Things You Must Do - Be Baptized | Pastor Paul McGee

To stand with me today we're going to try to continue on the

journey from a few weeks ago. I'm going to turn to Acts

chapter #2 here this morning. I'm breaking glasses left.

I think I've broken like 3 pairs of glasses in like the last

month. So my glasses inventory is

getting low, so I don't want to be left without it.

We'll have to get out the Super ginormous giant size Bible

print. I'm not ready to upgrade.

Acts chapter #2 verse #37 Few weeks ago we talked about things

you must do. We talked about repentance this

morning. Want to talk about one of the

things that you must do? You must be baptized.

Acts 2, verse 37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in

Acts 2:37

their heart, and said unto Peter, and to the rest of the

apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?

Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized everyone

of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of

sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

I wanted to be clear today that as I talk about baptism, I'm not

talking about some sign of you joining the first Apostolic

Church, because that's not what baptism is around here.

It's not about joining the first Apostolic Church, for that

matter. Baptism is a part of of that

formula or that plan that really gets you born into the church,

right into the church. I'm not talking about some a

sign that's saying, well, I've been saved.

And this is an indication that I've been saying, no, it's not

what the Bible teaches us. The Bible teaches us that it is

a cog in the wheel toward salvation, right, Amen.

And so I want to talk about that today.

Father, I come to you, I thank you, Lord, for your goodness.

I thank you, Lord Jesus, for your people not to thank you,

Lord, for your word that is forever settled in heaven.

The grass may wither and the flower may fade, but the word of

God will stand. I pray, O God, we're thankful

for that word and it is the Lord, the very Lord, origin and

point of origin. Lord, for what we speak about

today, the lovely name of Jesus Christ, I pray Amen.

Everybody say Amen, Amen. You may be seated in Jesus name.

Things you must do, you must be. You must be baptized, and I say

must this morning, because even in John 3, whenever Jesus had

His dialogue with Nicodemus there, and Nicodemus was

wondering what a person must do in order to enter or see heaven,

the Lord told him that he must be born again.

And he broke that down a little further in John three, that he

must be born of the water and the Spirit.

He told him. Then he followed that up again

with the fact ye must be born again, and part of that born

again experience is being baptized in Acts chapter #2 just

kind of so that we understand who it is that needs to be

baptized today in Acts 2. Peter, on the day of Pentecost,

had a mixed crowd of people that he was speaking to.

There were all kinds of people, samplings of people from

different nations and places that had joined together at this

feast called Pentecost. As it often happened, people

were gathering all around. As a matter of fact, the city of

Jerusalem would increase its population many times over

because of the number of people that had gathered together for

this particular feast. Just a little sampling of the

people that you can read up in Acts chapter #2 The Bible tells

us there were people of the Parthians that were there, the

Medes, the Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia,

Pontus, and Asia. Just a sampling of some of the

people that are there, and you can even find others in Acts

chapter #2 But he told them this people that are gathered, these

variety of people were gathered. He told them that every one of

them must be baptized. And so right away we understand

that this just wasn't for those at Jerusalem, but it was for

everyone that was there. There were different sects of

people, different, different races of people that were

gathered together here at Jerusalem.

And he told them that they must be baptized.

As a matter of fact, before this day of Pentecost, before Jesus

ever ascended, after his death, burial and resurrection, before

he ever ascended into the heavens, he told his 11

disciples, people that he had walked with and talked with and

taught, and those who'd seen him do several miracles.

He told them in Matthew 28 that they were to teach all nations

baptizing them. And the them refers back to who

the all nations baptizing all nations in the name.

And so we see early on in the book of Acts that the Jews were

baptized, and we would seem to that, but we also see, like in

Acts chapter #8 that the Bible tells us that the Samaritans

were baptized people who were considered half Jew and half

Gentile. We also read there that Philip

had a wonderful conversation with the Ethiopian eunuch, and

he began to preach to him. Jesus, he said, starting really

from the book of Isaiah. He preached Jesus to him.

And after it was all said and done, that Ethiopian eunuch also

was baptized. Here's water, he said.

What death hindereth me from being baptized in Acts chapter

#10 it's there that we read of Cornelius of the Italian band, a

Gentile, that he and his household also are baptized Jew,

Samaritan, Gentile. We're getting many, many

different nations and people groups that are being involved

in this. So Peter tells us that we should

repent and be baptized. Everyone of you, in the name of

Jesus Christ, everybody say for, for the remission of sins.

That word for is important. That word for is a preposition

that means to or into a place, time, or purpose.

Whenever you're baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, you're

baptized with a purpose and the purpose comes after the four.

It is for or the purpose of the remission of of sins.

And if that be the case this morning, if baptism is for the

remission, which is just a fancy word for removal, if it is for

the removal of sins, if that be the case, then that tells me

that anyone and everyone that is a Sinner needs to be baptized

because the only way that your sins can be removed is through

the act of repentance and baptism.

Amen. Can there be a removal of sins?

And we all need that. Everybody say all, We all need

that. The verses in Scripture tell me

all have sinned according to Romans 323.

As a matter of fact, it even states that plainly.

Again in Romans 5 and verse 12, all have sinned.

And so if sister Sheila, we all have sinned, then we all need to

be baptized. As a matter of fact, when we

read in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark and Luke and John, the

man Christ Jesus, God in his earthly ministry, the man Christ

Jesus came to John the Baptist to be baptized.

And one might think, man, if Jesus was baptized, surely I

need to be baptized. Here's the fact concerning

Jesus. Jesus was leading and leaving us

an example because the Bible tells us that Jesus knew no sin.

According to First Corinthians 521, He knew no sin.

The Bible also tells us in Hebrews 415 that Jesus was

without sin. The Bible tells us in first John

35 that in Him is no sin. Amen.

And so he said, well, brother McGee, all sinners need to be

baptized. Yes, but Jesus was doing this,

leaving us an example. The Bible says in first Peter 2

and verse #21 these words 4 even here and two were he called

because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that

ye should follow his steps who did no sin.

Neither was God found in His mouth, who when he was reviled,

reviled not again when He suffered, He threatened not, but

He committed himself and to him that judges righteously, who his

own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree that we

being dead to sin should live into righteousness, by whose

stripes he were healed. For ye were as sheep going

astray, but are now returning to the shepherd and the Bishop of

your souls. He said this Christ Jesus, he

suffered. Yes, and he left us an example

that we should follow in his steps.

We could not follow in his steps of being sinless.

That's not what it's alluding to here.

We could not follow in His steps of being sinless.

We were all born into a world and a condition, the adamant

nature of sin. But the steps that we could

follow in was of His suffering and of His burial and of His

resurrection. That's the example that He left

for us to follow, the steps that we should walk in.

The Bible says even in Romans 6 and verse #4 that we are buried

with Him in baptism. We are following his steps, we

are following the example that he has left.

David said even the Old Testament Scripture of Psalms

51. He said that in in iniquity I

have been shaping, and my mother conceived me in sin.

We are sinners and we need a remission and a removal of sin

because Scripture tells us no sin will enter heaven.

I pause importantly and and specifically today because we

need to let that set in. If that is the case, then

baptism is just not some formality of joining the local

church. If that is the case, there's a

lot of leverage that's on baptism whenever baptism is is

in aiding and helping entrance or no entrance into the Kingdom

of heaven. The Bible tells us in the Book

of Revelation 2127. Look what the Scripture says,

and there shall in no wise enter into it.

Speaking of heaven, anything that defileth neither whatsoever

worketh abomination or maketh a lie, but they which are written

in the Lamb's book of life. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, no

sin shall enter in, not anything profane, not anything unclean,

not anything defiled. It will not enter in.

Well, pastor, how do I get rid of that which is profane and

unclean and defiled? One way is through your

repentance and your baptism. It removes the profane, it

removes the unclean, it removes the defiled.

You stand before God differently after baptism.

Amen. Now granted John, the Bible says

John the Baptist baptized many. His disciples also baptized

many. But the Bible tells us that the

baptism of John was a baptism unto repentance only, and they

could be nothing more, because at that period of time Christ

had not yet died or been buried or had risen from the dead.

Amen. So John's baptism could only be

a baptism unto repentance. As a matter of fact, the Bible

says whenever people would come to be baptized to John the

Baptist, they would come emitting their sinfulness, or

they would come, the Bible says in Matthew 36, they were

baptized confessing their sins. And yes, that's important, Amen.

Because if we confess our sins, our God is just right.

He'll forgive us of those sins, Amen.

But you still need a baptism to remove, huh?

You don't just need sins forgiven, you need sins removed,

Amen. You confess with your mouth and

that can bring about a, a forgiving of sin, but you need a

removal of sin. Amen.

By which baptism happens. And so they would come and they

would confess with their mouth. And we understand though another

reason why John baptized Jesus or Jesus allowed John to be

baptized because John the Baptist even told Jesus, he

said, I need to be baptized of you.

And the Lord says, and we'll look at the scripture in just a

little bit. He said suffer it as such for

now. He says because I need to do

something, I need you to baptize me.

John said one of the reasons why he went forth baptizing.

You can read of it in John chapter #1 verses 31 and 33 is

because in his baptizing there would come a revelation about

who the Messiah was to Israel. Because the Spirit of the Lord

had already spoke to John and said, whoever it is that this

dove comes down and lights upon and stays, he'll be the one that

not only baptizes a man with Holy Ghost, but also with fire.

He says, and you read it, you'll read it in John #1 John's

saying, I did not even know him. Let me just go there this

morning because I don't want anybody to miss this in John

chapter #1 and verse #31 And folks, I do have a lot of

Scripture today. And so I hope you brought your

Bible or you're interested in the Bible, or you think about

the Bible every once in awhile. But the Bible says this is just

as John the Baptist. He says, and I knew him not.

Let me skip just back to verse #29 the next day, John C of

Jesus coming to him. And saith, Behold the Lamb of

God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is

preferred before me, for he was before me, and I knew him not,

but that he should be made manifest.

Look at this, that he, this Christ should be made manifest

to Israel. Therefore am I come baptizing

with water, John saying I'm baptizing with water because I

know what the Spirit had told me, that there's going to be

one, that I'm going to baptize the doves going to come upon,

and that's how we will know that's the one.

And he says, so I'm baptizing to give revelation to the sign of

the Christ. Look at verse 32 and John bear

records saying I saw the Spirit, He's recounting this.

I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it bowed

upon him, him being Christ Jesus, and I knew him not, but

he that sent me here, he's recalling this me the baptized

with water, the same setting me upon whom thou shalt see the

Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same as he which

baptized it with the Holy Ghost. John says the reason why I can

tell you there's one coming after me that's preferred before

me that's going to baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire is

because one day while I was baptizing, just like the Spirit

told me, the Spirit came like a dove and lighted upon this

person that had not done that to any other person.

And that was the sign that I knew that man was the Christ

that would baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

John's all of this Jesus being baptized and John is very

purposeful. Yes, it is for our footsteps to

follow as an example, but was also for the revelation of the

Israelites of that day to know this man who came was the one

who was baptized with Holy Ghost and with fire.

And just as a side note, Bible tells us that the places that

John baptized like John 323, that there was much water.

Matter of fact, whatever describes even Jesus coming up

from being baptized in Matthew 316 and Mark 110, it describes

him coming up out of the water that don't happen through

sprinkling. Much water is not required if

you're being sprinkled someone say Amen.

So Jesus is an example to the people Amen of baptism of

immersion not because he needed it because they needed to see

him be baptized and understand that this is a necessity of

salvation in the mode is immersion.

Matthew 315 the Bible says Jesus answering unto him again to John

the Baptist, he said suffer to be so.

Now the little discussion, I need to be baptized as you.

Well he said, suffer to be so. Now for this it becometh us to

fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Jesus wasn't refuting the idea that John needed to be baptized

of him. He says for now just suffer it

to be so. He said, because what needs to

be done right now is for it becometh us to fulfill all

righteousness. Other translations It becometh

us to do all that God requires, or it suffereth us.

The right thing for us to do is to do everything a good man

ought to do. The Old Testament phrase the

righteousness of God refers to God's acts of righteousness by

which he brings about salvation for his people in so much that

the word righteousness has become a synonym even through

the Bible for salvation. That being the case, Jesus is

telling John it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness, or if

you will, it becometh us to feel all salvation.

What he's saying baptism is a cog, a man in the mechanism of

salvation. Right being baptized was a part

of the means for the fulfillment of salvation.

The Bible says in Mark 16 and verse 16, he that believeth

Andy, as everybody say it baptized shall be saved, but he

that believeth not shall be damned.

Folks, we have it backwards a lot of times in our modern day

world. A lot of people tell us that

you, you, you get baptized as a public sign that you have been

saved. But Mark 1616 tells us that we

get baptized so that we might be saved.

Amen. Amen.

First Timothy 2 and 4, the Bible says who The Who that's being

referred to. There is God who will have all

men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of truth.

Listen, if God desires or wants all men to be saved in order to

fulfill the fullness of salvation or righteousness, then

those men must be baptized. Amen.

Well glory, I didn't start a timer, but God help us.

Baptism isn't necessarily mentioned in the name as far as

like baptism the Old Testament, but it is typified in the old

Tabernacle system. Hebrews the author of Hebrews

writes a lot about Tabernacle, articles of furniture and some

of the ceremonies there and it drawing the parallel with Old

Testament things that happen and brings their significance over

into the New Testament. The Bible talks about the Old

Testament being a shadow of good things to come right And so when

we read in Hebrews 9 and verse 10, the Bible says which and the

which it is referring to is the Tabernacle which stood only in

meats and drinks and diverse all right divers or various washings

and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of

Reformation. So the Tabernacle was really

it's a beautiful thing If we ever take time to go through

every article and all of the colors and the things that the

Tabernacle. It's a wonderful illustration of

the Acts 238 plan of salvation. But for our purposes today, for

that even things you must do, you must be baptized.

I want you to consider what was called the Laver that was in the

Tab Tabernacle. All right, the Laver is where

the priest would wash their hands and cleanse themselves

before entering into what was known as the Holy Place.

All right, you had the outer court, and then you had another

section, the Holy Place. Then you had another section

which was called the Holiest of Holies or the Most Holy Place.

Well, they would wash there in the outer court at that Laver,

Amen, and then enter into that holy place to minister into the

Lord. For that matter, the high

priest. The high priest would wash too,

and once he year he was allowed into that holies of holies where

the ark of the covenant was, which was considered the very

presence and spirit, if you will, of the Lord.

But you didn't get there without washing at the labor.

And so in Exodus 30 and verse 18, the Bible says, And thou

shall also make a labor of brass in his foot, also of brass to

wash with all. And thou shall put it between

the Tabernacle, the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt

put water there in the purpose of the labor is really summed up

in those three words here in this verse, so that you might

wash to wash with awe because that water was used for a

cleansing. There's been a lot of

discussion. Where did that water come from?

Where'd the water come from? And the labor throughout their

travelings through the wilderness, because we know

there were times that they were in places where water was

scarce. We know that according to

Scripture. We know that.

But we also know New Testament Scripture says this, that there

was a rock that First Corinthians 10/4 there was a

rock that followed them in those journey.

And the apostle Paul said emphatically that that rock was

Christ. It's that rock that Moses was to

speak to and water would come from.

It's that rock that Moses mistakenly struck twice in the

eyes of the people, but water still come forth from it.

Moses was held from the Promised Land because of the striking

twice of the rock in the eyes of all the people, because Christ

said that rock typify Christ so much that Christ was only struck

once. Speaking of Calvary, I don't

know for sure, but it's a possibility that the water that

was in the Laver came from the walk with the rock.

Hey man supplied water for cleansing from that rock which

was known as Christ. But in baptism there is a

cleansing, A cleansing from our sins.

Now I've said this before and I say it again and I cannot be, I

cannot be plain enough concerning this.

I know we've had times, you know, the people have have

desired to be baptized and and they want to wait for their

uncles, aunts, cousin twice removed to be there.

And I understand the idea of your family and wanting to

witness it or you wanting your family to witness, But let me

tell you emphatically this morning, there is no better time

to be baptized than right now. Uncle Joe may not make it, Susie

may not make it. And I understand that our

humanity concerning that. But according to the Scripture,

in the hour that you see the need of it or you're convicted

toward it, you need to be baptized.

Throughout the Scripture, people normally didn't wait.

People normally didn't wait. The only qualification you have

for baptism is your repentance. People normally didn't wait.

In Acts chapter 2 and verse 41, on that day of Pentecost, the

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Bible tells us those that gladly received Peter's word, Amen,

they were baptized. The Bible says in Acts 8 and

verse 12 when they believe Philip preaching the things

concerning the Kingdom of heaven.

You know what they did? They were baptized in Acts

chapter #8 after the eunuch heard the word Amen, that Philip

was preaching unto him again. He's the one that said, see,

here is water. What doth hinder me from being

baptized In Acts 9, the Bible says that whenever Ananias went

to visit Saul, and said, My brother Saul, the Lord, even

Jesus has sent me unto thee, that thou might receive thy

sigh. And those scales fell off his

eyes. He no sooner had all of this

happen to him. The Bible says he arose and was

baptized in Acts chapter #10 Cornelius and all of his

household while they're sitting there hearing the word of God

preach, and they're filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost

and begin to speak with other tongues.

That all happened that the Bible says in the very same setting.

They were baptized in Acts chapter 16, Paul and Silas, it's

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the jailhouse rock long before Elvis ever had it.

Amen. As they sang praises unto God.

And that Philippian jailer was quaking about what it happened

and they began to preach and minister to him concerning

salvation in the same hour the Bible says, which was the

midnight hour. He went and washed I, I love

this part. He went and washed their stripes

that they had on their back with water and with the same water he

was baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in the South.

So you don't need to wait till you don't need to wait till

Wednesday, Monday or for anything ye must.

It's kind of like this. When would you like to have your

sins removed next week? It's almost like the the old

Pharaoh story with the the the plague of the frogs when they

asked, you know, Pharaoh well, when do you want me to pray that

the frogs will be removed? And he said tomorrow.

It's like that just don't make sense.

You can get baptized today. Listen, you can get baptized in

a river, a Creek, a lake, a ditch if there's sufficient

water, your bathtub, a pool, a Whirlpool, running water,

stagnant water, dirty water, a nice baptismal that's at such

and such degrees, or where they got to break the ice to put you

under a horse through, as long as you have enough waters to

submerge you and the name to cover you.

Folks, whenever I was just a just a young, young younger man

and I was preaching a camp meeting out in West Virginia, we

had at that the one time I think was 13 or so, Amen.

One night and maybe another night, so that needed baptized.

We went out to a river. It was dark.

You couldn't see anything, but we had the headlights from our

vehicles that was shining on the river.

We broke up a boozing party in order to baptize 13 people in

the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It don't matter the time of day, it don't matter the season.

It today is the day of salvation and now is the acceptable time.

What hinders us? What hinders us?

Archaeologists have even found, ladies and gentlemen, church

buildings. Of course, you know, in the

early years there was the the fact of the matter of like

church buildings was was very scarce.

People went house to house. They didn't have these edifices

except maybe a synagogue where they would have, you know, have

regular church. But archaeologists have found in

church buildings even in Asia Minor dating back to the middle

and 2nd century. Everybody said that's a long

time ago. And you know what they had in

them? Baptistries for baptism by

immersion. Baptizo, from which we get our

word baptized, is not to be confused with another Greek word

called bapto. There's a clear example that

shows the meaning of baptized in a text that is from the Greek.

I all the time use this. You've probably heard this a

dozen times, but a Greek poet writing writing there in his

language, a physician of Nick Ander who lived around 200 BC.

He was writing a recipe for making Pickles, and in this

recipe it's helpful to know what these words mean by the way that

he used these words. Nick Anders says that in order

to make a pickle, the vegetable should be dipped or bapto into

boiling water, but then baptized baptizo into the vinegar

solution. So both verbs indicate immersion

of the vegetable in the solution.

But the first, the bapto, the dipping, is just kind of like a

temporary thing. But the second, the act of

baptizing the vegetable, would do this.

It would produce a permanent change of the vegetable.

In other words, whenever you baptize the cucumber in the

vinegar, when it came up, it was no longer just a cucumber, it

was a pickle. Honey, you need, I'm not calling

anybody here a cucumber today, but I am saying this.

When you go down in the watery grave of baptism, there is a

permanent alteration, a permanent change.

I am not what I used to be, my dog.

Someone say glory. And we see that through

Scripture baptism, there's this alteration, there's an

accompanying of a change. Amen.

Acts chapter #4 and verse #12. The Bible says this is in

conjunction with the lame man that had been sitting at the

gate called beautiful, been brought there his whole life.

Lame from birth above 40 years old.

Peter and John went to the temple, right?

His eyes fastened upon him. He's asking for alms, and they

say silver and gold. Have we numb?

But such as we have give iron to thee.

And they grabbed the man by his hands and his ankle bones and

legs receive strength. And they begin walking and

leaping and even entered to the temple, which he could not have

done for his entire life due to his lameness.

And so some of the scribes and Pharisees and rulers of that

day, they, they see this and they kind of take everything

aside and they begin to ask about by what, by what power or

by what name has this been done? And Peter and John tell them by

the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, number one, notice that

people of that day associated power with the name.

They asked by what power or by what name?

They said by the name of the Lord Jesus.

And so they say then in Acts 4 and 12, neither is there

salvation in any other, for there is none of their name.

The name they're referring to is the name they've been talking

about in Acts 4, the name of Jesus Christ.

For there is none of their name under heaven given among men,

whereby we must, must be saved. Folks, when you get baptized,

you get baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's where the power is and that's the must name of

salvation. We will not baptize you.

Amen. In Father or in Son or in Holy

Ghost. Father has no power unless that

father has a name. Son has no power unless that son

has a name. There is no don't you need your

name. And the Bible tells us that his

name is Jesus. Jesus said I've come in my

Father's name. That's where the power is.

There's none other. It takes the name Colossians 1/3

and verse #17 tells us that whatsoever you do in Word or in

deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God

and the Father by Him. Some are listed as being

baptized in Scripture in the name of the Lord.

I have no problem with that because I know who the Lord is.

The revelation came. The revelation came to Saul in

Scripture who the Lord was, right?

Because we see his whole life before Christ persecuting the

early church and people that were preaching in the name of

Jesus Christ. Saul saw them as an imposter

because from a child he's been taught there's only one God.

So when they're talking about this Christ and him doing these

things that the Old Testament Isaiah said only God could do,

he sees Jesus as an imposter. That's just because he had not

yet dressed the revelation that the God that Isaiah spoke of is

the Jesus Christ in flesh in humanity among the Gospels.

That's the reason why he's on his little way to Damascus right

with the letters to be able to cause some more havoc of taking

those that are preaching and teaching in the name of Jesus

and imprisoning them. And as he's going, the Bible

says that light from heaven shines, knocks him off his

donkey, so to speak, Amen. And he hears a voice and the

Bible says in Acts 95 and he said, who art thou, Lord?

And the Lord said, I AB Jesus, whom thou persecute us,

revelation for Saul, you're telling me the Lord.

Because we see the Lord a lot in the Old Testament.

As a matter of fact, in your Bibles, you'll see it a lot in

capital letters. Lord, Lord, it was a

representation of the covenant name of God, what some would

call Yahweh or Jehovah. He says, you're telling me my

Yahweh is Christ, my Jehovah is Christ.

That's exactly what Jesus was telling him.

The Old Testament Lord is the New Testament Jesus.

He's not different. He's not a second.

He's not the third. He is the I am of the I Am,

which was and is and is to come. He is the beginning and He is

the ending. He's the ever.

I am Jesus, whom thou persecute us.

Is it hard for thee to kick against the pricks?

The name #622 The Bible says The Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

speaking to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise ye

shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, the

Lord bless thee. This is often a benediction

that's used in churches across America.

The Lord bless thee and keep thee.

The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto

thee. The Lord lift up his countenance

upon thee, and give thee peace. Verse 27.

And they shall put my name. They should put my name upon the

children of Israel, and I will bless them.

And in the Old Testament when it's all those upper place

letters, your Bible probably does this, most Bibles do.

But when it's all uppercase letters that notes the covenant

name Yahweh or Jehovah if you will.

Here's why this is important even though Testament moving

forward because anywhere God placed his name or evoked called

his name over often even in the Old Testament we see his name is

put on people on places and upon things put upon the children of

Israel name put on the temple or put upon things someone say man

so matter of fact all the way back brother Reese to Genesis

can't get away from him. I mean, everything sprouts from

Genesis, Genesis 426 and to seven To him also was born a

son. Remember, Seth was the one that

was born instead in the stead of Abel after Abel was murdered.

And Seth to him also was born a son and he called his name Enos.

Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

The literal translation of that verse is then begin the name of

the Lord to be called upon them. That changes things up.

It's not, it's not just that men were crying out to the Lord

Lord, it's that the name of the Lord was called upon them.

That's what happens in your baptism.

That's where there's a lot of flux in the in, in Acts chapter

#2 in the book of Romans where the Bible says whosoever shall

call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

When the reality is literally it is whosoever shall have the name

of the Lord called upon them or over them.

It's a reference to baptism. The awesome thing though, about

the name being called upon people and places and things is

this is what that denoted Old Testament.

We have precedent what that denoted when the name was placed

upon things. It denoted ownership.

It denoted redemption. It denoted his presence.

I read in Second Samuel chapter 12.

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This is just a example of a precedent of a name being used

for the purpose of ownership. The Bible says in second Samuel

12 and verse 26 and Joab fought against Rabba of the children of

Ammon and took the royal city. And Joab sent messengers to

David who was king at this time, and said, I have fought against

Rabbi and have taken the city of waters.

Look at verse 28. Now therefore gather the rest of

the people still David, gather the rest of the people together

in the camp against the city and take it.

Look what he says, lest I take the city and it be called after

my name. You know what Job said and he

said, I'm here David, I want you here because if I take the city

and I put my name upon it, then that's me claiming ownership of

it. But your king, your name should

be upon it so that you have ownership of it.

In second Samuel 5 and seven, look, we see in another place,

David per SE taking a city. The Bible says nevertheless,

David took this is second Samuel 5, seven, nevertheless David

took the stronghold of Zion and look what the Scripture says.

The same is the city of David. Matter of fact, usually a lot of

times. See Scripture that Zions called

the city of David. He put his name on it.

And thereby claim to ownership of it.

Honey, his name being spoken over you in baptism, Is it just

for the power of removal? It's the evidence of ownership.

Come on, we have we have a a great member of our our prison

team. She has a wonderful testimony.

She'll be here one of these days when we get worth happening and

she'll give her testimony. But we all time kid her because

she talks about how she went down in baptism.

She's Stephanie, Stephanie Hughes and she came up Stephanie

Hughes, Jesus Christ. And so all the time to give her

a hard time whenever she shows up.

I said, look, Stephanie use Jesus Christ is with us now.

You know, I just give her a hard time.

What's she talking about? She's talking about I'm not my

own anymore, right? I'm not my own anymore.

I belong to somebody. And can I tell you whenever you

belong to somebody else and you're in a relationship with

someone else and you want to be pleasing that someone else, then

whatever pleases them, you'll just kind of follow suit because

they're in love with the one whose name is up on you.

Hey, man, Sister Trout, whenever you got married, you didn't

reject Mike Trout's last name. You took his name in that

marriage ceremony because you love that man.

You didn't mind being identified with him.

You my God, folks, whenever you take the name of Jesus Christ in

baptism and you get his name on him, I'm all right that I'm

characterized by whatever he is. I'm all right that his nature

kind of flows over into my life. I'm all right, you better

believe I'll take the name that removed my defilement and the

name that removed my uncleanliness.

I'll take that name. God, I didn't get us baptized

here today. Starting to feel a little

moisture. Acts 19 and 20 if you read your

Exodus. Rather, Exodus 19 and 20, if you

read those chapters you read about Israel becoming God's

people because he's placing his name on them, says I am the Lord

thy God. That's important because at that

point of the placement of the name, they became his.

The Bible says in Exodus 66. Wherefore saying to the children

of Israel, I am the Lord, that's the capital Lord, and I will

bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I

will read you out of their bondage, and I will look now

redeem. You have a stretched out arm and

with great judgments. Not only did the name denote

ownership, it denoted redemption, and it also denoted

presence. Look at it will Moses is

speaking to God in Exodus 3 and verse 13.

And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come into the children of

Israel, and shall say unto them, the God of your Father's have

sent me unto you, and they shall say to me, What is his name?

What shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I am

that I am. And he said, thou shalt thou say

unto the children of Israel, I am, have sent me unto you, all

of that I am, that I am, I am. It's the covenant name of God.

All right, it's found there that that Hebrew you'd hey Bob, hey

that Yahweh, hey man, I am that I am that sent me unto you.

Look at verse 15. And God said, moreover unto

Moses, Thus shalt thy shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,

the Lord God of your father's, the God of Abraham, the God of

Isaac, the God of Jacob, have sent me unto you.

This is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all

generations. Why did that bring any comfort?

Whenever they asked who, who, who, who, who's, who?

Who am I going to say send them? What?

What name am I going to give? Because there was an

understanding, a person's name denoted presence.

Hey man. And so whenever the people heard

from Moses, hey, I'm not here on my own, I'm here.

The I am has sent me a that Yahweh that Jehovah sent me.

Those people had an understanding that anywhere the

Lord's name was, his presence was.

And so they could trust going with Moses because they weren't

going by themselves. They were going with the

presence of the Lord because he came with the name Amen.

Even in the New Testament and the Bible speaks about Mary

having a son. His name shall be called Jesus,

for he shall save his people. Matthew 121 isn't it?

He shall save his people from their sins.

Jehovah means or Jesus means Jehovah or that capital Lord

saves. James 2 verse 7.

James 2:7

Do not they blasphemy that worthy thing by which ye are

called, or by which it is evoked, or by which it's put

upon you, a name that is placed upon you, the word called,

evoked, or placed upon that worthy name.

Because when His name gets upon a person, He owns them, He

redeems them. And we'll get there in just a

bit about His present. Well, let me just jump the boat

here real quick. That's the reason why we have

the great consolation of being filled with the baptism of the

Holy Ghost, because anywhere he puts his name, his presence, I'm

not worried about if I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it.

Because if His name gets placed upon me, I have biblical

precedent that anywhere He puts His name, His presence goes.

Old Testament, Tabernacle and temple.

Read of it in the Book of Kings. He says, I place my name upon

that, whether it be temple or Tabernacle.

You know what you see? Then at the dedication of these

buildings, the Bible says the presence of the Lord entered the

house in so much that the priests could not even stand to

minister. What happened where He put His

name, His presence showed up. Oh, God.

OK, you got a little bit more Scripture in you.

Yeah. We got a brother.

We got 66. No, I'm Joe.

Acts 15, verse 7. When there had been much

Acts 15:7

disputing, Peter rose and said unto them, men and brethren, you

know how that a good while ago God made choice among us that

the Gentiles, right they first come.

They thought this thing was only for the Jews, but that the

Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and

believe and God, which you know, if the heart spare them witness

giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us and put no

difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

That's amazing. We see this also accounted in

the book of Acts chapter #11 that's not up there for you

brother Zach, I'm sorry, but it's not there.

Amen. The Bible says in there, when

they were talking about this concept and idea of the Gentiles

also received in the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

He says in Acts 11 and verse 14, who shall tell thee words

whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved?

And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them as on us

at the beginning. And it's them that he said he

remembered the word of the Lord how that he said John and be

baptized with water. But you shall be baptized with

the Holy Ghost. He says just as it was for the

Gentile, it was for the Jew on the the day of Pentecost, just

as the Jew experienced it, the Gentile experienced it.

Now with that we have a a bunch of naysayers day.

Well, you know, the the Holy Ghost of speaking in tongues is

is not for anybody. And that was just a 1st century

occurrence because on that day they sing cloven tongues like as

fire, and they heard a rush he mighty wind.

But when we read in Scripture just a little time later, both

in Acts 11 and in Acts 15, whenever the recounting what

happened for the Gentiles, all the things that make up the Holy

Ghost was there minus cloven tongues of fire.

Seeing that and hearing a wind, which tells me the primary

pattern then for salvation is repentance, baptism in the

infilling. The Holy Ghost was speaking in

new tongues. What's that tell me that I get

it just like they got it. He said they put no difference.

Folks, I'm not receiving some other Holy Ghost.

I'm not receiving a second grace.

I'm not receiving some, if you will, abnormality or some second

version. No, I'm receiving what the first

church received on the day of Pentecost.

I received it just like they received it with the name, with

the water, with other. This is not the second church or

the 52nd church. This is the church.

And he's only coming after one bride.

Not 2, not 3, not 5. He's coming after a bride who's

made herself ready, without spot, without wrinkle.

And the church can only get like that if she's baptized.

Bible says First Corinthians 6 and verse #11 and such were some

of you. Oh, I wish I had time to talk

about it. Let me just talk about a little

bit. Is this OK?

First Corinthians chapter #6 is that long, long list where the

apostle begins to speak about all these different types of

people, Amen. That were unrighteous.

Unrighteous people. He said in verse 9 and 1st

Corinthians 6 they cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.

Unrighteous people remember God righteousness, that

righteousness spell into salvation.

People without salvation cannot enter into the Kingdom of God or

the unrighteous. Look what he says.

Not fornicators, nor adulterers or adulterers or effeminate or

abusers of themselves, nor thieves, covetous drunks,

revilers, extortioners, and here at the Kingdom of God.

But note he said in such were some of you, you were some of

those people, you were some of those that were, if you will,

profane and unclean. But what happened?

The Bible says that ye are washed, that ye are sanctified,

that ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by

the Spirit of our God, you were washed and justified through a

name that was evoked over you in baptism, and you received a

spirit. So you're not effeminate

anymore. It's like that old cucumber.

You're not a cucumber, right? You're a big deal.

Just had to. Just when the spirits moving

like that, you just got to hey, man, oh, man, stand for me.

We'll try to sew this up. You're washed.

You're sanctified. You're justified.

John 112 But as many as received Him, to Him, to them gave he

power to become the sons of God, a Son of God.

I'm a Son of God. I cut the name of my Father even

to them that believe on His name, which were born not of

blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,

but of God. And the Word was made flesh and

dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory, presence, the

only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

They become the sons of God. They got His name, and then they

witnessed His glory, presence. Matthew 2121.

I've already referenced this Speaking of Mary.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shall call His name

Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.

Now all of this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was

spoken by the Lord, by the prophet saying, Behold, a virgin

shall be with child, she shall bring forth a son.

They shall call His name Emmanuel, which being

interpreted is God with us. We get Jesus, we get that

covenant name, it's God with us. When you get His name, you get

you'll get Him because wherever His name goes and is applied,

His presence will show up again. This is why if we repent or

baptize in the name of the Lord Jesus, we shall received the

gift of the Holy Ghost. When He puts His name on you.

Just wait because he's going to put his presence in you.

Folks, we bow our heads, but I'm, I'm presenting to you today

the best deal that there is that you've ever had.

And that's you can take a life of the Adamic nature of being a

Sinner from the moment of your entrance into the world until

now. This can't be done by a

physician, A neurologist, anybody in the medical field,

but by going down in the name of Jesus Christ, having already

repented of your sins, by going down in the name of the Lord

Jesus Christ and baptism of water, all of that, however many

years of it is there, can be removed in a moment.

No anesthetic. I can just be removed in a

moment, folks. It's the best deal I know.

He can take my shame, my pain, my guilt.

He can take my wrong, mistakes of Commission and omission,

mistakes I normally did and things that I even wasn't aware

of. And in a moment, the power

that's invested in the name to become owned by him, redeemed by

him, and it sets me up for receiving his presence, his

Spirit. If you need baptized in Jesus

name today, you need to be baptized.

He must be baptized. It's one of the things that we

must do. Oh God, we come to you.

We begin to pray to the Lord right now.

If you've never repented of your sins before, you've never

repented if you've never confessed with your mouth and

received forgiveness of sins today you can.

There's not like a particular mode or anything.

You can just talk to God and be honest about yourself, be honest

about your life. You don't have to have these and

thou's and you know introduced into your language and talk to

him just as a friend because he is that friend.

Scripture says that stick of closer than a brother.

You can just be brutally honest with the Lord.

He hears. He hears He's not like a God

that's a far off that doesn't doesn't interact with humanity.

We see him interact over and over again throughout the Word.

He gets down in the middle of it all.

He loves you today. He loves you today.

He doesn't just see what you are, He sees what you can be.

He wants to put His name on you. He wants to put his name on you.

He wants to redeem you. He wants to own you.

He wants a relationship with you.

What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood.

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. I love you, Lord.

Brother Mason, if we can go right now.

Oh, let's feel after him today of happily we might find him for

he's not far from everyone of us.

Saulters open if you want to pray or if you're praying in

your Pew, wherever you are, a full surrender to God.

Lord, I don't want my life to be my own.

I don't want to have control over my own life.

We just need to surround. We just need to surrender.

We just need to give up to yield here.

I am God, then you rushed and cleanse me.