Baptized

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Matthew 3:11 11 I indeed baptize you with water 

unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is

mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to

bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and

with fire.

As we nagivate through life, there are influences

that dicate our movements. These influences can

either influence us to greatness or influence us

unto domantion. The outcome all depends unpon

what you allow to influence you. In the bible there

were many influences there were the influences of

culture, their were the influneces of tradition and

these influences were introduced to us by

influencers. You had many influencers in the bible

such as moses as he influence the children of isreal

on a revolt against Pharaoh, Niemiah who

influenced the people to rebuild a wall in the midst

of adversity, Daniel influenced the king to worship

God through his obedienence, you have John the

baptised who influenced to ppl to repent and the

greatest influencer of all times you have Jesus who

influence an entire generation and future

generations to come live a holy and sactified life

that would allow access to live in eternity with him.

In order to be successful influencer you must have

a message that brings about a change to those you

are trying to influence. Ppl are no longer fooled by

empty words and promises, they want to know if

you really have what it takes to trandform me into

something else than what I am now. Nowadays

every one wants to be an influencer without being

influenced first. In order for you to preach and

teach chirst and influence your listener to connect

with you. You first must have a solid relationship

with him to the point of change in your life before

you have change in lives of your lister. To preach

and teach chirst with no change is to non effect. its

a waste of your time and the listers time.

Depending upon what your fill with will determine

what you share as an influencer. There are some

filled with love, some filled haterd, some filled with bitterness and others filled with Joy and

depending upon what your filled with is the type of

information you will share.

In connection to the informatioln your sharing with

your listers you must be filled with the correct

information inorder for you to be a credible

influencer. John the Baptist was a creditable

influencer he spoke of things relevant to the times

and directed ppl into the right direction that would

help them enter into enternal life. He told the ppl

that someone greater than him was coming and

that person came and his name was Jesus.

Its important to be filled with the right kinda information, the right kinda spirit, the right kinda influences and the right kinda presence cause what your filled with will show eventually. To be filled means to become full or almost full, to become an overwhelming presence. Its important that we invest our time and efforts into paying more attention to what we are filled with. Alot of TV fills you with false realities and fake narratives about your life and how it should be, Social media fills you with information overload that is often of no real inportance for your life. Its reels of foolishness and stupidity that we find entaining and we use it to pass precious time with. Youtube is filled with videos of false prophets and short films that leaves you more confused than you were at first. They are all filled with there opinions and feelings and because we dont research we take them at their words. We need to be filled with the attributes of God so we can ensure our access in to everlasting.

So johns the baptist ministry consisted of him baptizing ppl in the Jordan river. Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration and union with Christ, one of two sacraments ordained by Christ to be practiced in the church until he returns. The other sacrament is communion. Baptism is when a person is submerged into the water which symbolizes the death, burial and ressurrection of Jesus Chirst. It is important as a beliver to partake in such a tradition because it proves our surrendace and beleif in Chirst. Baptism should not in no way substitute salvation, they should both be done in a believers life. Baptism is a sysmbolic way to commune with Chirst and Salvation is a literal way to commune with Chirst.

Matthew 3:11 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:”

These are the words of John the Baptist speaking to those who were there to be baptised as well as the Pharisees and Sadducees encouraging them to repent. Johns baptism’s were bound to repentance, John message was a message to all to repent because the kingdom of God is at hand. Is it very important for us to acknowledge the importance of repenting. To repent is to turn away from your sins and to do them no more. This was Johns message and he did not detour from the message. Before Jesus began his ministry he was baptized first. This is an important part to understand becasue Jesus is the son of God, Why is John the Baptist baptizing the son of God? we must not forget that Jesus was born of a woman and if he was born of a woman than he was born into sin, if he was born into sin than he also must repent and Johns minstry was the ministry of baptism unto repentance. After Jesus was Baptized

the heavens opened and the voice of God said this

is my son whom I am well pleased. God was

pleased with Jesus becasue Jesus filled all

righteous as a man eventho he was God.

John said, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. The word unto in this pharse means until or to. John baptized ppl until they repent, then he said but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: Although John was called, had influence and followers he never took his eyes off the assignment. Unlike ppl nowadays they get alittle power, ppl like what they say or how they teach or preach and they forget the assignment and who sent them on it. Never forget that God is in control and everything that you do or is allowed to do is because of him. and John never forgot that he was just a piece in a much larger puzzle. John understood his assignment and the assignment of Jesus so he did his part. Only if the men and woman of God could just do their part. If ppl could ever learn to be content with the assignment that GOd has them on. The assignment that God has called you to do is only for you. He has called you for it, he has equipped you for it and he has prepared you for it. Only if we could recognize that your assignment may not be as prestigious as other assignments but just know that that assignment is just for you and all God need you to do is do your part. John understood that he had apart to play and after him there was someone whos shoes he was not able to fill.

He later told them that this person that is coming is going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. Many preachers and teachers have steered away from encouraging the ppl to desire being filled with the Holy Ghost. Its becasue of the spirit of Witchcraft in the church. Where the preacher no longer encourages you to lean on God they want you to lean on them so they can control and mulipulate you. They want to make you feel as tho their the reason why you have what you have and it wasnt becasuse of God. They try and create this false narrative about them selves and sell it to you so you can trust them and not GOD. Jesus introducing the holy ghost is not important to most churches nowadays becasuse it encourages us to be lead by the spirit of God. Being filled with the holy Ghost is the best thing that could ever happen to the believer. THe holy ghost leads you into all truths, the holy ghost leads you into all righteousness, the holy ghost comforts you in your times of need, the holy ghost brings things to your remeberance. Having the Holy ghost weakens the power of darkness and allow you to live a GOd lead life. The holy ghost transforms people to share His moral character and empowers them to fulfill His purposes. This is a major problem when theres ppl who want you to fill empowered becuase of them to carry out their agenda. Being filled with the Holy Ghost will prevent you from desiring to carrying out the plan of the enemy. Being filled with the Holy ghost will empower you to serve God, Being filled with the Holy Ghost will help you stay on assignment.

The Holy ghost also brings about a fire, a consuming fire. This fire burns in you and causes anything that not like God to be burnt up. This fire has the ability to burn up lust, stealing, lieing, cheating, backbiteing, laziness, doubt, fear, anxieties and all unrighteousness. This consuming fire cleanses you from the inside out. Were not seeing lives trnsformed becasue ppl have shyed away from being filled with the Holy Ghost. I am here today to encourage you to be filled with the Holy Ghost. It will change your life, it will free you, it will help you, it will process you the Holy Ghost will keep you outta trouble. The Holy Ghost is the spirit of GOd and being filled with the Holy Ghost means to be filled with the spirit of God.

In my closing on today I want to encourage you to not only seek water batism but to also seek to be baptized by the Holy Ghost. God wants each and every one of us to filled, he wants us to desire his spirit. I dont know about any body else but I need to be filled with GOds spirit. Arent you tired of going your own way, Dont you wnat something better for your life. Well first you must accept Chirst as your personal savior for the remission of your sins and everythign will else will follow you. You will be filled with works that only God can do and thats to create, regenerate and save. Once your filled the spirit of God in you will create in you a clean heart. Psalm 51:10-12: "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit". Father God help on us on today and fill us with the right spirit. We need your spirit to walk right, to tallk right, to live right, to live holy, to live righteous, to live a life in chirst, to live in faith, to live in love, to live in the promises, to live in wisdom, to live with a sound mind, to live in grace and to live in your glory. We need you God to fill us so that we can sustain. Look to your neighbor and tell them I need to be filled, ( repeat)

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