It is the joint tonight. Instead of, with you on a
sermon, we've entitled The Great Commission to you that have been
born and raised in the church. You've heard of this phrase from
many many years. However, old you are.
That's how long you've heard about the Great Commission.
This is the very important topic and it's one that we should not
take lightly. It is not time to tune me out.
It's time to tune Me In because we're going to cover quite a bit
of information. During this lesson that
oftentimes is not discussed. Why is it called the Great
Commission? You know, when you set out to go
to scripture and find the Great Commission, you're not going to
find it. Whenever you find in a calm
Corner sir search it you're not going to find it it's never
called the Great Commission. Although everybody who knows the
Bible to even a small degree, generally knows what you're
talking about when you say the Great Commission, Shit, we plan
to show you why we believe is called the Great Commission.
During this lesson, we're going to be talking about several very
unique areas and have to pattern is drive this entire gospel
meeting. We're going to be sharing with
you information that will help you individually.
I pray but that will help you help others And their journey
and their spiritual life. This is very important and this
is one particular sermon that will come of great benefit of
her numerous of wires to let me know that this helped them a lot
others did too. But this one really made a
difference because a lot of people say, well, I've been
baptized And many people just tell.
Okay, then I didn't know that and let it go.
There's not time to let it go. It's time to ask more questions
when why what the circumstance is about and on and on we go
would be talking about a lot of that tonight and then tomorrow
night and even the next night we're going to be addressing the
final three lessons along. This particular series of
studies we've engaged in this week and we've really
appreciated your So much positive response.
There's been encouraging to me and it's given me the courage to
go ahead and go on. I don't know of any meat and
I've held that I've covered all of these lessons in one meeting.
There might be one somewhere, but I don't remember where it
is. But in this lesson, I know, you
got brother Frank here that he's just absolutely one of the
greatest parts for a in my lifetime.
He's wonderful. You've got him to laying on and
he'd be glad to help you in any way possible so you can play it.
Let brother Frank helped the water, the good Lord, bring the
increase and this congregation with our Tucson leaders today.
Yeah. Tanner and Chris, you know, they
are young men and they will be strong church leaders as the
church continued to go year by year.
The congregation, Heather tremendous future.
You got a good group of men and women.
You've worked together for this, fantastic.
Tastic remodel of this building. Sometimes I saw you need to make
a corrugations smaller. It start a big project like that
but y'all have done so well, it's been fascinating.
Alright, let's look at the Great Commission.
It is recorded in the Book of Matthew 28, verse 18 and 20.
Perhaps this might be the number one place people would go.
So do please turn with me, I will continue to preach from the
King James version, Matthew 28, verse 18 and 20.
Hey, Jesus came and spake unto them saying.
All power is given unto me in heaven and in Earth go ye
therefore and teach All Nations. Baptizing them in the name of
the father and of the son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever. I have commanded you And lo, I
Am with You alway even unto the end of the world of men.
Now, I'm going to read this account and I'm going to make
some comments. If you're taking notes in a
number of you are, be sure to write this down, this is the
only time in the New Testament that it says to be baptized in
the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, you will
not find that anywhere else you not going to find that.
Max they're going to be baptized in the name of Jesus.
That is by his authority. But Matthew 28:19 is the only
place you're going to see in the name of the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Spirit. And that is very very important.
And you will need to use that at times and some of your home
studies and in your conversations with people.
Well, as you look at Matthew, 18 to 20 but especially verse 19.
And the first word, a verse 20, you will find this message right
here, go teach baptized teach. Those are the four directives
given and the Mac to use the count of the Great Commission.
Go get out of Jerusalem and go, go where I want you to go teach
All Nations. And other places where find
teach all the world and Mark 16 verse 15 teach every creature.
Mark 16 verse 15, preach everywhere.
Mark 16 verse 20 among all nations, Luke 24:47 every person
and all the world in every nation needs to hear the Great
Commission. That's the reason today, I
understand this the metropolitan area here is 350, 400 thousand
or somewhere in that ballpark. That's a big enough city that
you may be. The only man are the only woman
that some people ever meet. That's the truth New Testament.
Christian, you might be the only person And I want to be very
candid with you. If you do not share the gospel
with them who is and who will It is frightening to me to think
about if someone went in some just random neighborhood and
they began to knock on doors saying, sir, what must I do to
be saved? How many doors would an
individual have to knock on before someone told them the
truth? Oh, they would get answered some
of variety of people. And who knows what kind of
answers? They may give.
But I'm talking about a Biblical answer.
This is so very important. Today that we turn our tongues
loose in a positive way. Next week, I've got appointments
to preach about sins of the ton. And this could be a very
important engagement and I'm glad to do that.
But I'm here to tell you today, There are many good usages of
the time, one of which is to use your tongue in a positive way of
speaking. Good of the congregation that
you attend, your brothers and your sisters in Christ and you
have home studies, and you're using your tongue in a positive
way. When you proclaim the defend,
the cause of with the Lord died. So when you think about the
tongue, don't only think about sins of the time and there's Any
of those think about the good usages of the tongue?
Well what we find here and the Great Commission and Matthews
account you go get out of Jerusalem go and Scatter out
everywhere. And you read the book of Acts
and chapter 2, they hovered around Jerusalem, and they
really hung there all the way to chapter 8.
And they are in Acts 8. You see the due to the
persecution, the church. The Bible says, was scattered
abroad and I'm sure with him reason, the death of much
thought. Yes, yes.
I've won this. I've got it.
I'm scattered out all these people but much did he not
realize these people love the Lord.
They love the Lord's church and wherever they went, they
established a A gason he assisted in getting
congregations established far and wide.
The devil lost that battle many people look at acts 8 verse 1
and just cringe over the founder of the persecution, drove them
away. But really to be honest, it was
a victory for Christ and the church.
Oh I feel for the paper that were persecuted, of course, But
for the church, it was God's Will and it is amazing how the
church grew even beyond that. So understand the Great
Commission, go get out of Jerusalem and go and when you
get there, you teach that, if you make disciples, you talk to
people about the gospel, you tell them about the death, the
burial, and the resurrection of Jesus.
And if you've witnessed that or you've seen him, you know, one
indication he was seen of over 5.
Hundred people. If you happen to be one of those
500 people, you can say, I saw him, I saw him die on the cross
and I saw him a few days later, I'll be his resurrection from
the dead. Get your faith, talk to people
sharing the good news of maple. Yes indeed, go teach them and
then baptized them. Baptized him.
For the remission of their sins and would discuss that more
detail here in a little bit. That's what the Lord said go.
You teach him and he baptized him.
And then in verse 20, the first word, teach them the new
Converse to observe all things that I have spoken unto.
You, my dear friends, please that ice into that you do not
need to ask. What should I study with this
new convert? You teach them to observe, all
things that I have. Commanded, you go.
Go teach baptized teach every bit of that is found in the
first writing of the Great Commission Matthew 28:18-20.
Now, please turn over with made a Mark 16 and we're going to
read verse 15 and 16 I would go ahead and read it through verse
20. But we'll concentrate on verse
15 and verse 16. This is very interesting by the
way, it's going to be the last chapter of Mark.
There's hot. Matthew 28, was the last chapter
of Matthew and more of the 16th chapter, the recording of the
Great Commission. Wants poor marks account of what
Jesus said. If you have not read letter
Edition, Bible is going to be mostly red letter.
And he said unto them, here it is.
Go you and all the world, preach the gospel to Every Creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
He that believeth not shall be damned.
I'll be back here in a moment. And these signs shall follow
them that believe in my name, they shall cast out devils.
They shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up
serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt
them. They shall lay hands on the sick
and they shall be recovered verse 19 and 20.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he said he was
received up into heaven, said on the right hand of God and they
went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working
with them confirming the word. With signs following our men.
Alright. Now let's break down and examine
this case of the Great Commission.
While we find immediately he led to be made known going to all
the world we Illustrated that here.
Everyone is included. Go to all the World, Mark, 16
verse 15. Go to Every Creature.
Mark, 16, verse 15. That is quite the fields are
white unto Harvest. Harvest, but the laborers are
few. the congregation here, can double if every member would
work diligently to convert one, sold to Christ, this
congregation could double You said Alan do you really think
that's likely? No, I don't.
Okay, but half of you do it, you'll be 50%.
Larger. I would love for the hyper with
everybody doing it. Sure, but of half of you did it
and everybody work, but only half accomplishment, that's all
right, you got 50% more and you start duplicating that year by
year by year and the church will be establishing a congregation
over here. The congregation over there,
it's going to grow. Listen to gospel is so powerful,
you can take hold of Matthew, Mark or Luke.
You can read that discuss it with whomever.
Have opportunity and you can share with them how the gospel
is for me, but it's for you to this gospel that Jesus fake is
for you now. Let me tell you.
What else you said? Jesus said he that believeth and
is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be
damned. Oh many people are on the run to
this passage the lighter frame. He that believeth not shall be.
Damned to say sea baptism is not essential to Salvation.
Because he said he that believeth and is baptized.
He didn't say he that believeth and is baptized, I shall be
damned he that believeth not and baptized I shall be damned and
since he didn't say baptisms, their baptism not important
wrong. What he said was he that
believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
He that believeth not shall be damned.
Let me tell you what if a person does not believe There's no
reason that baptized him back to the other picture because that
person he's not ready to meet their maker.
Now, I'll be right back. Let's go over to John 3 and 18.
I want to show you another passage and this will help to
explain it. And John 3 and verse 18, the
word of God says to following get a hold of this.
Now this is in the conversion of Nicodemus.
This is two verses after for God, so loved the world.
He gave his only begotten, son, John 3:16.
Look at Verse 18. He that believeth on him is not
condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because
he has not believed in the name of the only begotten, Son of
God. Listen, if a person is not
willing to believe, there's no need to move forward, they've
got to believe in Jesus before you move forward.
It's just not baptism. You never baptized somebody who
doesn't bother to repent of their sins and change her life
change the will change their ways you don't baptize people.
If they don't understand us, their faith and confession of
the name of Jesus, all the Great Commission means so very much.
And we're looking at Mark chapter 16 and we're seeing a
great truth taught here. He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be
damned. It's a very, very strong passing
and the next couple of verses I'm not spend a lot of time on I
would like to but in this lesson, I'm Garen toward
bringing out the things of the Great Commission that will apply
to us today. This is in the day, the Miracles
here and verse 17, 18 and part of that, and now in verse 19.
So then After the Lord had spoken unto them, he was
received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
Now, what the world is he talking about, do you know
exactly what he's talking about on?
Tell you something, most people do not realize that the
Ascension of Jesus after his birth after his life.
After his death, I've been his resurrection He was received up
into Glory, that was recorded and the one that most people
realize is ax 1 9 through 11. That's the one that most people
go to would you can go to Mark 16 and verse 20 of her.
It's not teen. So then after the Lord had
spoken to them, here's received up into heaven, on tell you
something. Did you know this?
That when you get rid of through Reading Matthew, you turn, right
over to acts 1 and pick up and continue your reading.
And chronologically it would all be there.
Just not Mark, you read Mark 16, and it talks about that at the
very end. There section of Jesus acts one
picks up. And soon verses 9 through 11
Acts 19 through 11, he talks about the Ascension, the same
Loop you get through Luke. You pick up an ax 1 and you take
off. Most people don't know that.
It's just a matter of understanding the layout of the
New Testament scriptures, we have for men.
Matthew Mark, Luke and John who are given to us.
The very valuable and very important teaching of the life
and the death and the burial of the Resurrection Life, Death and
burial, and resurrection, and Ascension of the Lord Jesus.
So watch, Todd and Acts 19 through 11 is also taught and
Mark and and looked. So let's go to Luke, Luke 24:46
through 47. Lou give this accounting is so
very valuable. Please follow me.
Carefully please verse 46. Jesus said, thus, it is written.
And thus, it behoove Christ is suffer to rise again from the
dead. The third day, and that
repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name,
among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Now, to establish my point that I just made, look down, please
verse 51, and it came to pass. While he bless him, he was
parted from them and caught up into heaven.
So there you say John Luke, 24 verse 51, the Ascension of
Jesus, the same thing recorded in Acts 19 through 11.
So the Ascension of Jesus is according to Mark the gospel of
Mark, the Gospel of Luke and the writing of Luke and acts of
first chapter. So please commit that to your
memory and work on that. Because that is a very important
part to show how Jesus got back to Heaven.
Lots of people ask that, how is he now sitting at the right hand
of God? They will often time ass.
She said, oh well I'll show you three different verses that will
give that some that Mark Luke and acts.
It is so important. Okay, let's look back at Luke 24
here verse 47 and that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in his name. We're among all nations
beginning, we're at Jerusalem, Jerusalem, where the church had
its beginning. Who's going to go to his?
You go to all the nation everywhere, everybody, everybody
everywhere. Needs to hear this gospel
message, friends. Listen, the Great Commission is
for everybody and is so important.
When you look back at loot the 24th chapter, you not only find
the purpose and the benefit of baptism.
You see repentance this is listening writing down.
Repentance Lux count Luke 24. Verse 47.
Is the only occasion of the three of the Great Commission.
Matthew, Mark and Luke. Luke is the only one that
includes repentance. Lord willing, no Saturday night.
I will preach about repentance but look is the only one that
mentioned that you don't want to leave Luke out majority of the
Bible tracks and sermons and that I hear that, I read that
people may be put in friend, like, in a Bible tracker or
something. Most time, they made your Great
Commission that put Matthew and Mark, they leave Luke off.
Don't leave Luke off. He's powerful.
He doesn't even mention baptism. But it tells you what if our
repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name.
My dear friend, we're learning in Luke, 24, verse 47.
We preach in the name of Jesus Christ, we baptize in the name
of Jesus Christ. That is very, very important.
Don't lose sight of Luke 24. It is loose account of the Great
Commission. And it for everybody.
So, Matthew, Mark, and Luke is like, any other topic.
We're studying the Great Commission.
And what we learn is that they preached, they believed they
repented, they were baptized for the remission of their sins.
And then now, you've you look at this.
Of course, you don't say confession, but confession is
Illustrated, and the Book of Matthew The 10th chapter verse
32 and 33. It's also mentioned and Romans.
The 10th chapter verse 9, and verse 10.
And in other places as well, let me talk to you about confession.
Confession is not a one-time Act.
You don't just, I believe that Jesus Christ, the son of God,
and they, you don't confess anymore, no confession.
What you do at work in the school, in the neighborhood.
And those you're fortunate enough to get in contact with
you can share your belief in your biblical, understanding
with whomever, you can It is so important.
When is the last time you confess the name of Jesus to
anybody? When is the last time you
confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
You know, if we're not careful we let time to get away from us
and we don't take time to do that.
And when this is so important, because if you don't confess his
name, he's I will not confess you before my father.
Let me tell you what you don't want any part of that, that is
the rough and rugged road to whole you.
Because I'm just shy. I'm just taming.
You are sitting here, you're lazy.
If you're not willing to confess the name of Jesus, there's
laziness on your part, get out there and tell people, I
believe, that Jesus Christ, the son of God, and we understand
for him and judgment. Don't go trying to have some
kind of a cop-out to where you don't have to do, you do have to
do it. If you don't confess Jesus, he
clearly said, I will not confess in you before my father.
You know what that should motivate us to do is to motivate
us. You get out of here and start
confessing to people the beautiful name of Jesus.
Well, and, and the three accounts of the Great
Commission, preaching, believe in Repentance, baptism.
Farther mission of sand and then other accounts equally emphasize
confession. But you know what?
I'll be reading all of that. It shouldn't say the Great
Commission. Let me tell you why it's called
the Great Commission. It's called the Great Commission
because there was also a limited commission, a limited
commission, you would only go to stay with me here.
This is very important, it's not difficult but it's very
important. I want you to turn your Bibles
me to Matthew 10 verse 5 through 7 This is going to illustrate a
true that you may have never thought about before and
Matthew. The 10th chapter verse 5 through
7, the word of God says the following and please take pay
very, very close attention because this really revealed the
tremendous amount I'm began verse 5 now, Matthew 10 verse 5,
these 12 that's 12 Apostles. Jesus sent forth and commanded
them here. The command go not.
And the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritans
enter, ye not, but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of
Israel at this moment in time. Jesus said do not go to the
Gentiles, do not go to Samaritan.
Now the Samaritan won't have to, you have Gentile, don't go to
that. That's what it said in Matthew
10. 5 through 7 is what we call the Limited.
Ian. But we're talking about the
Great Commission. Recorded, Matthew 28, March 16,
and Luke 24. Why is one called limited
commission? And the other called the Great
Commission because the limited commission limited, who they
could go to and there's to the Jews?
No, you can't go to the gym towel.
You can't go the Samaritan, you only go to the Jews.
But in the Great Commission, you go to All Nations.
You go to all the world you go to Every Creature, you go.
Everywhere you go to all the nation.
You tell everybody anywhere. The good news of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, that's why you have the Great Commission.
It is one reaching out to everybody, everybody you work
with everybody in your neighborhood.
Everybody that you know, on this work on this Earth today, the
people you've used to live by the one that went to do with
when you're the kid, everybody all of them.
The gospel is for them. That's a great commission and we
today need to take hold of that and go teach people the gospel.
I don't expect you. To be just as smooth as silk in
your explanation of it. Your first few times, I don't
expect that God doesn't even respect that, but he does expect
you to try, you know, we've given you plenty.
Plenty of tools to work with and we plan to give you a couple of
more real Doozers tomorrow night.
And the next night, the Lord willing, At tonight's lesson.
When you put all this together, it's going to give you much,
much more to work with. We're trying to equip the Saints
because this current gatien's got so much talent, so much
energy. So much peace, love and harmony.
There is no reason that you are not growing growing and growing
you are in one way and you can continue to grow in the same way
reaching out and converting people one by one.
One By One, The Growing, my dear friend.
Don't you know, everybody working your grow tremendously,
you really will. It is amazing.
Now you don't sit back on Peg on Frank here a little bit, you're
not going to sit back there, where we're going to Frank, do
you know, Frank's our preacher? You know what, you're the
member. You're the member of the Church
of Christ, you're a member of the Lord's family.
Be thankful to your God. You've got a preacher who's as
good as he is, I doing personal work.
All preaches, can't do person working.
Tell you that some are great for pet Ministry person works is if
really not their skill, there are others who need a great
person work but the for pits not their favorite place to be.
You just happen to have a break and I can do both and many other
things too. So, everybody's got to work,
man. And women, you got to work.
You got teamwork drive here, you've got leadership eager.
And willing to see the church grow.
You've got a gospel preaching the family that's here working
with you. It is amazing.
What can be accomplished. And if everybody joined together
and see who all they can convert, Tom look up, one of
your congregation or directory. If you make those for you have
member your own members, listed the phone number, the address
except ra find the one, to say, 10 years old.
If you can reach back and say, wow, I don't even know that
person. Well, they may just be live
around the corner, who knows? They may live in your community,
they fell through the cracks, perhaps, that happens, all of
this country. And you get talking about this
individual say, who in the world is that I've seen that with
people, I've sat down with the leadership.
I've sat down with men and women before and they're Holman, we've
led to their book on ten years ago.
I say it's summer or 20, or 30 years old, And people said, wow,
you know, some of those people may still be living and then all
the taste is reaching back out talking to them.
If they don't come back at least you tried, you know what, I'm so
thankful for. I mean, this with all my heart,
I am so thankful that the Lord did not say Alan in order to go
to heaven, you've got to convert 25, people who man, I'm glad he
didn't like that. Can you imagine how hard that
would be? How much pressure that would be
on you, if the Lord called and had you and all commanded, all
of us, you got baptized 30 people, 4000 my kind of sound
like Abraham a lot now. Lord didn't say that.
He should just go teach everybody.
Plant and water for sure and then 3 Verse 6 I have planted
Apollo's watered, God brings increase.
God just wants you to plantain water.
Entering the increase. He's taking the workload off of
you. He said just go tell people.
The gospel don't be ugly, don't be rude.
Don't be insulting anybody? No, that's not doing anybody any
good? No, show them.
I really care about you and I want you to go to heaven and
talk with them about the gospel, talk to them about life after
death and all of that. Well, in conclusion tonight, I
want to talk to you about a scripture baptism.
Now they're they're great lessons, been preached on this
one topic. When invade your tells you well,
I've been baptized. When you tell them you need to
be baptized do not. Act.
As if baptism is all they have to do.
Baptism when they're born again. And if all you teaches baptism,
baptism baptism. You really haven't converted
them. I had a really good friend of
mine. This is there has been several
years ago. It's amazing how time runs on,
but he called me one day and he was in tears, he's an allen, the
last two or three days, my wife and I did what you mentioned, we
went back and we gathered up all the old congregation or church
rectory we could find and we started highlighting those who
are no longer coming to services and we realized we had baptized
Fifty people. I said oh, that's great.
He said, no, it's not great. I said okay why is it not great?
He said because none of them come to church now.
Single one of them, every one of them left the church they were
here today, there's gone tomorrow.
He's hitting what I'm calling you for that.
Won't you tell me why? I said, well, I can't absolutely
be emphatic and dogmatic Hawaii but I can give you some ideas.
He's what I'm setting down, shoot.
That's a Jew. Converted them to baptism.
You didn't convert them to Jesus Christ.
Are you hearing me? You can convert people to
baptism? It's not hard to talk people
into been baptized. That's an easy thing to do.
But I Am Lord just pretty you convert them to Jesus Christ.
You let them know what Jesus did at Calvary.
You share with them that good knew and you let them know when
you following Jesus and your do that, then you are you are run
to the water to be baptized. Now I'm just be part of it but
you'll be just born again you'll be just now starting your
Christian life that you know with all respect.
You know. I love you and I care for you
but you probably Converted them or convince them to be baptized
but never convince them and committed them to Jesus Christ.
You didn't convert them to Christ or they would.
I not many I mean you wouldn't be not be batting a thousand for
those who left You asked for an opinion, that's my it kind of
bothered him a little bit. He's a little bit, be neat, but
it's all right. He asks I told him, he called me
back the next day. And so while he said, you know,
my wife and I thought about it and I think you're right, we
look back at some of our outlines the, you know, that a
little Homestead, he outlines his baptism, baptism, baptism
baptism. We didn't have a single one
about Jesus Christ. He said, wow.
So my friends, when we talk to people, give the picture the
whole picture, I love that song will you sing?
And I said usually used to but I just don't see it in the modern
books but they will be one day Lord willing, I love to tell the
story to those who know it best. That is such a beautiful song
and really have touch your heartstrings because when you
love the church and you love this I mean this right here is
it's just old hat to many of you but you know what you love to
hear it. You know it's true and you love
your kids and your grandkids to here and your spouse and you
like to be reminded of it all That's what's important one or
two have a scripture. Baptism, you're baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ. This phrase in the name of means
by his authority of Jesus Christ, Luke 24 and verse 47.
Luke gave the reason for the remission of sin.
So in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins,
I'm am baptized you. And the name of the father and
of the son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28.
Verse 19. Now when I baptize people,
that's what I say. Now a person could reword that
and and mention one thing for the other that's fine.
That's not a problem. None.
No problem at all. Deborah people can say it
differently but just long as they say what needs to be said
and what is biblical? a few weeks ago, I was at one
location and, and the lady came up to be baptized And the
gentleman who is given the lesson that night, he let me
know after church that he would like to be part of the
baptizing, a nerve not. So sure, that's that's fine.
I'm you can do the whole thing for that.
I'm concerned, you're welcome to that.
And then it's time to develop. He kind of want a little help.
So I agreed to go with him. So we both went in there and I
said with you, you can baptize her and I just be there to make
sure everything goes smooth. And whatever words he said it
wasn't that, okay? I'll just leave it at that.
He wasn't didn't get. It said what needed to be said.
What he said was sweet and meet nice but it wasn't but chapter
and verse When he got three looked at me, like we're ready.
Then I said, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of your sins, I baptize you in the name of the father, Son and
Holy Spirit. You know what, we find here.
We can show you book chapter and verse of why.
And you cannot go wrong with that.
But let me tell you what say, 27 are so only through bake 30.
So you listen quick cuz I'm talk quick.
When an individual tells you what I've been baptized.
Just because somebody's been, baptized does not mean they have
been scripturally. Baptized My daughter from she
was baptized. She was really excited about it.
And one of the neighbor girls who live close by in our
neighborhood riding home with the from school and a live, is
it? I was baptized last night.
And this girls are oh I've already been baptized oh really?
Yeah. Why she didn't other than her
parents told her? She been baptized?
It came to be that she was baptized just six weeks old.
She don't remember nothing about it.
She may have been kicking and screaming because she didn't
want to be baptized. I don't know.
But let me tell you what, when people are baptized as infants,
they're not scripturally baptized And when people come
to, this morning's been, you don't have one here, of course,
but they have little mourners bench up here.
A lot of places and they come there and they pray and you know
what? When they leave, that mourners
bench to go back to their seat. They think their sins have been
forgiven right there and that morning spinach.
And then they gather up a group of people about every month or
every quarter, and they're baptized the whole slew of them.
Mt, what that's not scriptural baptism.
Because if they think they're saved before the baptized,
they're not baptized for the remission of sins.
So you have to sit back and listen to what they're saying,
you can ask me why you you baptized and you can do that are
very kind way and when and how and can you show me in the Bible
where it was done that way? And you just sit back and
listen, the more people talk, I found the more easy it is to
convert them, let them talk. And then you said, well, I know
you. No doubt, your parents did what
they thought was right, you did what you thought?
I was right. We can I share with you what?
God's work teacher. And people do yes and you show
them. They said without that that
doesn't look like mine. I said well we need to be
re-baptized about the Bible teaches acts, not teen one
through five acts, not taking one through five.
I could have written that somewhere but I didn't on the
board. That is the only account.
We have of people who are baptized into John's, baptism
who later were baptized by the baptism of the Great Commission.
And when people today are baptized in a way that does not
meet. According to scripture, they
need to be scripture, the baptized by the baptism, the
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