WHAT IS BAPTISM? BAPTISM IS A SACRAMENT, A RITUAL INSTITUTED OF GOD, IN WHICH A PERSON IS IMMERSED IN WATER, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND THE SON, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY GHOST. JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN, AND EARTH SAID THESE WORDS TO HIS DISCIPLES.

ST. MATTHEW 28:19 GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST: 20. TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU: AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD. AMEN,

IF YOU WILL NOTICE SAINTS OF GOD, WHEN I BAPTIZE I MENTION THE NAME JESUS, THE CHRIST. YOU MAY WONDER WHY? IT IS BECAUSE THAT GOD, BY THE MOUTH OF THE APOSTLE PETER, MADE ALL HIS CHILDREN A WONDERFUL PROMISE. AND, THAT IS IF WE WILL REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST, THE APOSTLE PETER PREACHED TO THOSE MEN THAT HAD CRUCIFIED THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE LIFE, THE DEATH, THE RESURRECTION, OF JESUS CHRIST. WHEN THOSE MEN COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY HAD CRUCIFIED THE SON OF GOD, THEY CAME TO PETER, AND THE REST OF THE APOSTLES, AND SAID MEN AND BRETHREN WHAT SHALL WE DO.

ACTS 2:37 NOW WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE PRICKED IN THEIR HEART, AND SAID TO PETER AND TO THE REST OF THE APOSTLES, MEN AND BRETHREN, WHAT SHALL WE DO? 38. THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. 39. FOR THE PROMISE IS UNTO YOU, AND TO YOUR CHILDREN, AND TO ALL THAT ARE AFAR OFF, EVEN AS MANY AS THE LORD OUR GOD SHALL CALL.

SAINTS OF GOD, WHEN A MAN, WOMAN, OR CHILD RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST, THE SOUL COMES TO LIFE. THIS BODY OF FLESH, AND BLOOD, CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE BODY OF FLESH, AND BLOOD SHALL PERISH; BUT THE SOUL SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. THE SOUL OF MAN IS RENEWED EVERY DAY.

11 CORINTHIANS 4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY.

COME INTO THIS KNOWLEDGE SAINTS OF GOD, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED, AND OF THE SPIRIT, RECEIVING THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST, HE CANNOT, LISTEN CAREFULLY, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. FOR WHERE IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD? THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS IN THE HOLY GHOST.

ROMANS 14:17 FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK: BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST.

HOLY CHILDREN, COME INTO THIS KNOWLEDGE ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE CHRIST JESUS, IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. THEREFORE THE QUESTION MUST ARISE: HOW DO WE THE CHILDREN OF GOD GET INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST? WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, ARE BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST.

GALATIANS 3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST.

1 JOHN 5:11 AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON.

LISTEN CAREFULLY SAINTS OF GOD, WHEN A PERSON COMMITS A SIN, BEFORE GOD CALLS THEM TO REPENTANCE, THEY CANNOT UNDO THE WRONG THAT HAS BEEN COMMITTED. BUT WHEN THEY ARE BAPTIZED, THE WATER OF THEIR BAPTISM WASHES THOSE SINS AWAY. AND, IN THE BODY OF CHRIST IS THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, THAT GIVES US A CONTINUOUS CLEANSING. AT PAUL'S CONVERSION, THERE WAS A DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST, ANANIAS, THAT CAME TO PAUL AND LAID HANDS ON PAUL THAT HE MIGHT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. AFTER THE SCALES HAD FELL FROM THE EYES OF PAUL, ANANIAS SAID TO PAUL, "WHY TARRY PAUL ARISE AND BE BAPTIZED, AND WASH AWAY YOUR SIN. IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE PAUL IS TESTIFYING OF HIS CONVERSION.

ACTS 22:11. AND WHEN I COULD NOT SEE FOR THE GLORY OF THAT LIGHT, BEING LED BY THE HAND OF THEM THAT WERE WITH ME, I CAME INTO DAMASCUS. 12. AND ONE ANANIAS A DEVOUT MAN ACCORDING TO THE LAW, HAVING A GOOD REPORT OF ALL THE JEWS, WHICH DWELT THERE, 13. CAME UNTO ME, AND STOOD, AND SAID UNTO ME, BROTHER SAUL, RECEIVE THY SIGHT, AND THE SAME HOUR I LOOKED UP UPON HIM. 14. AND HE SAID, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HATH CHOSEN THEE, THAT THOU SHOULDEST KNOW HIS WILL, AND SEE THAT JUST ONE, AND SHOULDEST HEAR THE VOICE OF HIS MOUTH. 15. FOR THOU SHALT BE HIS WITNESS UNTO ALL MEN OF WHAT THOU HAST SEEN AND HEARD.16. AND NOW WHY TARRIEST THOU? ARISE, AND BE BAPTIZED, AND WASH AWAY THY SINS, CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD.

BROTHERS, AND SISTERS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM, WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD HE IS A LIVE PHYSICALLY, BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL MUST BE BROUGHT TO LIFE. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF FLESH IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.

ST. JOHN 3:1 THERE WAS A MAN OF THE PHARISEES, NAMED NICODEMUS, A RULER OF THE JEWS. 2. THE SAME CAME TO JESUS BY NIGHT, AND SAID UNTO HIM, RABBI, WE KNOW THAT THOU ART A TEACHER COME FROM GOD: FOR NO MAN CAN DO THESE MIRACLES THAT THOU DOEST, EXCEPT GOD BE WITH HIM. 3. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 4. NICODEMUS SAITH UNTO HIM, HOW CAN A MAN BE BORN WHEN HE IS OLD? CAN HE ENTER THE SECOND TIME INTO HIS MOTHER'S WOMB, AND BE BORN?5. JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERFILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 6. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.

CHILDREN OF LIGHT, THINK ON THIS, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WATER CAN BE AS PRECIOUS AS GOLD. THERE ARE NATIONS IN WHICH THERE IS VERY LITTLE WATER, AND IF A PERSON WAS ABOUT TO DIE, AND YOU KNEW THAT THE PERSON WAS UNBAPTIZED. AND, YOU KNEW ALSO THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS, EXCEPT A PERSON BE BORN OF WATER, AND OF THE SPIRIT, THEY COULD NOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IF YOU HAD ONLY A CUP FULL OF WATER, WOULD YOU SPRINKLE BAPTIZE THE PERSON? I WOULD. I WOULD SPRINKLE BAPTIZE THE PERSON AND RELY UPON THESE SCRIPTURES FOR HIS WELL BEING. GOD SPEAKING TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL SAID THESE WORDS.

EZEKIEL 36:22 THEREFORE SAY UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; I DO NOT THIS FOR YOUR SAKE, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, BUT FOR MINE HOLY NAME'S SAKE, WHICH YE HAVE PROFANED AMONG THE HEATHER, WHITHER YE WENT. 23. AND I WILL SANCTIFY MY GREAT NAME, WHICH WAS PROFANED AMONG THE HEATHEN, WHICH YE HAVE PROFANED IN THE MIDST OF THEM; AND THE HEATHEN SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, SAITH THE LORD GOD, WHEN I SHALL BE SANCTIFIED IN YOU BEFORE THEIR EYES. 24. FOR I WILL TAKE YOU FROM AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND GATHER YOU OUT OF ALL COUNTRIES, AND WILL BRING YOU INTO YOUR OWN LAND. 25. THEN WILL I SPRINKLE CLEAN WATER UPON YOU, AND YE SHALL BE CLEAN; FROM ALL YOUR FILTHINESS, AND FROM ALL YOUR IDOLS, WILL I CLEANSE YOU. 26. A NEW HEART ALSO WILL I GIVE YOU, AND A NEW SPIRIT WILL I PUT WITHIN YOU: AND I WILL TAKE AWAY THE STONY HEART OUT OF YOUR FLESH, AND I GIVE YOU AN HEART OF FLESH. 27. AND I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU, AND CAUSE YOU TO WALK IN MY STATUTES, AND YE SHALL KEEP MY JUDGMENTS, AND DO THEM.

SAINTS OF GOD, MULTITUDES OF PREACHERS BELIEVE THAT A CHILD IS IN A SANCTIFIED CONDITION, UNTIL THEY REACH THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY. BUT THAT IS NOT SO. ALL MANKIND WAS IN ADAM AT THE TIME THAT HE TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. AND WHEN SIN WAS IMPUTED UNTO ADAM, BECAUSE OF OUR PHYSICAL UNION WITH HIM, SIN WAS IMPUTED UNTO ALL MANKIND. THEREFORE WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, HE IS NOT ONLY DEAD SPIRITUALLY, BUT UNCLEAN. THERE IS AN EXCEPTION; AND, THAT IS IF THE CHILD IS BORN TO A BELIEVING PARENT, THEN THE CHILD IS SANCTIFIED. FIRST LET ME DEAL WITH THE FACT THAT THE CHILD IS DEAD SPIRITUALLY.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE.

AND NOW DEALING WITH THE FACT, THAT A CHILD THAT IS BORN TO A NON BELIEVER IS UNCLEAN.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:13 AND THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND THAT BELIEVETH NOT, AND IF HE BE PLEASED TO DWELL WITH HER, LET HER NOT LEAVE HIM. 14. FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE, AND THE UNBELIEVING WIFE IS SANCTIFIED BY THE HUSBAND; ELSE WERE YOUR CHILDREN UNCLEAN; BUT NOW ARE THEY HOLY.

WHEN A PERSON COMES INTO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE NUMBER THREE REASON LISTED IN THE WORKS OF THE FLESH, AS TO WHY PEOPLE WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS, "UNCLEANNESS". WHEN IT IS BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION, THAT EXCEPT A PERSON BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED, THEY CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WOULD YOU NOT SPRINKLE SMALL CHILDREN. ESPECIALLY CHILDREN OF NON BELIEVERS? I WOULD.

GALATIANS 5:19 NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS, 20. IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS, WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, 21. ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELLINGS, AND SUCH LIKE; OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

BELOVED OF GOD, IF A LOVE ONE HAS DIED IN AN UNBAPTISED CONDITION THEN IT IS SCRIPTURAL TO BE BAPTISED FOR THAT PERSON.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:29 ELSE WHAT SHALL THEY DO WHICH ARE BAPTIZED FOR THE DEAD, IF THE DEAD RISE NOT AT ALL? WHY ARE THEY THEN BAPTIZED FOR THE DEAD?

CHILDREN OF GOD, THERE ARE MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE THAT JUST AS SOON AS A PERSON BELIEVES, THAT THEY ARE SAVED, AND SANCTIFIED, AND FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. BUT THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY SO. WE KNOW THAT WHEN MOSES' WAS IN THE WILDERNESS, AND THE BURDEN OF THE PEOPLE BECAME TO GREAT FOR HIM TO BARE, HE PRAYED TO GOD, TO SEND HIM HELP. AND GOD COMMANDED HIM TO GATHER SEVENTY ELDERS OF ISRAEL AND BRING BEFORE THE TABERNACLE OF CONGREGATION, AND THAT HE WOULD COME DOWN AND TAKE OF THE SPIRIT THAT WAS UPON HIM, AND PLACE IT UPON THEM. WERE THESE MEN BAPTIZED? I BELIEVE THAT ALL ISRAEL WAS BAPTIZED IN THE RED SEA.

1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 MOREOVER, BRETHREN, I WOULD NOT THAT YE SHOULD BE IGNORANT, HOW THAT ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER THE CLOUD, AND ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA; 2. AND WERE ALL BAPTIZED UNTO MOSES IN THE CLOUD AND IN THE SEA. 3. AND DID ALL DRINK THE SAME SPIRITUAL DRINK: FOR THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM; AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST.

LET ME SUMMARIZE WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING, THAT IF YOU WILL REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, YOU SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. BUT MULTITUDES OF MEN REFUSE TO BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF JESUS. SECONDLY, WHEN A PERSON IS BAPTIZED OUT OF THE WORLD, THEY ARE BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. THIRDLY, THE WATER OF YOUR BAPTISM WASHES YOUR SINS AWAY. FORTHLY, BELIEVING PARENTS WILL SANCTIFY THEIR CHILDREN. FIFTHLY EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTISED, AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IN THIS DISPENSATION I BELIEVE THAT MOST PEOPLE IF NOT ALL RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, BY THE LAYING ON OF HANDS AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED PROPERLY.

ACTS 19:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORINTH, PAUL HAVING PASSED THROUGH THE UPPER COASTS CAME TO EPHESUS; AND FINDING CERTAIN DISCIPLES, 2. HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY GHOST. 3. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, UNTO WHAT THEN WERE YE BAPTIZED, AND THEY SAID, UNTO JOHN'S BAPTISM. 4. THEN SAID PAUL, JOHN VERILY BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE, SAYING UNTO THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE ON HIM WHICH SHOULD COME AFTER HIM, THAT IS, ON CHRIST JESUS.