BAPTIZED CUCUMBERS

What is this (a cucumber), and what is this (a pickle?) No, it is a baptized Cucumber! A few thoughts on this:

1. When those cucumbers are put in that pickling jar and covered with the pickling juice and sealed, they do not get any more juice, they are heated and stored for several weeks. Likewise we get no more of the Holy Spirit at Baptism then we had when we were saved.

2. The effect of the juice on the cucumber changes it so much it gets a new name: the pickle. It has a new taste, a new texture, even a

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