Okay so... okay so... talk about baptism about baptism.
Lots of people are probably pretty nervous about baptism because they've never done it
before. Yes and I think many people think
"how long am I going under for?" Lots of people ask me that. Really?
Yeah, they're like, am I under for a long time cuz... You can't hold your breath for
fifty seconds, you can't hold your breath in the kingdom of God, brother! Yeah that
was like, they're like, I know I got a lot of sins and I'm
like that's fine like you don't have to tell me all about them and they're like but
if I'm gonna get cleansed it might need to be a bath and I'm like no no no it's
just gonna be like a very quick immersion, very symbolic. It's not like
we're cleaning the... we're not like putting you under and like, "Okay, who's got the loofah?"
The nun's like, "Give me a Dove bar of soap!" It doesn't work that way. Dove. Holy Ghost. Nice.
See the connection we made? We only use Dove. My mind's always layered it's like
a lot of different -- it's like I make a joke but it's got like
spiritual relevance. I need a track of you saying, "Relevance."
In the LDS restored gospel, it's clearly stated in Doctrine and Covenants and the
Book of Mormon that by the authority of God people will be immersed in the water
as a symbolic reference to them being buried in their sins and resurrected as
a clean disciple of Christ. Yeah. Episode's done. So Jesus Christ was baptized by
John the Baptist and we follow that example. If it was so important for the
Son of God to be baptized by full immersion it's important for us too as
well. Yeah. Baptism also isn't a moment where
you have all of your sins cleansed for all eternity. It's the gate by which
you enter in as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Not many people think of this but
when you enter into a covenant you take upon yourself a name, you take upon
yourself the name of Jesus Christ. Yeah. So it's important to understand
that this isn't the end-all, be-all. This isn't the work by which you are
saved but is the action by what you can proclaim to God that I'm ready to do
this. You -- let's say you've
already opened the door when you've made the decision to be baptized and now you're
stepping in. You're stepping into this new home and I think it's also important
to remember that when you become baptized and receive the Holy Ghost you
become a member of the church. You're now part of Christ's Church, you are now in the
Covenant. And it doesn't end there. You know, it's a wonderful journey
it's just the beginning of the adventure as I like to say it's not like
I've been baptized I'm good brother! You know, I made it I'm going to heaven. It's
more so you've made this step, keep going keep understanding, keep growing
become a true son or daughter of God. I want to talk about the promises
that people make. I think it's important to understand that when you enter into a
covenant you're making a promise by which the Lord will bless you if you fulfill
that promise. And in Mosiah 18, Alma, a prophet of ancient America is
baptizing several people and he says if you are willing to enter into this covenant
and you are willing to mourn with those who mourn and comfort those in
need of comfort then you are ready to enter into this covenant. People are like
yeah I'm ready to do that and so I think it's cool that this is a promise that we
make to Jesus Christ and not to anyone, not to the man baptizing, not even
to the organization of the church but this is a great moment where the power
of Christ is manifested through the priesthood of God and it's great.
When you are baptized and brought into the Covenant you stand as a witness of God.
That's really cool. So you've been baptized into the fold. And
you're given the gift of the Holy Ghost. You're a disciple of
Christ and you are now a witness of his spiritual manifestation in the
children of men. And then you can just serve God and keep all of his
commandments. Now of course we know that you're not always going to keep all the
commandments you know it's not like Mormons are sinless,
although Ian is. If you sin after you're baptized- I've been alive forever.
I'm an eternal being. He's been alive forever! Zayn Malik? That's a good song.
So it's okay that you've sinned. And in a future episode we'll talk about what we
can do to renew our covenants after we've sinned and things like that. And just
to gain another understanding. The Lord also promises when we get baptized
to pour out his spirit more abundantly upon us. Yeah and that's it a message of
the Lord will never forget us as well. You know it says that we need to
endure to the end and keep all of his commandments. There will be
times where we stumble, there will be times where we may falter with our
testimony but the Holy Ghost will always be our companion to remind us of the
wonderful elements of the gospel, of the promises that are before us. So the Holy
Ghost is a companion. That's what I've already said. And it's true, the Lord
promises to give us daily guidance and the help of the Holy Ghost. So we'll talk
about that later of course. I feel like we've referenced... I promise the episodes are coming!
But when you get the gift of the Holy Ghost, you have the
opportunity to have the constant companionship but the influence of the
Holy Spirit. Really, really cool. And then of course most important, eternal life. Do
you want to live forever! Because I don't want to be living in pain. Is that it?
It says I don't live forever but now I'm saying do you want to live. Well that
would be a good billboard. Do you want to live forever? Mormon.org. No, no.
That's like those billboards a I-15 that are like, "The Truth. Bible.org." "Are you going
to heaven or hell?" Those billboards, yikes. Like we said, we're
going to reference a lot of other things in the future that surround the
covenant of baptism and immersion but you need to wait for those episodes
because they're going to be rolling out in a series about baptism and covenants but
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answer some questions. We can have fun. You know what's interesting about
baptism? 'Bap' means soccer and 'tism' means fruit. So really it means soccer fruit.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil - fruit.
They're basically playing soccer with it. So therefore baptism is the opposite of that because...
No, in Greek baptism is bautiso which is immersion and
you come out of the water, that's what that means.