Live from the
3ABN worship center
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welcome to the
Pillars of our Faith events.
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Surely the presence of
the Lord is in this place
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I can feel His
mighty power and His grace
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I can hear the
brush of angels wings
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I see glory on each face
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Surely the presence of
the Lord is in this place
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In the midst of His children
the Lord said He would be
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It doesn't take very many,
it can be just two or three
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And I feel that
same sweet spirit
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that I felt often times before
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Surely I can say
I've been with my Lord
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Surely the presence of
the Lord is in this place
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I can feel His
mighty power and His grace
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I can hear the
brush of angels wings
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I see glory on each face
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Surely the presence of
the Lord is in this place
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There's a holy hush around us
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as God's glory fills this place
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I've touched the
hem of His garments,
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I can almost see His face
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And my heart is overflowing
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with the fullness of His joy
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I know without a doubt
that I've been with my Lord
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Surely the presence of
the Lord is in this place
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I can feel His
mighty power and His grace
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I can hear the
brush of angels wings
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I see glory on each face
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O surely the presence of
the Lord is in this place.
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Surely the presence of
the Lord is in this place.
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Amen. Amen. Thank you
Chris, thank you David.
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It's a privilege again
we want to welcome those
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viewing to our pillars
camp meeting this week.
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We have had an
incredible time. Haven't we?
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The last few days and
you know my mother used to
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say it's just gonna
get gooder and gooder
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she would say.
It's going to get better
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and better isn't it?
And that we have already,
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I have felt the presence
of the Lord in this place.
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Amen. It's all around
and you can just about
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hear those
brush of angels wings.
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And I am so
excited for the opportunity
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that God has
given us as Christians,
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Seventh-day
Adventists we have present truth
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to give a lost and
dying world and this pillars
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project has been so incredible.
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Thank you David, Nathan Young
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is going to come out
and sing in just a movement
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but you two could
tell us a little bit
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about come on out
Nathan and David tell us
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about the song
and how it came about.
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The song is so
fitting for tonight's sermon,
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which is going to be
preached by Jim Gilley
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about Baptism.
Danny talked about being
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a Christian, being a
Christian is repenting,
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receiving God's
incredible gift of salvation
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and then being baptized
we are commanded to do it,
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it's not just a rite,
it's something we do to show
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that we will be
buried with Jesus
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and Nathan is going to
sing take me to the water.
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Right after Nathan sings
we will be privileged tonight
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and I want to say this
Jim Gilley I have learned
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to love this man as
a brother in the Lord,
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your next door
neighbor is with he and Camille.
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Jim is everything
you see is what you get.
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I have been around a
lot of people in my life
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and I want to tell you if
I could count on one hand,
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people would've
had the most influence
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and I have the
respect for Jim Gilley
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and that little
number because he is a man
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that loves Jesus. He
is not afraid to stand up
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for truth whatever that is
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and he doesn't care
which way the wind is blowing.
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Jim knows where he is headed.
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And that's to take an
undiluted three angels
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messages one that would
counteract to counterfeit
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and to all the
world and I praise God
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for Pastor Jim Gilley,
for Camille and tonight.
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Right after Nathan
sings we will be blessed
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to hear Jim Gilley. Amen.
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Take me to the
water to be baptized
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Bury me with
Jesus. The crucified
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Plunge me in the fountain
and may I rise with open eyes.
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Take me to the
water to be baptized
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What a joy and
blessing to be baptized
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As a testimony of a work inside
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Jesus blood has cleansed me
And to new life He bids me rise
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I've come to the
water to be baptized
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To be baptized
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Take me to the
water, take me to the water
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To be baptized, to be baptized
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Bury me with
Jesus, bury me with Jesus
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The crucified, the crucified
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Plunge me in the fountain,
plunge me in the fountain
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And may I rise with open eyes.
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Take me to the
water to be baptized
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I've come to the
water to be baptized
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Thank you Nathan. God bless you.
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Beautiful song isn't it.
Amen. And a beautiful topic
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baptism when you
think about it folks,
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of all the topics that we
are looking at this weekend
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you cannot put any
importance one above the other
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but this one would
certainly be right at the top.
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Let's bow our
heads together. Father,
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as we open the word
tonight we just pray that you
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will speak to our hearts Father
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and open our hearts,
help us to see your truth
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and to be willing
always to obey your truth
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for we ask it in Jesus name.
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Amen. Amen. You know
parting words are important.
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The last words that
you speak to someone
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are very important words.
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In our family when
we used to say goodbye
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we were a lot
different than my wife's family.
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I married into
the Thurman family and
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I will never forget
the first time that we went
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to see her folks
after we were married
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and they said
goodbye and everybody cried.
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Of course we had
a wonderful prayer,
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we've always had
a beautiful prayer
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with the granddad
Thurman. Just before we leave,
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it's just something we always do
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and so many times, its such a
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beautiful time together.
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But that was
entirely differently from
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the Gilley
family. My brother left
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and he knew he'd be
gone a couple of years,
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one time he says see
you later and walked out
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the door. And
that's the way we left.
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I only remember one goodbye
that really was significant,
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my father was dying with cancer,
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we knew we'd probably
not see each other again.
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Usually they wouldn't
even walk to the driveway
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to say goodbye to you
just, you all be careful
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and that was it. But
this time he came out,
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dragging one leg,
one arm, we had a prayer
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and when we
finished, he threw that one arm
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around my neck, my
dad was not hugger.
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That's the only time I
ever remember in my life
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my dad ever hugging me.
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My dad was a hand shaker and he;
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he would shake your hand.
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From the time you were a
little boy you shook hands
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with my dad. I
never saw him hug anybody,
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didn't mean we
didn't think he loved us,
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we thought he did but he didn't
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demonstrate it that way.
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But that time with
tears rolling down his cheeks
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he grabbed me and hugged me.
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And I knew that
we'll probably never
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see each other again
this side of the resurrection,
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but when Jesus left he
had some very important
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words that he
wanted to say and he said
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them and you remember them.
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He said, all authority,
all power has been given to me
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in heaven and on
earth; he had earned
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that power at the
cross because the devil
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has complete
possession of this world.
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And Jesus had won it
back at the cross. Amen.
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And now he said
all power, authority
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is given unto me in
heaven and in earth,
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go there for now
these are his words to us
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and make disciples of
all nations, baptizing them
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in the name of the
Father and of the son
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and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe
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all things that I
have commanded you and
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lo I am with you always
even to the end of the age.
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That's a command,
just as much as the command
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to preach the gospel
was the command to baptize,
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in fact that is the
very purpose for preaching
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the gospel. Amen.
Baptizing because that's what
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Jesus told us to
do. He said I want you
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to go to the world
and I want you to baptize
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all of those that
will believe and receive.
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And he says I want you
to teach them to observe
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all things. Now we
are covering the pillars
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and let me tell you
something, the pillars
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are extremely important,
everyone of them. Amen.
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There is not one of
them that you can say
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this is not
important and most all of those
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are covered in
this statement that says
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teaching them to
observe all things that
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I have commanded
you. Now the devil
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just loves to mess
things up. And he has done
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that with every one of these
teachings, every one of them.
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You see the devil
comes along and he says
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well listen its alright to
be baptized but and then he
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gives different methods
or he says just do it this
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way or you don't
really need water;
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just a little bit of water.
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I one time counted 14
methods of baptism that
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I have heard of, I was
talking to somebody back
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here just a few
minutes ago and they told me.
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They said I have
been baptized four times
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because they said every
time I go to a different church
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then they want to
baptize me the way they baptize.
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And that person told me
he said I was baptized once
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three times face
down. That's right
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and sometimes just
sprinkled and sometimes you're
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baptized backwards
and sometimes you're
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baptized forwards, all
different kinds of ways.
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But you know that Bible tells us
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that there's really
only one way, one way?
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It tells us in Ephesians
the fourth chapter, verse five.
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One Lord, one faith,
one baptism. Alright.
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How many
baptisms does it say? One.
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It doesn't say one Lord,
one faith and 21 baptisms,
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does it? It says one
Lord, one faith and one baptism.
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But we have
Babylon, we have confusion,
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we have all these
different ideas and teachings
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concerning something
that is just so clear.
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You know if we just come
to the place where we would
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decide that we are
going to do what God says
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no matter what?
Whatever the Bible says
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that's what we're gonna do.
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That's gonna, it's going
to solve all that confusion.
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You know that? But we want to do
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what some preacher tells us
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or what some relative
tells us or what somebody
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else tells us
instead of what God tells us.
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What about a man?
Somebody asked him
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about a certain subject,
said what do you believe?
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And he said I believe
what my church teaches.
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So, my friend asked him, so
what does your church teach,
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what does it believe?
And my church believes like
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I believe. And so he
says then what do you
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and your church believe?
We believe the same thing.
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But that's the way
a lot of people are.
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They just simply go
along with whatever somebody
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says and it's
amazing that being correct
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has been made out
somehow to be legalism.
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You know some people say
well listen it doesn't really
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matter how you're baptized,
just so you're sincere.
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If you're sincere
that is all that counts.
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Is it insincere to be correct?
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Does it lack sincerity
if you follow God's word?
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It's not wrong to be
right is it? It's never wrong
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to be right as long as
you're right in the right spirit
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then it is not wrong
to be correct, but somehow
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the devil has come
along and he has taken all
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of these
teachings that are so clear.
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And he has made
confusion out of them
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and they will take theology
or teaching by exception,
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you get one text that seems to
say something that's different
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then 35 other texts
and somebody will grab
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that one text,
ignore the other 35 texts
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and build a doctrine around it.
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And get the idea
that that is okay.
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And they will even
teach that is Biblical.
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Now, this is true with
everyone of the pillars faith
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that we are talking about,
because every single one of
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them has been
moved away from the truth
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sometimes just slightly
but it's moved just enough
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you know if you're
just off you're off.
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I don't care how
sincere you are? You're off,
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if you're off; if
you're wrong you're wrong.
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Camille and I've been
made a couple of years and,
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just a couple, and she
won't let me tell you how long
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we've been married
so. But I will tell that
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we will have our 50th
wedding anniversary this summer.
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If we make it,
because after telling that,
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you know there
maybe some question.
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But I remember one
night we were driving in our
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Volkswagen, we have one
of those little Beetles,
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little, little,
little one you know.
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One of those that
didn't have any power back
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in those days I think
they had 49 horsepower
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or something like that.
You would go up the hill
00:21:02.95\00:21:05.77
and barely up the
hill I remember one time
00:21:05.80\00:21:08.12
we were trying to get
down through Missouri going
00:21:08.15\00:21:11.14
from Berrien Springs down
to Dallas and we were driving
00:21:11.17\00:21:14.39
along the road and the
wind, we had a strong wind
00:21:14.42\00:21:19.04
coming in from the Southwest
and we were going against
00:21:19.07\00:21:22.35
that wind. And we
couldn't get up to
00:21:22.38\00:21:26.63
55 miles an hour I think.
00:21:26.66\00:21:28.67
You would start down a
hill and you're going really
00:21:30.38\00:21:33.50
fast and you pass some
truck and then you start
00:21:33.53\00:21:36.22
going up another
hill and he comes by you,
00:21:36.25\00:21:38.80
you know. And
you're down about 30 miles
00:21:38.83\00:21:41.83
an hour and you're
just chucking alone.
00:21:41.86\00:21:43.96
I made the mistake of
taking two other people
00:21:43.99\00:21:46.78
with us to help pay for the gas.
00:21:46.81\00:21:51.72
By the way on that trip
and you can believe this
00:21:54.47\00:21:56.85
or not, I saw gas the
cheapest I've ever seen it
00:21:56.88\00:21:59.53
was in the state of
Missouri. I don't think
00:21:59.56\00:22:02.14
they have a lot of tax there
or some or didn't back then
00:22:02.17\00:22:04.85
on their gas.
$1.19, that's the cheapest
00:22:04.88\00:22:09.58
I have ever seen gasoline
and that was for a gallon
00:22:09.61\00:22:13.59
kids not a cup. I mean
that was, that was for a gallon.
00:22:13.62\00:22:19.54
Now it wasn't that
cheap all the time.
00:22:19.57\00:22:21.62
It was usually $1.99, was
what we paid for Gulftane,
00:22:21.65\00:22:25.36
you remember,
Gulftane we used to buy that,
00:22:25.39\00:22:27.94
that was the
cheapest thing I could buy.
00:22:27.97\00:22:29.39
And that was what we
had but I remember one night
00:22:29.42\00:22:34.03
we were going our
way towards Chicago
00:22:34.06\00:22:36.21
we were coming out
of Des Moines, Iowa
00:22:36.24\00:22:38.92
and we were driving and
we would drive all night
00:22:38.95\00:22:42.36
because we couldn't
afford to stay any place.
00:22:42.39\00:22:45.22
And I would fix
those Volkswagen seats
00:22:46.00\00:22:48.32
where they would lean
back, you bought a kit
00:22:48.35\00:22:50.82
you put them on them
so they would lean back
00:22:50.85\00:22:52.78
and we would sometimes
pulled into a service station
00:22:52.81\00:22:56.53
and leaned them all the
way back and sleep until
00:22:56.56\00:23:00.05
they opened up the
station next morning
00:23:00.08\00:23:03.35
and then get a little gas.
00:23:03.38\00:23:04.89
And we would be,
have a good night's rest.
00:23:04.92\00:23:08.79
We didn't sleep
but we had some rest
00:23:08.82\00:23:11.45
and then spend $1.99
a gallon for some gas
00:23:11.48\00:23:18.02
and go on. But that
one time we pulled into
00:23:18.05\00:23:21.43
a truck stop, pulled
out and I am just moving
00:23:21.46\00:23:26.47
like
everything, going to Chicago
00:23:26.50\00:23:29.18
and I met a bus
and it said Chicago.
00:23:29.21\00:23:34.81
And I said you know
that guy forgot to change
00:23:37.58\00:23:39.20
the sign when he came through,
00:23:39.23\00:23:41.06
either that or I am
going the wrong direction
00:23:42.80\00:23:45.18
and then I saw a
sign that said Des Moines
00:23:47.84\00:23:50.92
so many miles. And
I've gone over 50 miles
00:23:50.95\00:23:55.60
the wrong way,
sincere as I could be,
00:23:55.63\00:24:00.08
but I was sincerely wrong.
00:24:01.21\00:24:03.25
And we can be sincere
and be very, very wrong.
00:24:04.55\00:24:10.83
What says the Bible
that is our biggest question
00:24:10.86\00:24:14.36
you see that was the
problem with Adam and Eve?
00:24:14.39\00:24:16.60
They were given orders
don't eat of that tree,
00:24:16.63\00:24:21.43
all they had to
do was not do it.
00:24:22.54\00:24:24.89
What do they do they believed
00:24:24.92\00:24:26.58
the devil
instead of believing God.
00:24:26.61\00:24:29.45
And this is what we
do if we aren't careful,
00:24:30.87\00:24:34.03
when we don't believe
God's word for what God's word
00:24:34.06\00:24:38.01
says then we are believing
a lie. And he is a liar
00:24:38.04\00:24:41.61
the Bible says and he is
the author of lies. Amen.
00:24:42.60\00:24:48.32
I tell you, it
cost people their lives
00:24:48.35\00:24:53.95
when they don't believe
God. You remember those two men,
00:24:55.26\00:24:57.65
Nadab and Abihu,
two young preachers.
00:24:57.68\00:25:00.24
God said that only
Holy fire should be
00:25:01.12\00:25:05.13
used in the sanctuary service,
but they brought ordinary
00:25:05.16\00:25:10.34
fire. And fire
came out from the alter
00:25:10.37\00:25:14.44
and devoured those young men.
00:25:14.47\00:25:18.64
Numbers 26:61 says,
Nadab and Abihu died
00:25:18.67\00:25:23.22
when they offered
profane fire before the Lord.
00:25:23.25\00:25:27.69
My friend if we would
just come to the place
00:25:27.72\00:25:30.48
where we say I am going
to follow God I am going
00:25:30.51\00:25:33.20
to follow his word, it
brings a piece to your soul.
00:25:33.23\00:25:36.86
It brings an
assurance to your life,
00:25:36.89\00:25:40.56
it brings a freedom in Christ
to say Lord if you say it,
00:25:40.59\00:25:46.84
I'm going to do it.
If you say don't do it,
00:25:46.87\00:25:49.85
I am not going to do it.
00:25:49.88\00:25:50.93
Now, there are times
that we make mistakes
00:25:52.10\00:25:56.11
and fall and absolutely
do something that's totally
00:25:56.14\00:26:01.03
against what God
says. But if we do that,
00:26:01.06\00:26:05.34
don't try to justify it,
don't try to say its right.
00:26:05.37\00:26:09.28
You turn from it.
David said that he,
00:26:09.31\00:26:14.64
when he covered his
sin it just destroyed him.
00:26:14.67\00:26:18.11
But when he confessed it
then he received freedom.
00:26:18.14\00:26:22.76
Confess it and turn from it.
00:26:22.79\00:26:26.03
Well, you know
when we look at Baptism
00:26:26.06\00:26:29.24
I think we should
pretty well be assured
00:26:29.27\00:26:32.12
that if we can find out
how Jesus Christ was baptized
00:26:32.15\00:26:36.46
then that's going
to be the right way.
00:26:37.86\00:26:40.42
Amen. Christ
wouldn't be baptized
00:26:40.45\00:26:42.66
someway that
was wrong. Would he?
00:26:42.69\00:26:45.83
Of course not. Bible
says that he is our example,
00:26:45.86\00:26:52.12
that we are to follow
him and it tells us in Mark
00:26:52.15\00:26:56.06
the first
chapter verses 9 and 10,
00:26:56.09\00:26:58.11
it says it came
to pass in those days
00:26:58.14\00:27:01.18
that Jesus came
from Nazareth of Galilee
00:27:01.21\00:27:03.56
and was baptized
by John in the Jordan
00:27:03.59\00:27:08.95
and immediately
coming up from the water.
00:27:08.98\00:27:13.66
He saw the heaven's departing,
00:27:13.69\00:27:16.22
and the spirit
descend upon him like a dove.
00:27:16.25\00:27:21.68
Now, that's pretty
clear isn't that? Amen.
00:27:23.39\00:27:26.15
You see you cannot
come up out of the water
00:27:26.18\00:27:28.54
unless you've gone
down into the water.
00:27:28.57\00:27:30.39
Alright. Bible says
he was baptized in Jordan
00:27:30.42\00:27:35.20
and that tells us that
John was baptizing by immersion.
00:27:35.23\00:27:41.64
In a minute we are going
to look at that word baptized
00:27:41.67\00:27:45.05
and we will look at where
it comes from and you'll see
00:27:45.08\00:27:47.65
why it can only be
baptism by immersion.
00:27:47.68\00:27:51.93
John the third
chapter, verse 23 says
00:27:51.96\00:27:54.27
now John also was
baptizing in Aenon near Salim,
00:27:54.30\00:27:59.62
because there
was much water there;
00:27:59.65\00:28:02.25
and they came and were baptized.
00:28:02.28\00:28:07.25
Now you know if you
have to go out and pray down
00:28:07.28\00:28:13.53
at the Jordan
because there is more water
00:28:13.56\00:28:17.63
there to baptize,
that shows you that
00:28:17.66\00:28:20.88
he wasn't using
some of the methods that
00:28:20.91\00:28:23.48
we hear about today.
Because he could have taken
00:28:23.51\00:28:27.00
a bucket of water and
sprinkled two thousand people,
00:28:27.03\00:28:29.49
never left
Jerusalem, not had to go out
00:28:30.21\00:28:34.19
and go down to the Jordan river.
00:28:34.22\00:28:37.49
But he needed water,
John and his disciples
00:28:37.52\00:28:43.88
were baptizing. They
were baptizing people by
00:28:43.91\00:28:47.66
the hundreds,
perhaps by the thousands
00:28:47.69\00:28:50.73
that would come and
would want to be baptized.
00:28:50.76\00:28:56.73
I read a story
about a little girl
00:28:56.76\00:29:00.06
that went to a
church where they gave you
00:29:00.09\00:29:03.98
an option of how
you want to be baptized
00:29:04.01\00:29:06.76
and as they were
talking to the baptismal group
00:29:06.79\00:29:09.20
most of them were
adults and when they asked them
00:29:09.23\00:29:12.49
how do you want to be baptized
00:29:12.52\00:29:13.82
most of them says
sprinkled is fine.
00:29:13.85\00:29:15.46
Sprinkled and they
went everybody said sprinkle
00:29:15.49\00:29:17.60
until they got
down to this little girl
00:29:17.63\00:29:19.95
and they said how do
you want to be baptized
00:29:19.98\00:29:22.34
and she said I
want to be baptized
00:29:22.37\00:29:25.10
the way Jesus
was baptized. Amen.
00:29:25.13\00:29:28.03
And the pastor
looked at his associate
00:29:28.06\00:29:30.76
and he said we'll have
to baptize this young girl
00:29:30.79\00:29:33.08
by immersion. Amen. Because
the Bible clearly teaches
00:29:33.11\00:29:38.74
that that is the way
that Jesus was baptized.
00:29:38.77\00:29:43.12
So, what is the
real meaning of baptism?
00:29:43.15\00:29:46.56
Bible talks about this
in Roman's the sixth chapter
00:29:46.59\00:29:50.43
verse 4, it says
therefore we were buried with
00:29:50.46\00:29:53.12
him through baptism into
death that just as Christ
00:29:53.15\00:29:58.42
was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father,
00:29:58.45\00:30:02.76
even so we should also
walk in newness of life.
00:30:02.79\00:30:07.71
That's right. And you
know that's what it is.
00:30:07.74\00:30:10.87
It's a burial, a
burial. It represents the death
00:30:10.90\00:30:17.32
in the burial and the
resurrection of Jesus Christ
00:30:17.35\00:30:20.56
and we are identifying
with that experience,
00:30:20.59\00:30:23.85
we are partaking
of that experience
00:30:23.88\00:30:27.60
through this rite of baptism.
00:30:27.63\00:30:29.55
Colossians 2:12 says,
buried with Him in baptism
00:30:29.58\00:30:33.56
in which you also
were raised with Him
00:30:33.59\00:30:37.00
through faith in
the working of God
00:30:37.03\00:30:40.04
who raised him from the dead.
00:30:40.07\00:30:44.56
And now that is the
experience that Christ
00:30:44.59\00:30:48.24
wants us to have.
Galatians 2:20, I am crucified
00:30:48.27\00:30:51.49
with Christ. You die with
Christ, then you are buried
00:30:51.52\00:30:58.40
in the baptism, then you
come forth to newness in life.
00:30:58.43\00:31:03.88
I am crucified with
Christ, nevertheless I live.
00:31:03.91\00:31:06.61
You come forth, yet not I
but Christ liveth in me. Amen.
00:31:06.64\00:31:16.40
That my friend is the
life of a Christian. Amen.
00:31:16.43\00:31:20.93
Now somebody says wait
a minute just going down
00:31:20.96\00:31:24.34
to that water.
That doesn't save you?
00:31:24.37\00:31:27.61
No, it doesn't.
Its part of the process
00:31:27.64\00:31:31.72
but just the water
itself won't save you.
00:31:31.75\00:31:35.05
You go down a devil, you
just come up a wet devil.
00:31:35.08\00:31:39.38
That's right. But if you
go down as one who's dying
00:31:39.58\00:31:45.07
to self and giving
yourself to Jesus Christ
00:31:45.10\00:31:50.17
then you are
different when you come forth.
00:31:50.20\00:31:53.77
Now, only people who
are died should be buried.
00:31:53.80\00:31:57.51
Isn't that
correct? I mean we try not
00:31:57.54\00:32:00.45
to bury people
that are still alive.
00:32:00.48\00:32:02.84
I read the story of a
young lady over in Virginia,
00:32:04.25\00:32:08.71
years ago. And
this young lady was sick
00:32:08.74\00:32:15.06
and she got so low that
they pronounced her dead.
00:32:15.09\00:32:19.98
Now, in those days
they generally buried people
00:32:21.14\00:32:25.22
the same day and they
took her out to the cemetery
00:32:25.25\00:32:30.02
it happen that particular
cemetery there was a crypt
00:32:30.05\00:32:34.11
and her body was
placed in the crypt,
00:32:34.14\00:32:37.21
it was not quite sealed yet.
00:32:37.24\00:32:39.61
That night the
caretaker before as he was just
00:32:39.64\00:32:43.92
getting ready to leave,
thought he heard a noise.
00:32:43.95\00:32:47.43
Now most
caretakers hearing a noise
00:32:49.56\00:32:52.97
would talk about
it somewhere else,
00:32:53.00\00:32:55.00
they would not stay
around. But this was a brave
00:32:55.03\00:32:59.88
caretaker and he
investigated and he pulled
00:32:59.91\00:33:05.22
that casket out
and he found that
00:33:05.25\00:33:08.92
girl was not dead. They
took her back continued to
00:33:08.95\00:33:16.39
nurture, she
recovered and later on she gave
00:33:16.42\00:33:20.43
birth to a man
that all of you heard of
00:33:20.46\00:33:24.26
General Robert E. Lee. His
mother almost buried alive.
00:33:25.35\00:33:33.06
But when we bury
somebody we don't just sprinkle
00:33:33.09\00:33:38.75
a little dirt
over them either do it.
00:33:38.78\00:33:40.54
I mean that would create
a quite a stir if somebody
00:33:40.57\00:33:45.01
was doing that kind of
thing. We make sure that
00:33:45.04\00:33:49.92
they are actually
buried, because that is what
00:33:49.95\00:33:54.12
we do with someone who has died.
00:33:54.15\00:33:58.54
Now, when we say that you
need to be dead to be buried
00:33:58.57\00:34:02.77
in baptism, dead to
sin, dead to this world,
00:34:02.80\00:34:06.11
that doesn't mean you
are going to perfect folks.
00:34:06.14\00:34:08.07
I would love to bring
someone up here and say to you
00:34:09.34\00:34:15.95
this individual is
absolutely perfect.
00:34:15.98\00:34:18.91
But if I did that they
would no longer be perfect
00:34:20.01\00:34:25.56
after I brought
them up here. Right.
00:34:25.59\00:34:27.69
Pride would come into the heart.
00:34:27.72\00:34:29.64
They would say
aha, I am perfect.
00:34:29.67\00:34:32.71
None of us are
perfect, none of us. We are all
00:34:32.74\00:34:37.80
covered by the
blood of Jesus. Amen.
00:34:37.83\00:34:41.44
But there is a
difference remember this.
00:34:41.47\00:34:44.16
There is difference
to be, to being sinful
00:34:44.19\00:34:48.87
and there is also a
difference in being a sinner
00:34:48.90\00:34:54.11
who is saved by the grace by God
00:34:54.14\00:34:57.15
and who is
growing in Christ. Amen.
00:34:57.18\00:34:59.94
There is a difference.
00:34:59.97\00:35:00.94
What is the way a
person reacts to the sin.
00:35:02.03\00:35:04.31
If you react to sin as
if it does nothing to that,
00:35:04.34\00:35:10.16
that doesn't bother me a bit.
00:35:10.19\00:35:13.28
Then my friend you
haven't died to sin.
00:35:13.31\00:35:16.77
But if dead sin absolutely
tears you up when you are,
00:35:16.80\00:35:23.53
I like to use this
illustration because nobody
00:35:23.56\00:35:26.51
gets upset when you
use this illustration.
00:35:26.54\00:35:29.83
If you're driving down
the highway and somebody
00:35:29.86\00:35:33.84
cuts you off or
endangers your life
00:35:33.87\00:35:37.06
by the way they're
driving, you immediately respond
00:35:37.09\00:35:42.05
if you are human. I
know some of you probably
00:35:42.08\00:35:47.20
don't, but most people do.
00:35:47.23\00:35:54.23
And then later you
say to yourself. Wow!
00:35:54.26\00:35:57.06
The old man is just not dead.
00:35:57.09\00:35:58.83
I just need to spend
more time with the Lord,
00:36:00.51\00:36:04.64
more time until
I get to the place
00:36:04.67\00:36:08.16
where I don't have
those kinds of feelings
00:36:08.19\00:36:12.21
or thoughts or
that kind of response.
00:36:12.24\00:36:16.09
Because you see if we're
born again, we do change.
00:36:16.12\00:36:23.78
I was watching this
morning when my good friend
00:36:23.81\00:36:28.50
David Asscherick
confessed his sin here.
00:36:28.53\00:36:33.01
He doesn't need
me to confess his sin
00:36:37.46\00:36:39.89
for him again.
So, I am not going to,
00:36:39.92\00:36:42.59
but I had a
similar situation recently.
00:36:44.17\00:36:49.00
I was driving in my
pickup, we were coming back
00:36:51.47\00:36:54.34
from down in Tennessee,
Camille's mom is not well
00:36:54.37\00:36:58.33
and she has been recovering
we have been going down.
00:36:58.36\00:37:00.71
I was in the
pickup, had my two youngest
00:37:00.74\00:37:04.07
grand children
with me and we stopped
00:37:04.10\00:37:07.11
at Krogers in
Marion to get some food,
00:37:07.14\00:37:10.99
some bananas and
some things for those kids
00:37:11.02\00:37:13.55
and when I
started to come back on
00:37:13.58\00:37:16.19
they had a little
construction there and
00:37:16.22\00:37:18.10
I wasn't sure that I
had an actual entrance lane
00:37:18.13\00:37:22.40
and I so I really gunned it.
Now I have got an old pickup,
00:37:22.43\00:37:26.82
it's a 2000 model but it
will run, it's a v8 it will run.
00:37:26.85\00:37:31.80
It will take all
the cash you can give it
00:37:32.78\00:37:34.73
and it don't give any
of it back I guarantee you.
00:37:34.76\00:37:40.03
And I was just moving
up the road pretty good
00:37:41.45\00:37:45.05
and all of a sudden the
light the officer was sitting
00:37:45.08\00:37:51.60
right in the
middle of the median
00:37:51.63\00:37:54.15
and the lights went on
and I just right light over.
00:37:54.18\00:38:01.87
In fact I pulled over
so quick that the officer
00:38:01.90\00:38:06.96
had to almost back up
like this to get him behind me.
00:38:06.99\00:38:11.78
I had my license
out when she came up
00:38:13.58\00:38:16.60
and I said guilty,
guilty, guilty and I was.
00:38:16.63\00:38:22.79
And I handed over
the license. She said you
00:38:22.82\00:38:26.45
have any idea how
fast you were going.
00:38:26.48\00:38:28.46
I said I would
imagine around 70,
00:38:28.49\00:38:31.87
but I didn't,
really I don't see how
00:38:31.90\00:38:35.02
it could have
gotten going there.
00:38:35.05\00:38:36.30
I did an experiment
this week and I probably
00:38:36.33\00:38:39.21
was going 80, I was just saying,
00:38:39.24\00:38:40.80
checking out to
see how fast I can
00:38:40.83\00:38:44.38
get that thing up to.
00:38:44.41\00:38:45.78
And she took my
license and she went back
00:38:48.80\00:38:52.74
and then she came
back up and she said
00:38:52.77\00:38:55.98
I am just going
to give you a warning
00:38:56.01\00:38:57.65
because she said you
didn't make me chase you.
00:38:57.68\00:39:02.21
Don't you hate it when
people obliviously ought to be
00:39:04.82\00:39:08.56
stopping and they,
they're going down the road
00:39:08.59\00:39:10.91
and the cops
trying to pull them over.
00:39:10.94\00:39:11.91
And they're like
Me! Me! What did I do?
00:39:11.92\00:39:17.41
You know you
have seen those kind.
00:39:17.44\00:39:19.02
They just keep
going and I've policemen
00:39:19.05\00:39:21.80
had to follow them a
long way to get them stopped.
00:39:21.83\00:39:26.12
I tell you if you
get stopped just go ahead
00:39:26.15\00:39:29.73
and confess your guilt alright.
00:39:29.76\00:39:31.58
I think, right off, I
think officers like that,
00:39:31.61\00:39:34.83
'cause they want
you to say I am guilty.
00:39:34.86\00:39:38.44
I think they do,
didn't use that as a technique
00:39:38.47\00:39:45.14
but if I ever get
stopped again, I'd say.
00:39:45.17\00:39:47.75
You're welcome to use it,
just don't use it around here.
00:39:49.43\00:39:53.59
Alright. They will
get the idea I have been
00:39:53.62\00:39:59.06
spreading the word. I
appreciate it when they
00:39:59.09\00:40:03.47
give me grace.
Amen. I really do,
00:40:03.50\00:40:06.55
and I really appreciate it
when they give Danny Shelton
00:40:06.58\00:40:09.93
grace because
it's all in the family.
00:40:09.96\00:40:14.75
But you see all sin
and come short of the glory
00:40:18.82\00:40:21.90
of God. And sometime I'l
tell Danny to tell you some
00:40:21.93\00:40:27.37
of his stories that,
he has got a heavy foot
00:40:27.40\00:40:30.85
occasionally and not
often but occasionally
00:40:30.88\00:40:34.54
it's happened.
Hasn't it Danny? Alright.
00:40:34.57\00:40:36.97
But you see the,
the Bible tells us
00:40:39.27\00:40:43.60
that all have
sinned and come short of
00:40:43.63\00:40:46.47
the glory of God.
Amen. And so this burial
00:40:46.50\00:40:49.71
service of baptism
is extremely important
00:40:49.74\00:40:54.31
for us to identify
with Christ that his death
00:40:54.34\00:40:57.92
we go into the grave
and then we come forth
00:40:57.95\00:41:00.86
for newness of life. Now,
the word baptize is a word
00:41:00.89\00:41:07.13
that we get from the Greek,
it comes from the word baptizo.
00:41:07.16\00:41:10.81
Baptizo has a
real meaning in Greek,
00:41:12.17\00:41:18.44
we didn't have an Anglo
word, if you used an Anglo word
00:41:18.47\00:41:23.92
it would sort be
dunk, dunk or submerged.
00:41:23.95\00:41:29.63
These would be the
words and that just doesn't
00:41:29.66\00:41:34.17
sound as pretty
as baptism does it?
00:41:34.20\00:41:36.43
So, we anglicize bapitzo,
first time I went to Greece
00:41:37.14\00:41:41.98
we had a guide and she
was very good and Camille
00:41:42.01\00:41:47.06
and I were sitting up in
the very front and she was there
00:41:47.09\00:41:49.48
we were talking to
her. We were driving along
00:41:49.51\00:41:51.80
the Mediterranean
and so I said to her
00:41:51.83\00:41:54.66
because I knew what
she was going to say but I
00:41:54.69\00:41:57.23
wanted to get it from her
so I can bring it back here
00:41:57.26\00:42:01.12
and tell you say. And I
said what does baptizo mean?
00:42:01.15\00:42:06.44
And she is
telling me what it means?
00:42:07.28\00:42:09.99
And I said oh! You mean
like you take some water
00:42:10.02\00:42:12.93
and you sprinkle,
sprinkle all no, no.
00:42:12.96\00:42:15.58
Now the bus driver did
not speak very good English
00:42:15.61\00:42:19.48
but he understood
what I was saying.
00:42:19.51\00:42:20.93
But he starts
really getting into this
00:42:20.96\00:42:25.14
and he is saying no,
no, he says its like dunk,
00:42:25.17\00:42:29.92
put under, put under,
submerge and then he put,
00:42:29.95\00:42:33.73
he pointed to a ship
out there. If that ship
00:42:33.76\00:42:36.14
sink, baptizo. I
said I've got it.
00:42:36.17\00:42:43.90
I understand, if
you are baptizoed
00:42:46.19\00:42:52.15
you will not be baptized by
anyway other than immersion.
00:42:52.18\00:42:59.09
Jesus said that
we must be baptized,
00:42:59.12\00:43:05.11
he said that it was
the only way to be saved.
00:43:05.14\00:43:11.14
He tells us in Mark
the 16th chapter verse 16.
00:43:11.17\00:43:14.71
He who believes and
is baptized will be saved
00:43:14.74\00:43:18.82
these are the words of
Jesus. But he who does not
00:43:18.85\00:43:22.65
believe will be
condemned. That's right.
00:43:22.68\00:43:26.15
And you remember
what he said to Nicodemus.
00:43:26.18\00:43:30.08
Nicodemus, we
are hard on Nicodemus
00:43:30.11\00:43:33.05
I think that we
ought to be a little easier
00:43:33.08\00:43:36.36
we always talk
about his coming by night
00:43:36.39\00:43:38.18
because he was
embarrassed to come by day
00:43:38.21\00:43:40.46
but he came. Amen.
You see whether you come
00:43:40.49\00:43:45.47
by night or however you
come; the important thing
00:43:45.50\00:43:49.80
is to come. Amen.
And I am not going to say
00:43:49.83\00:43:55.13
exactly why
people, often want to say
00:43:55.16\00:43:57.50
well he came by night
'cause he didn't want anybody
00:43:57.53\00:43:58.98
to see him with
Jesus. That may not be true,
00:43:59.01\00:44:01.90
he may have come by
night because he didn't wanna
00:44:01.93\00:44:03.89
bother Jesus during
the day when so many people
00:44:03.92\00:44:07.12
were around. He
may have come by night
00:44:07.15\00:44:09.71
because he want a
little time alone with Jesus.
00:44:09.74\00:44:12.83
Whatever the reason is
I am just glad he came.
00:44:12.86\00:44:17.38
Amen. Because Jesus
preached to him one man,
00:44:17.41\00:44:21.85
one of the most beautiful
sermons anywhere in God's
00:44:21.88\00:44:25.53
word and he says,
you must be born again.
00:44:25.56\00:44:31.19
Amen. And you know
Nicodemus now he is ready for
00:44:31.97\00:44:35.21
discussion and he says to
him, how do you mean born again?
00:44:35.24\00:44:40.54
You mean I've got to go
back in my mother's womb.
00:44:40.57\00:44:44.36
Now, when we are
in the mother's womb,
00:44:44.39\00:44:46.73
we are in a sort of
a case mill of what?
00:44:46.76\00:44:51.72
of water. That's
right. Do you remember,
00:44:51.75\00:44:56.84
I remember when my wife
was getting ready to give
00:44:56.87\00:45:00.23
birth then the water
broke, when that happens
00:45:00.26\00:45:04.37
you know that the baby
is about to be born. Right.
00:45:04.40\00:45:09.88
And then when the baby
comes forth you've got the water
00:45:09.91\00:45:12.64
and then you have
got something else.
00:45:12.67\00:45:15.24
You have got the
Spirit, the breathe,
00:45:15.27\00:45:18.23
because before then
the child is connected
00:45:18.26\00:45:20.74
through the what?
Umbilical cord, that's right.
00:45:20.77\00:45:24.69
And then that is now cut
and the child begins to breath
00:45:24.72\00:45:30.35
on its own. The Ruha,
the Spirit, the breathe,
00:45:30.38\00:45:34.40
now Jesus says the
same thing has to happen
00:45:34.43\00:45:40.43
to you spiritually.
00:45:40.46\00:45:41.80
You've got to be
born again and the water
00:45:42.46\00:45:46.58
symbolizes, the water
also not only the grave
00:45:46.61\00:45:50.85
but also the water
of new birth. Amen.
00:45:50.88\00:45:55.02
And your coming
forth to a new spirit
00:45:55.05\00:45:57.18
and this new spirit that
comes into you is supplied
00:45:57.21\00:46:00.87
by the Holy Spirit.
Amen. You see what a beautiful
00:46:00.90\00:46:05.25
experience it is and
it cannot be represented
00:46:05.28\00:46:10.82
by any other form of
baptism because this baptism
00:46:10.85\00:46:18.76
is the way that
Jesus has given to us.
00:46:18.79\00:46:23.15
You know in the New
testament we only have
00:46:23.18\00:46:26.49
two ordinances, the
Old testament all kinds of
00:46:26.52\00:46:29.78
ordinances. New
testament only two,
00:46:29.81\00:46:33.06
communion and
baptism. Amen. That's right.
00:46:33.09\00:46:36.75
And you would think
that we can could get
00:46:37.00\00:46:40.55
those right, you would think so,
00:46:40.58\00:46:44.82
but all we had to do is
simply follow God's word
00:46:44.85\00:46:51.31
into what he tells us to do.
00:46:51.34\00:46:54.63
Now, somebody says well
when should we be baptized,
00:46:55.24\00:46:59.58
you remember peter was
preaching at Pentecost and
00:46:59.61\00:47:02.27
people came under conviction
00:47:02.30\00:47:04.23
Acts, the 2nd
chapter, verses 37, 38,
00:47:04.26\00:47:07.19
now when they had
heard this they were cut to
00:47:07.22\00:47:09.72
the heart and said
to Peter and the rest
00:47:09.75\00:47:11.75
of the apostles, men and
brethren, what shall we do?
00:47:11.78\00:47:15.08
And then Peter
said to them, repent,
00:47:15.73\00:47:18.59
and let everyone
of you be baptized
00:47:18.62\00:47:20.92
in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins,
00:47:20.95\00:47:25.29
and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit.
00:47:25.32\00:47:29.03
Now, sometimes people
will say to me see Peter
00:47:30.61\00:47:33.97
said you have been
baptized in the name
00:47:34.00\00:47:35.42
of the Jesus
Christ, yes you are.
00:47:35.45\00:47:36.95
But remember also that
Jesus said that you baptized
00:47:36.98\00:47:41.68
in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
00:47:41.71\00:47:44.06
that takes care of all
three. All three are involved
00:47:44.09\00:47:48.41
in the salvation process. Amen.
00:47:48.44\00:47:51.31
All three, and
that's why we are baptized
00:47:51.34\00:47:55.55
in the name. This is
another reason that when we look
00:47:55.58\00:47:59.09
at it and why infant
baptism is not from scripture.
00:47:59.12\00:48:04.73
Now I believe in dedication
of babies, absolutely,
00:48:04.76\00:48:08.57
Christ was dedicated,
though it was a very beautiful
00:48:08.60\00:48:13.29
ceremony at the temple
where they would dedicate
00:48:13.32\00:48:17.70
the infants and all
infants should be dedicated.
00:48:17.73\00:48:20.82
But baptism is
reserved for you individually.
00:48:21.67\00:48:26.90
That's right. Amen.
00:48:26.93\00:48:28.03
You know we have been in
evangelistic meetings before
00:48:28.06\00:48:30.19
and sometimes I
have asked to fellows
00:48:30.22\00:48:32.41
that you have been
baptized. And you know
00:48:32.44\00:48:35.40
I have had them
say to me I don't know.
00:48:35.43\00:48:38.10
That's like if you
said to somebody have
00:48:41.07\00:48:45.04
you been married.
Well, I don't know.
00:48:45.07\00:48:49.70
You see this is an
experience you should know.
00:48:52.83\00:48:56.15
One fellow when we would ask him
00:48:56.18\00:48:59.48
if he had been
baptized, he said I don't know
00:48:59.51\00:49:02.27
I'll call my
mother and I ask her.
00:49:02.30\00:49:04.88
And mother have I
been baptized and if so
00:49:04.91\00:49:08.01
what church did I join.
00:49:08.04\00:49:09.27
You see this has to be
an individual decision,
00:49:11.46\00:49:16.22
not something that can
be made by somebody else
00:49:16.25\00:49:22.57
and the reason that we
see that infant baptism
00:49:22.60\00:49:25.73
is not according to
scripture it's simply by looking
00:49:25.76\00:49:29.82
at the Gospel
commission from Jesus.
00:49:29.85\00:49:32.80
He says go
therefore made disciples of
00:49:32.83\00:49:35.07
lower nations baptizing them
00:49:35.10\00:49:37.22
in the name of the
Father and Son, the Holy Spirit,
00:49:37.25\00:49:38.98
teaching them to observe things
00:49:39.01\00:49:42.53
that I have commanded you.
00:49:42.56\00:49:44.89
Now how much can
you teach an infant?
00:49:44.92\00:49:48.50
Not much. Not
much. You may think
00:49:48.53\00:49:54.03
you can teach an
infant right away.
00:49:54.06\00:49:56.13
But you really can't. I
don't know if he is watching
00:49:57.14\00:50:02.22
tonight or not but my son
Jim, he was our first born
00:50:02.25\00:50:06.52
and he would cry, cry,
cry. Of course if I were kid
00:50:07.83\00:50:16.65
and I looked into
the face of my father
00:50:16.68\00:50:19.12
and I probably cry too
if he looked this you know.
00:50:19.15\00:50:22.94
But he was cry, he
would cry along periods
00:50:23.37\00:50:28.33
of time and I would try
to teach him not to cry.
00:50:28.36\00:50:33.93
I didn't do too well,
sometimes I found that I
00:50:36.58\00:50:42.43
could get in on the
same key that he was.
00:50:42.46\00:50:45.83
If I can get his
tone get Umm! Umm! Ummh!
00:50:47.09\00:50:49.20
Get that tone right there.
00:50:49.23\00:50:50.73
And then I would start singing,
00:50:51.73\00:50:53.93
that's enough to
make somebody cry,
00:50:56.21\00:50:58.52
but I would start
singing and that, the one song
00:51:00.56\00:51:04.82
I remember I used
to sing was like a tree
00:51:04.85\00:51:09.36
that's planted by the
water. I will not be moved.
00:51:09.39\00:51:17.70
And he would start
looking at me I guess.
00:51:17.73\00:51:22.30
But it was a way to
stop him from crying
00:51:25.37\00:51:28.91
but I couldn't teach him
there were so many things
00:51:28.94\00:51:30.79
it would have been
nice to have taught him.
00:51:30.82\00:51:33.37
If you could
teach a child something
00:51:33.87\00:51:35.93
think of the pampers you'd save.
00:51:35.96\00:51:37.81
You can't teach
them these things
00:51:41.30\00:51:43.59
they are not ready
for some of these things
00:51:43.62\00:51:47.99
but you know that's
one of the prerequisites
00:51:48.02\00:51:50.65
that you be ever
teach another prerequisite
00:51:50.68\00:51:53.98
is that he able to
believe. He who believes
00:51:54.01\00:51:57.46
and he is baptized will be saved
00:51:57.49\00:51:59.85
but he who doesn't
believe will be condemned.
00:51:59.88\00:52:04.89
How much can a child believe,
a child could only believe
00:52:04.92\00:52:08.07
certain creature
comforts, I am hungry,
00:52:08.10\00:52:11.63
I am thirsty, I am
sleepy, I am tired of shopping.
00:52:11.66\00:52:18.37
That's about all
about all that a child,
00:52:20.05\00:52:23.33
can we know what belief
00:52:23.36\00:52:25.79
Look at that, that
statement that Peter made
00:52:25.82\00:52:32.44
in Acts 2, he said
Repent everyone of you
00:52:32.47\00:52:35.93
and be baptized. He says repent,
00:52:35.96\00:52:39.08
how much does a
baby have to repent on.
00:52:39.11\00:52:42.19
They don't, not one thing;
00:52:43.53\00:52:46.65
you know we don't
have to invent a way to
00:52:46.68\00:52:48.59
save the children. Jesus
said suffered little children
00:52:48.62\00:52:52.63
to come unto me
and forbid them not for
00:52:52.66\00:52:56.43
of such is the kingdom of heaven
00:52:56.46\00:53:00.24
and Bible says he
took them up in his arms
00:53:00.27\00:53:03.39
and he blessed
them. We don't have to
00:53:03.42\00:53:06.77
invent a way, you know
if you look by comparison
00:53:06.80\00:53:09.76
you will see that
man has moved a long way
00:53:09.79\00:53:13.19
away from God's
method of baptism.
00:53:13.22\00:53:15.92
Just little at a
time, that's right.
00:53:16.70\00:53:19.00
God says I want
you to be come back,
00:53:19.03\00:53:22.36
I want you to do that,
which I have asked you to do.
00:53:22.39\00:53:29.49
Somebody says that
how long do I wait,
00:53:29.52\00:53:32.66
remember the jailer,
the Philippine jailer,
00:53:32.69\00:53:36.85
he was at Philippines,
you get those two mixed up.
00:53:36.88\00:53:40.32
That Philippine jailer
when he heard the gospel
00:53:41.42\00:53:45.81
he said what
must I do to be saved
00:53:47.20\00:53:49.63
and then said be
baptized then he did,
00:53:49.66\00:53:53.04
he and all his
family they were baptized
00:53:53.07\00:53:56.45
sometimes we hold
people up for a long time.
00:53:56.48\00:53:59.37
Long time, now I am not
talking about rushing people,
00:53:59.40\00:54:03.82
Bible does say
teach we should teach
00:54:03.85\00:54:06.12
but that doesn't mean
they have to have a Ph.D
00:54:06.15\00:54:09.05
in order to be baptized.
00:54:09.08\00:54:11.60
You teach them the
basics that Jesus loves them.
00:54:11.63\00:54:16.54
Teach them that he
died for them and when they
00:54:16.57\00:54:19.90
comprehend that, then
my friend they are ready
00:54:19.93\00:54:23.89
to go into a the
watery grave with him.
00:54:23.92\00:54:30.07
I remember an elder
man came to a meeting
00:54:30.10\00:54:34.65
one time up in New
England. You know I love people,
00:54:34.68\00:54:40.56
I really do and they
don't have to be just like
00:54:40.59\00:54:44.65
everybody else
for me to love them.
00:54:44.68\00:54:46.72
In fact sometimes my
wife says that I have a
00:54:48.18\00:54:51.95
lot of strange
friends. Now corks, tennis corks
00:54:51.98\00:54:57.03
is back there, don't take
any offense to that please.
00:54:57.06\00:54:59.56
He is one of the less
stranger of my friends
00:55:01.08\00:55:03.60
but I really grew to
like this man, he was coming
00:55:03.63\00:55:08.75
to our meetings every
night, that same night.
00:55:08.78\00:55:10.06
Went to see him at
his home, talked to him
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about giving his
life to the Lord.
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I wanted him to be
baptized and I told,
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I said look, this is something
you need to do, he just
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kept putting it often. And
he had a house people would walk
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in and out. Dogs walked in
and out, he never even shut,
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he let them shut the
doors. And I tried my best to
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get him to be
baptized. But he said no
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and I said to him one of these
days they're gonna miss you,
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they're gonna come in
here and they're gonna find
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that you're on the
floor and you're death
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and I was 25 years
old. I didn't sense enough
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not to get real down and
greedy with people you know.
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And I said you've got
to give your life to him.
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Finally he told me
I am afraid of water.
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I said really?
He said that's right
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and I said well you drink
water don't you? He said no.
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I had already
figured out he didn't bath.
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I said what you
drink? He said Pepsi,
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I said we will
baptize you in Pepsi.
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The Pastor was
a very serious man
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and he looked at me
like what on Earth are you
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talking about.
Well, he was not baptized,
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I left that city came
back about a year later,
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heard the story
they had missed him.
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They were in they
found him on the floor,
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but he was still alive,
took him to the hospital cleaned
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him up he recovered, they
got him, got him over that fear
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of water, I
came back to the area
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and we baptized him.
Amen. In water. Amen.
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Today, if God is speaking
to your heart say yes to him.
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Is there anybody here
they would like to be part of
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baptism if we had one
soon. May God bless each of you.
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