Baptized - Holy Ghost & Fire Series

Read Matthew 3:11

Read Acts 1:4-5 & 2:1-4

• Today we are going to finish our 3 week series on the topic of baptism.

• Two weeks ago we started this series in preparation of our water baptism service which took place last week.

• Baptism, is probably one of my favorite topics in the Bible, because of the life changing effects of all three types of baptism

• For those of you who were not here, in this series we have discussed that there are three different types of baptisms mentioned in

the Bible.

• The first baptism mentioned in scripture is the Baptism into the Family of God or Body of Christ.

• This occurs the moment we chose to surrender our lives to Jesus Christ, and accept Him as our Savior.

• Now most of us know this as our day of salvation, but the Bible calls it a form of baptism.

• In this baptism we are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, therefore Jesus lives in us.

• How many of you know this is the first and perhaps most important type of baptism you need to experience, as it seals your soul

for Heaven, AMEN?

• Then the second type of baptism we discussed last week was water baptism.

• In this type of baptism, a minister or vessel of God baptizes you into water, which symbolizes the death, burial, and resurrection of

Jesus Christ.

• But as we saw last week in His Word, the Bible says if we joined with Christ in death,

• We will also take on His likeness in the resurrection.

• So we determined that through water baptism we are baptized into the identity of Christ.

• For those of you who were baptized last week, you took on the identity of Christ.

• We acknowledged that this type of baptism was so important because our image or our identities outside of Him are worthless,

• But the identity of Jesus Christ is a life changing identity, able to change the world, and of course change us.

• So we get to live with Jesus alive in us, and we get to live with Jesus identity upon us,

• And how many of you know that if God stopped right there, that’s a pretty blessed life, AMEN?

• But how many of you know that Jesus didn’t stop there???

• How many of you are glad that Jesus didn’t stop there???

• This week we are going to discuss the third type of baptism that the Bible talks about, the Baptism With the Holy Spirit.

• In this baptism, Jesus Christ Himself baptizes us with or into the Holy Spirit.

• Now let’s bring this into context, because it’s important to understand what we are saying here.

• Jesus Himself was baptized with the Holy Spirit by the Father, and now He baptizes each of us with the Holy Spirit.

• If we can understand why Jesus needed this baptism, it helps us realize the importance of Holy Spirit baptism in our own lives.

• Understand that Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit upon coming out of the waters of baptism at the hands of John the Baptist.

• And John said this was the sign that He was looking for, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Man and remained,

• Then He would know that this was the Christ, or the anointed one.

• So in order to understand this we have to understand the identity of Jesus Christ.

• And this is so important, so for those of you who may be confused by this, let me try to clarify quickly.

• Jesus Christ was born of the virgin Mary, who was impregnated by the Holy Spirit.

• Therefore Jesus was the Son of God, how many of you understand that Jesus was the Son of God.

• Now if you understand that the Man Jesus who walked this earth was the Son of God,

• Can you also understand that Jesus is still God Himself?

• Please keep in mind that the Bible describes God as a Spirit, but God thought enough of us that He sent a piece of Himself,

• In the form of a Man (another words, God put on flesh), and came to this earth.

• So when Jesus walked this earth as a man, He was both 100% Man, and yet He was still 100% God.

• He was a man because He had flesh, and a body, and a heartbeat, and was born of a woman.

• But He was God, because the Bible says all things were created through Him,

• And how many of you know that the Bible says in the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth, AMEN?