The Revelation Of Jesus Christ!
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Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 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. (Matthew 28:16-20)
Now, God at the beginning was the great Jehovah that lived in a Pillar of Fire, hung above Israel and led them. That was God, the Angel of the Covenant. Come down on the mountain, the whole mountain caught fire; fire flew from the mountain, and wrote the Ten Commandments. He was called the “fatherhood of God,” to His children, His chosen race of people, the Jew.
Then that same God was made manifest in a virgin-born body that He created in the wombs of Mary, and lived and tabernacled and stretched His tent (as it was) among human beings. And that same God was made flesh and dwelled among us. The Bible said so. God was in Christ. The body was Jesus. Jesus, in Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. Can’t make Him three people now. Don’t baptize to three gods; there’s one God see: one God.
Now, this same God was made flesh; He said, “I came from God and I go to God.” After He had disappeared from the earth by His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, Paul met Him on the road down to Damascus, when he was yet called Saul. And a voice came and said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”
He said, “Who are You?”
He said, “I’m Jesus.”
And He was a Pillar of Fire, a Light that’s put out the eyes of the apostle. He had turned back. The same Jesus had turned back to God the Father again. That’s the reason He said here, “I am the Almighty,” in the same form He was before He was made flesh. And His body that He lived in, called Jesus, the Man that we know: Jesus.
Now, like a lot of you dear Oneness people baptize in the name of “Jesus.” You’re wrong. There’s hundreds of Jesuses in the world today, but there’s only one Lord Jesus Christ.
He was borned a Christ. Lots of Jesuses, I’ve met many of them. But there’s one Lord Jesus Christ; He’s God.
And Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not names; they’re titles that go to one Name. Say, “Baptize in the name of ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost.'” Father’s not a name, and Son’s not a name, and Holy Ghost is not a name; it’s a title, like human, that’s what it is. The Holy Ghost, a Spirit, Holy Ghost. Then say, “In the name of the Father.” Look at the fathers, and your sons’ sons. Look at the humans in here. See? Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not a name. It’s a title that goes to the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That’s the way the apostolic church baptized in the beginning. And I’ll ask anybody to produce one text of Scripture or one time in history that anybody was ever baptized in the Christian church any other way than but in the Name of Jesus Christ until the Catholic church was formed and they adopted “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost” for a creed. Now, bring up your history, some of the historians. Yeah, there’s no such a thing.
( The Revelation Of Jesus Christ
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~ Rev. William Marrion Branham