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Doug Batchelor: Hello,
friends, welcome back to
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Prophecy Odyssey.
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In our previous episode,
we learned that Bible baptism
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symbolizes the cleansing from
sin in a person's life and the
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new birth.
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Today we're going to continue
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baptism, and we're going to
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example, was baptized and that
his baptism identifies with his
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Doug: So a friend was telling me
that in Northern California, he
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was baptizing, and this Spanish
gentleman came to him and he
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said, "I need to get baptized.
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I've lived a pretty wicked
life", and so he got baptized in
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a lake and the family was on
the shore, big family watching.
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He went out a ways into the
water where it was deep enough
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for him to get baptized and just
before he got baptized, he said,
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"Pastor, I need
you to do me a favor."
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He says, "I've just been
out there living for the devil."
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He said, "When you baptize
me, hold me under for a minute."
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He said, "Don't worry," he says,
"You know, I swim, I can hold my
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breath a long time."
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He says, "I just want to have
a little prayer while I'm under
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the water," and of course, no
one in the family knew this was
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going to happen.
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So he said, "Yes, when I'm done
praying, I'll give your hand a
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little squeeze," and he
said, "You bring me up."
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And so, Pastor, you know,
he says, "In the name of the
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Father, Son and Holy Spirit."
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He put him under.
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And the family on the shore,
they're like going--I don't
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mean to belittle the
importance, but, you know, life
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is interesting.
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Angels laugh, I
think sometimes. Amen.
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And then he got done, he
squeezed his hand, he brought
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him back up again.
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But he knew, he understood that
when a baby is born--you ever
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been at a birth where they're
trying to get the baby to
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breathe, and they take that
first breath, and it's a sign,
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and that baby cries and
breathes, and everyone's going,
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"Praise God."
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New life, they're breathing on
their own and so it represents
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the death of the old person and
the birth of a new person, so
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it's like not only a
resurrection, it's like the new
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birth, being born again.
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Number 8, how
important is baptism biblically?
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Now I touched on this, but let's
look at some of the verses.
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These are the words of Jesus.
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John chapter 3 verse 5, Christ
said: "Unless one is born of the
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water and of the
Spirit, he--" what?
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"--CANNOT enter
the kingdom of heaven."
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How many want to
enter the kingdom of heaven?
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Now you need to be
born of the Spirit.
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And a lot of pastors will go
out and they'll baptize people,
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they'll come back and
someone will say, "How many
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were baptized?"
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They don't ever say how
many were born of the Spirit.
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But you need more, both.
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Now, being born of the water
is talking about water baptism.
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There are some churches that
say that means when a woman is
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pregnant and the water breaks,
you're born of the water.
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And they say that's born of the
water, but you also--that would
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be, why would Jesus say that?
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The whole context of this
is in John the Baptist and
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baptizing people.
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I mean, let me see, how many
of you out there were born of
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a woman?
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Just checking.
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These days, you know, there's
a lot of stuff going on that I
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don't understand, but I mean in
the old school everybody's born
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of a woman, so why would Jesus
say, "Unless you're born of a
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woman and born of the
spirit," well, the first part's
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easy, right?
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He's not talking about born of
the woman, he's saying, "Unless
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you're born of the water
baptism, you get to choose to be
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baptized and
born of the Spirit."
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God chooses when to pour out
the spirit unless you have both.
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Now, let me explain this: some
people are baptized with the
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Holy Spirit
before water baptism.
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Have you read Acts chapter 10?
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Cornelius and his family,
Peter's preaching, and the Holy
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Spirit falls upon their Italian
soldiers and his servants and
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their Gentiles.
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Holy Spirit falls on them, and
Peter says, "Wow, you're getting
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ahead of the game.
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You should also be
baptized in water."
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Jesus is baptized by the
Holy Spirit and water at the
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same time.
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The apostles are baptized by
John the Baptist, but they're
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not baptized by the
Holy Spirit until Pentecost.
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So God chooses when that's going
to happen, but you want your
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heart to be open to that.
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And one more thing about the
baptism of the Spirit, or maybe
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two more things.
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The Holy Spirit
comes in different degrees.
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You all have the Holy Spirit
right now, or you wouldn't
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be here.
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The Holy Spirit convicts
the sinners of their sin.
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The Holy Spirit works in your
heart to guide you, but there's
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a special filling of the Holy
Spirit that comes, and God, when
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you decide to live the Christian
life, you need extra power.
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Because you're in
enemy territory, right?
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God's not going to
give weapons to his enemies.
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He gives weapons to his allies.
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And so once you commit your
life to the Lord, He promises a
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special filling of the
Spirit and God gives more of the
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Spirit, when you need more help.
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Some of you saying, "I don't
know how I'm going to make it
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through the last days, I
don't have enough faith."
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Well, you don't need it yet, but
when you get there, He'll give
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it to you.
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Amen.
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Jesus says "Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof."
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And so, God, where sin
abounds, grace abounds.
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God will give you
more as you need more.
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Why did He pour out the
Holy Spirit at Pentecost?
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Because Jesus said, "I
want you to go to the world."
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They needed a baptism of the
Holy Spirit in a special way.
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All right.
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Little another.
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I told you one
verse, here's another one.
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How important is it?
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Mark chapter 16:16.
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Jesus speaking here.
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"He who believes and is baptized
will be SAVED; but he who does
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not believe will be condemned."
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All right, number nine.
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What blessed ceremony
can be compared to baptism?
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The Bible says, "For as many of
you--" this is Galatians 3:27,
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"--for as many of you as were
baptized into Christ have PUT
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ON Christ."
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The Bible often compares it to
a marriage where a bride puts on
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her wedding garment.
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Now this is a perfect
analogy, and let me explain why.
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Sometimes a person will come to
me and they say, "Pastor Doug.
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You know, I'm really struggling
with smoking right now, but I
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think if you could
baptize me, I could quit."
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And I go, "No, no, no.
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God will give you the
Holy Spirit to quit before."
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They came to John the Baptist.
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They said, "What
do we need to do?"
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He said, "Bring forth fruits,
meat for repentance, and then
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I'll baptize you."
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Repentance and turning
away from sin happens first.
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What would you think?
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This is a question especially
for the ladies, because they get
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it right away.
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If a guy you're dating, so when
you're not married, he comes to
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you and says, "I love you
and I'd like to marry you, and I
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think, if you would marry
me, I could stop dating the
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other girls."
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How many of you
would accept that proposal?
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Oh, you're crazy.
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You got to stop dating them
first, so you stop dating the
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devil before you get baptized.
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God will break the
chains and set you free.
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You repent, you turn from your
sins and then you come and you
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get baptized.
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Amen.
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And then I meet people and they
say, "You know, I read about
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baptism, it's clearly biblical.
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I'm not so sure that I want to
follow Jesus, but, you know, I
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think if you'd baptize me, I
would love him," and that's kind
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of like a guy coming to a girl
and saying, "You know, I don't
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really love you yet, but
if we get married, I think it
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would happen."
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As though the wedding ceremony
is going to make the difference,
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the baptism ceremony is not
going to make you love Jesus.
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Now I have seen people come out
of the water after baptism, and
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they are smiling from ear to ear
and jumping up and down because
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their faith, they know their
sins are washed away, they know
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they have eternal life.
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They definitely feel something
because of their faith, not
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because of the water.
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See, and so it's like marriage;
marriage is a covenant.
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And when two people get married,
they have special rights.
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You might hold hands and
hug and kiss a little, don't do
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too much.
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Or you know Mother Nature
will get you carried away.
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These days, let's face it,
friends, the morals are not
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the same.
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It used to be like, you know, on
television, Lucy and Desi slept
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in their separate beds.
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I mean, things were different.
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Now sex is like
shaking hands on television.
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And so Christ said, "In the last
days, love would grow cold."
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But it used to be that you
didn't have certain rights until
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you had the covenant and
you had the ceremony and it was
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often public.
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Baptisms, now I've been
to countries where if you get
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baptized in
public, you're killed.
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I've been to countries where
they need to do it with some
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secrecy or you
just--they execute you.
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But in most cases, you
want your wedding to be public.
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Ladies, what would you think?
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If a guy came to you and said,
"You know, I love you and I'd
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like to marry you, but
do we have to tell everybody
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about this?"
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Wouldn't that be
a dubious proposal?
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You'd say, "Aren't you
wanting to tell everybody?"
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Karen got upset with me
because I invited everybody to
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our wedding.
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She said, "You know,
we got to pay for that."
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I was so excited.
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I said, "Hey y'all, come on."
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I went to all my evangelistic
meetings and invited everybody
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to our wedding.
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We had a big wedding.
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It was expensive too.
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So, you know, but you want
people to know because you love
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someone, right?
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Number ten.
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What command did Jesus give
to His people just before He
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ascended to heaven?
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Was it a priority?
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Jesus said, "Go therefore and
make disciples of all nations,
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BAPTIZING them in the name
of the Father, the Son and the
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Holy Spirit."
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How important is
baptism to Jesus?
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The last words of Christ, as he
ascends to heaven, he says, "Go,
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teach, baptize."
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By the way.
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Do you have to know everything
before you get baptized?
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You'll never be ready.
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Because you need to know
everything about a person before
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you get married?
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But you ought to
know something, right?
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There's a risk, you know,
some people wait until they
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know everything.
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They never propose, and girls
say, "Look, we've been dating
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six years.
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Either you get with it or
we're- I'm out of here," right?
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I mean, at some point you got
to say--and he's going, "But I'm
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waiting to get to
know you a little better."
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No, you know, how
long does that take?
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So, there's going be a time
where you kind of know, but you
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don't want to be like, you know,
Dennis Rodman gets married in
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Las Vegas and he looks at
the person and said, "Now, who
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are you?
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Oh, we got married last night."
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Those weddings
don't do very good, right?
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And so you need to know the
fundamental teachings of the
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Bible because Jesus said, "Go
make disciples, baptizing them,
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teaching them to observe all
things that I've commanded you."
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So there's teaching after also;
we keep coming to church, we
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keep learning.
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Amen.
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How many learned some things
about your spouse after you
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got married?
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How many were surprised?
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I still say things--Karen
said, "I didn't know that."
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Number 11.
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What biblical qualifications
should precede baptism?
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So what are the things you
need to know before baptism?
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Well, here's a list.
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You want to understand
the teachings of Jesus.
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Now, wait, wait, you know,
probably at this point I ought
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to say something.
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There's a lot of dear Christian
people out there that confuse
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baby dedication with baptism.
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And they baptize babies.
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Jesus was dedicated as a
baby, but He was baptized by his
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choice as an adult.
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When we look at this list, I
want you to tell me if a baby is
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able to make these decisions
and might even have the two that
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will appear up here and you'll
be able to help figure that out.
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All right, first of all, A, you
need to understand the teachings
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of Jesus.
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Can--where's the baby?
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Over here.
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Can a baby understand
the teachings of Jesus?
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No.
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That means these are
foundational teachings.
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Mark chapter 16
says, "You must believe."
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Can you believe the teachings
of Jesus if you're a baby?
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No.
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Jesus got baptized at 30.
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Of course, He understood
the fundamentals of the
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Jewish faith.
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You need to repent of your sins.
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Does the baby
have sins to repent of?
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No, baby can't repent of sins.
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Answer D, you must be willing
to confess your sins to God.
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Repent and confess.
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Does a baby confess their sins?
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No.
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Answer E: you must
believe with all of your heart
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those teachings.
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Can a baby believe
with all their heart?
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No, and you must accept Christ
as your personal savior and
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desire to
experience a new birth.
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Well, baby's just been born.
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He hasn't gotten used to
the first birth, let alone a
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second birth.
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You know somebody said once:
"Unless you're born twice--no--
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yeah, unless you're born
twice, you'll die twice."
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You need a physical birth and
you need the spiritual birth,
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otherwise, you have
the second death, right?
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If you're only born
once, you die twice.
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So you don't want to
have the second death.
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If you don't want the
second death, you need to be
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born twice.
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All right, let's get on
with question number 12.
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Where did all these counterfeit
forms of baptism originate?
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So again, I'm not trying
to criticize; some of you were
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baptized as babies, and your
parents meant well and it was
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probably a lovely spiritual
experience, but it biblically
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it's not baptism, it's a
dedication; is that clear?
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Jesus as a baby was dedicated,
and especially with baby boys,
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they would often be circumcised
and they were dedicated and
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sometimes there was a sacrifice
that went along with that and
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the mother would go through a
cleansing when she brought the
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baby boy and another, a
different time period for a baby
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girl, but that's when they
got their names and it was a
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special occasion.
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But it's not baptism.
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Where did these
other forms come from?
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"For laying aside the
commandment of God, you hold the
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TRADITION," the what?
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They're man-made traditions.
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Jesus said, people are putting
aside God's commandments to
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follow traditions.
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Mark 7:8: "And in VAIN--"
you know what vain means?
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It's a waste.
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"In VAIN they worship
Me teaching as doctrines."
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They say, oh, it's a doctrine,
but it's nothing more than
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the what?
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The commandments of
men, man-made commandments.
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God does not want us to go
by man-made commandments, but to
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follow the "thus
sayeth the Lord" in His Word.
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Now just a little history
in case you're interested in.
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How many have heard
of the Tower of Pisa?
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In Italy, a leaning tower, right
there in the courtyard by the
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tower of Pisa is a church that
is built for the sole purpose
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of baptism.
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The middle of the
church is a large baptistry.
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It dates back to 1300 AD.
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Even in the Catholic Church,
they baptized by immersion for
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over 1000 years, but gradually
over time they said, "Well, it's
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a symbol, and these
people are sick and they can't
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get baptized.
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So what we'll do, we
will dip this sheet in water.
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We'll pray over the water, call
it holy water, and we'll wrap
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them up in a sheet."
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Or then they said, 'Well, since
the water's just a symbol," they
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started using
less and less of it.
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Sometimes monarchs would go
through baptism and they'd say,
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"I'm not getting immersed in
front of everyone, that's not
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dignified," and they said,
"Well, it's just a symbol, we'll
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pour a little on you, then we'll
pour a little less, then we'll
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just sprinkle," and over it
happens slowly, like a lot of
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compromise in the church.
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And gradually the church drifted
away from the example of Jesus
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and the Commandments
of God started following
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man-made traditions.
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But the Bible is very
clear: if you want to be a Bible
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Christian, and granted,
sometimes baptisms may not look
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dignified when a person's wet.
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You know what I do if I baptize
a couple, husband and wife.
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I always baptize the man
first for a couple of reasons.
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One, technically he's
the priest of the family.
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For the other reason, the woman
does not want to stand there in
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the water with wet hair.
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And so she can get out
a little quicker that way.
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But births are not
always dignified either.
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Have you ever seen that?
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A little bit of screaming,
blood, and pain and so, but it's
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a new birth, baptism.
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Number 13.
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Doesn't baptism of the
Holy Spirit replace baptism
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by immersion?
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No, we need both baptisms.
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The Bible says, Acts chapter
2, "Repent, and let every one of
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you be BAPTIZED in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ for the
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remission of sin."
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How many want
their sins forgiven?
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And you'll receive the
gift of the Holy Spirit.
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You need both: born of the
water, born of the spirit, you
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know, back in the days of Noah
our world was baptized in water.
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And when Jesus comes again,
it will be baptized in fire.
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Water baptism, fire baptism.
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Children of
Israel came out of Egypt.
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They went through the Red Sea.
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John Paul tells us 1 Corinthians
chapter 10: "Baptized in the
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water through the sea."
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Holy Spirit came down in the
pillar of fire on the nation of
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Israel, baptized in the fire.
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Then he led them
into the promised land.
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They needed the water baptism.
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They needed the spirit baptism.
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We need both baptisms, friends.
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Amen.
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Number 14.
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Is rebaptism ever appropriate?
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Yes it is.
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Now you have to go to Acts 19
and you'll read a passage here.
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This gives you one example.
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Paul is meeting with
12 Ephesian believers.
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They heard about
John the Baptist.
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They were baptized by
John, baptism by immersion.
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They left town.
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They had no
internet or news back then.
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They'd not heard
about the Ministry of Jesus.
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Paul is up there preaching to
them about Christ and his death
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and his
resurrection and all that means.
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And he said, "Did you
receive the Holy Spirit when
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you believed?"
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They said to him, we've not so
much as heard whether there is a
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Holy Spirit.
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They've not
heard about Pentecost.
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He said to them, into
what then were you baptized?
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They said, into John's baptism,
John the Baptist, and Paul said,
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"John indeed baptized with a
baptism of repentance, saying
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that the people should believe
on Him who would come after him,
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that is on Christ Jesus.
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When they HEARD
this, they were--" what?
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Baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus, baptized in that, so they
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were rebaptized.
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Now, there's three
reasons to be rebaptized.
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One is if you are not baptized
biblically, maybe you were
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baptized as a baby,
we've learned that's not really
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immersion, biblical baptism.
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You should be
baptized as Jesus was.
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Amen.
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You want to follow Christ, and
you may have been following the
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Lord all your life
and you didn't know.
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Then there's people who maybe
they were baptized but they
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divorced themselves by the Lord.
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That doesn't mean they sinned,
and you just you do communion
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service to take care of the
little things, but they turned
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from God, they stopped going to
church for years, they lived for
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the world.
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They've publicly
disgraced the Lord.
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They may need to be rebaptized.
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If you divorce the Lord,
you need to be remarried.
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Third reason is you come into
a whole new understanding of the
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truth like these 12 Ephesian
believers I just talked about,
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and you want to get a new--
you've learned all the truth,
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these things, things you didn't
know and, and you want to have a
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new beginning.
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I was baptized twice.
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I was living up in the cave.
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And I'd go days
without seeing anybody.
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And some hikers came by.
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They sat to rest there by my
cave, which was by, right by the
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water, had a big pool and a
waterfall, beautiful place, out
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there in the desert mountains,
and they said, "Are you
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a Christian?"
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I said, "Well, it just so
happens I've been reading the
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Bible and I asked Jesus into
my heart and I this had just
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happened," and they
said, "Were you baptized?"
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I said, well, no, I hadn't
really taken that all in yet,
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and they gave me a quick
Bible study and said you need to
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get baptized.
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I said, okay.
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And so they went, took me out on
the water, which by the way was
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from Milford snow, and they
baptized me by immersion, and
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I'll tell you, I
came up out of the water.
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I felt born again.
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And then they hiked off,
they didn't teach me and they--I
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said, "Praise God."
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"We baptized another
person, they were some Baptist
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Christians" and they
left me, and I said, "Wow.
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I got to go celebrate."
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I went to town.
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I found my friends, we got some
beer, we celebrated my baptism.
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Smoked a little pot.
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I was in jail
before the sun went down.
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And I was in jail witnessing
to people about Jesus.
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And they hadn't taught me very
carefully before, so later an
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old pastor, he studied
with me and I was rebaptized and
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it stuck.
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And I quit my smoking and
my drinking and all that before
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that, and I've
never done it since.
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So there it is appropriate, and
the Bible says, let me read the
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question again.
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Is baptism--question 15
--connected with joining
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the church?
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Absolutely.
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Those who gladly received his
word were baptized that day and
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3000 were added to them,
praising God and having favor
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with all the people, and the
Lord added to the church daily
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those who were being saved.
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Ladies, what would you think
of a guy that said, "I love you.
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And I've stopped dating the
other girls and I want to marry
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you, and we'll do it publicly.
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But do we have
to live together?"
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Why would you want to join the
body of Christ and not be part
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of the body?
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You say, 'Well, there's
hypocrites in the church."
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"Yes, friends, and there's
always room for one more."
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So don't stop going to church.
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That's where we learn
to love each other, amen.
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"You were called into one BODY."
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A lamb out there in the woods
by itself, the wolf will get it.
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We need to be
part of the family.
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1 Corinthians 12:13: "For by
one Spirit we are baptized into
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ONE body."
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Amen.
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If we refuse baptism,
whose counsel am I refusing?
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But the Pharisees and the
lawyers rejected the will of God
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for themselves, not
having been baptized by him.
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John the Baptist.
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Friends, baptism
is very important.
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Doug: Friends, I hope you've
been blessed by today's message,
00:24:39.94\00:24:42.71
but really the reason we do this
is so that people might know
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Christ, you know, information
is not going to save us.
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It's a relationship with Jesus,
the one who died on the cross
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for your sins.
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You must personally accept Him.
00:24:53.39\00:24:55.12
And that's the most
important thing and why we do
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these programs.
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If you've not asked Him
into your heart before, then I'd
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encourage you
to do it right now.
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His arms are open
wide, just come to Him
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as you are and ask Him.
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