Chapter 236: All Men Are Baptized Together
Hearing Gavin's call, in front of the rostrum of the main venue, there were many arms, and there were all kinds of people, especially among the new captives, the arms were the most dense.
And among the people who were already members of the kingdom of heaven, there were not many sailors and army men raising their hands. Those who had newly moved in, those who raised their hands approached the captives.
Mai Ke was a little strange at first, but then it became clear when he thought about it. The reason is that many of these people have already come to Christ, and of course there is no need to do it again.
In addition to the last Methodist sermon, there are a total of 1,000 converts, including those currently at the Holy Mountain base, and many of the daily evangelistic work of military pastors.
Seeing so many people who had made up their minds, many of the military pastors who had come to help with the ministry were excited to rush to help and register all the people who had just made their decisions.
Mai Ke also served as the light of the master of ceremonies, watching the people's response to the gospel from the stage condescendingly. It was a thrill to see so many people being moved by the Holy Spirit to become children of God.
He clearly knew that the gospel preached by Gavin this time was basically the same as the last Methodist message, but in terms of the form of preaching the gospel, the severity of the words, and the punishment of sin, it was more direct and direct to the hearts of the people than the last time.
The biggest difference is that Gavin emphasized God's absolute sovereignty over whom to save and who not to save. At the same time, it is specifically pointed out that it is the responsibility of man himself not to be saved under any circumstances.
What is especially valuable is that he also clarified his own concepts and statements that are not very clear. Point to the fact that someone else's mistakes are not an excuse for the person to reject the gospel. He also made it very clear that it is the responsibility of every sinner to receive the gospel, right now. Right here.
In this way, everyone is faced with the opposite choice: accept or reject the gospel?
In the face of such a clear gospel message, at such a black-and-white decision, it is a prudent enough decision for most people to be able to resolutely believe in the Lord.
He looked at it, and his eyes blurred.
The second brother Yang Xiu, who was seated in the middle of the front row, raised his hand, and the third brother Feng Yunshan also raised his hand.
The fourth brother Wei Changhui and the fifth brother Xiao Chaogui, who were seated on the right hand in the front row, also raised their hands. Next to the fifth brother is today's number one first-class meritorious hero, Qiu Erniang, and her little hand is also leaning on the fifth brother's big hand and raised high.
In the left hand of the front row, there are six brothers Shi Dakai and starling Hu Yihuang holding their hands together, next to Hu Yihuang is the flower of the grassland Ulan colorful, and his hands are raised higher than that of the starling.
farther away. Wu Renxiao and Ying Wuxiao also raised their hands. They have been absent since they received the award, knowing that this is not their place in public.
Seeing that the brothers of his brotherhood, with the exception of three who had other arrangements, had been born again and saved. Mai Ke's heart was filled with excitement and a huge wave swept by. What could be more gratifying than seeing your brother work with Christ?
His excitement had not subsided. A bigger wave rolled over: What did he see? He finally raised his hand when he saw the six strokes! Next to him was Tang Yan, the contemporary grandmother of the Tang Sect. She was holding both hands! one for herself, and the other seemed to be helping with the six-stroke. Could it be that these six transformations have been coerced?
This one is so interesting. But in any case, Mai Ke knew that if the six iron cores were unwilling. Not to mention a delicate Tang Yan, even nine cows can't make him change his will.
Based on Mai Ke's understanding of the six strokes, even if the heart of believing in the Lord has just begun, the will of the six transformations is much stronger than that of most people. What's more, this is God's work, and it is the result of God's work of all things together, maybe this guy is playing in front of a beautiful woman to get away with it.
Seeing that his closest brothers had accepted the gospel, Mai Ke couldn't care about anything else now, and his heart was full of gratitude.
At this time, the statistics were handed in one after another, and the final result was that the number of believers this time was ten times that of the last time, and there were 10,000 people, half of whom were in the main venue, and the other half were scattered in different branch venues, mainly four armed groups established in the name of regimental training.
Looking at the classification again, what surprised Mai Ke the most was the ideological transformation system, that is, the Heavenly Prison, there were eighty people who automatically rose from the first underground layer to the ground, and they had become innocent people!
The power of this gospel is truly incomparable, and it has penetrated the outer protection of the ideological transformation system, entered itself into it, and then changed people's hearts!
Looking at these 80 people again, Mai Ke was overjoyed, it turned out that half of them were 100,000 people from the Tiangang and Earth Evil Array, of which there were 20 people from the Tiangang Array, and there were also 20 people from the Earth Evil Array.
Mai Ke and all the pastors sighed: Today is really a day of God's blessing of the Holy Spirit to reap a great harvest!
According to the convention's schedule, the next project was the baptism of saved brothers and sisters, including those who had previously decided to believe in Christ and all those who have decided today.
According to the statistics, the sum of the three parts of the navy, the army, and the inhabitants shows that there are 5,000 people who have not yet been baptized after the decision, and there are 5,000 people who have made a new decision today, and there are 10,000 people in need of baptism.
If, as is customary, one by one, even if a hundred pastors baptize at the same time, it will probably take two or three days. This traditional approach is clearly not possible.
Originally, everyone was still coming up with ideas, and they all proposed to go down into the river, into the lake, and some even proposed to let the Jonah fish help, anyway, their water spraying function is super strong.
As a result, Mai Ke vetoed a single sentence - he used the spirit rhino to help baptize! How to operate, he didn't say. Just ask everyone to follow his command.
As for the basic faith education before baptism, after discussion, it was decided that this could be changed to baptism first, then training, and that the military pastors and pastors in charge could arrange it flexibly.
As we all know, salvation is essentially a work of God, not a certain amount of knowledge that can only be saved. If that had happened, the theologians or theology professors would have been saved several times.
Rather, in the baptismal process, the pastor in charge of the baptism needs to sing the name of the person being baptized, and then baptize the saved person in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The baptism process can be carried out centrally, but not by roll call, otherwise it is not known who the person is. As is customary, you can't give your own name.
Later, a special method was also adopted - mobilizing 1,000 pastors or brothers in Christ to lead ten baptized people every day, and when it was time to roll call, each of these people would take a roll call for his team.
Now the procedure for the baptism of these ten thousand people has come, and the ten thousand and the thousand auxiliary workers will soon stand in ten squares before the rostrum, each of which is composed of a thousand baptized and a hundred co-workers.
Presiding pastor Gavin asked them a few questions, worked with the assisting co-workers, called a roll call for each of the baptized brothers and sisters, and then announced, "Today, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I baptize these brothers and sisters, and from then on die and be buried with the Lord, and rise again with the Lord!
As soon as the words fell, a light mist came out of thin air, enveloping the ten squares. Stayed there for three seconds, then drifted away. (To be continued......)
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