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What is the Baptism with the Holy Spirit?

This is a 2 part introduction message to the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.

This message is for anyone who has not yet experienced the baptism with the Holy Spirit, does not fully understand what the baptism, who its for, how its done, why we need the baptism, how to be prepared, and finally experience the baptism.

This message is also to encourage the spiritual parents to help prepare others who are not yet baptized in the Spirit.

Before we get into further teaching about the Baptism we should first know “What the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is not.”

Text:

Main Text - “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”

Main Point: What the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is not.

What is the Baptism with the Holy Spirit ?

B. What the Baptism with the Holy Spirit Is.

Action: I want new followers to be prepared for the baptism.

I want baptized followers to be encouraged to prepare others.

Main Point: What the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is not.

What the Baptism with the Holy Spirit Is.

It is not the New Birth.

It is not the New Birth.

The Baptism with the Holy Spirit is subsequent to, and distinct from, His Regenerative Work.

A full Christian experience should certainly contain both; but this distinction must be made, because many are genuinely saved who have never been filled with the Spirit.

The following facts prove this distinction.

The Baptism with the Holy Spirit is clearly different from His work in regeneration work of a person.

It is not the New Birth.

The Baptism with the Holy Spirit is subsequent to, and distinct from, His Regenerative Work.

A full Christian experience should certainly contain both; but this distinction must be made, because many are genuinely saved who have never been filled with the Spirit.

The following facts prove this distinction.

A full Christian experience should certainly contain both; but this distinction must be made, because many are genuinely saved who have never been filled with the Spirit.

The following facts prove this distinction.

A follower of Jesus Christ a disciple’s life experience should contain both reintegration and Spirit baptism but they are clearly different events in the life of a disciple.

I know of many followers of Jesus who never experienced the Baptism in the Holy Spirit but have clearly shown a changed life through the work of the Holy Spirit of regeneration their lives.

The following examples from the Word can help understand visible difference.

The apostles were converted under the ministry of Jesus

Jesus called His disciples

Jesus called His disciples

Jesus called His disciples

“Look the Lamb of God!” - John the Baptist

Andrew and Simon (Peter) started to follow Jesus calling Him the Christ.

Jesus found Philip and called him to follow.

Nathaniel was called to follow Jesus

(What good can come out of Nazareth!?)

Jesus said He saw Nathan under a fig tree when Philip had called Nathan to Jesus.

Nathan knew that Jesus was the Christ and followed Him.

Names in the book of life

Jesus told the disciples that their names were already written in heaven before the Holy Spirit had baptized them.

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You are made clean!

Jesus while talking with His disciples told them that a person that is already clean does not need to be washed again.

He just needs to have his feet washed.

- Jn. 13:10

Jesus was telling them that they already had been washed by the Word of God that Jesus spoke while He was with them.

Already Pruned!

When Jesus had shared His message about the Grapevine and the gardener.

He told His followers that they already have been grafted into the tree, and pruned.

They had “already been purified by the message” that Jesus had shared with them.

- Jn. 15:3

They were commanded to tarry(or wait),

and were instantly filled with the Spirit at least two years later

Told to wait (Lk.

24:49)

Jesus told His followers to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Holy Ghost.

They waited on the Lord (Acts 1:13,14)

They obeyed the Lord by staying together in once place (around 120 of them).

They were baptized ()

As they gathered and prayed the were baptized in the Holy Ghost!

(; , ; ).

Accepting Christ as your Saviour and experiencing a regenerated life is not the Baptism of the Spirit.

Its a process of Sanctification being made pure by the Holy Spirit and set aside for God a holy people.

(3) Paul was converted on the road to Damascus by a personal vision of the resurrected Christ—.

He was baptized with the Holy Ghost under the ministry of Ananias three days later ().

Speaking Sanctification...

(4) The twelve men at Ephesus were “believers”—according to Paul’s own words to them: “Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?”

or “Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?”

().

These believers were baptized in water and later received the Baptism with the Holy Spirit subsequent to the laying on of the apostle’s hands ().

The second translation of verse two, as given above, is followed by many other modern versions.

Those who teach that all who are saved receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit at the same time as salvation, use this translation to seek to prove their point.

But the answer of these believing Ephesians to the question: “Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when you believed?” was “We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost” ().

Yet, they were believers.

One, then, can be a believer and not have been filled with the Spirit.

There need not be a long period of time between salvation and the fullness of the Spirit, but the Baptism with the Spirit is an additional experience to the New Birth.

It is not Sanctification

What is Sanctification?

To sum it up when we say “Sanctification” it means how God has set aside items or people to be holy.

Sanctification happens in 2 ways.

God sanctifies by the work of the Holy Spirit to make a person holy instantaneously .

First the Holy Spirit makes us pure by working through the spoken Word of God.

When we HEAR the Word of God spoken and hear the truths about Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit works in us to make us pure.

The second method of purification is progressive and done over time by us.

The first method of progressive purification is by Faith.

We are given a measure of faith to trust in Jesus Christ.

By using this faith even if its small it can still move a mountain and make us pure in the eyes of God.

The second method of progressive purification is by Obedience to the Word of God.

A common element spoken in the book of John is a “washing of the Word to make you pure” Jesus said this.

The disciples spoke of this.

“Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you” (Jn.

15:3); “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (Jn.

17:17); “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word” (Eph.

5:26).

“If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth [keeps on cleansing] us from all sin” (1 Jn. 1:7)

The word says “Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you” (); “Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth” (); “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word” ().

“If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son [keeps on cleansing] us from all sin” ()

When we are obedient to the Word of God it makes us pure and walk in holiness.

We must also submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

In the book of John Jesus made a promise that when He had gone back to the Father, He would send the Holy Spirit who would guide us in all truth.

But we must be willing to submit to the Holy Spirit leading us in all things.

finally progressive purification is done when we make a personal commitment to holiness.

Paul teaches us in his letter to the Romans “Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin.