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:14,280 saying, I did not even know him. Let me just go there this 217 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,920 morning because I don't want anybody to miss this in John 218 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,360 chapter #1 and verse #31 And folks, I do have a lot of 219 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,600 Scripture today. And so I hope you brought your 220 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,640 Bible or you're interested in the Bible, or you think about 221 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,400 the Bible every once in awhile. But the Bible says this is just 222 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,600 as John the Baptist. He says, and I knew him not. 223 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,760 Let me skip just back to verse #29 the next day, John C of 224 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,400 Jesus coming to him. And saith, Behold the Lamb of 225 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,800 God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 226 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,920 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is 227 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:48,360 preferred before me, for he was before me, and I knew him not, 228 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,760 but that he should be made manifest. 229 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,840 Look at this, that he, this Christ should be made manifest 230 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,560 to Israel. Therefore am I come baptizing 231 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,360 with water, John saying I'm baptizing with water because I 232 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,280 know what the Spirit had told me, that there's going to be 233 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,000 one, that I'm going to baptize the doves going to come upon, 234 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,880 and that's how we will know that's the one. 235 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,600 And he says, so I'm baptizing to give revelation to the sign of 236 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,560 the Christ. Look at verse 32 and John bear 237 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,840 records saying I saw the Spirit, He's recounting this. 238 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,640 I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it bowed 239 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:28,200 upon him, him being Christ Jesus, and I knew him not, but 240 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,400 he that sent me here, he's recalling this me the baptized 241 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,920 with water, the same setting me upon whom thou shalt see the 242 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:39,680 Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same as he which 243 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,920 baptized it with the Holy Ghost. John says the reason why I can 244 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,760 tell you there's one coming after me that's preferred before 245 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,640 me that's going to baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire is 246 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,120 because one day while I was baptizing, just like the Spirit 247 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,720 told me, the Spirit came like a dove and lighted upon this 248 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:57,960 person that had not done that to any other person. 249 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,680 And that was the sign that I knew that man was the Christ 250 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,680 that would baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire. 251 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,840 John's all of this Jesus being baptized and John is very 252 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,120 purposeful. Yes, it is for our footsteps to 253 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,600 follow as an example, but was also for the revelation of the 254 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,800 Israelites of that day to know this man who came was the one 255 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,480 who was baptized with Holy Ghost and with fire. 256 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:32,760 And just as a side note, Bible tells us that the places that 257 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:38,440 John baptized like John 323, that there was much water. 258 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,720 Matter of fact, whatever describes even Jesus coming up 259 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,640 from being baptized in Matthew 316 and Mark 110, it describes 260 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,880 him coming up out of the water that don't happen through 261 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,960 sprinkling. Much water is not required if 262 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:01,920 you're being sprinkled someone say Amen. 263 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:07,880 So Jesus is an example to the people Amen of baptism of 264 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:13,400 immersion not because he needed it because they needed to see 265 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:18,839 him be baptized and understand that this is a necessity of 266 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:20,880 salvation in the mode is immersion. 267 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,520 Matthew 315 the Bible says Jesus answering unto him again to John 268 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,640 the Baptist, he said suffer to be so. 269 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,400 Now the little discussion, I need to be baptized as you. 270 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:33,240 Well he said, suffer to be so. Now for this it becometh us to 271 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,840 fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him. 272 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,480 Jesus wasn't refuting the idea that John needed to be baptized 273 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,840 of him. He says for now just suffer it 274 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,520 to be so. He said, because what needs to 275 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,920 be done right now is for it becometh us to fulfill all 276 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,240 righteousness. Other translations It becometh 277 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:00,400 us to do all that God requires, or it suffereth us. 278 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,200 The right thing for us to do is to do everything a good man 279 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,360 ought to do. The Old Testament phrase the 280 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:13,680 righteousness of God refers to God's acts of righteousness by 281 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:20,240 which he brings about salvation for his people in so much that 282 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,000 the word righteousness has become a synonym even through 283 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:28,720 the Bible for salvation. That being the case, Jesus is 284 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,800 telling John it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness, or if 285 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,280 you will, it becometh us to feel all salvation. 286 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:41,040 What he's saying baptism is a cog, a man in the mechanism of 287 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,080 salvation. Right being baptized was a part 288 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,640 of the means for the fulfillment of salvation. 289 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,600 The Bible says in Mark 16 and verse 16, he that believeth 290 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:57,920 Andy, as everybody say it baptized shall be saved, but he 291 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,120 that believeth not shall be damned. 292 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,840 Folks, we have it backwards a lot of times in our modern day 293 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,240 world. A lot of people tell us that 294 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:13,160 you, you, you get baptized as a public sign that you have been 295 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,120 saved. But Mark 1616 tells us that we 296 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:21,160 get baptized so that we might be saved. 297 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,000 Amen. Amen. 298 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,400 First Timothy 2 and 4, the Bible says who The Who that's being 299 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,280 referred to. There is God who will have all 300 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,960 men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth. 301 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:41,560 Listen, if God desires or wants all men to be saved in order to 302 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,640 fulfill the fullness of salvation or righteousness, then 303 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:52,200 those men must be baptized. Amen. 304 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,200 Well glory, I didn't start a timer, but God help us. 305 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,160 Baptism isn't necessarily mentioned in the name as far as 306 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,240 like baptism the Old Testament, but it is typified in the old 307 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,240 Tabernacle system. Hebrews the author of Hebrews 308 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,440 writes a lot about Tabernacle, articles of furniture and some 309 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,600 of the ceremonies there and it drawing the parallel with Old 310 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,320 Testament things that happen and brings their significance over 311 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,800 into the New Testament. The Bible talks about the Old 312 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,960 Testament being a shadow of good things to come right And so when 313 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,480 we read in Hebrews 9 and verse 10, the Bible says which and the 314 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:34,840 which it is referring to is the Tabernacle which stood only in 315 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:40,920 meats and drinks and diverse all right divers or various washings 316 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,560 and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of 317 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,360 Reformation. So the Tabernacle was really 318 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:51,280 it's a beautiful thing If we ever take time to go through 319 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,760 every article and all of the colors and the things that the 320 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,120 Tabernacle. It's a wonderful illustration of 321 00:20:56,120 --> 00:21:00,600 the Acts 238 plan of salvation. But for our purposes today, for 322 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,360 that even things you must do, you must be baptized. 323 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,120 I want you to consider what was called the Laver that was in the 324 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,920 Tab Tabernacle. All right, the Laver is where 325 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,840 the priest would wash their hands and cleanse themselves 326 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,280 before entering into what was known as the Holy Place. 327 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,920 All right, you had the outer court, and then you had another 328 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,080 section, the Holy Place. Then you had another section 329 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,640 which was called the Holiest of Holies or the Most Holy Place. 330 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,880 Well, they would wash there in the outer court at that Laver, 331 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,200 Amen, and then enter into that holy place to minister into the 332 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,120 Lord. For that matter, the high 333 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:36,680 priest. The high priest would wash too, 334 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,000 and once he year he was allowed into that holies of holies where 335 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,000 the ark of the covenant was, which was considered the very 336 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,400 presence and spirit, if you will, of the Lord. 337 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:52,200 But you didn't get there without washing at the labor. 338 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,640 And so in Exodus 30 and verse 18, the Bible says, And thou 339 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:01,280 shall also make a labor of brass in his foot, also of brass to 340 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,400 wash with all. And thou shall put it between 341 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,920 the Tabernacle, the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt 342 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,560 put water there in the purpose of the labor is really summed up 343 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,480 in those three words here in this verse, so that you might 344 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:22,120 wash to wash with awe because that water was used for a 345 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:25,320 cleansing. There's been a lot of 346 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,200 discussion. Where did that water come from? 347 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,360 Where'd the water come from? And the labor throughout their 348 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:33,240 travelings through the wilderness, because we know 349 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,400 there were times that they were in places where water was 350 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,320 scarce. We know that according to 351 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,440 Scripture. We know that. 352 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,560 But we also know New Testament Scripture says this, that there 353 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,800 was a rock that First Corinthians 10/4 there was a 354 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,200 rock that followed them in those journey. 355 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:59,120 And the apostle Paul said emphatically that that rock was 356 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:05,040 Christ. It's that rock that Moses was to 357 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,320 speak to and water would come from. 358 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:15,000 It's that rock that Moses mistakenly struck twice in the 359 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,640 eyes of the people, but water still come forth from it. 360 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,480 Moses was held from the Promised Land because of the striking 361 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,920 twice of the rock in the eyes of all the people, because Christ 362 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:30,360 said that rock typify Christ so much that Christ was only struck 363 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:33,680 once. Speaking of Calvary, I don't 364 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,640 know for sure, but it's a possibility that the water that 365 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,840 was in the Laver came from the walk with the rock. 366 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,680 Hey man supplied water for cleansing from that rock which 367 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,080 was known as Christ. But in baptism there is a 368 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,480 cleansing, A cleansing from our sins. 369 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,520 Now I've said this before and I say it again and I cannot be, I 370 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,400 cannot be plain enough concerning this. 371 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,320 I know we've had times, you know, the people have have 372 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,840 desired to be baptized and and they want to wait for their 373 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,400 uncles, aunts, cousin twice removed to be there. 374 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,480 And I understand the idea of your family and wanting to 375 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,560 witness it or you wanting your family to witness, But let me 376 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,760 tell you emphatically this morning, there is no better time 377 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:18,920 to be baptized than right now. Uncle Joe may not make it, Susie 378 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,360 may not make it. And I understand that our 379 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:24,360 humanity concerning that. But according to the Scripture, 380 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:27,760 in the hour that you see the need of it or you're convicted 381 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,160 toward it, you need to be baptized. 382 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,840 Throughout the Scripture, people normally didn't wait. 383 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 People normally didn't wait. The only qualification you have 384 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,160 for baptism is your repentance. People normally didn't wait. 385 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,240 In Acts chapter 2 and verse 41, on that day of Pentecost, the 386 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,400 Bible tells us those that gladly received Peter's word, Amen, 387 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,720 they were baptized. The Bible says in Acts 8 and 388 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,560 verse 12 when they believe Philip preaching the things 389 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,320 concerning the Kingdom of heaven. 390 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,520 You know what they did? They were baptized in Acts 391 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:10,120 chapter #8 after the eunuch heard the word Amen, that Philip 392 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:13,360 was preaching unto him again. He's the one that said, see, 393 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,200 here is water. What doth hinder me from being 394 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:21,280 baptized In Acts 9, the Bible says that whenever Ananias went 395 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,440 to visit Saul, and said, My brother Saul, the Lord, even 396 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,840 Jesus has sent me unto thee, that thou might receive thy 397 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,240 sigh. And those scales fell off his 398 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,480 eyes. He no sooner had all of this 399 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,280 happen to him. The Bible says he arose and was 400 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:41,000 baptized in Acts chapter #10 Cornelius and all of his 401 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,280 household while they're sitting there hearing the word of God 402 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,120 preach, and they're filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost 403 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,000 and begin to speak with other tongues. 404 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,680 That all happened that the Bible says in the very same setting. 405 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:58,080 They were baptized in Acts chapter 16, Paul and Silas, it's 406 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,320 the jailhouse rock long before Elvis ever had it. 407 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,840 Amen. As they sang praises unto God. 408 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,520 And that Philippian jailer was quaking about what it happened 409 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,680 and they began to preach and minister to him concerning 410 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,720 salvation in the same hour the Bible says, which was the 411 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,920 midnight hour. He went and washed I, I love 412 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,800 this part. He went and washed their stripes 413 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,520 that they had on their back with water and with the same water he 414 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,720 was baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in the South. 415 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,720 So you don't need to wait till you don't need to wait till 416 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,080 Wednesday, Monday or for anything ye must. 417 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,120 It's kind of like this. When would you like to have your 418 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:51,240 sins removed next week? It's almost like the the old 419 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,200 Pharaoh story with the the the plague of the frogs when they 420 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,400 asked, you know, Pharaoh well, when do you want me to pray that 421 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,240 the frogs will be removed? And he said tomorrow. 422 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,680 It's like that just don't make sense. 423 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,760 You can get baptized today. Listen, you can get baptized in 424 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,680 a river, a Creek, a lake, a ditch if there's sufficient 425 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,840 water, your bathtub, a pool, a Whirlpool, running water, 426 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:26,640 stagnant water, dirty water, a nice baptismal that's at such 427 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,520 and such degrees, or where they got to break the ice to put you 428 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:35,880 under a horse through, as long as you have enough waters to 429 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,600 submerge you and the name to cover you. 430 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,640 Folks, whenever I was just a just a young, young younger man 431 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,760 and I was preaching a camp meeting out in West Virginia, we 432 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,200 had at that the one time I think was 13 or so, Amen. 433 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,200 One night and maybe another night, so that needed baptized. 434 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,640 We went out to a river. It was dark. 435 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,760 You couldn't see anything, but we had the headlights from our 436 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,680 vehicles that was shining on the river. 437 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,760 We broke up a boozing party in order to baptize 13 people in 438 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,320 the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 439 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,200 It don't matter the time of day, it don't matter the season. 440 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:21,040 It today is the day of salvation and now is the acceptable time. 441 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,800 What hinders us? What hinders us? 442 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,880 Archaeologists have even found, ladies and gentlemen, church 443 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,320 buildings. Of course, you know, in the 444 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,080 early years there was the the fact of the matter of like 445 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,440 church buildings was was very scarce. 446 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,000 People went house to house. They didn't have these edifices 447 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,920 except maybe a synagogue where they would have, you know, have 448 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,120 regular church. But archaeologists have found in 449 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,720 church buildings even in Asia Minor dating back to the middle 450 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,880 and 2nd century. Everybody said that's a long 451 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,800 time ago. And you know what they had in 452 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,240 them? Baptistries for baptism by 453 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:05,720 immersion. Baptizo, from which we get our 454 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,840 word baptized, is not to be confused with another Greek word 455 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,480 called bapto. There's a clear example that 456 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,920 shows the meaning of baptized in a text that is from the Greek. 457 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,160 I all the time use this. You've probably heard this a 458 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,600 dozen times, but a Greek poet writing writing there in his 459 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,840 language, a physician of Nick Ander who lived around 200 BC. 460 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:31,520 He was writing a recipe for making Pickles, and in this 461 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,720 recipe it's helpful to know what these words mean by the way that 462 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,520 he used these words. Nick Anders says that in order 463 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:44,440 to make a pickle, the vegetable should be dipped or bapto into 464 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:50,360 boiling water, but then baptized baptizo into the vinegar 465 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,400 solution. So both verbs indicate immersion 466 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,080 of the vegetable in the solution. 467 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,600 But the first, the bapto, the dipping, is just kind of like a 468 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,640 temporary thing. But the second, the act of 469 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,200 baptizing the vegetable, would do this. 470 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,200 It would produce a permanent change of the vegetable. 471 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,640 In other words, whenever you baptize the cucumber in the 472 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:22,240 vinegar, when it came up, it was no longer just a cucumber, it 473 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,760 was a pickle. Honey, you need, I'm not calling 474 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,800 anybody here a cucumber today, but I am saying this. 475 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,440 When you go down in the watery grave of baptism, there is a 476 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,400 permanent alteration, a permanent change. 477 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:44,360 I am not what I used to be, my dog. 478 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:49,360 Someone say glory. And we see that through 479 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,920 Scripture baptism, there's this alteration, there's an 480 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,480 accompanying of a change. Amen. 481 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,000 Acts chapter #4 and verse #12. The Bible says this is in 482 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,520 conjunction with the lame man that had been sitting at the 483 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,800 gate called beautiful, been brought there his whole life. 484 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Lame from birth above 40 years old. 485 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,400 Peter and John went to the temple, right? 486 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,160 His eyes fastened upon him. He's asking for alms, and they 487 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,920 say silver and gold. Have we numb? 488 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,240 But such as we have give iron to thee. 489 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,840 And they grabbed the man by his hands and his ankle bones and 490 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,360 legs receive strength. And they begin walking and 491 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,840 leaping and even entered to the temple, which he could not have 492 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,760 done for his entire life due to his lameness. 493 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,960 And so some of the scribes and Pharisees and rulers of that 494 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,640 day, they, they see this and they kind of take everything 495 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:45,320 aside and they begin to ask about by what, by what power or 496 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:51,120 by what name has this been done? And Peter and John tell them by 497 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,840 the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, number one, notice that 498 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,120 people of that day associated power with the name. 499 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,440 They asked by what power or by what name? 500 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,880 They said by the name of the Lord Jesus. 501 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,440 And so they say then in Acts 4 and 12, neither is there 502 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,640 salvation in any other, for there is none of their name. 503 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,680 The name they're referring to is the name they've been talking 504 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,760 about in Acts 4, the name of Jesus Christ. 505 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,320 For there is none of their name under heaven given among men, 506 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:27,400 whereby we must, must be saved. Folks, when you get baptized, 507 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,480 you get baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 508 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,320 That's where the power is and that's the must name of 509 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,840 salvation. We will not baptize you. 510 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,280 Amen. In Father or in Son or in Holy 511 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,560 Ghost. Father has no power unless that 512 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,560 father has a name. Son has no power unless that son 513 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,840 has a name. There is no don't you need your 514 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,280 name. And the Bible tells us that his 515 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,520 name is Jesus. Jesus said I've come in my 516 00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:01,600 Father's name. That's where the power is. 517 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,840 There's none other. It takes the name Colossians 1/3 518 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,760 and verse #17 tells us that whatsoever you do in Word or in 519 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:14,440 deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God 520 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:22,040 and the Father by Him. Some are listed as being 521 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,520 baptized in Scripture in the name of the Lord. 522 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,400 I have no problem with that because I know who the Lord is. 523 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,800 The revelation came. The revelation came to Saul in 524 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,200 Scripture who the Lord was, right? 525 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,680 Because we see his whole life before Christ persecuting the 526 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:49,160 early church and people that were preaching in the name of 527 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:55,520 Jesus Christ. Saul saw them as an imposter 528 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,720 because from a child he's been taught there's only one God. 529 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,160 So when they're talking about this Christ and him doing these 530 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,600 things that the Old Testament Isaiah said only God could do, 531 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:18,120 he sees Jesus as an imposter. That's just because he had not 532 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:23,639 yet dressed the revelation that the God that Isaiah spoke of is 533 00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:27,639 the Jesus Christ in flesh in humanity among the Gospels. 534 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,239 That's the reason why he's on his little way to Damascus right 535 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,600 with the letters to be able to cause some more havoc of taking 536 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,920 those that are preaching and teaching in the name of Jesus 537 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,920 and imprisoning them. And as he's going, the Bible 538 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,080 says that light from heaven shines, knocks him off his 539 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,880 donkey, so to speak, Amen. And he hears a voice and the 540 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:53,199 Bible says in Acts 95 and he said, who art thou, Lord? 541 00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:03,280 And the Lord said, I AB Jesus, whom thou persecute us, 542 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,160 revelation for Saul, you're telling me the Lord. 543 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,280 Because we see the Lord a lot in the Old Testament. 544 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,520 As a matter of fact, in your Bibles, you'll see it a lot in 545 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,800 capital letters. Lord, Lord, it was a 546 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,360 representation of the covenant name of God, what some would 547 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,880 call Yahweh or Jehovah. He says, you're telling me my 548 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,520 Yahweh is Christ, my Jehovah is Christ. 549 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,960 That's exactly what Jesus was telling him. 550 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,160 The Old Testament Lord is the New Testament Jesus. 551 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,080 He's not different. He's not a second. 552 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,320 He's not the third. He is the I am of the I Am, 553 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,320 which was and is and is to come. He is the beginning and He is 554 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,080 the ending. He's the ever. 555 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,080 I am Jesus, whom thou persecute us. 556 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,000 Is it hard for thee to kick against the pricks? 557 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:17,840 The name #622 The Bible says The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 558 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:22,640 speaking to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise ye 559 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,560 shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, the 560 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,000 Lord bless thee. This is often a benediction 561 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,120 that's used in churches across America. 562 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,080 The Lord bless thee and keep thee. 563 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,880 The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto 564 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,960 thee. The Lord lift up his countenance 565 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,760 upon thee, and give thee peace. Verse 27. 566 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:47,680 And they shall put my name. They should put my name upon the 567 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:53,560 children of Israel, and I will bless them. 568 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,880 And in the Old Testament when it's all those upper place 569 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,960 letters, your Bible probably does this, most Bibles do. 570 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,400 But when it's all uppercase letters that notes the covenant 571 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,880 name Yahweh or Jehovah if you will. 572 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,680 Here's why this is important even though Testament moving 573 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:22,120 forward because anywhere God placed his name or evoked called 574 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,200 his name over often even in the Old Testament we see his name is 575 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:33,840 put on people on places and upon things put upon the children of 576 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:42,280 Israel name put on the temple or put upon things someone say man 577 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,600 so matter of fact all the way back brother Reese to Genesis 578 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,160 can't get away from him. I mean, everything sprouts from 579 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,880 Genesis, Genesis 426 and to seven To him also was born a 580 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,240 son. Remember, Seth was the one that 581 00:37:56,240 --> 00:38:00,280 was born instead in the stead of Abel after Abel was murdered. 582 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,960 And Seth to him also was born a son and he called his name Enos. 583 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,560 Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. 584 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:12,400 The literal translation of that verse is then begin the name of 585 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,800 the Lord to be called upon them. That changes things up. 586 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,520 It's not, it's not just that men were crying out to the Lord 587 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,680 Lord, it's that the name of the Lord was called upon them. 588 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:24,880 That's what happens in your baptism. 589 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,440 That's where there's a lot of flux in the in, in Acts chapter 590 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,960 #2 in the book of Romans where the Bible says whosoever shall 591 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,560 call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 592 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,680 When the reality is literally it is whosoever shall have the name 593 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,640 of the Lord called upon them or over them. 594 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:47,120 It's a reference to baptism. The awesome thing though, about 595 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,760 the name being called upon people and places and things is 596 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,000 this is what that denoted Old Testament. 597 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,880 We have precedent what that denoted when the name was placed 598 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,640 upon things. It denoted ownership. 599 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:05,000 It denoted redemption. It denoted his presence. 600 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,680 I read in Second Samuel chapter 12. 601 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,440 This is just a example of a precedent of a name being used 602 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:19,680 for the purpose of ownership. The Bible says in second Samuel 603 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,480 12 and verse 26 and Joab fought against Rabba of the children of 604 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,640 Ammon and took the royal city. And Joab sent messengers to 605 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,240 David who was king at this time, and said, I have fought against 606 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:33,240 Rabbi and have taken the city of waters. 607 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:36,240 Look at verse 28. Now therefore gather the rest of 608 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,760 the people still David, gather the rest of the people together 609 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,720 in the camp against the city and take it. 610 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:45,000 Look what he says, lest I take the city and it be called after 611 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,800 my name. You know what Job said and he 612 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,480 said, I'm here David, I want you here because if I take the city 613 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,960 and I put my name upon it, then that's me claiming ownership of 614 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,640 it. But your king, your name should 615 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,320 be upon it so that you have ownership of it. 616 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:02,520 In second Samuel 5 and seven, look, we see in another place, 617 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,720 David per SE taking a city. The Bible says nevertheless, 618 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:09,000 David took this is second Samuel 5, seven, nevertheless David 619 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,960 took the stronghold of Zion and look what the Scripture says. 620 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:16,600 The same is the city of David. Matter of fact, usually a lot of 621 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,240 times. See Scripture that Zions called 622 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:20,640 the city of David. He put his name on it. 623 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,280 And thereby claim to ownership of it. 624 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:31,360 Honey, his name being spoken over you in baptism, Is it just 625 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,840 for the power of removal? It's the evidence of ownership. 626 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:42,800 Come on, we have we have a a great member of our our prison 627 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,120 team. She has a wonderful testimony. 628 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,440 She'll be here one of these days when we get worth happening and 629 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,920 she'll give her testimony. But we all time kid her because 630 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,840 she talks about how she went down in baptism. 631 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,840 She's Stephanie, Stephanie Hughes and she came up Stephanie 632 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,840 Hughes, Jesus Christ. And so all the time to give her 633 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,480 a hard time whenever she shows up. 634 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,400 I said, look, Stephanie use Jesus Christ is with us now. 635 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,880 You know, I just give her a hard time. 636 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,200 What's she talking about? She's talking about I'm not my 637 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,000 own anymore, right? I'm not my own anymore. 638 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,440 I belong to somebody. And can I tell you whenever you 639 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,320 belong to somebody else and you're in a relationship with 640 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,560 someone else and you want to be pleasing that someone else, then 641 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,840 whatever pleases them, you'll just kind of follow suit because 642 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,080 they're in love with the one whose name is up on you. 643 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,560 Hey, man, Sister Trout, whenever you got married, you didn't 644 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,560 reject Mike Trout's last name. You took his name in that 645 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,600 marriage ceremony because you love that man. 646 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:35,840 You didn't mind being identified with him. 647 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,880 You my God, folks, whenever you take the name of Jesus Christ in 648 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,480 baptism and you get his name on him, I'm all right that I'm 649 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,040 characterized by whatever he is. I'm all right that his nature 650 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:52,920 kind of flows over into my life. I'm all right, you better 651 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,800 believe I'll take the name that removed my defilement and the 652 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,520 name that removed my uncleanliness. 653 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:15,220 I'll take that name. God, I didn't get us baptized 654 00:42:15,220 --> 00:42:18,100 here today. Starting to feel a little 655 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:23,260 moisture. Acts 19 and 20 if you read your 656 00:42:23,540 --> 00:42:26,060 Exodus. Rather, Exodus 19 and 20, if you 657 00:42:26,060 --> 00:42:30,760 read those chapters you read about Israel becoming God's 658 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:37,640 people because he's placing his name on them, says I am the Lord 659 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:41,840 thy God. That's important because at that 660 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,760 point of the placement of the name, they became his. 661 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:49,640 The Bible says in Exodus 66. Wherefore saying to the children 662 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,400 of Israel, I am the Lord, that's the capital Lord, and I will 663 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,920 bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I 664 00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,440 will read you out of their bondage, and I will look now 665 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,760 redeem. You have a stretched out arm and 666 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,400 with great judgments. Not only did the name denote 667 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:13,160 ownership, it denoted redemption, and it also denoted 668 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,200 presence. Look at it will Moses is 669 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,440 speaking to God in Exodus 3 and verse 13. 670 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,400 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come into the children of 671 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,520 Israel, and shall say unto them, the God of your Father's have 672 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,520 sent me unto you, and they shall say to me, What is his name? 673 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,720 What shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I am 674 00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:37,160 that I am. And he said, thou shalt thou say 675 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,800 unto the children of Israel, I am, have sent me unto you, all 676 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,200 of that I am, that I am, I am. It's the covenant name of God. 677 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,000 All right, it's found there that that Hebrew you'd hey Bob, hey 678 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,120 that Yahweh, hey man, I am that I am that sent me unto you. 679 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,320 Look at verse 15. And God said, moreover unto 680 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,240 Moses, Thus shalt thy shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 681 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,280 the Lord God of your father's, the God of Abraham, the God of 682 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,440 Isaac, the God of Jacob, have sent me unto you. 683 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:12,040 This is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all 684 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,920 generations. Why did that bring any comfort? 685 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,000 Whenever they asked who, who, who, who, who's, who? 686 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,600 Who am I going to say send them? What? 687 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,040 What name am I going to give? Because there was an 688 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:27,080 understanding, a person's name denoted presence. 689 00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,520 Hey man. And so whenever the people heard 690 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,000 from Moses, hey, I'm not here on my own, I'm here. 691 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,280 The I am has sent me a that Yahweh that Jehovah sent me. 692 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,840 Those people had an understanding that anywhere the 693 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,160 Lord's name was, his presence was. 694 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,720 And so they could trust going with Moses because they weren't 695 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:50,640 going by themselves. They were going with the 696 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:56,400 presence of the Lord because he came with the name Amen. 697 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,600 Even in the New Testament and the Bible speaks about Mary 698 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,760 having a son. His name shall be called Jesus, 699 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,520 for he shall save his people. Matthew 121 isn't it? 700 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,400 He shall save his people from their sins. 701 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:12,760 Jehovah means or Jesus means Jehovah or that capital Lord 702 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:17,480 saves. James 2 verse 7. 703 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:22,960 Do not they blasphemy that worthy thing by which ye are 704 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,680 called, or by which it is evoked, or by which it's put 705 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:29,080 upon you, a name that is placed upon you, the word called, 706 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,240 evoked, or placed upon that worthy name. 707 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:41,480 Because when His name gets upon a person, He owns them, He 708 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:46,920 redeems them. And we'll get there in just a 709 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,320 bit about His present. Well, let me just jump the boat 710 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,480 here real quick. That's the reason why we have 711 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,720 the great consolation of being filled with the baptism of the 712 00:45:54,720 --> 00:46:03,400 Holy Ghost, because anywhere he puts his name, his presence, I'm 713 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,520 not worried about if I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it. 714 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,080 Because if His name gets placed upon me, I have biblical 715 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,320 precedent that anywhere He puts His name, His presence goes. 716 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,280 Old Testament, Tabernacle and temple. 717 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:27,520 Read of it in the Book of Kings. He says, I place my name upon 718 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,120 that, whether it be temple or Tabernacle. 719 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,680 You know what you see? Then at the dedication of these 720 00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:37,080 buildings, the Bible says the presence of the Lord entered the 721 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:41,640 house in so much that the priests could not even stand to 722 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,120 minister. What happened where He put His 723 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:51,720 name, His presence showed up. Oh, God. 724 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,200 OK, you got a little bit more Scripture in you. 725 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:57,280 Yeah. We got a brother. 726 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:02,240 We got 66. No, I'm Joe. 727 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,320 Acts 15, verse 7. When there had been much 728 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,880 disputing, Peter rose and said unto them, men and brethren, you 729 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,640 know how that a good while ago God made choice among us that 730 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,960 the Gentiles, right they first come. 731 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,120 They thought this thing was only for the Jews, but that the 732 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,440 Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and 733 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,400 believe and God, which you know, if the heart spare them witness 734 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:29,000 giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us and put no 735 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:33,480 difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 736 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,160 That's amazing. We see this also accounted in 737 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,880 the book of Acts chapter #11 that's not up there for you 738 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,360 brother Zach, I'm sorry, but it's not there. 739 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:43,280 Amen. The Bible says in there, when 740 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,960 they were talking about this concept and idea of the Gentiles 741 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,840 also received in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 742 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,520 He says in Acts 11 and verse 14, who shall tell thee words 743 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,280 whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved? 744 00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,440 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them as on us 745 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,320 at the beginning. And it's them that he said he 746 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,400 remembered the word of the Lord how that he said John and be 747 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,440 baptized with water. But you shall be baptized with 748 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:12,320 the Holy Ghost. He says just as it was for the 749 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,880 Gentile, it was for the Jew on the the day of Pentecost, just 750 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,640 as the Jew experienced it, the Gentile experienced it. 751 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,600 Now with that we have a a bunch of naysayers day. 752 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,040 Well, you know, the the Holy Ghost of speaking in tongues is 753 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,560 is not for anybody. And that was just a 1st century 754 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,840 occurrence because on that day they sing cloven tongues like as 755 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:32,640 fire, and they heard a rush he mighty wind. 756 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,800 But when we read in Scripture just a little time later, both 757 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:39,000 in Acts 11 and in Acts 15, whenever the recounting what 758 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,720 happened for the Gentiles, all the things that make up the Holy 759 00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:46,680 Ghost was there minus cloven tongues of fire. 760 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:51,240 Seeing that and hearing a wind, which tells me the primary 761 00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:54,640 pattern then for salvation is repentance, baptism in the 762 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,040 infilling. The Holy Ghost was speaking in 763 00:48:56,040 --> 00:49:03,000 new tongues. What's that tell me that I get 764 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,360 it just like they got it. He said they put no difference. 765 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,400 Folks, I'm not receiving some other Holy Ghost. 766 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,360 I'm not receiving a second grace. 767 00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:17,760 I'm not receiving some, if you will, abnormality or some second 768 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,080 version. No, I'm receiving what the first 769 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,720 church received on the day of Pentecost. 770 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,840 I received it just like they received it with the name, with 771 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:32,360 the water, with other. This is not the second church or 772 00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,440 the 52nd church. This is the church. 773 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,800 And he's only coming after one bride. 774 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:42,000 Not 2, not 3, not 5. He's coming after a bride who's 775 00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,840 made herself ready, without spot, without wrinkle. 776 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:50,240 And the church can only get like that if she's baptized. 777 00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,600 Bible says First Corinthians 6 and verse #11 and such were some 778 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,920 of you. Oh, I wish I had time to talk 779 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,720 about it. Let me just talk about a little 780 00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:05,680 bit. Is this OK? 781 00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,600 First Corinthians chapter #6 is that long, long list where the 782 00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,440 apostle begins to speak about all these different types of 783 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,920 people, Amen. That were unrighteous. 784 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,360 Unrighteous people. He said in verse 9 and 1st 785 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,680 Corinthians 6 they cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. 786 00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,000 Unrighteous people remember God righteousness, that 787 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,600 righteousness spell into salvation. 788 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:31,920 People without salvation cannot enter into the Kingdom of God or 789 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,640 the unrighteous. Look what he says. 790 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,080 Not fornicators, nor adulterers or adulterers or effeminate or 791 00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,240 abusers of themselves, nor thieves, covetous drunks, 792 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,280 revilers, extortioners, and here at the Kingdom of God. 793 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,960 But note he said in such were some of you, you were some of 794 00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,640 those people, you were some of those that were, if you will, 795 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,920 profane and unclean. But what happened? 796 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:58,720 The Bible says that ye are washed, that ye are sanctified, 797 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,920 that ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by 798 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:09,840 the Spirit of our God, you were washed and justified through a 799 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:14,160 name that was evoked over you in baptism, and you received a 800 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:22,160 spirit. So you're not effeminate 801 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:25,880 anymore. It's like that old cucumber. 802 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:31,960 You're not a cucumber, right? You're a big deal. 803 00:51:38,190 --> 00:51:41,350 Just had to. Just when the spirits moving 804 00:51:41,350 --> 00:51:50,230 like that, you just got to hey, man, oh, man, stand for me. 805 00:51:50,230 --> 00:51:54,150 We'll try to sew this up. You're washed. 806 00:51:54,150 --> 00:51:56,230 You're sanctified. You're justified. 807 00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:00,560 John 112 But as many as received Him, to Him, to them gave he 808 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,800 power to become the sons of God, a Son of God. 809 00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:09,320 I'm a Son of God. I cut the name of my Father even 810 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,320 to them that believe on His name, which were born not of 811 00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,040 blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, 812 00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:14,920 but of God. And the Word was made flesh and 813 00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:20,480 dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory, presence, the 814 00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,840 only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 815 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,680 They become the sons of God. They got His name, and then they 816 00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:32,480 witnessed His glory, presence. Matthew 2121. 817 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,680 I've already referenced this Speaking of Mary. 818 00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,080 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall call His name 819 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,880 Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. 820 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,560 Now all of this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was 821 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:49,120 spoken by the Lord, by the prophet saying, Behold, a virgin 822 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,040 shall be with child, she shall bring forth a son. 823 00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:57,240 They shall call His name Emmanuel, which being 824 00:52:57,240 --> 00:53:12,280 interpreted is God with us. We get Jesus, we get that 825 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:19,600 covenant name, it's God with us. When you get His name, you get 826 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:26,440 you'll get Him because wherever His name goes and is applied, 827 00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:34,480 His presence will show up again. This is why if we repent or 828 00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:40,520 baptize in the name of the Lord Jesus, we shall received the 829 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:48,000 gift of the Holy Ghost. When He puts His name on you. 830 00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:56,280 Just wait because he's going to put his presence in you. 831 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:08,320 Folks, we bow our heads, but I'm, I'm presenting to you today 832 00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,800 the best deal that there is that you've ever had. 833 00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,560 And that's you can take a life of the Adamic nature of being a 834 00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,160 Sinner from the moment of your entrance into the world until 835 00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,480 now. This can't be done by a 836 00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:27,880 physician, A neurologist, anybody in the medical field, 837 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,920 but by going down in the name of Jesus Christ, having already 838 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,520 repented of your sins, by going down in the name of the Lord 839 00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:40,640 Jesus Christ and baptism of water, all of that, however many 840 00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:44,800 years of it is there, can be removed in a moment. 841 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:51,200 No anesthetic. I can just be removed in a 842 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:55,280 moment, folks. It's the best deal I know. 843 00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,840 He can take my shame, my pain, my guilt. 844 00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:07,240 He can take my wrong, mistakes of Commission and omission, 845 00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:10,240 mistakes I normally did and things that I even wasn't aware 846 00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:13,600 of. And in a moment, the power 847 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:19,200 that's invested in the name to become owned by him, redeemed by 848 00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:25,320 him, and it sets me up for receiving his presence, his 849 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,240 Spirit. If you need baptized in Jesus 850 00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:30,880 name today, you need to be baptized. 851 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:35,400 He must be baptized. It's one of the things that we 852 00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,880 must do. Oh God, we come to you. 853 00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:40,480 We begin to pray to the Lord right now. 854 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,640 If you've never repented of your sins before, you've never 855 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,080 repented if you've never confessed with your mouth and 856 00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,680 received forgiveness of sins today you can. 857 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,680 There's not like a particular mode or anything. 858 00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,840 You can just talk to God and be honest about yourself, be honest 859 00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:59,640 about your life. You don't have to have these and 860 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:03,120 thou's and you know introduced into your language and talk to 861 00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,600 him just as a friend because he is that friend. 862 00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,920 Scripture says that stick of closer than a brother. 863 00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,840 You can just be brutally honest with the Lord. 864 00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:13,720 He hears. He hears He's not like a God 865 00:56:13,720 --> 00:56:17,400 that's a far off that doesn't doesn't interact with humanity. 866 00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,280 We see him interact over and over again throughout the Word. 867 00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,880 He gets down in the middle of it all. 868 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,920 He loves you today. He loves you today. 869 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,720 He doesn't just see what you are, He sees what you can be. 870 00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:36,080 He wants to put His name on you. He wants to put his name on you. 871 00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,240 He wants to redeem you. He wants to own you. 872 00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,880 He wants a relationship with you. 873 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:52,200 What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood. 874 00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,280 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. I love you, Lord. 875 00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,320 Brother Mason, if we can go right now. 876 00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:02,520 Oh, let's feel after him today of happily we might find him for 877 00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:07,160 he's not far from everyone of us. 878 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,800 Saulters open if you want to pray or if you're praying in 879 00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,800 your Pew, wherever you are, a full surrender to God. 880 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,640 Lord, I don't want my life to be my own. 881 00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,560 I don't want to have control over my own life. 882 00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,640 We just need to surround. We just need to surrender. 883 00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:25,040 We just need to give up to yield here. 884 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,840 I am God, then you rushed and cleanse me.