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Questions 81 (COD Page 391)
Why do churches who baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and admit women preachers to preach, why do they have so much power and authority?
140 Now, that’s a ticklish thing. Now, I know that I’m speaking to people that’ll different with this, but as a Christian I must say it. There is no Scriptural authority in the Bible for water baptism in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There never was one person ever baptized in the Bible in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. That is a Catholic tradition taught in the sixth century.
141 Sprinkling never was in the Bible, for people to be sprinkled or poured, but immersed. If you want to know that, I’ve got both Greek and Hebrew here on it.
142 And on the Day of Pentecost, Peter required that man must repent and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of their sins. And Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is no name. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost... Matthew 28:19 said “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them into the Name,” not into the names, in the Name, singular of... Not in the name of the Father, name of the Son, name of the Holy Ghost, but in the Name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father’s not a name; Son’s not a name; Holy Ghost is not a name. They’re titles that belong to a Name.
143 Now, ten days later Peter said, “Repent, every one of you and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, see how the extreme trinitarian idea... See, they try to make three gods out of that. There’s no three gods. I’d like to read that to you out of the original Greek here. The only way they were baptized in Jesus Name was, and the Bible said in the original Greek, was to make them recognize that He was God.
144 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is offices of one God. He was the Father; He was the Son; He is the Holy Ghost. It’s three offices or three dispensations, the Fatherhood, the Sonship, and the Holy Ghost dispensation. But Father, Son, and Holy Ghost has one Name, the Lord Jesus Christ.
145 Every person from that day on was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and they found some that was baptized in no Name at all, and the original Greek says right here and both the Hebrew, that the baptism in the Name of Jesus is for the forgiveness of sins, both Greek and Hebrew. Remit means “to forgive,” of course. If I remit anything, is to take it away. To remit it; “take it away.”
146 But there is no Scripture in the Bible... And Paul the apostle passed through and found some Baptist brethren, Acts 19. They were having a great time; they were shouting; they were having great joy and great things; and they were preaching, had joy in the camp.
147 Aquilla and Priscilla in the 18th chapter had visited these people, Apollos; they were Baptists. And Paul went to them, and he said, “Have ye received the Holy Ghost since you have believed?” And they said, “We know not whether there be any Holy Ghost.”
148 He said, “How was you baptized?” I know in the King James it says “unto what”; in the original it said, “unto how.” “What or how was you baptized?”
149 They said, “We’ve been baptized by the same man that baptized Jesus, John.” Paul said, “That won’t work no more. You got to be baptized over again.” And when they heard this, they come back into the water and was rebaptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. Paul laid his hands upon them, and the Holy Ghost came on them. Now, if that-if Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost, says here, and the Lord Jesus Christ, says here, I can’t hit both targets. It’s got to be right.
150 Now, Matthew 28:19, that’s the last chapter and the last verse in Matthew. If you read a love story, and it said, “John and Mary lived happy ever after,” who is John and Mary? Go back to the first of the book; find out who they are. See who John and Mary was that lived happy ever after. If Jesus said, “Go baptize in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost,” and Father’s no name, Son’s no name, and Holy Ghost is no name, then what was He talking about? Who is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? Go back to the first of it and read. I’ll quote after the genealogies of Jesus Christ, 1st chapter, 18th verse:
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise:... (Now watch real close. That post, we’re going to call it Father, this pulpit, Son, this, the Holy Ghost.
Now, Who is the Father of Jesus Christ? God is. Do you all admit that? God’s the Father of Jesus Christ. That’s God the Father. This is God the Son. That’s God the Holy Ghost.) Now the birth of Jesus Christ... on this wise:... (Matthew 1:18)
When... his married-mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with a child of the...
([Congregation say’s “Holy Ghost!”-Ed.] I thought God was His Father. I thought He said God was His Father. Then how can God and the Holy Ghost both be His Father, if they’re two different peoples, two different persons, personalities, anyway you want to place it? They’ve got to be the same self Person, or He had two spiritual daddies.)
... birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When... his mother Mary... espoused to Joseph, before she came together, she was found with a child... (not of God the Father, but of)... the Holy Ghost. And this was all done, that it might be fulfilled as spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a child,... (See?)... and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, God with us.
151 And His Name was called what? Jesus. All right. Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Now, Father and the Holy Ghost is the selfsame Spirit. What is Ghost? It’s the Spirit of God. And when it was, He came on the baptism of Jesus and dwelt in Him, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m well pleased to dwell in.” He came down and dwelled in Jesus, and that made Him Emmanuel on earth. So what was the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? [Congregation answers, “Jesus Christ!”-Ed.] Certainly it was.
152 So Peter had the same revelation. Now, we got our sights trained in. We’re hitting the bulls-eye. Let’s see if the disciples used that kind of a shooting. Every time they come together, every time a baptism was mentioned, they had to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, for he said, “There’s not another Name given under Heaven among men whereby you must be saved.” It’s a false conception of the devil and is no Scripture at all for such. That’s right.
153 And now, I hope that didn’t hurt, but it’s Truth. See? It’s Truth, brother. You can’t make that... You can’t hit Father, Son, Holy Ghost one place and Jesus in the other, when nobody was ever baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Every person in the Bible was baptized in the Name of Jesus, and those that wasn’t baptized that way had to come and be baptized over again before they could even get the Holy Ghost. You might act like you got a lot of power. You’ve got to follow God’s infinite plan. That’s exactly right. All right.
154 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is wrong. Now, for women preachers, anyone knows that’s wrong. If you don’t know no more than that! I wished I had time to read that from the Greek here, what it said. Said, “If your women want to know anything, let them ask their husbands, because it’s shameful and disgraceful for a woman to even speak in the church. The Greek says that-I mean, the Hebrew. “As also saith the law let them be in silent with all subjections to the pastor (See?), for it’s sinful and disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.” My, anyone ought to know that. And now... Which all the way through the Scriptures, and Timothy, and different Scriptures, I have it wrote down here, it’s Truth. All right.
155 Now, then why do they have power? You say, “Why does that do?” Look, brother, let me ask you, or sister, ever who it is that’s asking this question, look. I have seen some of the most powerful meetings amongst the Mohammedans, screaming, jumping, take a knife and run it right straight through the heart like this, and pour water through it in the back, walk through fire with their bare feet, everything else like that, lay on beds of spikes, and-and take a sword and stick it right in their mouth and run it right smack down like that-you can take it yourself and draw it back out, and blood on it and everything else. Don’t talk about them things. See? That isn’t Truth; that isn’t vindicating anything. See? Jesus said... Let me read the Scriptures I got wrote out here to you, Matthew 7:21-23: “Many will come to Me in that day... Not all that saith, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom, but they that do the will of My Father which is in Heaven shall enter in. For many shall come to Me in that day and say, ‘Lord, have not I preached in Your Name. Have not I cast out devils, and prophesied, and done all these other things.’ He’ll say, ‘Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, I didn’t even know you.’” See?
156 So don’t... See, Truth can only come one way, brother. Now, I’m not saying that the people who baptize people in the Name of Jesus Christ is all going to hell. I don’t say that. God is the Judge; let Him do whatever He wishes to, but there is no legal Scriptures in the Bible for anybody to be baptized in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
157 Paul commanded everyone that was baptized any other way than the Name of Jesus to come and be baptized over again in the Name of Jesus, and said,
“If a angel from Heaven come and preached any other doctrine (Galatians 1:8), let him be accursed.” And Paul said,
“As I have said before, so say I again, if an angel from Heaven would preach anything else to you, let him be accursed.”
158 Now, that cannot... You cannot make a target hit here and a target hit there. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, say, “Let them go, they’re all right!” And Jesus Name, let that go and say, “They’re all right.” There’s got to be something that’s got to hit right. God’s not a author of confusion.
159 And you run that through the Bible anywhere you want to, and you’ll find out that it’s a false baptism. Then go back to history, and down in the sixth century when great Agtobus, I believe it was, that baptized or one of the... I wouldn’t say it was Agtobus; I forget what his name was that baptized... If you want to get it in the-the Ante Nicene Fathers before the Ante-Nicene meeting, 325 A.D. they were still baptizing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And when the Catholic church come into power they picked up the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Never one time from that back, was anybody ever baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. It’s a Catholic tradition.
160 Luther brought a lot of it out with him. Wesley brought the rest of it, and we still go to it. And the Catholic catechism, what’s called Faith of Our Fathers, I believe it is, on page 144, I think it is, he said-they said, “Will any protestants be saved?” Said, “Perhaps some of them. They claim to live by the Bible, but they still take the Catholic teaching.” Said, “The Bible, the early Catholics, baptized in the name of Father-in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we taken the solemnity from that and place it upon the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and the protestants recognize it.” Said, “Maybe some of them will be saved.” Not by that they won’t! All right.