The Spirit & Baptism (2)

We are in a study of the Holy Spirit and tonight we are in our second study on the spirit and baptism want to remind you that we're not talking about water baptism here although the imagery of water baptism is always behind the idea of baptism in the spirit as we'll see tonight There are lots of similarities although they're not the same thing so We're talking about the Holy Spirit and and baptism in the spirit now I want to to clarify some of the terminology we we talked about last time It's been two weeks. We're going to do a little bit of review to start with tonight we talked about the fact that quite often the terminology what you hear is that we are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ and that really is not accurate scripturally the terminology is baptism in the spirit and we'll look at that again tonight just in basic terms And then we'll get into it in a little more depth but really the it's baptism in the spirit which does Connect us to and place us in the body of Christ But it is not the Holy Spirit that does the baptizing it is not the baptism of the Spirit It is baptism in the spirit to use the correct biblical terminology We began last week by talking about some of the confusion about baptism in the spirit a lot of confusion about this Some of it is dispensational I want to get back into all of that but but the key distinction that we want to make We are dispensationalists and that means that we believe there's a great difference in God's dealing with Israel as a nation and His dealing with the church Basically a dealing with Israel in the Old Testament although that continues through the the gospels and Dealing with the church since the day of Pentecost two different peoples of God two different ways of God dealing with with them Israel was God's covenant nation and his dealing with them was much different them than how he deals with the church Baptism in the spirit has to do with the church not Israel and so sometimes there's a lot of confusion about that Then we saw there's ritual confusion sometimes people think the only kind of baptism in the Bible is water baptism So every time the word occurs they automatically read water baptism into it if you make that mistake Then it's very easy to slip into the mistake of thinking that baptism in water Actually cleanses our sins and unites us with Christ So it's a part of our salvation if if you see every mention of baptism is water baptism It's easy to slip into that error Because there are some mentions of baptism as we touched on last week and we'll look at again tonight That really do talk about our union with Christ our salvation and I believe those are references to spirit baptism So there's some ritual confusion then there's charismatic confusion a lot of people associate Spiritual a spirit baptism with the gift of tongues and it is Associated in a couple of times in the book of Acts for specific reasons we'll talk about that in great depth in two or three weeks We're going to spend a whole study on how a spirit baptism relates to our experience as believers and how it is connected to speaking in tongues in the book of Acts and why we're going to spend at least one maybe two whole studies on on that particular topic and then we talked about just some terminology confusion There have been a lot of good men who have confused baptism in the spirit with the filling of the spirit and even Use the terms interchangeably men like DL Moody and R.A. Torrey spoke of what we think of as the filling of the spirit with the terms the baptism of the spirit and that's very Confusing it's not a correct Use of the words So with with that background of all the confusion that swirls around this topic We last time looked at several major passages and so let's let's just briefly glance back at them We're not going to go into them in any depth like we did last time But let's begin just by kind of flipping through these Matthew 311 first of all Let's turn there Matthew 311. This is John the Baptist speaking of his baptism But telling about another baptism. It's going to come after his He says in Matthew 311 I baptized you with or we saw last time that the Preposition can be translated in and probably more correctly translated in I Baptized you in water for repentance, but after me Comes one who is more powerful than I who sandals. I'm not worried that he carry he will baptize you with or in the Holy Spirit and fire and so John was the first one to talk about one who would come after him obviously Christ Who sandals he's not even worthy to untie? Obviously speaking of Christ Christ is the one who will baptize in the spirit and also baptize in fire Which is a symbol of judgment and Jesus will do that has yet to do that But he will baptize in fire as well when he comes back at his second coming so so John the Baptist foretells the one who will baptize in the spirit then in Acts 1 5 Jesus himself mentions Kind of follows up on what John said in Acts chapter 1 verse 5 Verse 4 Jesus is speaking to the disciples right before the ascension back into heaven He says do not leave Jerusalem but wait for the gift my father promised which you have heard me speak about Referring back to his promise of the spirit in the upper room discourse in John 14 and 15 and 16 So verse 5 for John baptized with or in water But in a few days you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit Now Jesus takes what John says and the John told you about this But I'm telling you this baptism in the spirit is going to happen in a few days Now we know that 10 days after this the death in a cost came and there was a mighty moving of the spirit on that date and so that Seems to be the time that Jesus is talking about and that is made even more clear in Acts chapter 11 Acts chapter 11 is the third passage where it is mentioned verses 15 to 17 this is Peter After he's taken the gospel for the first time to Gentiles in Cornelius's household He gets called on the carpet for that among the leaders in Jerusalem because until that time the gospel has only been shared with Jews a few Samaritans back in chapter 8 but no Gentiles yet But God made it clear that that Peter was to take the gospel to the Gentiles and so when the leaders in Jerusalem are asking him about this He makes this statement in verse 15 as I began to speak the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us At the beginning now that coming on these Gentiles like he had come on the disciples the apostles in the beginning He's obviously referring back to the to chapter 2 that they have pentecost now notice how he interprets that in verse 16 Then I remembered what the Lord had said John baptized With or in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit So Peter says when I saw what happened to those Gentiles which was exactly what happened to us back in chapter 2 on the Death Pentecost I Remembered that was a fulfillment of what Jesus had said would happen being baptized in the Spirit So Peter himself relates the baptism in the spirit back to Acts chapter 2 All right, and what happened at Pentecost in verse 17 He says if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ who was I to think that I could stand in God's way And that's his rationale for Taking the gospel to the Gentiles not only did God make it clear Remember the Lowering of the sheet with the different unclean foods on it and God told Peter don't make those distinctions anymore We're not making distinctions between Jew and Gentile you go take the gospel to Gentiles Not only that but also the fact that God showed to the Gentiles exactly what he did to those Jewish Apostles back in chapter 2 by the giving of the Spirit and the baptism in the Spirit Okay, then then the fourth passage we looked at was 1 Corinthians chapter 12 And this is the clearest one related to the body of Christ and to the church 1 Corinthians 12 Verse 12 Paul begins to introduce this this imagery this Example this this word picture of the body the human body being a Metaphor or a word picture for the body of Christ the church He says in verse 12 just as a body though one has many parts But all its many parts form one body So it is with Christ Now there was just like your human body has a lot of parts, but it takes all those parts to make one body Same thing is true with Christ lots of parts in his body every believer, but it's all one body Now how does that body get started verse 13? For we were all baptized by or in one spirit So as to form one body So it is the baptism in the Spirit that forms this body of Christ. It's what he's saying Whether Jews or Gentiles slave or free and we were all given the one spirit to drink and we'll come back to that last Statement and what that means given the one spirit to drink will talk about that a little bit later But those are the major references to the baptism in the Spirit in using those terms in the New Testament We also saw that there were some other passages That seemed to refer to the baptism in the Spirit although they don't mention baptism in the Spirit They mentioned baptism and they connect it with being united with Christ Or they connect it with being placed in his body that seems to be the same thing So let's quickly just review those and then I promise I'll stop and throw it open for any questions or comments That you might have we the first one we looked at last week or last time was Acts 2 1 to 4 We're not going to turn back there. That's the coming of the Spirit on the apostles in the day of Pentecost They were all filled with the Spirit and began to speak in languages They'd never studied to get the gospel to all those people who were from various parts of the world Gagged and drew some on the day of Pentecost so even though the term baptism in the Spirit is not used in Acts 2 That clearly was a part of what was happening because Jesus said in Acts 1 That's what's going to happen in a few days and Peter in Acts 11 says that's what happened back to us in the beginning So from both vantage points you're pointing the finger right back at Acts chapter 2 So although the filling of the Spirit is what's highlighted in Acts 2 Obviously, that's when the baptism in the Spirit started Okay, is that is that clear? Does that make sense? Okay, we're gonna see a little bit later that The baptism in the Spirit is makes possible the filling of the Spirit so the two are connected in that way and that's why They're both found in Acts chapter 2 Okay, then we looked at Romans 6 1 through 4 and it might be good for us just to look quickly at that passage Romans 6 1 through 4 What shall we say then shall we go on sending so that grace may increase by no means We speaking of believers now we are those who have died to sin. How can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus Were baptized into his death We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father We too may live a new life and he goes on through verse 10 talking about this being united with Christ in his death burial and resurrection and Since we are united with Christ in his death burial resurrection That gives us a new position From which we can then reckon or count ourselves to be dead and needed to sin which is verse 11 We can live out the Christian life But the first 10 verses have to do with our position in Christ Being united with his death burial resurrection and so for that reason because the baptism that's spoken of here Actually unites us with Christ were baptized into Christ Very similar to first Corinthians 12 13 placed into his body We are buried with him through this baptism Because this baptism actually unites us with Christ. I believe it's the baptism in the spirit. It's not water baptism Although it's it's appropriate to use this passage while we have application of water baptism because Water baptism does demonstrate and show exactly what these verses are talking about our union with Christ in his death burial resurrection Very similar we looked at Galatians 3 23 or excuse me Galatians 3 27 Verse 26 says So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ Obviously that's talking about our salvation It carries on the thought of verse 26 about being in Christ being children of God through faith and he says the reason You're all children of God through faith is that you were baptized into Christ That's not water baptism if it is then Water baptism saves us Okay, so that's what this verse is talking about so I believe this is spirit baptism We were all baptized into Christ in the same way first Corinthians 12 13 says we were We were baptized in the spirit which places us in the body of Christ Okay, so we're baptized into Christ all of us who have been baptized into Christ have clothed ourselves with Christ that's salvation terminology and So unless you want to say water baptism places you in the body of Christ and saves you and Close you with Christ and unite you with Christ unless you want to say that you pretty well got to see this as spirit baptism This is being baptized in the spirit not in not in water Same thing is true. Let me just mention Ephesians 4 5 And then we'll head to Colossians real quick and then I will stop for a minute Ephesians 4 5 Verse 4 it begins to the thought there is one body one spirit just as you were called to one hope when you were called one Lord one faith One baptism one God and father of all who was overall and through all and in all He's speaking there of the things that all believers have in common Because he's made the point in verse 3 that we should make every effort to keep the unity of the spirit Unity that the Holy Spirit creates is built around these things that all believers have in common. What do all believers have in common? One body we're in one body that's Christ. We are we are we have one spirit We're called to one hope we have one Lord. There's one faith. There's one baptism What baptism Is there that every believer shares not water baptism? Because not every believer is baptized in water that doesn't happen with every believer Didn't happen with the thief on the cross that happened every believer But there is one baptism that we all share and that is we are all baptized into the body of Christ Placed in the body of Christ through being baptized in the spirit. So I believe that's referring to spirit baptism also Colossians one Or Colossians two excuse me Colossians to the last of these other passages Colossians two verses 11 and 12 and This is very much like Romans six and Galatians three same terminology verse 11 in him You were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ That's Paul's terminology that he uses in other places for salvation It is a spiritual surgical operation by God which takes off the old man and makes us new in Christ and so how does he speak of that in verse 12 Having been buried with him in baptism in Which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead now that again That's salvation terminology. He's talking about our union with Christ We've been buried with him in baptism. We've been raised with him through faith in In the working of God that's salvation terminology and so I believe the baptism here is the baptism in the spirit I think to see that Solves a lot of the confusion people have with the use of the word baptism Now is the word baptism ever used of water baptism? Of course it is The instances in the book of Acts like Acts 8 where the Ethiopian Unicus baptized The examples where people are baptized Obviously that is literal baptism in water And and all of these passages have that imagery behind them Just like the ceiling of the spirit has the imagery of a literal Roman scroll being sealed with wax and a and an insignia on a ring That imagery is behind the ceiling of the spirit well the imagery of being immersed in water is always behind this truth of spirit baptism too Okay, the imagery is there Now let me stop and and see what questions you may have before we move on Okay, I think that will become clearer in a moment when we look at the six elements We're going to say that the baptizer the one who does the baptizing is Christ And the element into which we're placed is the Holy Spirit It's just like a pastor baptizing you in water It's not the Christ baptizes in the spirit that's the significance so it's not the spirit baptizing us That's never the way the scripture speak of it. It's always Christ baptizing us in the spirit or Again the Greek preposition can be translated with but most scholars say the best way to translate is in in But even if you translate it with it's still Christ baptizing And the element into which we're baptizes Holy Spirit Okay other questions comments clarifications John Well, I think John is saying most people ask the question when were you baptized And this opens up a whole other realm of discussion probably if if most people ask you that question when were you baptized if you launch into this discussion They're gonna their eyes are gonna get wide and they're gonna what in the world? I didn't ask that all I wanted to know is when did you get dumped? That's all they're concerned about so probably to save all the confusion it most people when they ask that question are asking when were you baptized in water and I Think if somebody ever asked me that that's probably how to answer Right Yes, the the actual baptism in water is a public demonstration of the spiritual reality Which happens when we're saved that we are placed into the body of Christ and we are united with Christ in his death Resurrection when I'm in the 101 class I always Illustrated with with a wedding band Okay, a wedding band This does not make me married to Jeannie I mean anybody can go out to a jewelry store and buy a wedding band put it on this doesn't make me married to Jeannie What makes me married to Jeannie is that 42 almost 43 years ago We stood before an audience Of people with a pastor who happened to be her brother which by the way had a lot of pressure For me, but we we stood before this congregation and we made solemn promises and vows to each other and the proper paperwork was signed It was recorded in the courthouse that's what makes us married That's the reality. This is just a symbol It's a public demonstration and symbol to other people that I'm married But it's not the reality. This doesn't mean I'm married. It just is a public demonstration of that That's what water baptism is. It's not the reality of being united with Christ That was done at the moment you trusted Christ You were buried with him by faith in his death You were raised to walk in a new life the old man was put off and you're a new creature in Christ That comes through faith that doesn't come through water But water baptism is a beautiful picture. It's the wedding ring. It's a beautiful symbol and picture to other people That the spiritual reality really happened And you see when the spiritual reality really happened And you were placed in Christ the way the Bible speaks of that is you were baptized in the spirit and and I'm jumping ahead of myself a little bit But there's some really rich Rich symbolism there about being immersed and plunged into the realm of the spirit And that's why the New Testament can say we are in the spirit There's a beautiful imagery there that will will flesh out in just a little bit here But yeah, we've got to make that distinction between water baptism and spirit baptism. They're not the same thing Spirit baptism is the spiritual reality of being united with Christ Water baptism is a is a public Demonstration of the fact that we've been united with Christ through faith Why was John baptizing John the Baptist John the Baptist or John the baptizer was baptizing as as a visible means Of connecting people to his message in other words John's message was a message of repentance And so he was calling for heart repentance on the part of people So that their hearts would be clean and prepared for the coming of the Messiah As a visible demonstration of the cleansing of their hearts through repentance They were baptized So just like for us baptism in water is a visible demonstration of the fact that we've been buried with Christ raised walk in Nunez of life For Jews under John's baptism it was a visible testimony and demonstration to everybody else that they had cleansed the sins of their hearts through repentance So that's why it was a baptism Under repentance that John and remember John when people came to him to be baptized Remember the Pharisees and they came to him to be baptized and John said, whoa, why are you here being baptized? Get your hearts right first Then you can be baptized and remember he said the same thing the Roman soldiers stop your cheating and Now then you can be baptized because his baptism was just an outward demonstration public testimony of the fact that they had already cleansed their hearts through repentance That's the reason he was baptizing to connect it to the kingdom message So even John's baptism was purely symbolic it didn't take anyone's sins away It was a public demonstration that people had already dealt with the sin problem in their hearts through genuine repentance That was what it was all about That's a great question and and The answer to that is that John's baptism was not the first time baptisms were done Baptisms were common among Jews Sometimes they were more ritual cleansings and they were done in different ways But there is good archaeological evidence That the cleansings people would go through before they came into the temple was actually a subversion in water Or an immersion in water. I'll never forget and I wish I had my Slides all in CDs now, but I have a gazillion slides of Israel back from 1984 and One of these days I'll get them all in a format. I can use now But I've got slides of the excavations on the south side of the temple mount We were the first one of the first groups that were ever allowed in that area in the temple because it had just been excavated And our professor was a professor of Hebrew at the University of Tel Aviv He was a Jewish man And he had pulled with the government and he got us in there Where the public was not allowed But one of the things he did is he took us into a Jewish baptism font a cleansing ritual baptism font That was at the edge of the temple before people went into the temple And it had a stairway that went down into a body of water And you would walk down this one stairway and dip yourself All the way in the water and then you were required to come up a different stairway Because if you came up the one you went down you would get some of the Uncleanliness that you carried in with you. That's just the way Jews thought And so you went down one side dipped yourself fully in the water came out the other side That was typical Jewish baptism even before John And so when John was calling for people to be baptized I mean they were already familiar with that they were already familiar with it and so He just he just made sure that they understood it had to do with Recognizing that your hearts already been cleansed through repentance Then you can be baptized but not until you dealt with the heart issue he made that clear Did they baptize women? I don't have any reason to think they didn't Yeah I mean I'm trying to think of an example where that's specifically done, but I don't see any reason why they wouldn't have Okay any other questions All right, all right very good Okay, actually what I've been wanting to get to is what we're going to get started into tonight because or right now because I think these Six factors in the baptism the spirit will will clear up a lot of our questions about this Now please remember that the background I want to make sure you understand what I mean by that the background the visual imagery behind Spirit baptism is water baptism Okay, it's not that the two are connected In a real real way or a close way, but in the Jewish mind The visual imagery of being immersed in water Would be the imagery that would come to mind when you started talking about baptism in the spirit again the best illustration I know of is One I've already used When when New Testament writer spoke of the ceiling of the spirit the average first century person could identify with that easily They knew what that meant because they had an image in their mind and that image in their mind was a literal Roman seal on a document Remember when we talked about the ceiling of the spirit we talked about that That that seal on a document a scroll is rolled up and then wax hot wax is placed on where that Edge is and the insignia of the king or the emperor or the governor or whoever is impressed in that wax and then it hardens Okay, that was a symbol a sign of authority It showed who that document came from it was a sign of ownership This is pilots document this belongs to him It doesn't come from some other lower government official this is pilots and it was also a symbol of security Because you could not tamper with that document without breaking the seal now when you talk about the ceiling of the spirit That's rich spiritual truth But every Jewish mind would be thinking okay, I understand that I know what you're saying because I've seen a Roman seal So I know that what you're saying is the ceiling of the spirit basically is his His presence in us which shows that we're no longer our own god owns us were his And we have his authority to come into his presence because we now belong to him And we are eternally secure you can't tamper with the seal That's why Paul says you are sealed unto the day of redemption That seal is not going to be broken until you get to heaven Okay, now in the same way that you every Jewish mind Would understand the ceiling of the spirit through that imagery that was already in their mind They would also understand baptism in the spirit through the physical imagery that was already in their mind of a literal baptism in water It's not that the two are connected. It's that baptism in water would provide the imagery through which they could understand now what baptism in the spirit meant Okay, is that is that Clear am I confusing that issue any? Okay, if that's clear for that reason then there are the same six factors in spirit baptism that are in literal water baptism and what I mean by that is this there's someone who's doing the baptizing There is an element into which we're baptized There is a person who's being baptized There is a condition you have to meet a condition in order to be baptized and there is a mode of baptism Just like there is in water baptism all of those same factors apply to spirit baptism So let's back up to the first one and let's see Who is the one doing the baptizing who is the baptizer? Okay with water baptism There's someone baptizing you there's someone putting you in the water typically a pastor or you know a family Friend or someone who is actually doing the baptizing Well in spirit baptism It's clear in the scriptures that the baptizer is Christ It's Christ who's doing the baptism Remember remember in the gospels Remember the verse it won't go back to them but remember the verses we looked at Matthew 311 John the Baptist said I'm baptizing you in water But there's one who's coming after me whose the thongs of whose sandals I'm not worried to untie Who will baptize you in the spirit that one is Jesus obviously Jesus is the one who will baptize you in the spirit and Jesus himself said in Acts 1 5 John baptized you in water, but I will baptize you In the spirit okay, so the baptizer is Jesus not the Holy Spirit And that's where the some of the confusion often comes in This is often spoken of as the baptism of the spirit in the sense it's the spirit that does the baptizing That's not right. It is Christ who does the baptizing He places us into the realm of the spirit So it's Christ who does the baptism By the way one other little side note to this on the day of pinnacost When when the baptism in the spirit started and the evidence of that was the filling of the spirit the empowerment of the spirit to To have the gift of speaking in languages. They had never studied okay the gift of tongues People who are observing that are not processing what's happening and not understanding it and this is the way Peter explains it He explains it in verse 33 in his sermon this way. Let me get first 33 Okay, verse 32 God has raised this Jesus to life and we are all witnesses of it exalted to the right hand of God He has received From the Father the promised Holy Spirit And has poured out what you now see and hear So who poured out the spirit and we're going to see that same terminology in a minute Who poured out the spirit and and caused this This power of the spirit which also included the baptism in the spirit as we've already seen who did that Jesus did that That's the way Peter explains it Christ did it So the baptizer is not the Holy Spirit the baptizer the one baptizing is Christ Okay now the second factor is the element By the element I'm speaking of what are we baptized into with water baptism the element is water Someone baptizes us into water well the element in spirit baptism is the spirit the Holy Spirit is the element into which we are placed That's why the spirit or the scriptures speak of it as baptize baptism in the spirit just like John baptized in water That was the element into which he placed people the Comparison in the gospels and in Acts 1.5 is just like John placed you in water Christ is going to place you in the spirit The spirit is the element into which we are placed now. Let's think about that a little bit more Look again at at first Corinthians 12, okay first Corinthians 12 and the passage there That's the most familiar one about spirit baptism Speaking of the body of Christ he says for we were all baptized By or again better translated in we were all baptized in one spirit So as to form one body Whether Jews or Gentiles slavery free we were all given the one spirit to drink now First Corinthians 12 13 is basically saying that Christ baptizes us in the spirit places us into the realm of the Holy Spirit Which forms the body of Christ Yes, we are placed into the body of Christ by this action But it is Jesus who does it by placing us into the spirit or into the realm of the Holy Spirit So when we are baptized into the element of the spirit that also forms the body that places us into the body of Christ Now there's something really I think special here and it's in the last part of the verse It says and we were all given the one spirit To drink To drink that doesn't what is that talking about? We were all given the one spirit now we understand that because we understand that the Holy Spirit comes to indwell All of us who are believers we're all given the Holy Spirit but to drink Well the only other time this terminology is used in the Bible Is in the Old Testament actually and the the Greek translation of the Old Testament which would use the same terminology is Spounded in the New Testament Of this verse I'm going to show you in just a moment uses the same expression. It's Isaiah 2910 Isaiah 2910 is on the screen for you for the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep And have closed your eyes the prophets and your rulers the seers Hath he covered now what he's saying there is that the spirit of deep sleep has been poured out on people Like a flood so that they are immersed surrounded covered up Yes, they drink that in because they are immersed covered up surrounded by the this this spirit of deep sleep Now in the same way When we are placed into the realm of the spirit we are immersed in the spirit surrounded with the spirit He is poured out on us like a flood we are in the realm of the spirit That places us into the body of Christ. Yes But it also completely surrounds us with the Holy Spirit and thus we are said to be in the New Testament in the spirit Okay, it's a beautiful picture of being in the spirit We are no longer as Paul will say in Romans we are no longer in the realm of the flesh We are now in the realm of the spirit we operate in a whole new realm In the spirit of God surrounded by him It's another way of of picturing the indwelling of the spirit that he is with us forever We have the Holy Spirit forever We actually are made to drink him. We are surrounded with him In this imagery it's like a flood coming over us and we are immersed in him In in other imagery in the New Testament he indwells us. He comes to abide with us forever But they're all saying kind of the same thing. We have the Holy Spirit And he's with us forever Okay, so the element into which we're placed is the Holy Spirit Does somebody put extra batteries in that clock on Wednesday nights? That thing just flies And our time is up but I want we'll come back to this It's gonna be two or three weeks before we get back to it because we have an awana Thing next week and then I'm gonna be gone one Wednesday night But anyway, we'll get back to it. We'll get these other elements. Let me let me just give them to you real quick Okay, so that you you won't be in the dark completely You may be more in the dark after I give them to you. I don't know but anyway. Let's try it The baptized is the believer the person who is baptized is the believer Christ Baptizes the believer into the realm of the Holy Spirit the condition for baptized for being baptized in the spirit is faith in Christ That's that's simply it. There's no other condition. You don't seek for this. You don't pray for this You don't agonize for the baptism of the spirit you trust Christ and we'll see the scriptures when we get to it You trust Christ you are immediately baptized into the spirit placed in the realm of the spirit that's part of being saved and then the mode is immersion clearly Immersion and we'll see how and then we'll talk about some of the results of it What it means to us then too, but that's that's kind of where we're headed We'll come back to it and flesh that out a little bit with some scriptures Later, but that's the six factors in the baptism in spirit Okay, we need to pray and and dismiss Father, thank you for your word. It is it is so rich and so good for our souls and The more we get into it beyond the the milk levels getting down into the meat levels of your truth We are amazed at all you've done for us Just in saving us all that you've done just in the realm of the spirit Indwelling us and sealing us and baptizing us in the spirit and so many things you've done By way of spiritual realities for us just in relationship to how we relate to the Holy Spirit and It is Lord Lord so incredible to us and we're so grateful For all that you've done for us in Christ Help us to see that what you have done is far more than just deliver us from hell Although that is wonderful in itself You've done so much more for us in Christ It's like you've given us abundant gifts that we rarely think about And so we want to think about them. We want to To pour over them We want to take time To revel in all the good gifts you've given us in our salvation Thank you for the baptism in the spirit in Jesus name amen