(Transcript of the video above, edited for readability)
At any time when I get questions in regards to the baptism with the Holy Spirit, I am going to normally begin simply by displaying somebody that within the New Testomony there are seven passages or texts that cope with that explicitly. One in every of the 4 gospels, two within the e-book of Acts: one in Acts 1, the place Jesus is chatting with all of them about what is going to occur in Acts 2. After which there’s one other half within the E book of Acts the place in chapter 11, Peter is recounting what Jesus stated. After which lastly, the final one is in 1 Corinthians 12:12-13. And so actually they’re solely these seven passages. And so we’ll take a while. We’ll have a look at every a kind of and you will find that particularly in Acts 1, and after we see the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, I believe it’s extremely clear that Jesus says, “in just a few days you may be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
He says that in Acts 1. After which in Acts 2, we see the Holy Spirit coming. and naturally, tongues like tongues of fireplace developing and resting upon them. And so it might be proper to grasp what occurred on the day of Pentecost there because the baptism with the Holy Spirit. There’s one other sense by which the baptism of the Holy Spirit is spoken. And that is in 1 Corinthians 12:13, the place Paul is definitely saying there, should you have a look at chapter 12 in 1 Corinthians, he says to them, “I do not need you to be blind to non secular presents and the way this stuff work. There are many completely different presents, a lot of completely different workings, however it’s all by the identical spirit.” He goes by way of these various things and he says, one has religion by the identical spirit, one other tongues by the identical spirit, one other therapeutic by the identical spirit. And his level is to not choose the presents aside and say, which one do you’ve gotten? His level is to say all of those, as he says in 1 Corinthians 12:11, are the work of 1 in the identical spirit. And he goes by way of all of that to say what he says in verses 12-13. After which he goes down and he says, “now you’re the physique of Christ. Simply as it’s that manner. So it’s with the physique of Christ.” He is making this analogy and saying in verses 1-11, he is saying, now you’ve gotten plenty of variations. The Holy Spirit has made you completely different in crucial methods. One has this present, one other has that present. However then he turns and he says, you even have some issues about you which can be the identical.
In 1 Corinthians 12:12, he says, “For just as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the body, though many are one body, so it is with Christ.” So he looks at the human body and says, “you’ve got many members, lots of different parts, but there’s a unity despite those differences.” And he says the body of Christ is just like that. And he says in verse 13, if you want to know how we can be sure that the body of Christ is like this, that there is a unity despite all these differences we might observe in spiritual gifts. He says in verse 13, “for in one spirit we were all baptized into one body, Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and all were made to drink of the One Spirit.” So in one sense, you’ll find this in many places, sometimes the idea of the baptism with the Holy Spirit is taught in such a way that it distinguishes one group of Christians from the next.
Here are those who have it. Here are those who do not. In 1 Corinthians 12:13, we’re told that in one spirit we were all baptized into one body. It speaks of the baptism with the Holy Spirit in this part of the Bible as something that all Christians have experienced as something initial, which has placed us into the one body of Christ. So it’s confirmed at the end of the chapter as well. He gets into some rhetorical questions and he says, do all speak with tongues? Do all work miracles? Do all do this? No, which helps us again, because sometimes you’ll hear, well, if you have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, then you will definitely speak with other tongues. And yet in 1 Corinthians 12:13, we see that this kind of being baptized with the Spirit is a common and initial experience of all Christians who are entering the body of Christ. And then we’re told at the end of that chapter in 1 Corinthians 12, toward the end there, that not all who have had this experience speak with other tongues. So I think that it really, just reading through the Bible in context that way, helps us a lot.
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(First published on Christianity.com on August 12, 2012)
