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Jesus is worthy oh yes, ?
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? he's worthy ? ?
worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise ?
So, if one must be taught,
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one must believe, one must
repent, we recognize infant
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baptism is not biblical.
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We recognize that a child
appropriately understanding
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the Word of God can be baptized.
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We also understand that because
there is no biblical support
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for infant
baptism, we understand this
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makes Satan a liar.
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The devil is clever, is
sneaky, the devil, the devil
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is deceptive; because the
reality is, if the devil can
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deceive you on the second
coming, if he can deceive you
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on the millennium, if he
can deceive you on the state
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of the dead, if he can
deceive you on God's Sabbath,
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then don't you know he
will deceive you on baptism?
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So the question now is,
all right, Pastor, I understand
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baptism by immersion.
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My sins are dead, my sins
are buried, I'm resurrected into
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a new life in Jesus Christ.
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Baptism means my sins
are being forgiven, that God
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is washing me and
I'm being cleansed.
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Baptism is a gift from God.
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I praise God for this
gift that He has given me,
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the gift to be
able to be baptized.
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I recognize I must be taught,
I must believe, then I must
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repent in order to be baptized.
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So I fully understand that
it's inappropriate for an infant
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to be baptized
because they can't be taught,
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they can't believe or repent.
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But then, Pastor Byrd, what
if I've been baptized before?
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Can I be baptized again?
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Is rebaptism ever proper?
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I was baptized before,
but can I be baptized again?
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Well, let's go
to the Word of God.
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Acts chapter 19, verse number 1.
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Acts 19, verse number 1.
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The Word of God says to
us tonight, speaking to this
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issue and subject of
rebaptism, or being baptized
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again.
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"And it came to pass, that,
while Apollos was at Corinth,
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Paul having passed
through the upper coasts came
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to Ephesus: and finding certain
disciples, He said unto them,
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Have ye received the
Holy Ghost since ye believed?
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And they said unto him,
We have not so much as heard
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whether there be any Holy Ghost.
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And he said unto them,
Unto what then were ye baptized?
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And they said,
Unto John's baptism."
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Verse number 4, "Then
said Paul, John verily baptized
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with the baptism
of" what, everybody?
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Aud.: Repentance.
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PB: "Saying unto the people,
that they should believe on him
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which should come after
him, that is, on Christ Jesus."
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Verse 5, "When they
heard this, they were baptized
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in the name of the Lord Jesus."
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Now, let's
understand what's going on here.
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The people up until
that point had been baptized
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unto John's baptism.
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They had been
baptized, if you will, up unto
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what they knew.
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They had been baptized
unto what they had been taught.
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So in their minds, hey,
we're okay, we've been baptized.
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And to an extent, yes, they
were okay up until that point
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where they had been baptized.
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But Paul says, But have you
been baptized of Jesus' baptism?
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Well no.
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And so we recognize
here that in their spiritual
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experience, they're
moving on up a little higher.
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They had been baptized
unto John's baptism, unto what
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they had known
up until that point.
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Unto the truth that had
been given them unto that point.
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But then, with Jesus coming on.
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Because recognizing that
John was just to prepare the way
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of the Lord, Jesus to come
on a little later, it was time
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for them to move up in
their spiritual experience.
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Move up into what
they had now and would gain
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in the knowledge of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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So it was proper for them
to be baptized, or rebaptized,
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or baptized again, however
you want to say it, because
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they had been baptized
formerly unto what they knew,
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but now God was
trying to take them
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to a higher level in Him.
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So it's proper.
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In fact, many people
would be stronger if rebaptized.
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There are several commisions
in which rebaptism, or being
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baptized again, is proper.
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Number one, when you were
formerly baptized unto what
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you knew, as if God
through His Word had shown you
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and taught you from His Word,
new life, new truth, new things
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that you formerly did not know.
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You were baptized formerly
unto what you knew, but like
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the people in Acts 19, God
is trying to take you higher.
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God is trying to take
you to a higher level in Him.
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And so you were baptized
first unto what you knew,
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but now because God has allowed
you to know more, you now
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must act on the new truth
and new light that you have
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received from God
through the study of His Word.
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Number two, rebaptism is
proper when one has turned
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away from Christ and now they
want to come back to Christ.
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Time won't permit or let me
go into a long dissertation,
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but we know the
story of the prodigal son.
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The prodigal son, the Bible
tells the story there in Luke
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11, where Jesus tells
this parable of how this young
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man had lived in
his parents' home.
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But he thought that
his parents' home was hard,
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that it was exact, that he
was in a straightjacket and he
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couldn't live life how
he wanted to live life.
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So he said to his
father, Give me my inheritance
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and give it to me now.
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I want my inheritance because
I'm grown now, and I want
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to go live how I want to live.
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I want to go do how I want
to do, and I don't need you
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telling me what to do,
so give me what is mine now.
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He goes.
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His older brother,
however, stays home tending
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to the family's needs.
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The older son, however,
goes and wastes, the Bible says,
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his life on riotous living.
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Things got so tough, things
got so bad for him, the Bible
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as you know teaches
that he fell upon hard times
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and he ended up living
and eating what pigs ate.
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He comes to himself.
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Have you ever been doing
something that was foolish
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and you came to yourself?
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The young man comes
to himself and he says my
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daddy's servants eat
better than I'm eating.
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Let me stop this living
among pigs, get up and go home
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and see my father.
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The Bible says that
when he was on his way home,
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his father sees him from afar.
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His father sees him
from afar, which teaches me
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a lesson I wish I had time.
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His father sees him
afar, which teaches and lets us
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know that his father
was always looking for him.
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He was always looking for him.
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Not a day went by that he
was not looking for his son.
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The son had been involved
in foolishness, but he sees
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his son from afar off.
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Instead of taking that
spirit of What's my son doing,
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why is he coming home?
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He says oh no, no, no.
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Go get the best robe.
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Go make the best meal.
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Put this robe on my
son, let me embrace him.
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He was lost but now he's found.
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He was blind, but now he sees.
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But we know the
story of the other brother.
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He's made because his dad
is throwing a party for him.
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How dare you throw a
party for this son who ran out
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and left you, and I've
stayed here all these years?
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That's just like some people.
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They get mad when
we get our deliverance.
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They get upset when
we get our salvation.
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But what I love about the
father is, he tells the son,
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he says, Look, all that I'm
giving to your brother you've
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always had.
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It was always yours.
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You just chose not to take it.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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But the principle of what I'm
trying to draw with the baptism
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is, when a person has run
or turned from God and they
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come back to God,
rebaptism is proper because,
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just like that father, God
receives you with open arms.
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Regardless of what you
said, regardless of what you've
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done, regardless of what
you did last night, last week,
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last year.
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Regardless of what you did
10 years ago, you are received
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with open arms from the Father.
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Number three, when an individual
wants to renew their commitment
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with God they feel a
strong urge and a desire,
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I want to be baptized.
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I want to be rebaptized.
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I want to strengthen my
relationship with the Lord.
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And so, rebaptism is proper.
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After when it's been taught,
after one believes, after one
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repents, it's time to unite
then with God and His church
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through baptism.
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Because understand,
when a person is baptized,
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they are united with Christ.
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Galatians chapter 3, verse
27, says, "For as many of you
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as have been baptized into
Christ have put on Christ."
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Baptism then, is as essential
to the Christian as the wedding
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is to a marriage.
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In a marriage, in a baptism,
both ceremonies are based on
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deep-seated love.
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Both ceremonies are
based on full understanding.
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Both ceremonies are based
on an undying, unconditional
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love for the individual.
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When a man marries a
woman and a woman marries a man,
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do I have a
witness in this place?
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
It is based on love.
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It is based on respect.
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It is based on understanding.
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When an individual decides
to go in that pool and get
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baptized, it's based on
a love for Jesus Christ,
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that I'm so in love with Jesus
there is joy down in my soul
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and I want the world to
know that I'm so in love
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with Jesus Christ.
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Symbolically uniting
with Christ, His body.
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In 1 Corinthians
12:13, Paul says, "
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For by one Spirit are
we all baptized into one
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body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond
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or free," we are the body
of Christ and baptized people.
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We are a part then of
a community of believers
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and that's extremely important.
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Why is that important?
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I hear people tell me
all the time, Pastor Byrd,
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I don't need the church.
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I don't need the
church, I don't need it.
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I have my own way
to connect with God.
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God understands
me, I have my own way
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that I connect with Him.
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I don't need the church.
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I can do my own thing.
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But my question to them
is always like it is to you:
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How can one be a
part of the body of Christ
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without getting in the body?
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The Bible is clear that
the church is Christ's body.
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The body of Christ, and
that God, thank you, Jesus,
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will add to His church daily.
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When I become a part of
God's body, the body of Christ,
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that doesn't mean
everybody's in here is perfect.
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We are all
sinners, just forgiven.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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We are all sinners,
but we are forgiven.
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But our eyes are
not on the messengers,
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but our eyes are on the message.
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Our eyes are on the message
that one day 2,000 years ago
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Jesus loved you so much
that He went to Calvary to die
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for your sins.
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That He hung, that He bled,
that He died, and He got up
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with all power in His
hands, and because He got up,
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He's telling us we can get up.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: Why do we walk
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around defeated.
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Why do we walk around like
the devil's going to knock us
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down and knock us out,
'cause Satan's just a sinner
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who fell down but
got right back on up.
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And that's what baptism
does for you, unites you
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with Christ.
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Unites you with his body.
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And so tonight there's
only one true form of baptism.
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Baptism by immersion.
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You've got to go up
under the water, your sins
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have to be dead.
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They have to buried
and then you have to become
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resurrected into
new life with Christ.
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You've got to be baptized
because you've got to ask God,
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God wash away my sins.
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For the individual who
says they have no sins,
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they themselves are
lying to themselves.
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Baptism is also a gift.
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It's something
God's trying to give you.
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When we get to heaven,
we're going to see just how
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much God tried to save us.
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But He was not willing
that any should perish, but all
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should come to repentance.
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It's a gift.
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One must first be taught.
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One must secondly then believe.
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Thirdly then, one must
repent and be baptized.
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Be what, everybody?
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Aud.: Baptized.
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PB: Infant
baptism is not biblical.
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It's a lie, it's a
deception from Satan.
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It's not biblical.
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You've got to be
taught, you've got to believe,
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you've got to repent.
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One must be baptized.
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One must join the body.
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One must get in the ark.
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One must get in
the boat of safety.
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Quickly, do me a
favor, go to Matthew 24.
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Go to Matthew 24 and
go to to verse number 37.
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Matthew 24, verse number 37.
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The Word of God says to us
in Matthew chapter 24, verse 37.
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If you have it, let
me hear you say amen.
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Aud.: Amen.
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PB: The Word says,
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"But as the days of Noah
were, so shall also the coming
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of the Son of man be.
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[Organ Music under] For
as in the days that were
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before the flood they were
eating and" what, everybody?
00:14:38.53\00:14:40.30
Aud.: Drinking.
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PB: "Marrying and
giving in" what, everybody?
00:14:41.30\00:14:43.76
Aud.: Marriage.
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PB: "Until the day that
Noah entered into the" what?
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Aud.: Ark.
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PB: And knew not until
the flood came, and took them
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all away; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man
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be." In Noah's day,
folk were doing everything.
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They were as bad
as they wanted to be.
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Folk were doing everything,
living life according
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to how they wanted to live.
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God said, I've got
to clean up this earth.
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If you read Genesis
carefully, go home tonight
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and you read it.
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In Genesis 6, the Bible
says it repented God that He
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had even created this earth.
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Things had gotten so out
of control, stuff was so wild
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and out of control, God
repented that He had even
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created this earth.
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That's bad.
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So God spoke about this to
Noah because the Bible says
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Noah found grace in
the eyes of the Lord.
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And Noah began to preach.
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He said, Repent!
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Repent!
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Get right.
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The Lord is about to send a
flood, you've got to repent.
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Get in the ark.
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The folk laughed at Noah.
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Noah had been preaching so
long, 120 years, I'm pretty
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sure somebody said,
He's a nice man but senility
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has set in.
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He's standing outside just
preaching, preaching, preaching.
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It had never rained before.
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Never rained before.
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So he's telling them
to get in the boat because
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it's about to rain.
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They thought he was
crazy, they laughed at him.
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The Bible then says, all
of a sudden seven by seven,
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some clean animals
started processing into the ark.
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The Bible didn't
say it's two by two.
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Some unclean animals
started processing in the boat.
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Now I must be clear: If
I had been living, it would
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have been hard to believe
that rain was going to come,
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knowing it had
never rained before.
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But if I had seen
these animals come in seven
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by seven and two by two,
I probably would have said,
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Let me take my chances
and get up in this boat.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: Noah preached.
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Nobody got in the boat.
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But Noah, his wife,
their three sons, Shem, Ham
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and Japheth, and their wives.
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Now the rule of common sense,
'cause you're smart people.
00:17:25.43\00:17:29.56
The rule of common
sense says, if the Bible says,
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As it was in the days of
Noah so shall it also be in
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the coming of the Son of man.
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The rule of common sense says
if it were like that in Noah's
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day, it must going
to be like that today.
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And what's happening today?
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Anything goes.
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People change their mate
like they change magazine
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subscriptions.
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Drinking, partying, doing
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whatever you want.
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It's gotten so bad in
our world that what's right,
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the Sabbath, seems wrong.
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And what's wrong seems right.
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Just like the Lord rained
down water, the day is coming
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where the Lord is
going to rain down fire.
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Now Noah preached 120
years, get in the boat.
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And I've preached two weeks,
and I'm telling you it's time
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for you to get in the boat.
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You're taught, you believe,
repent, get in the boat.
00:18:52.83\00:19:03.30
What are the parallels?
00:19:03.30\00:19:04.56
I'm clear in my authority.
00:19:04.56\00:19:05.80
God is the boat.
00:19:05.80\00:19:07.70
Pastor Byrd, going to church
on Saturday, going to church
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on the Sabbath when everybody
else is doing something else?
00:19:11.53\00:19:14.00
You can't worry about
what everybody else is doing,
00:19:14.00\00:19:16.00
you've got to make sure your
soul's salvation is straight
00:19:16.00\00:19:18.00
with God.
00:19:18.00\00:19:19.03
A clear
minority got in the boat.
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The majority is not
recognizing God's seventh day
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as Sabbath.
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You've got to get in the boat.
00:19:24.86\00:19:36.40
It's passing by.
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O gentle Savior, Hear my humble
cry; While on others Thou art
00:19:37.40\00:19:42.93
calling, Do not pass me by.
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Tonight, I'm going
to get you out early.
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I want you to hang with
me during the slides tonight.
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I want you to hold what
you have and hang with me.
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Get you out early, but I
need you to hang with me because
00:19:55.53\00:19:58.56
tonight somebody
wants to get in the boat.
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We're going to the screen.
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The Word of God
says, Sanctify them through
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thy what?
00:20:07.60\00:20:08.60
Truth.
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Thy Word is what, everybody?
00:20:10.40\00:20:11.96
Aud.: Truth.
00:20:11.96\00:20:12.96
PB: God's truth is most
important because God's truth
00:20:12.96\00:20:15.56
will set you, what, everybody?
00:20:15.56\00:20:17.56
Aud.: Free.
00:20:17.56\00:20:18.56
PB: If God said it, then what?
00:20:18.56\00:20:20.56
Aud.: That settles it.
00:20:20.56\00:20:21.56
PB: We say this every night.
00:20:21.56\00:20:22.56
Every night.
00:20:22.56\00:20:23.56
Every night.
00:20:23.56\00:20:24.56
God said it, that settles it.
00:20:24.56\00:20:30.53
Go ye therefore
and do what, everybody?
00:20:30.53\00:20:32.76
Aud.: Teach.
00:20:32.76\00:20:33.76
PB: Teach all what?
00:20:33.76\00:20:34.76
Aud.: Saints.
00:20:34.76\00:20:35.76
PB: Baptizing them
in the name of the what?
00:20:35.76\00:20:37.76
Aud.: Father.
00:20:37.76\00:20:38.76
PB: And of the what?
00:20:38.76\00:20:39.76
Aud.: Son.
00:20:39.76\00:20:40.76
PB: And of the Holy Ghost.
00:20:40.76\00:20:41.76
Teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have
00:20:41.76\00:20:43.76
commanded you.
00:20:43.76\00:20:44.76
And lo, I am with you, what?
00:20:44.76\00:20:45.76
Aud.: Always.
00:20:45.76\00:20:46.76
PB: Always.
00:20:46.76\00:20:47.76
Even unto the end of the world.
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First thing, in order for one
to be baptized one must first
00:20:49.76\00:20:56.53
be what?
00:20:56.53\00:20:57.53
Aud.: Taught.
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PB: Number two, he that
believeth and is baptized
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shall be what, everybody?
00:21:04.20\00:21:05.20
Aud.: Saved.
00:21:05.20\00:21:06.20
PB: But he that
believeth not shall be what?
00:21:06.20\00:21:08.20
Aud.: Damned.
00:21:08.20\00:21:09.43
PB: Step number two,
after one is taught, one must
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believe.
00:21:14.96\00:21:17.80
Number three, Then Peter
said unto them, repent and be
00:21:17.80\00:21:21.50
baptized, every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ
00:21:21.50\00:21:26.33
for the remission of sins
and ye shall receive the gift
00:21:26.33\00:21:31.10
of the Holy Ghost.
00:21:31.10\00:21:32.50
After one is taught, after
one believes, one must repent
00:21:32.50\00:21:40.16
and be baptized.
00:21:40.16\00:21:44.26
Baptism commemorates
the death, the burial
00:21:44.26\00:21:46.30
and the resurrection
of Jesus Christ because
00:21:46.30\00:21:48.30
baptism is an outward
symbol of an inward cleansing.
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.00
When an individual
is baptized, when they
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are baptized, they are
united with Jesus Christ.
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Therefore if any man be
in Christ he is a new what,
00:21:55.46\00:21:57.60
everybody?
00:21:57.60\00:21:58.60
Aud.: Creature.
00:21:58.60\00:21:59.60
PB: Old things are passed
away, all things become what?
00:21:59.60\00:22:03.63
Aud.: New.
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PB: We discussed rebaptism,
which is proper and necessary
00:22:04.63\00:22:08.66
when one receives new
life and truth from the Word
00:22:08.66\00:22:10.96
of God.
00:22:10.96\00:22:11.96
If you were baptized before,
you studied the Word of God
00:22:11.96\00:22:13.96
and you read the Word of
God, and you studied up to one
00:22:13.96\00:22:16.86
point, but God now has
allowed you to learn new truths.
00:22:16.86\00:22:21.16
New light from His Word,
and now you must act on that.
00:22:21.16\00:22:24.33
Acts 19 teaches that,
Acts 19 tells us that.
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Some of you
were baptized before.
00:22:28.36\00:22:30.93
You've been coming
out to this revival,
00:22:30.93\00:22:33.16
this is a
revival like none other.
00:22:33.16\00:22:35.53
Like none other.
00:22:35.53\00:22:36.73
I know you've been taught,
because some of you have told
00:22:36.73\00:22:39.23
me you've learned in these two
weeks more than you've learned
00:22:39.23\00:22:41.23
from the Bible
in your entire life.
00:22:41.23\00:22:43.23
You've been taught.
00:22:43.23\00:22:45.53
I knew you believed,
because if you did not believe,
00:22:45.53\00:22:47.53
you would have
stopped coming by now.
00:22:47.53\00:22:49.53
You've got to
repent and be baptized.
00:22:49.53\00:22:53.36
Rebaptism is necessary
and proper when new light
00:22:53.36\00:22:58.76
shall have been received.
00:22:58.76\00:23:01.56
And so, But as the days
of Noah were, so also shall
00:23:01.56\00:23:04.70
the coming of the Son of man be.
00:23:04.70\00:23:06.70
For as in the days before
the flood, they were eating
00:23:06.70\00:23:08.70
and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage
00:23:08.70\00:23:10.70
until the day Noah
entered into the ark
00:23:10.70\00:23:12.70
and knew not until the
flood came and took them
00:23:12.70\00:23:14.70
all away.
00:23:14.70\00:23:15.70
So also shall the
coming of the Son of man be.
00:23:15.70\00:23:17.70
As the ark in the water
symbolized safety in Noah's
00:23:17.70\00:23:19.70
day, a person in the waters
of baptism symbolizes safety
00:23:19.70\00:23:21.70
in Jesus Christ today.
00:23:21.70\00:23:24.33
You were safe in Noah's
day, getting in the ark, you're
00:23:24.33\00:23:26.53
safe today getting
into the waters of baptism.
00:23:26.53\00:23:29.06
When a person refuses
baptism, whose counsel
00:23:29.06\00:23:31.33
are they rejecting?
00:23:31.33\00:23:32.33
The Word of God
says the counsel of God.
00:23:32.33\00:23:34.33
It says, But the
Pharisees and lawyers rejected
00:23:34.33\00:23:36.60
the counsel of God
against themselves, being
00:23:36.60\00:23:38.90
not baptized of Him.
00:23:38.90\00:23:39.96
When you think you're
rejecting baptism, you're not
00:23:39.96\00:23:42.50
rejecting Pastor Byrd.
00:23:42.50\00:23:43.56
You're rejecting the
Spirit of God that's speaking
00:23:43.56\00:23:49.13
to you.
00:23:49.13\00:23:50.50
So therefore to him that
00:23:50.50\00:23:52.50
knoweth to do good but doeth
it not, to him is sin. It's sin.
00:23:54.60\00:24:03.13
For if we sin willfully
after that we have received
00:24:03.13\00:24:05.70
the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more
00:24:05.70\00:24:07.73
sacrifice for sins.
00:24:07.73\00:24:09.16
If you know what's right
and you refuse to do what's
00:24:09.16\00:24:12.26
right, there's no
more sacrifice for sin.
00:24:12.26\00:24:14.70
The Word of God continues
and says, For it would have been
00:24:14.70\00:24:17.73
better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness
00:24:17.73\00:24:19.86
than having known of
it, to turn from the holy
00:24:19.86\00:24:22.66
commandment delivered to them.
00:24:22.66\00:24:24.70
It would have been better
for you not to know than for you
00:24:24.70\00:24:30.23
to know, because if you know
and you do know, you're going
00:24:30.23\00:24:33.16
to be held
accountable for what you know.
00:24:33.16\00:24:35.26
[Aud. reaction]
PB: So what's more
00:24:35.26\00:24:39.26
important tonight,
obeying God or to obey man?
00:24:39.26\00:24:46.10
The Apostle Peter answered
and said, We ought to obey
00:24:46.10\00:24:49.06
God rather than men.
00:24:49.06\00:24:50.93
So who are you going to follow?
00:24:50.93\00:24:57.33
God?
00:24:57.33\00:24:59.33
Or man?
00:25:00.93\00:25:01.93
You can be a nice man, you
can be a nice woman, you can
00:25:01.93\00:25:07.13
be a nice person but
who are you going to follow?
00:25:07.13\00:25:11.10
God or man?
00:25:11.10\00:25:12.10
Well, I went to church,
I did this, and the Bible
00:25:12.10\00:25:14.20
says in Matthew chapter 7,
In that day people are going
00:25:14.20\00:25:17.20
to say, Lord, Lord,
have we not done this
00:25:17.20\00:25:19.20
in Your name?
00:25:19.20\00:25:20.20
Have we not done
that in Your name?
00:25:20.20\00:25:22.20
God's going to say,
But did you do my will?
00:25:22.20\00:25:24.20
If you didn't, depart from
me ye that work in iniquity.
00:25:24.20\00:25:30.70
So tonight, why tarryeth thou?
00:25:30.70\00:25:36.53
Arise, be baptized, call
upon the name of the Lord.
00:25:36.53\00:25:47.06
PB: Thank you very much
for tuning in and watching
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