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NASB | Matthew 3:11 ¶ "As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 3:11 ¶ "As for me, I baptize you with water because of [your] repentance [that is, because you are willing to change your inner self--your old way of thinking, regret your sin and live a changed life], but He (the Messiah) who is coming after me is mightier [more powerful, more noble] than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to remove [even as His slave]; He will baptize you [who truly repent] with the Holy Spirit and [you who remain unrepentant] with fire (judgment). [Luke 3:16] |
Subject: Baptized by Holy Spirit? |
Bible Note: Hi Doc. Please forgive me and I humbly apologize if I had irritated you in any way and I'm sorry that you had pre-judged me as being a pentecostal from your previous post ( Gordon Fee being a pentecostal too) What caught my eye when I first came onto this forum was your statement about the baptism in the Holy Spirit was not a second blessing. I wanted to learn more as to how you come to that conclusion. Could it be true or false since there's two schools of thought about that subject? Just like Edb said in a prior post people don't want to talk about it. Why? Because some associate the speaking in tongues with it. In Acts 1:8, did Jesus tell His apostles to wait in Jerusalem to be baptized with the Holy Spirit so that they can speak in tongues? NO! So that they can receive power to witness about Him. Evidence of that power, Peter filled with the Holy Sprit preached and 3,000 people got saved Acts 2:41. What I get out of Acts 8:17, is, when Peter and John (who were already baptized with that power) and prayed for the new believers, that power by faith was then transmitted unto them by the laying of the apostles hands. In 2Tim 1:6-7, Pauls speaks, "For this reason I remind you to fan into flames the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. v7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and self-discipline. Heb 6:1-2, Paul states,"Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ ----v2 instructions about baptisms, (plural) the laying on the hands ---" It appears to me from these Scriptures that the baptism is transmitted by faith by those who are filled with the Holy Spirit by the laying of hands. Could it then be a second blessing of power which we need for witnessing? Please, I'm asking not debating. Ed O. |