Matt Slick Bible Study, Baptism, 5/20/2021

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Opening Prayer and the Question of What Baptism Means

We'll just jump right in, okay? I hope you have your Bibles with you. We're gonna be doing a lot of scripture references and some theological ideas and some stuff like that, okay? All right. Lord Jesus, thank you.

Thank you for this time. And I ask, Lord, that you would bless it. Bless those of us here. Bless those of us who may be coming here and that they get here safely. We ask, Lord, for the viewers to be blessed as well.

Lord, as we open up your word and look to your scriptures, I ask for your guidance, I ask for your mercy. And we just look to you, Lord. We just look to you. We give you thanks. We ask this in your precious name, Jesus, amen.

All right, so let me ask you some questions. Does baptism necessarily mean you have to be immersed in water? No. No, no, no? You gave us a preview last week. Gave a preview, what do you think? The answer's no.

The answer's no. Can baptism be immersion? It can be. It can be, okay. I'm gonna make the case later that baptism can be sprinkling, pouring, and of course, immersion. And there's different kinds of baptisms.

Now, I have a lot of notes here and I've been working on an outline on baptism for months. What I mean by that is not every day, not all the time. Just, you know, I'll open that up and add that to it and close it, you know, add the file.

Old Testament Washings, Anointing, and Sprinkling

So what is baptism? Let's get to it. It is a religious rite, a religious ceremony that uses water and it signifies, generally uses water, and it signifies conversion and a symbolic ritual, symbolizes ritual cleansing.

Some people say that you cannot be saved from your sins without being immersed in water. That's a false teaching. It's a heresy. It is adding a ceremony to the work of Christ and stating that there's a legal requirement that you must perform in order to be saved.

Now, another thought about this is this. If baptism is necessary for salvation, and the question I'm gonna ask people who have that is, is salvation dependent upon God or upon you? If it's dependent upon God, then the faith that God grants, Philippians 129, will be sufficient.

But if it's dependent upon you, then you control when you get saved by when you get baptized. And that would be interesting because what if you put your baptism off for a few days? Then I guess you're the one who's in control of when you get saved before God.

And that is a form of arrogance. Now, baptism is used in different senses and in different ways, but it's so many things I can get into. And we'll see how it goes. In Leviticus 8 .6, Moses and Aaron and his son came near and washed them with water.

In Leviticus 15 .8, it says, you have to write all these down because there's a lot we're gonna be going through and I can send you guys the notes. If the man with his discharge spits on one who is clean, he too shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

In Numbers 8 .7, this is a verse we'll be coming to later, thus you shall do to them, this is for the entering into the priesthood, for their cleansing, sprinkle purifying water on them and let them use a razor over their whole body.

Numbers 19 .18, a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in water. Hyssop is a plant and would often grow by the river and sprinkle it on the tent and all the furnishings and on the persons who are there.

And on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one dying naturally or the grave, that's Numbers 19 .18. In Ezekiel 36 .25, some people think that when in John three, three through eight, when Jesus talks to Nicodemus and says, don't you know, you should know these things about being born again and all this stuff, people often will refer to Ezekiel 36.

They'll say, this is what he's talking about. He's referencing Ezekiel 36. Not everybody references that, but a lot of people do, but this is what Ezekiel 36 .25 says. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you'll be clean, the sprinkling of water.

I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols, Ezekiel 36 .25. Now, what's interesting about this is that when something is used and I've got a lot more verses, let's see if I can find them.

When an instrument or something is to be used for holy use, for example, then the element was applied to the object or the person. So 2 Chronicles 28 .15, for example, and they gave them clothes and sandals, fed them and gave them a drink, anointed them with oil, led all their feeble ones on donkeys.

So they were anointed with oil. All right, Psalm 23, four through five, you have anointed my head with oil. This is just the oil verses. In Ezekiel 16 .9, then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.

And I got a lot more verses. In fact, in James 5 .14, is anyone among you sick? He must call for the elders of the church and they're to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. So those are verses anointing with oil and here's the phrase anoint with.

Anointing with oil, Mark 6 .13. They wanted to anoint the body of Christ, Mark 16 .1. Anointing them with perfume, that's when the woman was kissing the feet of Jesus in Luke 7 and anointing the feet with perfume.

It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment in John 11 .2. God anointed him, Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, Acts 10 .38. They were to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, James 5 .14, we just went over.

So there's an anointing with, there is a washing with, there is cleansed with. Hebrews 9 .22, one might almost say that all things are cleansed with blood. You can be filled with the Holy Spirit, Exodus 31 .3, I have filled him with the Spirit of God and wisdom.

And then I did all kinds of research. I've been doing this for months and months off and in. The verb with object, baptized with water, for example, a verb, to do something with something. And girded with the sash, I can give references, but Israel struck him with the edge of the sword.

So this whole bit, I baptize you with water for repentance. Now that's Matthew 3 .11. So John the Baptist is stating that he is anointing people, or excuse me, he's baptizing them with water. But he who comes after me is mightier than I, I'm not fit to remove his sandals.

He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Now, that's Matthew 3 .11. Also in Luke 3 .3, it says that I baptize you with, or Jesus says, John baptized you with water. I will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

Let's talk about this. There's a lot to cover. So if John baptized with water, most people are gonna assume that the people were immersed into water. I'm gonna show you why there's some impracticality about that later.

Not that it can't happen, but anyway, because when I do baptize, I baptize by immersion. I prefer it that way. This thing is cool, it's fun. It's enjoyable, you know. But he baptized with water and Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit.

So what does it mean to be baptized with the Holy Spirit? Does it mean that you're immersed in the Holy Spirit? It doesn't mean that. Because that's not what happens. In fact, I should get over here. Get this, view my outline notes on the side, navigation pane, here we go.

There's so many things. I have this done alphabetically, not topically in my notes. So the Holy Spirit is poured, okay? And if you go to Joel 2, 28 and 30, what you'll see there, okay, let's go here. Pour, P-O-U-R, there we go.

Okay, good. So pouring, the Holy Spirit is poured. Never, it's never by immersion. And so I'm gonna go through a bunch of verses here. Eight, nine, 10 verses, maybe. I want you to see what the Bible says.

I'm gonna go through the Old Testament verses first, of course, Isaiah 32, 15, "'Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high.'". Isaiah 44, 3, "'I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring.'".

Ezekiel 39, 29, "'For I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel.'". Joel 2, 28, "'That I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind.'". Joel 2, 29, "'I will pour out my Spirit in those days.'". So the Spirit is poured.

Now that's interesting, because how could the Spirit be poured if he's a person? Well, I don't know, but the way the language is, the Spirit's poured upon. There's a kind of anointing that comes upon.

In Acts 2, 17, Peter is quoting Joel 2, 28. Remember I said Joel 2, 28, "'I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind.'". And this is exactly what he quotes in Acts 2, 17. "'I will pour out my Spirit on all mankind.'".

And then Joel 2, 28, 29 is found in Acts 2, 17 and 18. And in verse 18, "'I will pour out my Spirit in those days.'". And Acts 2, 33, "'The promise of the Holy Spirit has been poured forth, this which you both see and hear.'".

Now, this is getting interesting to me. I think this is good stuff, because when we talk about baptism and what baptism is, because remember, Jesus said in Luke 3, 3, he said that John baptized with water, but he'll baptize with the Holy Spirit.

So what is baptism of the Holy Spirit? What does it mean? The pouring of the Spirit upon. That's what it means. That's how it's spoken of. If baptism of John is immersion, then it would be John immersed with water, and I will pour the Spirit on you.

But it doesn't say that. It says, John baptized with water, and I'll baptize you with the Holy Spirit. So the context of the baptism, the same word, baptizo, is used there, and it's in reference, in part B, it's in reference to pouring, but in part A, what's it referenced to?

Some say automatically it must be immersion, because that's what baptism means. And I'll show you that's not the case. Not always. It does sometimes, but not always. So now, the promise of the Holy Spirit has been poured forth.

That's Acts 2 .33. The promise of the Spirit. That means the Father had promised the Spirit, and what had been happening? In Acts 2, they were speaking in tongues. So let's see. I got my notes here. Let's see if these are the right notes.

People were gathered in one place, Acts 2 .1. There came a noise like a violent rushing wind, Acts 2 .2. They saw tongues of fire resting on each one, Acts 2 .3. They were hearing the disciples speak in tongues, Acts 2 .4.

Others were amazed, hearing the Galileans speaking in multiple languages, Acts 2 .5 -11. Peter preaches and quotes Joel in Acts 2 .14 -21. We just went over that. Proclaims Christ's death and resurrection in verses 22 -24.

Quotes David in verse 25 -31. Talks about Jesus being raised in Acts 2 .32, and quotes David in Acts 2 .34 -35. Says Jesus is Lord in Acts 2 .36, and Peter commands baptism in Acts 2 .38, and 3 ,000 were baptized in Acts 2 .41.

Now we're gonna talk about this for a little bit. So what happens is, all this is precursor to understanding baptism when we get into it later. So, excuse me, so what we have here, we have here is the promise of the baptism of the Spirit is manifested in the charismatic gifts upon the believers in Acts chapter two.

Jesus had prophesied in Acts chapter one, verse five, I believe that, I'm gonna make sure I get that right, but in Acts one, five, he says, John baptized you with water, I'll baptize you with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

Well, not many days, that's a fulfillment. The gift of the Holy Spirit is not salvation in the context. The gift of the Holy Spirit is the charismatic movement. Because that's what the context necessitates.

I know that some people are gonna say, well, Matt, you're just flat out wrong. Oh, maybe I am. But when I look at this, and I read it, I'm gonna do it this way, and I read it, I don't see that, okay? So what we see here is, there we go, in Acts one, five, it says this, it says, for John baptized with water, but you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

That's what Jesus says. And then in verse eight, he says, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. So he's prophesying that the Holy Spirit's gonna be coming upon the disciples and the people in the upper room.

Now, the house of Israel is spoken of, come on. I'm gonna go slow, it's big words. This is my sharing thing. Let me do this, well, I'll do it in a sec. So it says, men of Israel, verse 22, listen to these words.

So he's talking about the men of Israel, and the people of Israel are saying, you guys are crazy, you're drunk. Well, who are the men of Israel, the house of Israel talking about? The other people who were followers of Christ who are now speaking in tongues because the tongues of fire moved upon them, and that is the prophecy of Joel, which Peter quotes in Acts two, 16 and 17, out of Joel two, 28, 29.

He says, this is what this is, and that's the baptism of the Spirit. Baptism here does not mean immersion, does it? It can in other places. We'll talk about stuff, but it certainly doesn't in that moment, okay?

And when you go to, because this is one of the most famous verses in people's, in baptismal regeneration, a social teacher had to be baptized to be saved. Peter said, Act 238, repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus, which is interesting, Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Oh, so it's not, this is not an issue of salvation. This is an issue of the charismatic gifts. Now, it might be an issue of salvation. I gotta be careful here, I don't wanna say it's not, because it's the Jews, as it says in verse 36, Peter said, Therefore, let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.

So he's talking to the Jews, the Jewish people. He said, you crucified him. And when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and they said, well, what do we do? What do they do for what? Does this, what do we do to get saved?

Well, it doesn't say that. I mean, it could be. I think the Jewish mentality here is, okay, he's the Messiah. Here's these people speaking in tongues. We're hearing the gospel, or we're hearing stuff in different languages.

The sea, the fire coming down on their heads, supernatural stuff, they're taken aback by this. And that he says, you guys did this. You guys crucified him. And then what do we do? What do we do? Well, this is what you do, repent.

Turn from your sins, and each of you, each individual get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Now, is he saying here that the baptism here is to get forgiveness of sins?

It wouldn't be the case, because the baptism deals with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Because that's why he says, you will receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It has to do with the promise of God covenantally to the house of Israel.

That's what's going on here. That's why it says, for the promises for you and your children, and for as many are far off. Now, some will say, well, the children means, you know, your children, they grow up, and then they become believers and they get baptized.

That's not, it might be. But he says, this is for you and your children. The words children here, not in Greek, I'm just saying the word children is typical of covenantal language out of the Old Testament.

Because God always included the children. Well, almost always, depending on the nature of the covenant. But he included children all over the place. We're gonna go through the Abrahamic covenant in a little while.

He included children constantly in the covenant, all the time. It happened all over the place. So some people will think, that's why I believe in infabaptism, and I'm gonna defend that tonight. And if you don't agree, that's okay.

You know, I'm not gonna die in that hill, but I'm gonna make a case for it later. Now, so, this is interesting to me because the gift of the Holy Spirit here in Acts 2 .38 is demonstrated, and you will receive the gift.

Well, what gift are they talking about? The promise, because it says, for the promise is for you and your children. It's that which came before, which is the charismatic movement there. Now, if you go to Acts 10 .44, while Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon, poured on, fell upon all those who are listening to the message.

And the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit, what is that? The charismatic movement. Had been poured out on the Gentiles also, for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God.

That should be, it should nail it right there. That's what it is. Then Peter answered, surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did. Now, some people will say that baptism's necessary for salvation and that you cannot be saved until you get baptized in water, which has to be by immersion, which we're gonna tackle again later.

Now, in Acts 2 .38, the order is baptism and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Here in Acts 10 .44 through 48, it's you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and then you get baptized. They're reversed.

If baptism is necessary for salvation, based on Acts 2 .38, then why is the order reversed in Acts 10 .44 through 48? And I ask baptismal regenerationists, I'll say, okay, were they not saved before they got baptized in Acts 10?

Because they're speaking in tongues and they're glorifying God. And the Bible says that the unbelievers are slaves of sin, haters of God, don't do any good. How are they gonna exalt God? Well, you know, they don't receive the things of God, but these do.

And then they sometimes come back, well, was Cornelius really one of them? And then we get into some stuff, but that's another thing. They try to have counter arguments because they have to hold onto their idolatrous position that baptism is necessary for salvation because they believe in works righteousness.

They believe in the necessity of getting dunked in water, dunked in water in order to be made right and complete before God, as though the faith in Christ that God grants is not enough to justify us. Man, anyway.

So Peter says, no one can refuse water for these who have been baptized who have received the Holy Spirit, just as we did. So they received the Holy Spirit. Peter's saying, they said, just like us. Well, are those people unsafe?

I've had people say to me, you gotta slow down, get less excited. People say to me, they're speaking in tongues or glorifying God. Yes, they've received the Holy Spirit, but they're still in a state of damnation.

Why? Because they hadn't been baptized.

It's ludicrous. It's just ludicrous. I don't agree. Is it okay to say that? Yeah, of course. I don't agree with their argument, but could they be making that argument on the fact that elsewhere in scripture it says they've experienced the Holy Spirit, but then fell away.

It's actually Hebrews 6, 4 -6.

They partook of the Holy Spirit, but it doesn't mean they were saved because Judas was enlightened, partook, et cetera, and then it's impossible to renew them again in repentance, which means in that case, you could never get saved again, and that's a whole other topic and direction.

So let's keep going with this stuff. This interesting? Okay, now, this is just, I gotta tell you, this is geek information, okay? So Baptizo is number 907 in the Strong's Concordance, and you can search by numbers in Longus Bible Program, and it means baptized, baptized, baptizing.

It occurs 77 times. Baptism occurs 19 times. And now check this out, okay? 907 is baptizo, 908 is baptisma, 909 is baptismos, okay? Ching, ching, ching. And baptismos means washings, and we're gonna go to that later in Hebrews, and I'm gonna show you where the washings, baptismos means sprinkling, okay?

From the context. And it means to immerse, and it does in places in 911. Okay, now, let's go over some other stuff here. God's people were baptized on dry land as the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. 1 Corinthians 10, verse one through four.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and the sea. Wait a minute, they walked across on dry land.

How were they baptized? Doesn't baptism mean that they had to be immersed in water? No, they're baptized into Moses. Baptized into Moses is a public identification and typological movement, but identification with the work and the authority of Moses and what he was doing, being called by God, right?

Okay, you're baptized in the name of Jesus is the same thing, because it means by the authority of, but when you're baptized into Christ, we'll get into that, it's the same kind of a thing that's going on, okay?

All right, now, of course, I can get into, I won't do this, but there's always the point of Colossians 2, 14, having canceled the certificate of debt. The certificate of debt, the sin debt, was canceled at the cross, but they're gonna have to say that it's canceled when you get baptized, because if it's canceled when you have faith, then if you get baptized or not, you're saved.

That's a whole nother issue, but anyway. All right, and there's, I got lots of stuff I could talk about this. Okay, I'll stay with baptism, okay. Now, John the Baptist's baptism of Luke 3, 3. So I'm gonna go, I think it's Luke 3, 3.

I'm just gonna take a quick look. Last one there is a semi-Pelagian. And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. So John the Baptist was preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

And Acts 2, 38, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. If Acts 2, 38, baptism brings you forgiveness of sins, then it would be, you get baptized in the name of Jesus in order to get forgiveness of sins, for the forgiveness of sins, baptized for the forgiveness of sins.

Here in Luke 3, 3, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. So then the baptism of repentance is what got your sins forgiven, right? By the same token, the same logic. But how can that be?

Because Christ hadn't been crucified yet, and they weren't putting their trust and hope in Christ yet. It doesn't make any sense. So it can't be that it was, the baptism of repentance is what brought them salvation, the forgiveness of sins, because repentance is a mind change towards following the issues of the law.

So we gotta be very careful what we're saying here, okay? Now, let me go on some more stuff. Okay, all right, so much heresy, so little time. And, all right, so let's do this. Let's go to Romans chapter six.

We're gonna go through some stuff. And we'll go back to Acts 2 and some other places. Romans 6, verse three, or do you not know that all of us who've been baptized into Christ have been baptized into his death, right?

Okay, now wait a minute. Baptized into Christ have been baptized into his death. They were baptized into Moses in 1 Corinthians 10, talking about this, one and two. So if they're baptized into Christ, does that mean that when you're saved is when you're baptized into Christ?

It's not what is going on here. And I'll show you why from the context. It can't be. So, I had to change my view. Let's get back to, okay. So, do you not know that all of us who've been baptized into Christ, Jesus, have been baptized into his death?

Verse four, therefore you have been buried with him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in the midst of life. Now, buried with him in baptism, does it mean immersion?

Doesn't say that. Doesn't say it. So, it can, and it seems to suggest the idea of being buried in baptism, being buried in water. Now, let's talk about this. So, buried with Jesus. How was Jesus buried?

In a tomb above the ground, in a room laid on a slab with a door, a stone put over this room, hewn in thing, and that was a burial. Is that how we're buried when we are baptized? No. If we get immersed in water, is that how we're, are we doing what happened to Christ?

Now, they might say, well, he was immersed in the rock. Yeah, it's, there's some issues here. Now, I've been in Jerusalem and been to one of the, there's like two or three, traditional tombs of Jesus, and it's about, the door's about four and a half inches, four and a half feet high, and you, you know, I'm six feet, so walk, get in there a little bit, and this room is probably five feet wide, maybe six at the most, and then seven, eight feet deep, and there was a, I'm trying to remember best my memory, and then it was this area to put the body on, okay?

And there was a stone. So, let me ask you a question. So, that's a burial. In fact, a lot of people don't know this, but different cultures bury in different ways, and some cultures, they bury you up to your waist, and you're exposed up, and then the animals get you.

That's called burial. Another culture, they, how do I say this politely? They insert a large pole into a certain area of your body up into your head, and then they tie you in a tree, and then the body decays, and that's how you're buried.

Different cultures have different things. You can be burned. That's burial. At sea, you can be in the water, and in sci-fi, you're shot at warp speed, and that's a better way to go. So, stuff like that.

Now, would it be a burial if we put someone into a side of a hill, dug a hole into the hill, put a body in there, and sealed it up with a big rock or a door? It'd be a burial. What if we were to take a home, a house, and add a room onto it, put the body in there, put a door over it, and just seal it with mud or whatever it is?

Is that a burial? So, okay, so this burial relates to our baptism, but people will say that the baptism must be by the going down into the water and being submerged in the water, and that's the baptism of Jesus.

There's a bit of a stretch in that direct one-to-one relationship, because that's not what happened. He didn't go down into the earth, but he did go into the earth. Didn't go down into it, but he went over to it.

And I'm not gonna play with words here, make too much out of it, but I want people to think, okay, yeah, I see what you're saying, all right. If baptism is something that occurs to a person and it's pouring for the sake of the Holy Spirit, then when we're baptized into Moses, or they were baptized into Moses, it was an identification with the work of Moses.

To baptize into Christ, it's an identification with the work of Christ, and that work of Christ was a sacrifice on the cross. So that's what it means to be baptized into his death, to have a public declaration of that relationship that you have covenantally with Jesus.

Now, continuing on in John, Romans 6, verse four, therefore, we have been buried with him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too might walk into the midst of life.

For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. Now, at this point, I do like baptism by immersion. Is someone coming in?

So maybe this will actually let your daughter do something.

Okay, and so I like the idea of being raised up with Christ in the waters of immersion. I like that. And when I baptized Nathan and Lindsay in the Boise River a while back, we did complete immersion. And when I was baptized, I was baptized in the ocean, and it was great.

Now, so I like that image. Verse six, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him. Okay, now wait a minute. If baptism is when we died with Christ, no, that can't be right, because we died with Christ on the cross.

Okay, so that can't be that baptism will be died. So baptism is when our sins are removed, but that's not what it's talking about, being baptized into Christ, it's the identification. Okay, so that's not it, because we were united with Christ in his death, which means, because that's federal headship, the male represents a descendants.

So then the male, Jesus, we were in Christ, right? In Christ, 1 Corinthians 15, 22, in Adam all die, in Christ all shall be made alive. The in Christ is in reference to those who are in him as he represents them.

They're baptized in to Moses, the representation of Moses through what he was doing, they're identifying with that in his power and in his work. Within Christ, it's his work, and we are in him in that, and that's what it means to be baptized in Christ.

And so it says, but we have died with him on the cross, we're crucified with him. We died, we're crucified with him, verse six, and we died with him, verse eight. Well, when was he crucified? 2 ,000 years ago.

If baptism is required for salvation and part of the salvation methodology, then how is it that we were crucified with Christ 2 ,000 years ago? And if it means you can lose your salvation, how were you crucified with Christ 2 ,000 years ago?

Were you crucified with Christ and then uncrucified with Christ? Because to be crucified with Christ means you died to the law, Romans 7, 4, and if there is no law, there is no sin, Romans 5, 13. This is heavy theology, and the people who say that it's baptismal regeneration here aren't thinking.

And the reason they're not thinking is because they have one frontal lobe tied behind their back by the issue of baptismal regeneration. Now, let's go back to Acts 2. Let's go back to Acts 2. We're gonna have fun with Acts 2.

Oh, this is one of my favorite things to do, Acts 2. So I think it's 241. So then those who had received the word were baptized, and that day there were added about 3 ,000 souls. All right, now. So we're all 3 ,000 baptized, which certainly appears to be the case.

We're all 3 ,000 immortal. We're all 3 ,000 immersed. Okay, let's assume they were immersed. Let's do some math. We can do some math. We can do some explanatory numbers, exploratory numbers, okay? Yeah.

So I've done this before in other Bible studies, which I know you guys have been around. So this is for the people who are listening online as well. So we don't know how many people were doing the baptisms, but let's just say, Jessica, I want you to see the numbers.