and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit
gave them utterance. Now as we read this it's going to be very clear what's happening here,
what it means when it says that they spoke with other tongues. But you see the Pentecostals have
this doctrine called tongue speaking or speaking in tongues. Who knows what I'm talking about?
You know speaking in tongues and basically what they do is they talk in a language that no one
around them understands and they'll be in church and I've been at a service before where they did
this and I scared the fire out of me and I actually just you know got up and walked out
because I couldn't even believe it but it made me very nervous but basically people in the auditorium
will just start just talking in gibberish and I'll tell you right now there are a lot of
different people who practice this so-called tongue speaking and you know I don't know what
all of it is involved. I mean I think a lot of them are just probably just getting emotional
because a lot of times music is involved and they get all worked up into some kind of a frenzy.
I've seen that take place but you know I'll be honest I've been in one service where I was
actually physically there present sitting in a church and I didn't realize it was that type of
church there was a Pentecostal church and this started taking place this so-called tongue speaking
and I'll tell you right now the girl that I saw that was speaking in tongues just five chairs
down from me she was not in the driver's seat I'll tell you right now and I can't speak for
every Pentecostal in America but the one that I saw sitting next to me I thought she was having
a seizure I'm not making a joke right now I was literally ready to call 911 or you know hey can
we get somebody to help this girl because I literally thought that she was because I've seen
who's ever seen somebody have a seizure you know that's what it was like I mean I saw this girl
I thought that she was epileptic I thought she was having a seizure because she started rocking
back and forth you know all this crazy stuff she was not in the driver's seat okay now let's see
biblically if that resembles and maybe you've been exposed to some of this tongue speaking and and
people talking in a language or or they say well you know I have this prayer language and I start
praying and then I just start saying stuff and I don't even know what I'm saying let's see if that
jives with what the bible says look at act chapter 2 verse 4 and by the way this is the this is the
the first time that god really explains to us what's going on with this speaking with other
tongues and it's pretty clear what's happening remember this is the chapter where they take their
name from this is the event the day of pentecost verse 4 says and they all began to they were all
filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance
and there were dwelling at jerusalem jews devout man out of every nation under heaven
now when this was noise abroad the multitude came together and were confounded they were what
confused confounded the multitude came together and they're basically confounded by this and they
say because that they heard them speak every man heard them speak in his own what okay so what were
they confused by the fact that they didn't understand the fact that they did understand
that they did because see there were people from every nation under heaven yeah the bible tells us
that there were development who had traveled for the day of pentecost they had traveled for this
holiday they were all there from all different countries and they started hearing these disciples
and every man heard them speak in his own language now according to chapter one there were 120
of the disciples in those days so there are 120 people that are basically preaching the
gospel to different people from different nations and every man is hearing them speak in his own
language so the first the bible said they began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them
utterance then it says people were confused because they said wow i'm hearing them speak
in my own language look at the next verse verse seven and they were all amazed and marveled saying
one to another behold are not all these which speak galileans and how here we every man in our
own what oh so first they said we hear every man in our own language now they're saying we hear
every man in our own tongue wherein we were born then they begin to list the tongues parthians and
needs and elamites and guas and mesopotamia and then judaea and capodosia and potis and asia
phrygia pamphilia and egypt and in parts of libya about syringes strangers of rome jews
and fossilites creeks and arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of god
so here they said we hear them speak in our own language we hear them speak in our own tongues
and they say here's 16 17 of the tongues that we heard book now does this look like gibberish to
you does this look like somebody having a seizure is this somebody talking in a babel that people
don't understand no this is people speaking legitimate bona fide languages not a made-up
language not a heavenly language not an angelic language no this is somebody speaking egyptian
to an egyptian yeah this is somebody speaking libyan to a libyan and i understand that those
are not modern day names of languages but whatever languages they spoke in those places back then
that's what they were speaking to them they were speaking to the libyan in his own native language
they were speaking to the syrenian to the roman in their native tongue wherein they were born
it has nothing to do with the modern day pentecostal movement it has nothing to do with
what's called so-called tongue speaking there's nobody here who's just speaking in another
language just for granted no they were doing it to give somebody the gospel god performed a miracle
here that's right because of the fact that there were all these people gathered from all different
nations this was a great opportunity for the gospel to be spread jesus christ had just risen
from the dead and this is a perfect opportunity for people from all over the world to hear the
gospel and then they could take the gospel back to their home country and these were devout men
these were men who were uh people who who were religious they wanted to do what was right they
wanted to do you know but they needed to hear the truth they needed to hear the gospel and then once
they heard it many of them believed and of course we see that later about three thousand people are
going to get baptized at the end of this whole thing so these people heard the gospel in their
own language this has nothing to do with the the bogus uh pentecostal movement today of tongue
speaking and when you see this tongue speaking you know the only thing i can compare it to in
the bible is someone being demon possessed yeah you know when you see somebody talking in another
voice and it's not their own voice and they're out of control the bible says the spirit of the
prophets is subject unto the prophets but yet when you see someone who's not in the driver's seat and
i've spoken to people who say i've spoken i was a mezzarene or i was a you know somebody's got
and they said i spoke in tongues and this is what one of them told me a guy that i worked with in
the alarm business he said this is what happened he said i just blacked out and then people told me
oh you know you spoke in tongues you did this once i came back to consciousness
you know that's not of god you don't see that in the bible that's and you see these strange
doctrines and strange manifestations in the pentecostal movement now you say well how do
you know that tongue speaking isn't real i'll tell you right now the first reason i know that tongue
speaking isn't real the number one reason is because everybody i've ever met who believed in
tongue speaking or practiced tongue speaking also believed you could lose your salvation
so that right there tells me this is this is not of god because it's associated with a false
gospel false doctrine number two i know it's not real because it doesn't line up with scripture
because it has nothing to do with what the bible is teaching here where tongues are foreign languages
when we get to first corinthians 14 tongues are still languages they haven't changed have you ever
heard someone say hey this is his mother tongue yeah that's just means his native language his
mother tongue have you ever heard this term lingua franca that means the most used and common
language in the world or in that area is the lingua franca that lingua like have you ever
been to the grocery store in the hispanic section and you see a lot of lingua what's lingua mean
right spanish for tongue exactly and so uh we see that this is not true but but number two go to uh
go to romans chapter four if you with romans chapter four
so we see number one the false doctrine that you can lose your salvation it's false
number two the so-called tongue speaking and ecstatic speaking is not biblical it's false
number three the pentecostal movement teaches baptismal regeneration they teach that you have
to be baptized in order to be safe now they're all different varieties of pentecostals they don't all
believe the same things there are all there there's church of god church of christ church
of god in christ and then there's the united church of christ and then there's the united
pentecostal church and there's the assemblies of god and there's all different varieties and they
all believe slightly different things but you know the common denominators that you'll find are are
losing your salvation always amongst all of them and here's the other common denominator that
you'll find tongue speaking you know that's a common denominator amongst all of them now
baptismal regeneration or these believing that you have to be baptized to be saved
this isn't all of them but i would say it's most of them the majority of pentecostals
are going to run into believe you have to be baptized to be saved now the thing that it's
so easy to defeat this doctrine that you have to be baptized to be saved first of all you can just
go through the huge litany of verses that say that all you have to do is just believe starting with
john 3 16 for god shall love the world that he gave us all the begotten son that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life he that believeth on the sun
have everlasting life but he did believe not the sun shall not see life but the wrath of god abide
upon him uh john 5 24 barely barely i stand in you he that heareth my word and believeth on him
that sent me have everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but his past and death and
the life john 6 47 barely barely i stand to you he that believeth on me have everlasting life
and we could go on and on of all the different scriptures for i'm not ashamed of the gospel
of christ romans 1 16 for it is the power of god unto salvation to everyone that believeth
to the jew person also to the grief right there it's clear that uh salvation by believing alone
so if you have to be baptized to be saved then those verses are all not true
because if all these literally hundreds and i'm not reciting them all to you we could go through
100 verses if you want that say that believing in christ is going to save you if that's not enough
then those verses aren't true when the bible says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord
jesus and shall believe in my heart that god was raised and then thou shalt be saved oh but if you
didn't get baptized sorry you're not saved not only that but if you believe baptism saves you're
basically believing that you have to rely on man to save you because who baptizes you god or man
man baptizes you don't get baptized by god god's not going to physically come to baptize you no you
have to go to a man and be baptized so now you have to go to church to get baptized or go to
some preacher and and basically you have to go to them for salvation that's not biblical
the word is 90 you don't have to go get it the word is 90 even in my mouth and in my heart that
is the word of faith which we preach that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and
shall believe in thy heart that god's raised and then thou shalt be saved but here's the here's
the key thing go to romans four five here's what i say to those who say that baptism saves
if baptism saves you if you have to be baptized to be saved then how did people get saved for four
thousand and two hundred and twenty two years approximately give or take you know before jesus
christ died on the cross how did people get saved for four thousand two hundred twenty two years
approximately or four thousand you know 250 years or however many years between the time of the
creation until the time of john the baptist because guess what john the baptist is the first baptism
where you see a guy baptizing somebody in the water in the whole bible john the baptist so
what about the four thousand some years before john the baptist came along how did people get
saved i was out knocking doors i was not fixing the gospel i knocked on the door of a deacon of
the of the church of christ this guy i mean this guy was the deacon of the church which is
basically just second only to the pastor i mean you got the pastor and then you got the deacons
so this guy is a leader of the church of christ and i knocked on his door and he said you have
to believe and be baptized to be saved and i said so what if the person believes it doesn't get
better he said they're not safe you have to be baptized also and i said so how do people get
saved for over four thousand years before john the baptist how'd they get saved and he just
looked at me and said i don't know now you're the deacon of the church of christ okay you're a leader
here and you're not you don't even know how people got saved for two-thirds of human history you just
have no idea all i know is you got to get baptized to be saved okay so what about four
thousand some years of people how did they get taken or are they just all in heaven abraham isaac
jacob you know the bible says that those people would all be in the kingdom of heaven so how'd
they get there did they get baptized no and then he said well i don't know but i know that now you
have to get baptized yeah that doesn't make any sense can you wait can you get grandfathered in
i mean where's the help okay well the bible tells us right here in romans chapter 4 verse 5
it says this but to him that worketh not but believe it so is this guy doing any works
says here he doesn't work he says work it not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly
his faith is counted for righteousness but watch verse 6 even as david also
describe it the blessedness of the man unto whom god imputeth righteousness without works he's
quoting the book of psalms saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are
covered blessed is the man to whom the lord will not impute sin and the bible and we can read the
whole uh chapter two let's read the next verse two comment this blessedness then upon the
circumcision only or upon the uncircumcision also for we say that faith was reckoned to
abraham for righteousness how was it then record we could go on and on but you see here
faith was imputed unto abraham for righteousness and the bible says that both david and abraham
described the blessedness of the man to whom god imputes righteousness without works and forgives
iniquities without works covers sin without works just through faith so if abraham was saved just
by faith if david was saved just by faith if paul is telling us today he's telling the romans hey
we're just saved by faith not by works then where is baptism in all of this i don't see abraham
getting baptized i don't see david getting baptized and it doesn't make any sense also
if baptism is how you get saved why did jesus get baptized did jesus need to be saved did jesus have
any sense no and so baptism doesn't save you from your sins because jesus didn't have anything
jesus christ got baptized in obedience to the father just as we get baptized in obedience
but it's not what saves us you see baptism is a picture of the gospel but baptism is not the gospel
go to first cranky in chapter one i'll prove that to you
baptism is a picture of the gospel but baptism is not the gospel
he's saying well how does baptism picture the gospel because baptism pictures the death burial
and resurrection of jesus christ you know when he's standing up in the water that's a picture of
jesus when he was on the cross when you go down into the water it's a picture of when he was buried
and when you come up out of the water it's a picture of the resurrection so baptism pictures
the gospel it pictures salvation it pictures your spirit being regenerated but is baptism the gospel
no it only is a picture of the gospel it's sort of like when we take the lord's supper or communion
and we have a little cracker and the juice you know that cracker or that unleavened bread
it represents the broken body of jesus but is it the broken body of jesus
no i mean if you ask the catholics they'll say yeah you know you're eating the body of
jesus you're drinking his blood and that is cannibalism and everything in the bible by the
way the bible commands you never eat blood never you'll never eat blood in all your generations
it's abomination no blood tacos when you go down to mexico okay so they think it is this is the
body of no it represents the body well baptism is the same way it's not the gospel it only
represents that it pictures what saves you but itself doesn't save you because a person can get
baptized and they're still not saved if they don't believe in christ they can get baptized
a hundred times they're not saved and a person believes in christ but doesn't get baptized sort
of like the thief on the cross who just looked at jesus and said lord remember me when i come
jesus said today's job would be paradise okay he believed that was enough he called upon him
that was enough let me prove to you that baptism is not the gospel look at first corinthians
chapter one verse 14 i thank god that i baptized none of you but crispeth and guidance lest any
should say that i baptized in my own name i baptized also the household of stefanis
besides i know not whether i baptized any so he's basically saying i'm thinking back as hard as i
can and the only people i can think of that i've ever baptized was crispeth
gaius and the household of stefanis he's saying that's who i baptized that i can think of as i'm
talking to you he said i know not besides i know not whether i baptized any other he said you know
that's all i can think of that i baptized look what he says for christ sent me not to baptize
but to preach the gospel now it looks to me like the gospel and being baptized are two different
things because he says here christ did not send me to baptize but rather he sent me to preach
the gospel not with the wisdom of words lest the cross of christ should be made of none effect
now if baptism says why is he saying why i'm glad that i didn't baptize people
and how is he saying well i preached the gospel but i didn't baptize
well if the gospel is that you have to be baptized to be saved
you couldn't really do one without the other you know you couldn't really preach the gospel to
people and get people saved unless you're baptized because that's how they would get
saved according to this false doctrine so clearly baptism is a picture of salvation
no question but is baptism salvation no now here's the thing whenever you're going to act
chapter 10 acts chapter number 10 whenever you're dealing with a false doctrine
whenever you're dealing with a false doctrine it's usually based on one or two verses that
are taken out of context and basically in the bible you'll have hundreds of clear verses just
saying one thing believe believe believe believe faith faith faith faith faith faith turn away
turn away faith faith faith faith believe believe you know it's just just really clear clear clear
and then you'll have one verse that seems to be saying something different and you know sometimes
you look at it and it can confuse you and you say i don't get this this seems this almost makes it
sound like you know you need to be baptized to be saved or this verse almost no let me ask you this
just using a logical mind here which one do you think you're wrong about you know if you got a
hundred that are clearly telling you it's believed to be safe and then you got one that makes it
sound like you have to be baptized you know do you think you're misinterpreting all of these
hundred verses you're you're wrong on old or do you think maybe you just misinterpreted one verse
you know what i mean and that it's pretty obvious what the answer to that question is
now the pentecostals their favorite chapter is acts two right i told you that but i forgot to
tell you their favorite verse in in acts two which is acts 238 and i've even seen a pentecostal
i was driving down the road and it's called acts 238 pentecostal church that was the name of the
church okay so they really like this very this is their big verse okay but but first look at
acts 10 i want to show you acts 10 first in verse 43 now this is another verse going back to the
old testament prophets it says to him give all the prophets witness that through his name
whosoever believeth in him shall receive the remission of remission of sin so the
bible is telling us in action 43 that all of the old testament prophets all basically
were pointing to the same thing that believing in jesus christ is going to get you the remission of
sins right now that's clear now are all the old testament prophets telling you you got to get
baptized not even mentioned until john the baptist okay so all the prophets are saying that through
his name whosoever anybody he's saying who believeth in him shall receive a remission of
sins look at verse 44 while peter yet spake these words the holy ghost fell on all them which heard
the word and they of the circumcision which believed were astonished as many as came with
peter because that on the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy ghost for they heard them
speak with tongues now and magnify god they didn't speak so are these people you know having
an epileptic fit are they are they you know wow there got the holy ghost too you know because
they're falling out of the chair and rolling in the aisles and talking nonsense no get the story
in acts chapter 10 they went unto a place where they were all italians okay and peter is preaching
unto them and basically they begin to when they hear the word preached in their own you know
they're basically hearing the word of god okay in their own italian language there's probably some
kind of translator there or whatever and then what happens is the people that are with him from judea
they begin to hear them speaking and glorifying god in their own language and they are astonished
at that and god performed this miracle to show those that had come with peter that these people
also believed don christ that they could hear that in their own language because they were
skeptical whether the gentiles could really be saved because they were mixed up on that
doctrine they were confused about that which obviously the gentiles could always be saved
both old and new testament anybody could be saved that called upon the name of the lord i mean that's
that's clear but these people were mixed up on that so god's trying to show them this
and it says in verse 47 watch this can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized
which have received the holy ghost as well as he and he commanded them to be baptized in the
name of the lord then prayed they had to tarry certain days let me ask you this
did these people get saved first did they get the holy spirit when they believed or did they
get the holy spirit when they got baptized i mean look at them they already had received the holy
ghost in verse 47 right and then he said hey let's baptize them and then they got back so which came
first receiving the holy ghost or getting baptized they received the holy ghost first
just when they heard the word while they still heard it they believed it and spoke out about it
and boom they already have the holy spirit done and then he says hey let's get him baptized right
go back to act separated you'll see the same thing in verse 37 unless you're reading a false
bible verse 37 won't even be there but if you've got the king james bible it says in act separate
verse 37 it says that philip said and a guy just asked at the end of verse 36 what does
hinder me to be baptized he said hey what's stopping me from getting baptized at the end
of verse 36 and in verse 37 and philip said if thou believeth with all thine heart thou mayest
and he answered and said i believe that jesus christ the son of god and he commanded the
chariot to stand still and they went down both into the unit into the water both philip and
and he baptized him and when they would come up out of the water the spirit of the lord caught
away philip that the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing so here we see clearly
that first you believe on it then you get baptized next now if you get saved you may get baptized
but not everybody who gets saved is going to get baptized go back to act chapter two
act chapter two this is the the favorite word i'm going to show you because i want to show you the
verses that they use to derive this doctrine because you say where do they get this pastor
anderson you know you're ranting through all these verses that just say if you just believe
and then it's not it works and it's faith alone and that even david and abraham were saved by
faith alone in the old testament and were saved by people you know where they get this well here's
where they get it from and you know basically like i said you know you got a false doctrine
when you got one verse that seems to contradict 100 you might want to revisit the one verse
and see what it's really saying and figure that the hundred you know you probably are right about
those since they all say the same thing okay look at act chapter 2 verse 37 now before we get to
verse 37 back up to verse 21 okay acts 2 21 clearly tells us how to be saved okay it says
in acts 2 21 it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the lord shall be saved
so that's salvation right there that's consistent with the old testament
all the way back to genesis when it says men began to call upon the name of the lord abraham called
upon the name of the lord isaac called upon the name of the lord david called upon the name of the
lord and you know there's there they're literally i think i've preached a sermon where i use about
50 verses that just talked about calling upon the name of the lord to be saved and of course the
bible says how should how that shall they call on him and whom they've not believed so you call
by faith and so he sits right there in act 2 21 it shall come to pass then whosoever shall call
on the name of the lord shall be saved done now as we go down further as peter finishes preaching
this sermon and he's explaining to them how they're the ones who killed jesus you crucified
him you with wicked hands have crucified jesus verse 37 when they heard this because look at
the very end of verse 36 ye have crucified both lord and christ so he's saying you crucified him
verse 37 now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart you know they feel really
guilty about this they feel terrible we we crucify the lord jesus christ men and brethren it says it
says in verse 37 they were pricked in their heart and said unto peter and to the rest of the
apostles man and brother what shall we do what are they what are they asking what should we do
what do we do we've messed up what do we do look at verse 38 then peter said to 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 for the promise is unto you and unto your and to your children
and to all that are far off as many as the lord our god shall call and then in verse 41 it says
then they that gladly received this word were baptized in the same day what happened to them
about 3 000 souls okay and then it says verse 44 all that believe were together and all things
come so we see here in verse 38 it says then remember acts 238 pentecostal church you know
then peter said to them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ
for the remission of sins now if you read that you might walk away thinking well this is saying
this is what people will interpret this verse they'll say well this is saying that if i'm
baptized in the name of jesus christ that that is what's going to give me the remission of sins
okay that's basically how they read that like well if i get baptized then i'm going to get
the remission of sins or have my sins forgiven now would that would that not contradict what
all the prophets have said according to act 43 that whosoever believe in them shall receive
remission of sins now this verse does not explicitly say you know if you believe if you
get baptized that's what's going to cause you to get the remission of sins it says be baptized
every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins and simply this it's a
misunderstanding of the word for because the word for is not saying here in order that you might
receive the remission of sins the word for also means because of for example what if i said wanted
for murder what does that mean if i said wanted for murder it's not saying hey i would like to
hire you to perform a murder for it doesn't mean wanted for murder you know you know because i want
you you know you're going to be murdered or you're going to murder what it means is you're wanted
because of murder that's the reason why you're wanted okay and basically the bible is saying here
that the reason that we get baptized is for the remission of sins we get baptized because of the
remit because that's what it represents that's what it has to do with that's what it's a picture
of the death burial and resurrection of christ and like as christ was raised up from the dead
the bible says if we be dead with christ we shall also live with them you know we're buried with
them by baptism into his death it's a picture and we are baptized because of the remission of sins
now you say well i don't think that's what for means in every but see if you're going to say
that that means well be baptized in order that you might receive the remission of sin well then
you're just contradicting all the rest of the virus so you have to just decide do you believe
that the whole bible is god's word and then it contains no contradictions now if you believe
that the bible contains contradictions then i don't even know why you're in church i don't
even know why you believe the bible i mean if it's filled with mistakes and contradictions
the bible teaches clearly it says in hebrews 11 through faith we understand so the key to
understanding the bible is first you have to believe the bible now i believe the bible tonight
i believe that's 238 but i also believe john 316 i also believe john 318 i also believe john 336
and in a multitude of verses now in order to believe that baptism saves you know you can say
well i believe that's 238 but you're basically saying you don't believe a hundred verses that say
if you believe and do no works you're still safe you know like romans 4 5 if it's whosoever
believe it or not so you have to decide do i believe all of the bible or am i just going
to take one verse put it on the sign of my church and say this is all i believe acts 238
well you don't believe john 316 if but but see look i believe both because i just believe he's
saying be baptized because of be baptized for the remission of sin you know and you shall receive
the gift of the holy ghost see again receiving the gift of the holy ghost is not a result of
being baptized because in act shepherd 10 what happened they received the holy ghost then they
got baptized he's just saying you will also receive the gift of the holy ghost he's not saying
because you got baptized or when you got baptized and so forth so that's their other now here's the
other big verse biggie's mark 16 50 because i'm i'm just i want to show you where they're coming
from here you can see and really you know i've talked to hundreds of people about this literally
at least hundreds of people i've talked to hundreds of people who say you have to be
baptized to be saved and i have hundreds of verses to show them that say it's believed
i got verses upon verses and how many verses do you want to see and they pretty much got three
verses that they'll show you i mean in my experience they got about three of them they pretty
much show you first peter chapter three uh they show you acts chapter two and they show you mark
16 that's pretty much the three verses that they've got so we got hundreds upon hundreds
saying it's believed and i mean we've got a guy saying what must i do to be saved wouldn't that
have been a great time to say well get baptized yeah but no it's just believe on the lord jesus
christ and thou shalt be saved so we got hundreds of verses saying it's just believe and then we've
got these three verses that pretty much i've seen them use to try to say you have to be baptized
acts 238 i'm sorry it doesn't even mention the word saved they didn't even say what do we have
to do to be safe they just said what should we do you know there's a lot of things we should do
we should get baptized we should go to church we should live a good life we should do this and that
but what must we do to be safe believe on the lord here's the other verses they'll use mark 16 16
let's read verse 15 he says and he said to them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to
every preacher he that believeth that is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be
damned now let me bring three volunteers up here to illustrate this brother garrett come on up here
i'm just gonna use the guys that are closest to the front here uh richard and richard come on
brother garrett and the two richards here go ahead stand over here brother garrett okay
go stand right here richard mcmurray go ahead stand right here richard miller
okay now i want to illustrate this to you because notice what the verse says it says
whosoever believeth that is baptized shall be saved or let me let me find it so i can quote
it right he that believeth that is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned
now first of all let me point out does it say that you'll be damned if you don't get baptized
no it just says you'll be damned if you don't believe okay now person a is going to represent
someone who believes on the lord jesus christ and is baptized okay this guy he's believed on christ
he's saved and he's been baptized he's been dumped underwater okay now person being here
this represents a guy who believes on the lord jesus christ but he has not yet been baptized okay
he's not baptized now let me ask you this who got baptized sometime after you got saved there was a
there was a space of months or years between the time you got saved and time you got baptized okay
me too i got you know and i believe that you should get baptized right away
you know in a perfect world ideally like the ethiopian eunuch hey let's pull over and baptize
it you know because he was he was ordained to do that he was a deacon in the church and so he's a
deacon he baptized him okay but you know a lot of people there's a there's a gap of time there
they get saved and then maybe months or years later they get baptized okay so this guy is
saved and baptized this guy is believing in christ he's definitely saved he knows he's believing and
he's saved but he's not baptized okay this guy does not believe in jesus christ at all
okay he's just not saved so we got three people not saved saved and saved and baptized okay
everybody got it now which of these which of these two people do we believe are going to heaven which
are these three people these two guys are both going to have it right this guy's not going to
because he doesn't believe in christ okay so everybody got that okay so these two guys are
saying now according to the pentecostals which of these three guys are going to heaven the ones who
believe in baptisms jerry just this guy these two other guys are not going he's the only one that's
going because you got to be baptized to be saved according to them now let's use the bible to see
which of these guys are saved now i'm going to pick one verse and i'm going to let the pentecostals
pick one verse okay so i'm going to pick john 3 16 for god so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life
which of these two people are saved according to that verse these two guys are saved so i it looks
like i'm right looks like the pentecostals are wrong okay well let's get their verse okay so
let's get out their verse mark 16 16 okay now he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved
but he that believeth not shall be damned now who believes that that verse is true amen right it's
the word of god i believe it's true too because you know what that verse really says it just says
that he's saved and i believe that yeah and you know what else it says it says that this guy's
damned and i believe that okay does everybody get this mark 16 16 is telling us that this guy's it
does it mention this guy it doesn't mention him it mentions him and it mentions him and it's a
true statement it's a true word now according to the pentecostals mark 16 16 is saying that
you know you have to be baptized to be saved meaning that this guy's saved and this guy isn't
well doesn't that contradict john 3 16 which just said all the guys on the stage here that believe
are saved okay so do you see how my interpretation of mark 16 16 gets in perfectly with john 3 16
and let me add my own statement and this is not bible but let me make my own statement he that
believeth and standeth on his head shall be saved now who believes that that's true
that is true yeah and i'm going to perform a headstand right now no i'm just kidding
and i'll still be saved okay what if the bible what what if the setting he does believeth and
drinks a glass of water shall be saved do i believe did i drink a glass of water i'm saying
okay now is that saying that people who don't drink a glass of water are not saved
no and you see how people will twist something though and they'll make you think it's saying
something that it's not saying okay there's no verse in the bible you can't find a verse that'll
say if you don't get baptized you're not safe but i can show you a ton of verses that say
he that believeth not is condemned already here's one right here he that believeth not shall be
damned so you see according to john 3 16 these two guys are saying he's not according to mark 16 16
he's saying doesn't even mention him and he's not safe according to the pentecostal they have
a contradiction here because they got john 3 16 saying that this guy is saved and mark 16 16
according to them is saying that he's not safe even though does the does the verse mention
somebody who believes but is not baptized it doesn't even mention them go ahead and have a
seat gentlemen thank you so you know you can find a couple of verses and i'll be honest with you
as a child reading my bible i got to mark 16 16 and it kind of threw me for a loop
you know i looked at that and said what in the world this makes it sound like you have to
be baptized in order to be saved you know it kind of threw me out but i just said to myself you know
i know that can't be true because i just read all the other prophets telling me 500 times that if
i believe i'll be saved so i just didn't really let it bother me then later on as i looked at it
more i said wait a minute this is not telling us that a person who doesn't get baptized isn't safe
it's telling people to go out and preach the gospel and basically we see baptism that's what
we see as a sign that somebody is saved you know we can't see the heart we can see baptism right
that's we can look at somebody and say oh that guy got baptized okay and that could be an indication
or a sign that they believe in christ because it's their outward confession of christ
i believe that jesus died and buried and risen again i'm getting baptized to publicly show them
that's us looking at it from the outside we see that just as james shapiroon talks about us
looking at other people's works and seeing their works okay we can't see their faith we can see
their faith by their works many times and so forth and so let me get to one more i'm running out of
time here i gotta i want to i want to get to one last point i'm going to skip some points at the end
you know because i i do have some material here on on the faith healing
you know and the slain and the spirit and the healing lines and the benny hands and the miracles
and the word of knowledge and the you know extra biblical revelation but i i want to spend time on
just one more false doctrine tonight at the pentecostal movement and that is what's called
the oneness doctrine or the jesus only doctrine who's ever been confronted with this hey you may
have been confronted with this and you just didn't know it you'll run into people and here's what
they'll say to you and this is how this is a sign that they're mixed up in this okay this is a sign
that you're dealing with pentecostals who believe that you can lose your salvation and that you have
to be baptized to be saved okay here's a sign they'll ask you this question now have you been
baptized in the name of jesus or were you baptized in the name of the father the son of
the holy ghost who's ever been asked that question before yeah see more hands are going up now yeah
i've been asked that question that's what this doctrine is and let me tell you in turn if you
would let's turn to uh matthew chapter 28 first of all matthew 28 now again there are so many
different denominations of pentecostals i can't keep them all straight okay but
this is a pretty prevalent doctrine not all pentecostals believe this but there are a lot
of pentecostals that i run into believe this this is something that i run into when i'm not talking
to people and it seems like increasingly lately more people have been hitting me with this i
don't know if this is a doctrine that's spreading but basically it's a false doctrine that denies
the trinity they basically deny the trinity and you say well what's the trinity and let me let
me teach you biblically what the trinity means and why we believe in it and you say well the
word trinity is not the bible but this word is in the bible three and one and that's what trinity
means three and one and i believe that okay and let me let me expose the doctrine to you because
it's very important that we believe in the father the son and the holy ghost okay and this jesus
only doctrine or the oneness doctrine is a false doctrine okay let me show you first of all in
matthew 28 verse number 17 the bible says and when they saw him they worshiped him but some
doubted matthew 28 18 and jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in
heaven and 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
now that seems pretty clear to me that seems pretty simple to me right baptize them in the
name of the father of the son but this oneness this pentecostal this is what they'll say
well if you got baptized in the name of the father of the son you weren't even really baptized
and many of them will even take it a step further and say you're not even saved because to be saved
you got to be baptized in the name of jesus only yeah only jesus now isn't that kind of bizarre
that the bible tells us to do something and then we go out and do it and then someone tells us that
we're we're doing it wrong like because who's ever been here when we baptize people put up your hand
you know when we baptize people yeah you know because thank god we're you're sitting in a
church where people actually get saved we're actually going to get people saved and we baptize
people every chance we get and we baptize them in the swimming pool and dunk them under water
okay just like they did in the bible they use a swimming pool but they use a river or lake or
whatever they had okay so have you noticed that when we baptize people we say i baptize you my
brother in the name of the father and of the son of the holy ghost amen we baptize him in the name
of the father son this is why we do that okay because that's what god said to do he told us
go do this in the name of the father and they'll say no that's wrong you must baptize in the name
of the lord jesus because act 238 says be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ now
let me ask you something if you're baptized in the name of the father the son of the holy ghost
are you baptized in the name of jesus yes is it i mean correct me if i'm wrong isn't he the son
okay so wouldn't that include the lord jesus so does that mean so did peter just baptize in the
name of jesus but not the father and no no this is nonsense this is just crazy you say best guess
why are you just spending time in your sermon on this there are a lot of people who believe this
but but the main reason i'm spending time on it though is because i want to talk about the root
of where that comes from because yeah that is crazy to say well you're wrong if you obey matthew
28 what jesus said we should follow what peter did not what jesus said well that doesn't make
any sense i'm gonna go with what jesus told us to do then just an example of what someone did
you know there were other people in the bible who had two wives i'm not gonna go have two wives
because jesus said one wife okay now was peter wrong to baptize in the name of the lord jesus
no but i'm just saying if there were a difference which there isn't but if there were a difference
then i would go with what jesus clearly said than just what someone did but there's not a difference
anyway because if you're baptized in the name of the lord jesus guess what that's the name of the
son okay so there's no issue there we don't see an instance of what peter said while he gunked him
under the law he's just telling people hey get baptized in the name of the lord jesus the guy
you just crucified repent and be baptized in the name of the lord jesus he's not saying you know
that you know so that's what i have to say as i dunked you and if you didn't if they didn't say
in the name of jesus when they dumped you you're not really baptized no it's in the name of the
father the son the holy ghost now let me tell you something these oneness if somebody asks you that
question beware you may just think oh this is silly it doesn't even matter well you're right
it is very silly i'll be the first one to admit that okay but the reason it matters is because
you're talking to somebody who doesn't believe in the trinity because they actually believe
that the trinity does not exist they believe that basically there's just jesus
and he is the father and he is the holy ghost and frankly that's just a false doctrine that
just isn't true jesus is the son now is jesus god yes of course amen now here's the doctrine
then we get to go to john chapter one john chapter one and while you're in john chapter
one i'm going to read for you for sake of time from first john five seven in first john five
seven the bible says for there are three how many three that bear record in heaven the father
the word and the holy ghost and watch this and these three are one now they're now i believe
that there are three that are one you say well that doesn't make any sense okay that's what the
bible says i believe it whether my p-brain can comprehend it fully or not is not the point
i believe that these three are one i believe that the father the son and the holy ghost represent
one god in three parts there the father the son and the holy ghost that's what i believe i don't
believe in three gods the bible clearly says in first timothy 2 5 there is one god
but the bible is also clear that there's the father the son and the holy ghost
these three are one now there are two false doctrines false doctrine number one is the
mormons of the joe's witnesses who will say these three are not one right they'll say that jesus
christ is a separate created being created by god separate not one so there's the one that says
these three are not one that's the mormons of joseph then there's the pentecostals that say
this one is not three and guess what they're both wrong to say that there's not three is a lie and
to say that there's not one is a lie it's three in one and it's i don't think that that's really
that complicated of a doctrine to understand now let me let me make it in a way where it might
help you understand it if you if you're trying to wrap your mind around this
i am made of three parts the body the soul and the spirit right but that all makes up one person
we're not talking about three different people up here we're not talking about three different
stephen anderson's we're talking one stephen anderson a body a soul and a spirit all three
parts making up one person now can the body and the soul be separated that's called dying right
as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works then also so when my body dies
my spirit departs the body so are these two separate things or are they the same
just a one a oneness body only i believe in body only i don't believe in the soul i don't
believe in the spirit it's just body well that doesn't make sense because when somebody dies
there's a believer in christ their body is buried but is their soul buried no their soul is in heaven
their spirit is in heaven and so there's obviously two separate things going on here
gave three because there's the soul the spirit and the body part of that is in heaven part of
that is buried in the earth would it be accurate to say stephen anderson is buried in the earth if
i were yes because that's where my body is and that body represents stephen anderson that's i
mean it's not anyone else you know my wife i come and identify the body not to be morbid or anything
but you know pull back the seat and say yes this is my husband
okay that's me but it's not all of me it's just the body the soul and spirit are up in heaven
same thing with god god is in three just like the three are one spirit soul and body make up one
person father son and holy ghost make up one god and there is even a separation that took place
where the father is up in heaven right the body's down here on earth jesus christ the son was down
here physically on this earth there was a time when jesus christ soul was in hell his body was
in the tomb the father is up in heaven it's all the same person so if we can under i don't think
anybody has a problem understanding the separates excuse me the separation of soul and body and
spirit at death everybody understand that so how can we not understand that god is made up in a
similar format of basically a father son and holy ghost that make up one person okay so you know
again we may not fully comprehend it but that's just because we're human and god's on a different
level than us but we still believe it don't we okay so let's look at some proof on this let's see
some proof that the trinity is real first of all we saw uh first shot five seven these three are one
look at john one one the bible says in the beginning was the word and the word was with
god and the word was god now down in verse 14 it says the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and
it tells us clearly that the word is jesus christ so the bible says in the beginning was the word
the word is with god the word was god now heresy number one over here the mormons and joel's witnesses
they say the word was not god heresy number two over here the pentecostals say the word was not
with god it just was god okay we believe that the word was with god and was god everybody getting
this okay because it's the trinity it's three and one okay let me give you just a ton of scriptures
on this first of all defeating this heresy is pretty easy the one that says that jesus is not
god that's pretty easy keepers 1 8 put unto the son he saved thy throne oh god is forever and ever
let's call him jesus god and you know great is the mystery of god is verse 10 to 316 god was
manifested in the flesh okay uh the word was god the word became flesh and dwelt among us jesus
christ said you know hey uh you know uh before abraham was i am you know he's basically calling
himself by that name that god called himself in the burning bush hey i am he's saying you know
they said well you're not even 50 years old and hast thou seen abraham he says hey before abraham
was i am we see in the old testament clearly where it says you know that uh in bethlehem his goings
forth were of old from everlasting jesus christ has always existed hebrews 7 3 he had no beginning
of days nor end of life okay so i'm not going to spend a lot of time proving to you that jesus is
god i've done all the sermons where i show all the scriptures that show that jesus is god
not just the son of god as in a created being a separate being totally separate no he is god
thomas fell down before him and said my lord and my god and jesus looked at him and said blessed
art thou thomas because thou has believed okay but over here how do we defeat this doctrine that says
well there's no such thing as the trinity because here's what they say jesus is the father
now jesus christ is the son okay there's the father the son and the holy ghost they're all
one they're all god but there is still the father the son the holy ghost just as the body and the
soul are not the same thing the father and the son are not the same thing let me prove it to you
and if you don't turn to these because i just want to blow through these genesis 126 is the first
place we see this the oneness this oneness jesus only doctrine goes out the window in genesis one
i mean you don't have to get that far reading before you see that this isn't true
genesis 126 says and god said now is and god said is that singular or plural and god said singular
god said it doesn't say god's with an s right it's just singular and god said let us make
man in our image after our likeness now is us our our is that singular or plural
yeah because you got the one and you got the three and one okay because he's talking plural
let us make man in our image he says a little bit later in genesis 11 just 10 chapters later go to
let us go down and they are confound their language that they may not understand one
another's speech isaiah 6 8 also i heard the voice of the lord saying whom shall i send and who will
go for us then said i hear him i send me and so the bible uses a plural there's another verse in
hosea where he uses a plural about himself god said let us make man in our image so that's clear
but let me give you some new testament verses that prove basically these are verses where we
see all three parts of the godhead the father the son and the holy ghost in one verse now we saw it
in matthew 28 where he said baptizing the father the son and the holy ghost we saw it in first
chapter seven sit back and listen to these bible verses that show all three members of the godhead
in a single verse so if the oneness doctrine were true these verses wouldn't make any sense
it says and jesus when he was baptized matthew 3 16 went up straight way out of the water and
lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the spirit of god is now your holy spirit descending
like a dove and lighting upon him and lo a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved son in whom
i have well pleased so we see jesus being baptized the holy ghost descending upon him and the father
saying this is my beloved son so we see all three in that one passage matthew 28 he already talked
about luke chapter 1 verse 35 and the angel answered and said to her the holy ghost shall
come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee therefore also that holy thing
which shall be born of these shall be called the son of god so there we see the holy ghost the
highest and his son jesus christ we see john 334 for he whom god hath sent speaketh the words of
god for god giveth not the spirit by measure unto him that's talking about jesus christ being given
the holy spirit by the father three distinct persons uh john 14 26 but the comforter which is
the holy ghost whom the father will send in my name he shall teach you of all things and bring
all things to your remembrance whatsoever i have said unto you john 14.6 john 14 16 and i will pray
the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever even the spirit
of truth so we see jesus saying that the father is going to send the holy ghost you see all three in
one verse and all these verses i'm reading you um acts 232 this jesus hath god raised up
whereof we all are witnesses therefore by the right hand of god exalted and having received
of the father the promise of the holy ghost he has shed forth this which you now see in here
romans 8 11 but if the spirit of him that raised up jesus from the dead dwell in you he that raised
up christ from the day shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwells in you
second corinthians 13 14 the grace of the lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion
of the holy ghost be with you all amen galatians 4 6 and because you are sons god has sent forth
the spirit of his son into your hearts crying abba father first peter one to elect according
to the foreknowledge of god the father through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of jesus christ so right there we have the father the spirit
jesus christ i mean this doctrine goes on and on and on and on throughout the bible
so you're wrong to say jesus is the father there is no father it's just jesus is his own father
no jesus christ is the son there's the father the son the holy ghost these three are one
so saying that the father does not exist or that the holy ghost is just jesus the holy ghost
jesus except for that they're both god and you say well this is just a word game this is just
a semantic then why did god have so many verses explaining it to us why did i just read 20 verses
telling us about the father of the son and the only ghost it doesn't matter apparently it does
matter that these three are and so beware of the doctrine of attacking the trinity beware of those
who say jesus christ is not god that's blasphemy that's denying the lord beware of those who say
well there is no father son and holy ghost it's just jesus only and you have to be if you're
baptized in the name of the father son only ghost that's wrong it has to be jesus only that's a false
doctrine and so all that to say this there are many deceivers that are entered into the world
and this doctrine is very prevalent we want to be able to reach people and give them the gospel and
get them saved so you say what do we do pastor anderson well i'll tell you what when you run
into people who are mixed up with this kind of stuff whether they start hitting you with this
have you been baptized in the name of jesus only if they hit you with that if they start telling
you oh man we're speaking in tongues and i'm filled with the holy ghost like broken tongues
or if they come to you and say you have to be baptized to be sick when you get these warning
signs of tongues oneness healing lines slain in the spirit you know all this bedding and stuff
it tells you one thing i'm dealing with a pentecostal and it tells you another thing
they don't believe in eternal life and so you say should i should i prove to them the trinity
should i prove to them that tongues is just a foreign language you know what if you try to
prove to them they probably won't understand it anyway you know what i would focus on the gospel
and that's why whenever i run into one of these pentecostals and they want to talk about tongues
and they want to talk about baptized in the name of jesus and they want to talk about you know
being healed and all this stuff you know what i do is i just say to them you know what i say
i ask them you know what do you believe a person has to do to be saved you know because i just want
to get to the heart of the problem what do you believe a person has to do to be saved and do
you believe you can lose your salvation because if i can get them to believe that and i've had
somebody come up to me and hit me with all this tongue talking stuff and i didn't i didn't go into
it with them instead i went into i said you know what let's get back to that i said let's talk
about the gospel let's talk about what it takes to be saved and they of course they believed you
know you have to do something other than believe and that you could lose your salvation and once
i was able to show them the gospel from the bible and show them that salvation is eternal
and then they got saved and believed that and and asked jesus christ to save them
because i proved to them from the bible you're not saved you're trusting yourself and not jesus
because you think it's my works once they got saved it took about 10 seconds to get them off
this other crazy stuff because the reason that they're all mixed up on the steps because they're
not saved and people want to say they're confused because they don't have the spirit of god leading
them and they're they they don't they don't have an understanding of the bible because you got to
be safe to understand the bible and so focus on the gospel but when somebody is hitting you with
this stuff it's just a sign that they're not safe when they're hitting you with these doctrines
and so take them back to the gospel take them back to eternal life take them to first john five take
them to the book of john and show them it's by faith and just be aware of these doctrines because
you know what i've seen people get mixed up when they get hit with this stuff you know they start
getting mixed up on the trinity they start getting mixed up you know we need to be firm on what we
believe and that's why i preach a sermon like this on sunday night to make sure you're firm on what
you believe and why you believe it you know and then we need this kind of preaching to really
solidify us and ground us in the faith so that we're not tossed to and fro with every wind of
doctrine that's out there let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father thank you so much for
your word there god and thank you for the clarity and father as you said in second peter chapter
three there are some things in the bible that are hard to be understood there are tough verses and
tough doctrines and and father help us to study to show ourselves approved unto you and please
just help us to be aware of these false doctrines that can creep in and father help us to love the
pentecostal and try to give him the gospel and try to try to give him the truth on everlasting life
and eternal life so that he might be saved and know the truth on these things and in
jesus name we pray amen