“The (One) after me coming, MIGHTIER than me He-is, …
He-Himself, YOU will-He-BAPTIZE
IN Holy SPIRIT AND FIRE!“
Matthew 3:11b (Lit. frm Grk text) (Ref. also Lk. 3:16)
“a FIRE I came to cast upon the earth … “
Luke 12:49 (Lit. frm Grk text)
—John’s declaration, that the “MIGHTIER (ONE) Himself“ would baptize us in Holy Spirit and Fire, was giving testimony that this kind of baptism was going to be something with a greater force than was his baptism in water, even though John’s anointing from God called a nation to repentance.
—When we have believed into Jesus as our Savior and are consequently baptized in water, it is the testimony in and through us of Jesus’s death and resurrection in our lives. We have seen this in Romans 6:3-5, and also from John 20:19-22, when Jesus, the day He was raised from the dead, breathes Holy Spirit into His disciples, bringing about their new birth in Him into this New Covenant.
—But Jesus’s baptism in Holy Spirit, some fifty days later, of these “just born again / breathed in Holy Spirit” new believers testifies in and through them to His ascension … to the throne of GOD! Being born again & water baptized testifies to us and in us to the victory of His death and resurrection, and will bear fruit that a change has indeed taken place. But Baptism in Holy Spirit goes further. It is the decree of Heaven through us, literally out of us, of Christ Jesus’s ascension by God… to God’s throne … as King of kings and Lord of lords!
—This is why Jesus declares that we receive “Power” in baptism in Holy Spirit (Lk.24:49; Jhn. 14:12, 16-20;Acts 1:8). For it is the bold witness from heaven through us – ON EARTH – of Jesus’s present Kingship, of His present authority from Heaven’s Throne, from God Himself, that Jesus is Lord over all rule and authority and lordship and every name that is named. It is the Caleb ‘undeterred by the size of the giants’ faith infusion, as it were, the bold decree of the finished work of the Cross that we have a Grace-right to possess; for the Passover Lamb’s sacrifice broke forever the last hold the world’s Pharoah had of the chains to sin’s slavery, and accordingly bears witness now to such bold favor from YHVH, from Almighty God, that He is now purposed towards enforcing King Jesus’s Lordship, His kingdom rule, through His people, Jesus’s very body on earth.
… Selah …
—Baptism by Jesus of us in Holy Spirit is the testimony of an opened heaven to Almighty God, and, in the face of the king and kingdom of darkness and before the eyes of this world, the consequential, confirmational means by which the stripped ruler of this world is being dispossessed of all the booty gained by our LORD Jesus Christ through His cross!
—Baptism in Holy Spirit is literally the resolute, undaunted, fearless edict of Heaven’s Kingdom that the earth is no longer under the legal rule of the kingdom of darkness, because the last Adam took back, legally, what the first Adam forfeited to the ruler of darkness.
“The Earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof. ” (Ps. 24:1b; Job 41:11b; Ex. 9:29b; 19:5; Deut. 10:14; Ps. 50:12). Baptism by King Jesus, by our Lord Jesus CHRIST, in Holy Spirit is the authority and power enforcement by Holy Spirit upon us to see manifest this declaration of truth!
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Part 3
The TRUE Image of Father as ‘God’ Through Christ Jesus … Through the Glory of Christ Jesus Still on Earth – Through Earthen Vessels called “His Body”!
—This baptism of believers by Christ Jesus our Lord in Holy Spirit and Fire is the expression from God the Father of the exact representation of His resurrected Son on earth, through His Son’s body on earth, joined as one in Spirit to the head Who is King Jesus on the throne (Col. 1:18a; 3:3; Jhn. 14:23; 17:22-23).
—Why this way unwavering? Because believers walking in the victory of ALL that means the cross’s redemption of everything back to God (I Cor. 15:20-28; Col. 1:18-20) is a force of Grace of which satan and his hoard are supremely afraid. It is the loud noise of the clock’s countdown to that moment they have no more possession and are forever sent to the lake of fire, never to deceive one single soul ever again (Rev. 20:10).
—Believers having been baptized in both water AND in Holy Spirit and Fire, living and walking in the fullness of the “force of Faith through love working”, correctly and in manifested truth still represent God’s image and nature through Jesus as His body, exactly as did Christ Jesus Himself through the gospels.
“… He (Jesus) is the radiance of His (God’s) glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.” Hebrews 1:3a (NASB)
” … the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. … We have this treasure in earthen vessels, …” II Corinthians 4:4b, 7a (NASB)
” … we exalt in hope of the glory of God.” “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son …” Romans 5:2b; 8:29a (NASB)
“But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. ” II Corinthians 3:18 (NASB)
—We who have believed and have been water baptized no longer have upon us the label of “sinned, & are come short of the glory of God” (Rom.3:23), because Jesus’s sacrifice has cleansed us and removed that from us; ‘Sin’ is no longer our lord (Rom. 3:24-25a; 4:25-5:2; 6:7, 17-18), therefore we are no longer under its identity. We now stand confidently, by God’s grace through that cross, in the hope His glory (Rom. 5:2).
Yet even more, we take confidence and so give ourselves to the transformation by God from glory into glory, by the Spirit of the LORD/Lord, as we constantly pursue, in our private time with Him, seeing Christ Jesus and the finished work of the cross through the mystery of the gospel unveiled in the scriptures. It is this weighty estimation transformation by Holy God of us into the image of His Son, the value of the Blood of Jesus now upon us, the working by God’s Spirit in us, through Christ Jesus – the Last Adam – instead of our identity before Him, in our B.C. days when we lived in the image of the first Adam.
—This transformation, through all that Jesus declared of New birth, (“born of water AND of Spirit” – Jhn. 3:5), that which was common in the Acts early church, (the unity of the Spirit and the water and the blood a living reality of truth in us), has still the authoritative working towards being Jesus’s witness by Holy Spirit through baptism by Christ Jesus our LORD/Lord in Holy Spirit.
—The force of this truth just cannot be comprehended apart from this baptism by Jesus. The dismissal of this renders the believer to his own ability to try to be that witness … and often times actually is not walked out, except by coercion through obligation to “do witnessing”. Father NEVER called us to be Jesus’s witnesses APART FROM BAPTISM BY JESUS IN HOLY SPIRIT!
“And He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day; and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His Name to all the nations … You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” ” Luke 24:46-49 (NASB)
—Read by themselves the emboldened words of Jesus: “You are witnesses of these things. … but you are to stay … until you are clothed with power from on high.” It is ALL supposed to be a living work of God’s Spirit through us … exactly as it was seen and shown through Jesus, Christ Jesus, from His baptism in water (death to the flesh) AND Baptism by God His Father in Holy Spirit (life-ing power by Anointing), Father’s own “from out of Himself as God“ Spirit.
—We just have not understood the significance and imperative of this action. And so we’ve tried, with a sincere and a true heart effort, to fulfill, by obligation, the mandate of Jesus to be witnesses (Mat. 28:19a). Baptism by Christ Jesus from God’s throne of us in Holy Spirit is what causes this mandate to be successfully carried out in the Royal authority and power of Holy Spirit, of the Force of the “one”-ness of God Himself and Jesus through Christ Jesus as head of His body.
“I will not leave you orphans; I am coming TO YOU! … In that day you will know, you, that I (am) in the Father and you in Me and I in you. … TO HIM will We come and an abode with him We will make.” John 14:18, 20,23b (Lit frm Grk text showing Grk text emphasis)
“And I, the glory which You have given to Me I have given to them, in order that they may be one according as one are We – I in them, and You in Me, in order that they may be perfected into one – IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY KNOW, THE WORLD, THAT ME YOU SENT AND LOVED THEM according as Me did you love.” John 17:22-23 (Lit. frm Grk Text)
—It is literally Christ Jesus Himself, His life, as the Anointed Word of God in the flesh, having transformed US to be God’s Word in the flesh, living, and therefore walking in the anointing of having been dunked in Holy Spirit AND Fire. So that by this working of God, our Heavenly Father, we literally become Christ Jesus’s witnesses, the witness of HIM, to the world, the ‘apart from flesh effort’ working of Holy Spirit through us. For this is how goes forth successfully, through the foolish wisdom of the cross, with increase, God’s Kingdom – in word AND power – the force of “faith through love working“, unveiling the TRUE nature of God, that God’s heart is WHOLLY towards our freedom from anything that is the by-product of the kingdom of darkness, of the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil, unto everything that is the grace blessing of all that Jesus’s blood gained for us through His cross, all that is the liberty of abundant life in Christ Jesus.
—The transformation into the glory of Christ, of the anointing through the Anointed One, is way, way beyond what most believers have tasted. That baptism, which, yes, includes Fire, is a death … and a resurrection … of our … .
—It is a complete immersion, a death AND burial, and the then Resurrection that brings about a blaze, I’m not kidding, a Fire that is to have a global impact, which will utterly, utterly burn up and cleanse … the earth’s airwaves.
__The Prince of the power of the air, by the global impact of this Fire, will no longer be known by the booted out of heaven serpent, the spirit who works in and voices through the sons of disobedience who presently seems to have the loudest voice through the airwaves, rather will be the Son of God Himself, Who was raised far above all principality and power and authority to be Lord of every layer of heaven that He passed through with His cleansing, speaking blood, till alone that blood is the clearest voice this earth hears (Heb. 4:14).
“a FIRE I came to cast upon the earth … “
Luke 12:49 (Lit. frm Grk text)
For the oneness of the body of Christ on earth, the Bride of Christ, the church, to her head Who is Jesus on heaven’s throne, will sound one single clear voice, from the Mercy seat throne through the heavens down to the dirt of this earth;
—— …and the serpent will only be a crawling in the dust, non poisonous snake for us to walk on (Luke 10:19; Eph. 1:20-22).
—… Selah …
—The glory that will pour out of believers, when this baptism is given full access by each of us, will unveil the glory of Jesus through the words of our mouths, pouring out in light and love that will cause demons to scream they are beholding Jesus Himself (ie. Acts 19:15). The transformation of us will be such a dichotomy to how most of us hear ourselves presently.
—So then, to be Christ-like in this life is to be transformed into the nature of CHRIST Jesus, that just as He was the Word made flesh, unveiling the truth of Who God really looks like through having been baptized in Holy Spirit, (He was not manifest to the world as the Word of God made flesh until AFTER He was baptized in Holy Spirit), thus also we are transformed to be the same Jesus – Christ Jesus, the Anointed of YHVH Who sets into a broad place of liberty where there is Salvation, through healings, miracles, teaching, deliverance – becoming this Jesus through our lives before the world.
—It will be, to them, an unveiling of truth, of Who God really is, Who God our Father really looks like. The transformation by Him is what causes us to be “Christ-ians”, in the flesh through our lives, the body of CHRIST on earth, in having believed, in having been water baptized AND, by Jesus Himself, having been baptized in Holy Spirit, and continually being drenched, by the Spirit of Jesus, in the warm baths of the revelation of the finished work of the cross of Christ as Holy Spirit thoroughly explains and unveils to us, from the scriptures all, our Awesome Savior in our private time with Him (Lk. 24:13-32, 44-46; Ex. 33:11; Mk. 1:35; Lk. 5:16).
—As has been said, so again I say, nothing in God our Father has changed pertaining to this baptism, Beloved, nothing! Because the Fire that Jesus came to set, to cast into the earth, is linked to the baptism He had to walk through on behalf of the whole earth, the nations of earth, on behalf of the seed of Adam.
—The baptism by Jesus in Holy Spirit AND Fire carries the power and force of the victory of the baptism of His sufferings – the Jewish religious beatings, the Roman whipping and marring more than ANY man, and the crucifixion – the nails that hung Him up on a tree between heaven and earth, and the spear hole in His side after His last breath, which He still has – the entirety of the fire of judgment, Divine judgment, for sin, in order to literally loose mankind, in every generation, from sin, from its power and its effects.
—The Force – the authority AND power – of the proclamation of this One Man’s work for all mankind to every generation is in the Baptism by Him of us in Holy Spirit AND Fire.
—Are you ready, Beloved, to really know this Fire? …
—Are you ready to let Jesus make this a part of His baptism of you, as John proclaimed that He would, in Holy Spirit? …
—Are you willing to let this dunking in Holy Spirit and Fire put to death what was never supposed to be a part of you, the habit of continually eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil … the inclination to still give our hearts’ attention to the noise of the age that keeps us from hearing clearly and alone from the tree of Life? … from where the Fire of the revelation of His Love is ignited and kept burning?
—Are you willing to let the resurrection by the power of God in this baptism by Jesus forever change …
… your hearing?
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… and consequently your very tongue ?
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… the words of your heart and lips …
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… the very words of your …
… life?
—So that Holy Spirit through you can set a blaze in the earth, and impact the world, …
… apart from mixture …
… with …
GOOD News alone ?
Mark D.
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** – Beloved, you are free to print this and any Kairos for your own study. Take the time to go through these scriptures, and let the Holy Spirit write them and bear witness to them in your hearts and minds. Let the Word of God and the Blood of Jesus and the witness of the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you wash through you and renew your mind. These blogs are meant to be Bible studies, so you are free to print up any newsletter of this blog site for your own study. Feel free to copy and reset these Newsletter with lines in them for notes.
—If you have never believed into Jesus Christ, you can do so now, from your own heart and words. If you wish help to pray, pray, “LORD Jesus, I believe You died for me and as me because You love me. I receive Your Forgiveness for my sin. Thank You for shedding Your blood to cleanse me, for making me clean, for breaking the power of sin in my life, for transforming me as a gift of Your Grace to me. I ask You to live inside of me. I thank You, Jesus, for giving me eternal life, that I might know You and Your Father, as my God, forever. In Your Name, LORD Jesus. Amen!”
—For those of you who have believed into Jesus; take communion often (I Cor. 11:23-26; Lk. 24:30-31a). Let communion be a refreshing of the Blood and the Spirit (Heb. 9:14) to cleanse your conscious from sin consciousness to righteousness consciousness, that you are indeed clean, as a gift of His grace. You are no more, Dearly Beloved, under condemnation; rather, you are under justification – eternally! (Rom. 4:25b, 5:21;b; Heb. 9:11-12). You will find the Holy Spirit of Jesus unveiling Jesus to you from the scriptures like you’ve never seen Him before.
kairos – (Kahee-ros’) – Strong’s concordance defines this word: “an occasion, I.e. set or proper time.” The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible (NASB) defines this word; “season, time, but not merely as a succession of moments, which is chronos,” [from which we derive the English word ‘chronology’]. “Kairos, however, implies not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the task at hand, whether the time provides a good, convenient opportunity or not.” This must be understood. Strategic times of the Lord do not necessarily imply good or convenient times. We are in Kairos times. Maybe not good or convenient times, but definitely strategic, opportune times because of the season we are in. We must have “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches,” (Rev. 2:29), so as to respond correctly to the Kairos time.
* Some Scripture for this letter is taken from the (NASB) – NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Other references translated from Grk. Txt as presented in T. Newberry’s Englishman’s Greek New Testament, Zondervan Publishing – 1982- originally published in London, Eng. 1877 Scripture references not showing a Translation in Brackets are this writer’s translation from the Hebrew Massoretic Text as it appears on the web-site “qbible.com”, our from the Greek text of Thomas Newberry’s “Englishman’s Greek New Testament”. Some definitions given to Hebrew words are also referenced from qbible.com website, as well as from Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Baker Book House Company, (C) 1979
Several Translations and study guides to which this author refers are taken from biblehub.com website.