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The Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Publish On 08-07-2008 , 5:26 PM
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit - Being born again of the spirit of Yahweh.
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a topic that all believers should make every effort to understand. We often hear our pastors and fellow members of the body of Christ speak about this topic. It is a common subject, but often misunderstood and our spiritual apprehension of it is shady and dim, or sometimes clueless.
What is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? It is the dying to the flesh and living for the Most High. We were quickened (for those of us that are baptized) by the Holy Spirit of Yahweh not to live for “self”; not to seek him to work for “us” or to have Him be our vending machine to fill our carnal desires; we were quickened not for us to dictate to Him and tell Him what we want Him to do for us; but…; we were made spiritually alive by the blood of our Lord to recognize that He is Lord; and that all we, as sinners, were gone astray (1Peter 2:25) and all we ever deserve is death.
Our ultimate aim is to serve Him.
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is that Power that’s consistently transforming the believer. It is that Power that causes us to realize that we need help and we cannot do it by ourselves. It is that power; that influence; that Holy law that resides in our minds and hearts that keeps us in the narrow way (Matt 7:13-14).
The message in the contemporary “so-called churches” today is “go get baptize”; “say the sinners prayer”; “come to Jesus”, etc. Do we really have those options? Is it really up to us? Well, I rather let the Word speak for itself. Read the following scripture verses and you decide for yourself: We do not choose Him (John 15:15); He quickens whom he will (John 5:21, Romans 4:17); we do not come to Him (John 6:44).
It is a call that we respond to; that call is that Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which our Lord is the author of and not man.
Shalom.
Divine Influence Ministry
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Comment
| | 1. | How do we apply Matthew 28:19-20 to baptism?
Go ye therefore, and teach [disciple] all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen” %28Matthew 28:19–20%29.
- by Mickey Payne, 08-12-2008, 9:46 AM
| | 2. | In John 3:5, when Jesus speaks to being born of water and of the Spirit, is He speaking to water being the water that we drink; hence, the need for the baptism ritual?
- by Mickey Payne, 08-12-2008, 9:41 AM
| | 3. | I was hoping to get more clarification with some more scripture to help me understand how baptism relates to 1 John 5:1-13. This scripture states that we must "believe" and that there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son."
Secondly,"He that hath the Son hath ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. "
Are the scriptures saying that we must believe in the Son of God to have life?
- by Mickey, 08-07-2008, 11:02 PM
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