- 00:00
- See thou my vision, O Lord, of my heart, not be all else to me, save that thou art mine.
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- I'm going to go ahead and open in prayer. For those of you that are new, my name is Luke, I'm the discipleship pastor.
- 00:20
- This is Jerry, he's our men's director. Jeff would have been here, but he's at a funeral right now. So, I'm going to go ahead and pray, and then we're going to get started.
- 00:30
- Lord, I just thank you for tonight. Thank you for this opportunity to baptize some believers,
- 00:36
- Lord. It's just so exciting and so awesome. We praise you for the work you've done in their lives. We thank you for Apologia, Lord, and the work you're doing through us,
- 00:47
- Lord. We just ask that you do this for your glory. In Christ's name we pray, Amen. Okay, how do
- 00:53
- I say this? Cesar. Cesar, this is Cesar. I actually just met him, so he's friends with Amy.
- 01:03
- Funny story, he actually got saved at a winter camp. At a winter camp, and he came to summer camp when
- 01:10
- Jeff spoke. And we were in the band for the camp, and that was four years ago, probably.
- 01:18
- Four years ago, yeah. So, cool story. Anyways, I'll let you talk if you want.
- 01:26
- He said I've been, it wasn't up until recently where I.
- 01:44
- Well, if anybody's here who doesn't know what this is all about, before we dunk him. I like the word that doesn't sound so fun, but it sounds fun for me.
- 01:54
- Before we baptize him, if you don't know what this is about, the Bible commands believers to be baptized.
- 02:01
- And basically all it is is just a public profession of faith in Jesus Christ. And we've been doing it.
- 02:07
- We've never done it in church. A lot of churches, I knew when I grew up in church where they had a baptismal and you did it at church.
- 02:14
- We've never done it that way. We don't have one. I actually like this better because you actually are in the public.
- 02:20
- And so, I like it that much cooler, I think. So, anyways. Cesar, have you placed your faith in Jesus Christ in him alone?
- 02:39
- Based upon your profession of faith in Jesus Christ, I now baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- 02:58
- Colby, you ready? Yeah. You want to take your watch off or are you good?
- 03:04
- No, I'm good.
- 03:10
- This is Colby. I don't know man,
- 03:18
- I'm just really blessed to be a part of this congregation. You know, and just the work that Christ has done in my life, especially over the past couple months.
- 03:26
- You know, I originally turned to Christ about nine months ago. And I'd say it wasn't up until maybe two or three months ago that things really started to change.
- 03:35
- You know, I've just been on fire. And it's an absolute blessing. And I just really look forward to see what he has in store.
- 03:45
- And yeah, I'm excited. Right on. For those of you that don't know Colby, he actually came to apologize through Mary, if you know
- 03:54
- Mary. And since Jeff's not here, I'll tell the story. Jeff always tells it. Him and Colby were sitting outside Starbucks.
- 04:01
- Was that when you actually came to Christ? Yes. And in front of Starbucks, they're talking and some dude was like in the parking lot getting tased by cops.
- 04:09
- And so Jeff always tells the story because he said he was always really distracted trying to talk to Colby. It was interesting, that's for sure.
- 04:16
- So anyways, Colby, based upon... Sorry, I got ahead of myself. Have you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and Him alone?
- 04:26
- Based upon your professional faith in Christ, and I'll baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All right.
- 04:46
- Hope there's enough water for us to do big dudes. This is
- 04:52
- Perry. Do you guys have anything you want to say?
- 05:06
- I'm 51 years old. I ran away from the Lord my whole life.
- 05:12
- I didn't understand He was a caring, loving God. Today I wanted to dedicate my life to Jesus Christ.
- 05:27
- For those of you that don't know Perry, he played in the NHL for 10 years. So right now I feel like I need to put a shirt over his head.
- 05:34
- I'll put a cross and then dunk him. Perry, you placed your faith in Jesus Christ and Him alone for your salvation.
- 05:42
- Based upon your professional faith, and I'll baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We'll be free to go about our way.
- 06:13
- God, thank you so much for tonight. Lord, just an amazing example of what you do and how you work in the lives of people.
- 06:20
- God, I just pray for three people, for Cesar, Colby, and Perry.
- 06:32
- Lord, I just pray that right now you begin to work in their lives. Just right now,
- 06:38
- Lord, you begin to sanctify them and draw them closer to you. Lord, I know that the enemy does not like it.
- 06:44
- He does not like the fact that these three people have dedicated their lives to be your disciples and follow you,
- 06:50
- Lord. So I pray that you put a hedge of protection over them right now, Lord. That you just clothe them in the armor of God.
- 06:57
- And Lord, I just pray also, just as a body, that we just do whatever we can just to help equip them and to help grow them,
- 07:03
- Lord. So again, we just praise you for tonight, Lord. This is all a work of you. And Lord, I pray you have blessed this congregation that we'll be able to have events like this all the time.
- 07:12
- Of baptizing disciples and making disciples, Lord. And it's in your name we pray. Amen. Thanks, guys.
