THE MIDNIGHT CRY
By Rev. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Very good morning, kind friends and brethren present and those through the Satellite Amazonas or Internet in different nations, may the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
I want to present the engineer Ivan Sarmiento for him to make an announcement he has from Bogota, (he has not done it yet?) So we’ll let him come forward and make this announcement and then we will continue.
It is always good to have each country connected on the satellite when the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez comes forward so that they may also hear the announcements he has for everyone. Well, the engineer Ivan Sarmiento with us via satellite with a very important announcement he has for everyone.
There is a problem with the Internet, so Sunday and Monday the Chief Rabbi of Israel will also be there in Colombia, therefore, there the engineer Ivan Sarmiento will make the announcement there from Bogota on the activities that will be conducted with the Chief Rabbi in Bogota next Sunday and Monday.
During Holy Week we will be in Puerto Rico and we will have the international ministers meeting, where I will also be with you all, ministers, as every year all the ministers are in Puerto Rico where we expect great blessings from God.
For this occasion, I want to extend a very special greeting to the missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin, God bless you, may God bless you Miguel and use you every day more and more in His Work in all the work that God has given you to carry out, and God bless each of you ministers in different countries also and here in Puerto Rico as well.
For this occasion we read in the Scriptures, the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25, verses 1 to 13, a Scripture that is very familiar to us all. The parable of the ten virgins says as follows:
"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
"THE MIDNIGHT CRY." That's our theme for this occasion.
The midnight cry. Here in this parable of the ten virgins the whole of Christianity is being presented, which is composed of people who have oil in their lamps, in other words, who have received the Holy Spirit and have therefore obtained the new birth, and by people believers in Christ, who profess but have not received the Holy Spirit and therefore have not been born again.
The apostle Paul says in Second Corinthians, Chapter 11, verse 2, that he has espoused the Church to Christ. Let's read it to have the clear picture of what we are saying:
"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."
The Church of Jesus Christ is represented in a bride, who marries her bridegroom, and for that reason the bride represents the Church and the bridegroom represents Christ, and then, when married, the wife represents the Church and the husband represents Christ; that’s why they reproduce themselves in sons and daughters, and that is the family, their offspring.
Likewise Christ and His Church are reproducing Themselves, Christ through His Church is reproducing Himself in sons and daughters of God, because Christ is the Son of God and the Church, as it came out of Christ, She is the Daughter of God as the Mystical body of believers to reproduce in many sons and daughters of God who are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, the Bride Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is represented in the wise virgins, which poured oil in their lamps, they have oil; their lamps typify the body of each believer in Christ filled with the Holy Spirit.
And now, it says that all slumbered and slept, this tells us of the different stages of the Church that as time passes, those stages die, they finish, and the people that form that age finish physically too, they die physically in their physical bodies.
Then it speaks that at midnight a cry was heard, this midnight cry is a messenger with a message forerunning the Coming of the Lord for the Last Day, because the message that brings that midnight cry speaks out clearly its contents. It says verse 6 of chapter 25 of Matthew:
"And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him."
That cry is a clear message which is announcing the Coming of the Lord and calling the people to receive the Lord. It says:
"Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him."
It is the message that foreruns the Second Coming of Christ coming to His Church and coming for His Church which is His Bride, His Wife, the One spoused with the Lamb, the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
This message, that midnight cry, we have seen in the Scripture that it is linked to the preparation to meet the Lord in His Second Coming, it foreruns the Second Coming of Christ. This has been fulfilled with the coming of the Holy Spirit manifested in the Rev. William Branham, and through the Rev. William Branham forerunning the Second Coming of Christ. That is the midnight cry gathering and preparing the people for the Second Coming of Christ.
Mankind is living in darkness, at night, mankind is living in the midnight hour during the time of the ministry of the Rev. William Branham. In 1933, while he was baptizing the17th person in the Ohio River, in the area of Jeffersonville, Indiana, at the end of Spring Street, the Pillar of Fire came down and said: "As John the Baptist foreran the first coming of Christ, you are sent to forerun the second coming of Christ," or "your message will forerun the second coming of Christ."
All the people who lived at the time of John the Baptist, they heard John the Baptist preaching, they were seeing and hearing the message that foreran the First Coming of Christ. Those who rejected it were not prepared to receive Christ in His first Coming, were not prepared to receive the Messiah in His first Coming, the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed, in other words, they were not prepared to receive the man, the prophet, anointed, who would come after John the Baptist. The time of the Rev. William Branham was parallel to the time of John the Baptist.
Now, it is a great mystery, as it was a great mystery the appearance of John the Baptist forerunning the First Coming of Christ, the appearance of the Rev. William Branham forerunning the Second Coming of Christ is a great mystery, but the greatest mystery in the days of John the Baptist was the appearance of Jesus as the One anointed by the Holy Spirit, and Anointed means the Christ, the Messiah; the Messiah, the Christ, means: the Anointed One, anointed with the Holy Spirit, with the oil of the Holy Spirit to carry out the ministry pointed out for that time, the messianic ministry.
And the greatest mystery for the Last Day, after the mystery of the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, the greatest mystery is the Second Coming of Christ in the way John the Baptist said that the Messiah would appear at that time, He appeared, and he said that the One who would come after him, was greater than him, who would baptize with the Holy Spirit and Fire, in other words, He would produce the new birth in the persons who would receive Him and would be baptized in water in His Name. Even the disciples of John the Baptist were thereafter baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The people who believed the message of John the Baptist, forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, thereafter they also believed the message of Jesus Christ (the majority). In order to receive the Holy Spirit, the blessings which the Messiah would bring, they could not only remain believing in the forerunner, but in Him of which the forerunner said that would come after him, and with his Word, his message, he identified Him when he saw the Holy Spirit descending upon Jesus when He was baptized by John the Baptist, and said: "This is He of whom I said (that would come after him), one greater than me, who would come after me, one greater than me, this is who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and Fire, This is the one who baptizes with Holy Spirit and Fire," and therefore He was the One that produces the new birth, which produces that physical or spiritual redemption in the inner being of the person, Who produces that redemption.
And consequently without Him the new birth cannot take place, it is Him through His Spirit who produces the new birth in the person, and there that person receives the first part of the redemption, he receives the first part of the adoption, he receives the spiritual part.
But we are still lacking the physical part of the adoption, of redemption, which is the physical redemption, the redemption of the body, where the believers in Christ will obtain, those who died will obtain the resurrection in eternal, immortal, glorified bodies, as the glorified body of Jesus Christ and those who are alive when the resurrection takes place and if they are believers in Chris, they will be changed.
That is why in First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 11 to 21, the apostle Paul says: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, voice of the archangel and trump of God, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected (resurrected how?) incorruptible, and we who are alive shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air."
To be raptured, well, we will be transformed and then we will be able to be taken to Heaven to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Already the first part of these three things which Christ does by His Spirit, we have already seen what the part of the Shout is: it is the message of God through His Spirit through a prophet who appears forerunning the Second Coming of Christ, we already have the Shout which is the message that the Holy Spirit brought by the Rev. William Branham, and hence in that message, in that Shout, all the details of what will be the Coming of the Lord are found, and all the details regarding the faith to be changed and brought by Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb; and all the details for the resurrection of believers in Christ who have left, all the details to identify the Lord at His Coming in the Last Day.
Let's look at something here, because the only hope for the human being, for the human family, it is the Second Coming of Christ, there is no hope for the human family, there is only one, and that is the Coming of the Lord promised for Last Day. Therefore, we must be aware of what God has promised for this time, what God has promised to His Church, and therefore not allowing these things which God has promised to do in this end time to go above our heads.
Being aware that the greatest mystery for the end time is the Second Coming of Christ, that is the mystery that caused silence in Heaven when the Seventh Seal was opened in Chapter 8 of the book of Revelation, that is also the mystery that the Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, which are the Voice of the Mighty Angel that comes down from Heaven and cries as when a lion roars and seven thunders uttered their voices, and John was about to write, and he was told: "Do not write what the seven thunders have uttered." Revelation, chapter 10, verses 1 to 11.
Speaking of this Chapter 10 and of this Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven, which is Christ descending from Heaven, coming on the Last Day, it says in the book of "The Seals," page 63, says:
"This Seven-Seal Book is revealed at the of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10, now, if you’re marking it down. Let’s turn to Revelation 10, just a moment, so you’ll get an understanding before we-get into it. Now, this is at the end time. For, listen:
…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…
If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And he is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished. See? All right..."
Now notice, the Mighty Angel, which is Christ, the same Angel of the Covenant that appeared to the Prophet Moses in a burning bush that was not consumed, Exodus, chapter 3, verse 1 onwards:
"…and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a "messenger." And He’s the Messenger to Israel…"
The Angel of the Covenant, Christ, who delivered Israel, delivered the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, He is the Mighty Angel descending from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10, and is a messenger to Israel:
"See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured (in other words, this happens before the rapture). He comes for His Church. Now watch."
This is Christ coming for His Church.
"And he had in his hand a little book open ...
Now, here it was closed ..."
In other words, in Chapter 5, at the beginning of Chapter 5, the Little Book sealed with Seven Seals was closed, then Christ takes it, Christ who is the Lamb and also the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and opens it in Heaven, and then He comes down in Revelation, chapter 10, with the little Book open in His hand. And it says that this Angel is Christ and the Little Book that He brings open in His hand is the Book that was sealed with Seven Seals in Revelation, chapter 5.
This Book is the Property Deed of the Heavens and Earth, of all creation. It is the Property Deed to eternal Life, it is the Lamb’s Book of Life where the names of all who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are written, for the names, their names are written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book Life. This Book belongs to the Lamb, to Christ.
And now, we have seen here the Mighty Angel coming down from Heaven with the little Book open in His hand, crying as when a lion roars, why? Because He comes as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, comes as King of kings and Lord of lords; He as Lion is the King; because the lion is the king of the jungle, the king of all animals, and represents Christ.
And now we read in the book of "Quotations" page 43, 1st paragraph, a passage of questions and answers that was spoken in 1957, and it says:
"And there’s them two witnesses. And when they tormented the Church, or the world with their preaching; and receiving back the Jews, and bringing them to repentance, bringing them back to believe on..."
Because they are coming to make known the plagues, the divine judgments that will come on Earth, as Moses did in Egypt making known each occasion each plague that would come upon Egypt, and that was the divine judgments falling upon Egypt, the people who which had Israel oppressed for many years, and that is what God had told Abraham in Genesis, chapter 15, verses 12 to 19, that his seed, his offspring would be slaves in a foreign land, in a strange land for 400 years, but He would deliver them with a strong hand, and would punish the nation which they would serve.
It was a divine promise which was being fulfilled in the days of Moses, and Moses was God’s instrument for God through Moses to deliver the Hebrew people. The work of God for each time always rests on what God has promised for each time, it is always the fulfillment of the divine promises, it is the promised Word being fulfilled, being quickened, brought to life, brought to fulfillment.
That’s why it is very important to know what God has promised for the end time, because he who does not know what God has promised, may think: "Well, what is God doing in this time? Is God doing something on Earth?" if the person knows the Scriptures, he knows what God has promised, then he says: "If He is doing something on Earth, it has to be what He promised, therefore, let's see if He is fulfilling it, let’s see if he is doing this in some country, in a city, with some people, with what, with which people is He doing what He promised."
Now, we continue reading here, it says:
"When they see Jesus coming for the Bride, they’ll say (in other words, the Jews), Lo, this is our God whom we waited on. That’s Him!' But He’s not coming for them; He comes for His Bride."
The One Israel is waiting for in the Last Day, He will come for His Bride, His Church, to transform those who are alive and to resurrect them who have died in eternal bodies to take them to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
Therefore it is very important to be aware of what the Shout speaks; the Shout is the Voice of Christ speaking through a prophet, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. And according to what was spoken by the Holy Spirit through the forerunner regarding the Second Coming of Christ, that’s how the Second Coming of Christ will be fulfilled.
Therefore, the message of the Shout, which comes through a man, a prophet, through whom the Holy Spirit will be speaking, bringing the message to His Church, to prepare Her for the coming of the Lord, that message is available to everybody, and especially to all believers in Christ, to be prepared for the Second Coming of Christ.
The Second Coming of Christ will not be according to the imagination of people, it will be according to the Word of God, according to what is promised in the Word of God, of which the Holy Spirit gave us more light through the Rev. William Branham the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, and therefore through that which the Holy Spirit spoke through the Reverend William Branham about the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ it gives us more light, it gives us more Word which fills us with more knowledge regarding the Second Coming of Christ.
The Second Coming of Christ coming for His Church is before the great tribulation, during the great tribulation the Church Bride of the Lord will be in Heaven, in the House of the heavenly Father with Christ at the Wedding Supper of the Lamb or Reception of the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, to which millions of human beings in different times have been invited, of different ages, which, and from which millions have received the invitation, have been invited to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and have received the wedding garment which is the Holy Spirit and thus they obtained the new birth and received the angelic body called the Angel of God that encamps around those who fear Him and defends them.
It is important to be aware of what the Shout, the Voice of Christ through the forerunner, spoke for the Church Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, because according to what he spoke will be the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ coming to His Church. It says that while the foolish virgins went to buy oil, but it does not say whether they found it, it says:
"Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut."
And now notice how after the midnight cry the Coming of the Lord in this parable is fulfilled, it is carried out, and they that were ready went in with Him to the Wedding, they entered with Him to the spiritual union between Christ and His Church Bride and the door was shut, the door of mercy, which is Christ, who said: "I am the door, he that enters by me will be saved," John, chapter 10, verse 9. Also in Matthew He says the gate that leads to life is narrow, and therefore He is the narrow gate. He also says: "I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father but by me" John, chapter 14, verse 6, and where He said that the door that leads to eternal Life, to life, is narrow, it is in Matthew, chapter 7, verse 13 to 15.
And now, that door that was open on the Day of Pentecost, of which Peter had the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven and opened the door to the Kingdom of God, he opened the mystery of the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption, salvation, of salvation on the Cross of Calvary, that door of mercy will be closed at the end time when the last one has entered into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
About that door that will be closed also spoke Christ in Luke, verse 25 onwards where it says:
"When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are."
While the door of mercy is open, the people who do not enter through that door to the Kingdom of God will not be recognized by Christ. It is important that everyone who hears the preaching of the Gospel of Christ may awake to the reality and receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
Humanity is dead although in the physical sense are physically alive but spiritually dead, dead to eternal Life, and even the physical body is dead to eternal Life, the only thing that body has is temporary life that will end in a short amount of years.
That’s why Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 14 tells us that the dead should rise: "Awake thou that sleepiest, and arise from the dead and Christ will give thee light." An awakening from among the spiritual dead and from among those who died and are dead to eternal Life, for what? To awaken to eternal Life in the Kingdom of Christ, because the path of Life will enlighten us, which is Himself.
"THE MIDNIGHT CRY."
We have seen that the midnight cry is the message that foreruns the Second Coming of Christ given by the Holy Spirit through a prophet, the Rev. William Branham, the greatest prophet that has been raised in America, the most important person that has trodden, that was born and has trodden, the North American territory; He is the most important person of North America.
Although he has departed, in the history of the Divine Program North America has not had a greater man than the Rev. William Branham, it is as Jesus said about John the Baptist: "Of those born of women there was not or there is none greater than John. "
The forerunner is always a very important person in the Divine Program, even the Angel Gabriel told Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth that they would have a child, a son, and he would be great before God, because a prophet is great before God, and according to the ministry that God places and operates through him, that is the way God sees him.
When Christ was on Earth, He would say: "One greater than Jonah, one greater than the temple, one greater than Solomon is here," said Jesus, because Jesus was greater than the temple, He was also greater than Solomon, why? Because Jesus was the Messiah, and when the Messiah appears, He is the greatest person who appears on Earth, he is the greatest person of all time, where the Holy Spirit is manifested, where God is in all His fullness.
And now, under the midnight cry all the virgins wake up, there is a spiritual or religious movement in all territories where the message of the midnight cry reaches to prepare people to receive the Lord in His second Coming.
Therefore, it is important to know the message of the midnight cry that prepares people for the Coming of the Lord. Without that message, without that cry, no one would understand or be prepared for the Coming of the Lord in the Last Day, for the mystery of the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, and that which the Voice of the Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, speak, is the divine revelation of the Seventh Seal, the divine revelation of the Second Coming of Christ.
Therefore, in the Last Day we will be hearing the Voice of the Mighty Angel coming down from Heaven, making known to us the Seventh Seal, making known to us the Second Coming of Christ, and thus giving us the faith to be transformed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
"THE MIDNIGHT CRY."
At another time we will then be speaking about the Voice of the Archangel, and then at another time, in another message, the Trumpet of God. It is enough for today with the theme: "THE MIDNIGHT CRY."
If there is someone who has not heard the Voice of Christ, the Gospel of Christ, or had not heard and now has heard the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and are present or in other nations and are listening at this moment and have not received Christ as Savior yet, you can do it right now and we will be praying for you.
He that is of God hears the Voice of God: "My sheep hear my Voice and they follow me, and I know them and I give them eternal Life," says Jesus in John, chapter 10, verse 27 to 30, and also in chapter 8, verse 47 onwards.
Therefore, you've been hearing the Voice of God, the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, because your name is written in Heaven in the Book of Life, that’s why the faith of Christ was born in your heart as you have been listening to the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, for faith comes by hearing the Word, the Gospel of Christ, and with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
The faith in Christ was already born in your soul and you can now give public witness of your faith in Christ by receiving Him as only and sufficient Savior, for which you can come here in front and we will be praying for you in order for Christ to receive you in His Kingdom, may forgive you and with His Blood to cleanse you from all sin, you be baptized in water in His Name and for Christ to baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, therefore, you may come forward and we will be praying for you.
Children ten years and older may also come to the Feet of Christ, children, young people, adults and elderly people may come forward if you have not received Christ as Savior yet, you who are present and those in other nations at this time.
Let's wait a few minutes while people come forward in different nations, and also here those who have not yet received Christ, so that Christ may receive them and place them in His Kingdom. God has many people in Puerto Rico and in the Caribbean and throughout Latin America and in North America and other nations, and He is calling them in this end time.
The Church will be completed and we do not know when the last one who will complete the Church of Jesus Christ will enter in. We will stand on our feet to pray for people who are coming to the Feet of Christ here and in other nations.
The human being makes many decisions in his life, and all decisions are important, but none of these decisions places him in eternal Life, except to receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior. So that's the most important decision a human being can make while living on Earth, because that is a decision that can only be done while the person is alive on this planet Earth.
If while living on Earth he did not make that decision, then he'll never have the opportunity to make it after the person has physically died. The decision to receive Christ as Savior is for people who are living on Earth at the time they are living on this planet Earth, remembering that our time on Earth is to make a connection, it's a transition, we are in transit like when one goes to another country and the aircraft has to stop over at an airport in another country, you are in transit.
If you leave the plane to take another plane, if you make a connection with another flight, you are in transit to make the connection to another flight that will take you to the country you already determined and bought the air ticket for that flight, that trip.
And we on Earth are in transit, that’s why we live a certain period of time and we leave physically from this earthly life, you are here to make a connection, we came to Earth in our flight sent by God from another dimension, and to be here on Earth we took the flight in the body that was assigned to us, and we are here to make a connection with the other flight, with the other body, which will lead us to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
Therefore it is very important to be aware of why we are on this Earth; we are on this Earth to hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and for faith in Christ to be born in our soul, to believe in Christ and to receive Him as our only and sufficient Savior, to be baptized in water in His Name, and for Him to baptize us with Holy Spirit and Fire and to produce in us the new birth.
Remember that John the Baptist said: "This is the one who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire," speaking of Jesus Christ. There is no other person that can baptize us with the Holy Spirit and Fire, no other that can forgive our sins, and no other that can cleanse us from all sin, but Christ with His Blood cleanses us from all sin, and there is no other person who can take us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, there is only one, and His Name is: Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, aware of the purpose for which God has sent us to live on this Earth, we receive Christ as our only and sufficient Savior. If there is any other person, you may come, you may come forward to give public testimony of your faith in Christ, by receiving Him as only and sufficient Savior.
And those of you who are in other nations, if you have not received Christ, you can do at this moment and may come forward there at the country where you are in. We are about to pray for those who have come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. With our hands raised to Heaven and our eyes closed, let us pray:
Heavenly Father, Our Father who art in Heaven, I come to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ with all these people who have come forward to receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
Heavenly Father, they have believed in the First Coming of Christ and His Sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary as the Sacrifice of Atonement for their sins. I pray You receive them in Your Kingdom.
Now repeat after me this prayer:
Heavenly Father, I receive Christ right now as my only and sufficient Savior. I believe in the First Coming of Jesus Christ, I believe in His death on the Cross of Calvary as the only Sacrifice of Atonement for my sins, I believe in His Name as the only Name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
Lord, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Saviour, for which I give public testimony of my faith in You Jesus Christ, I give public testimony of my faith in Jesus Christ and receive Him as my only and sufficient Savior.
Lord Jesus Christ, I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I beg You to forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin, and baptize me with the Holy Spirit and Fire after I be baptized in water in Your Name, and produce in me the new birth.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live forever in Your Kingdom. Save me Lord, let Your salvation be a reality in my life, I pray oh eternal God in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ all these things that I have asked You, Lord Jesus Christ save me, make your salvation a reality in me. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray, to whom be glory and honor forever and ever. Amen and amen.
And now with our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.
Christ has received you in His Kingdom, has forgiven your sins and with His Blood has cleansed you from all sin because you have received Him as your only and sufficient Savior. You will say to me: "I want to be baptized in water in the Name of the lord Jesus Christ, because He said, 'He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned. When can I be baptized? " is the question from the depths of your hearts.
Inasmuch as you have believed in Christ with all your heart, you may be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth.
Water baptism is typological, water baptism does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ in which we identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection, because water baptism is in the likeness of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
So when a person receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world. And when the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, typologically he is being buried. And when he rises him from the waters of baptism, he is being resurrected to a new life, unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.
As simple as that is the symbolism, typology, of water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's like the holy Supper also, typological, symbolic, the Holy Supper is a memorial which represents, in the bread the body of Christ, and in the wine the Blood of Christ.
Therefore, being water baptism a commandment of the Lord, it is important that all believers, those who believe and receive Christ as Savior, be baptized in water in His Name.
Jesus Christ Himself, when John the Baptist preached and baptized people, and was preaching and baptizing in Judea and baptized there in the Jordan, Jesus came and was baptized by John the Baptist, although at the beginning John said: "I have need to be baptized by you, and you come to me so that I baptize you? " and he did not want to baptize Him, and Jesus says: "It is becoming us to fulfill all righteousness," and then he baptized Him.
If Christ to fulfill all righteousness had to be baptized by John the Baptist, the more we need to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord to identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
Therefore, you may be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other for all eternity in the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Savior.
May everyone continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior, and we will continue to see each other forever in the Kingdom of Christ with eternal bodies when we shall receive it, in the meantime we continue to see each other in the activities and we will continue listening to the preaching of the Gospel of Christ our Savior.
I leave here to the minister, the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez to let you know how to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord to those who have received Christ as Savior at this time, and in each country I leave you with the minister concerned to do in the same way.
May everyone continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Saviour, and always hearing the Shout, the final message of God, of Christ, preparing the people for the Coming of the Lord, which foreruns the Second Coming of Christ.
With us, the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez to tell you how to do. God bless you and keep you all.
"THE MIDNIGHT CRY."
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