“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)
—There is a force of “faith through love working” that unveils on earth through baptized by Jesus in Holy Spirit believers the truth of the nature of Father as God. For there has been a terribly skewed image of ‘God’ in the thinking of the world, even though Jesus manifested exactly the only awesome goodness and loving-kindness of God that is our Heavenly Father. This has been the strategy of hell since the garden, when the serpent deceived the woman into thinking God had not made man in His Image, but had withheld something. Mankind, since then, has believed that God has and is withholding something of His awesome goodness through power, and that He is really just a mean ogre ready to judge in a whim.
—Part of the strategy from hell since the cross, to keep alive in the minds and hearts of men this lie, has been to dismiss anything that looks like Christ Jesus through believers. That is, anything satan can do to skew the image of “Christ”, the Anointed, baptized in Holy Spirit Son of God Who stripped him at the Cross, Who was destroying his works through casting out demons and healing and teaching truth all towards heart and mind renewal in man so as to unveil to man the true nature of God, anything the devil can do to annul this through believers, he works towards that end.
—This is what has occurred through dismissing as a present Gracing from Jesus ‘Baptism in Holy Spirit’ according as it was for Jesus and then for believers after Jesus’s ascension to heaven’s Throne. It has been satan’s strategy to put out the Fire that Jesus came to cast onto the earth.
—But that has been being changed by God, by His very Spirit, in nation after nation. Too many precious saints for the last century plus have been going after God in their pursuit of His never changing character, unveiled through Jesus in the gospels, in order to be on earth as they have seen of Christ Jesus through the gospels.
—The Fire, the”effects” of the Fire, are exposing and burning up the lie and strategy of the defeated king and kingdom of darkness. Our Heavenly Father, as ‘God’, IS being seen and understood for Who He really is as always and only Awesomely Good, as more and more believers from every walk of life are stepping out in increasing faith to share the gospel with growing dependency upon Holy Spirit to manifest through them His Ist Corinthians 12 gracings, even as Jesus had declared, at the end of Mark’s gospel, that they would.
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Part 2
Unabated Divine Purpose- Unabated Divine Power
The Unremitted, Unbroken Power of Redemption from Jesus’s Sufferings … by Jesus’s Stripes
—Father’s purpose has not been abated or de-escalated even a partial movement from off of His intention through His Son’s Cross to boldly, THROUGH THE CHURCH, utterly strip possession from satan and his kingdom of every single strand of possession he had gained through Adam from that tree in Eden yet legally lost from the last Adam’s death on that tree upon Golgatha’s hill. It still is a working of ALL-Mighty God, by His Spirit, through baptized by Jesus in Holy Spirit believers.
—This prophetic intention – of taking possession of promises through dispossessing the enemy – is clear through the book of Joshua … It was all pointing towards destined purpose through a church submitted to her Joshua, her Lord Jesus Christ, through the anointing in Holy Spirit baptism that is a result of the power of Jesus’s Resurrection and enthronement by our Awesome God as King over all rule and authority and lordship.
—Did you catch that, Beloved? Holy Spirit baptism pours out from the Throne, from God (Jhn.14:26; 15:26; Acts 1:4), after Jesus sat down as King of kings and Lord of lords, with the Authority of the Speaking blood on that Judgement Seat Throne … all after having conquered sin, death, and, as a Man, having been raised up to sit with God. Holy Spirit, in Holy Spirit baptism, testifies boldly through believers of this authority, from this power, as a force of faith through the Awesome Love of God towards man.
—You must meditate and let this truth sink into your heart, Precious Ones; Father’s heart for us – His purposed destiny to us, His intent through us – has never shifted, not one iota since the moment Jesus began defeating satan in the desert and then delivering people from out of anything that was the destruction of the kingdom of darkness’s dominion and mentality. God remains boldly unchanged towards us, towards transforming us into the image of Jesus His Son, which denotes us walking as CHRIST Jesus, yes, in Word and Power (Mk. 16:20; I Cor. 2 :4; Heb. 2:3b-4), all that is the anointing from the finished work of the cross, as a purposed destiny through completely redeemed sons and daughters, because of the consuming fire of His love.
” …the love of God HAS BEEN POURED OUT in the hearts of us through Holy Spirit …” Romans 5:5 ( frm Grk Text)
And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:22-23 (NASB)
“… Christ; because in Him dwells [to the finest, exact details] ALL the fullness of-the Godhead (the state of being ‘God’) bodily (in bodily form), and you-are, in Him, having-have-been-made-full (this means, “in Him you have already been made complete”) and He is over all rule and authority;” Colossians 2:8b-10 (Lit. frm Grk txt)
“… Jesus spoke to them telling, ‘(It) has been given to Me, ALL AUTHORITY in heaven AND upon earth! Going, [therefore,] make-students-of (carries the weight of, “make hungry learners of”) all the nations, baptizing them into the Name – of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.’ ” Matthew 28:18b-19 (Lit. frm Grk txt)
“Truly, truly, I tell you, the (One) believing into Me, the works which I do, also that one will do, and greater than these will he do, because I, to the Father I go.” John 14:12 (Lit. frm. Grk. text)
“that there might be made known NOW to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,” Ephesians 3:10 (YLT)
—This is why Baptism in Holy Spirit and Fire remain a ‘never having diminished’ / ‘never having been removed’ from the Bride of Christ Grace-truth reality.
Exposing the deception / Unveiling the Truth of the Gospel in Holy Spirit baptism
—You cannot correctly know God the Father through the Old Covenant, whatsoever, apart from Christ Jesus – God’s Very Word in the flesh AND baptized in God the Father’s Holy Spirit (Jhn. 1:17-18). It is deception to try see and understand Christ Jesus and accordingly to try explain ‘God’ completely apart from Jesus having been baptized in Holy Spirit.
—It is also a deception for us to try to correctly unveil through our lives the truth and true nature of ALL that God is as Love apart from Jesus baptizing US in that same Holy Spirit in Whom God the Father baptized Him. His love can be expressed to a degree through believers not having been baptised in Holy Spirit. However, the FULLNESS of the Love of God, wholly expressed in all that Jesus gained for us through the entirety of His sufferings, is just not apart from His power.
—Look at the last part of Isaiah 53:5, in his prophesying the goal of Jesus’s sufferings towards all that means our redemption. This is literally how the Hebrew text states Isaiah’s prophecy.
” .. and in His stripes there is healing to us.”
—The intensity of the whipping, the DIVINE intention and purpose of those stripes that Jesus received through the Roman whips, which marred Him more than any man, was all for physical healing (Mat. 8:16-14; Isaiah 52:14b, 53:4-5). It is not for a beyond this life in eternity reality, but for now, because Jesus demonstrated this as truth in the gospels (Mat. 8:16-17), with the purposed instruction that He was going to send Holy Spirit after the cross so that we could do exactly as He did (Jhn. 14:12-14, 16:7; Mk. 16:17-18).
—This is, by God’s design, scripturally, a working through baptized by Jesus in Holy Spirit believers.
—To dismiss this, as though no longer a present Grace-truth through believers because either the last apostle died or we now have the full compilation of Scripture, deleting now that which WAS a flowing Grace-truth reality through the disciples (Mat.10:8, Mk. 6:13; Acts 3:1-8) and through the early church (Mk. 16:17-18; Acts 6:8, 8:6-7; I Cor. 12:7, 9b-10a) is not only deception, but intentional blindness to all that is a living and eternal work of all that means “salvation” through the cross of our Savior. Jesus, our LORD, submitted Himself to this beating with the intent of FULL AND COMPLETE redemption of all in every generation – because His sufferings all, from the whipping at that Roman post in the preatorium (Jhn. 18:28, 19:1-2) to the nails that hung Him on that cross, were entirely to deal with the root cause of all that came upon mankind through Adam.
—It was not a temporal grace gift of Holy Spirit to the first couple of generations, because this would be so out of character with our eternal, unchanging God and Father. The full definition of Christ Jesus’s Name bears witness to utter and complete redemption. He modeled through His baptized in Holy Spirit life the EXACT image, likeness, AND purpose of God towards the seed of Abraham, with intention of this good news to bless ALL the nations of the Earth, to ALL the seed of Adam … with ALL that He gave them in His life (Gen. 12:3; Gal. 3:8).
—This was the intention and force of His water baptism into the Jordan AND the immediate consequential open heaven baptism by God in Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is adamant in this, Beloved, from the Greek text of Mark1:9 unveiling the mystery of Joshua’s Jordan crossing in Joshua 3, when the priests, carrying the ark of the Covenant, set their feet into the overflowing banks of the river to suddenly have those waters cut off and stand up in one heap … all the way back to the place called “Adam”, (Josh. 3:16), the only time that city is named in all of scripture, relating intentionally to this. That crossing, through the leadership of Joshua, was towards full inheritance, towards complete dispossessing of enemies (Josh. 1 3-5; 3:9-11; et al). It was all pointing prophetically, as a mystery of the Gospel, towards what is complete redemption through Christ Jesus, through the finished work of His cross. The mystery unveiled in the New Convenant shows what is our kingdom inheritance, what has always been God’s from eternity plan and destiny through the fullness of Jesus’s Jordan water AND Holy Spirit baptisms … It was all pointing towards His sufferings entirely, from the whipping to the cross, towards taking back for us to grace-gift us ALL that was lost all the way back to Adam.
—Holy Spirit baptism – of Jesus, and therefore of Jesus’s body, in whatever generation – fully reflecting CHRIST Jesus’s Name and thus His nature … and therefore Father’s nature in truth as ‘God’, to every generation – is intricately linked as one, as the Force of “I am that I Am”, “I YHVH, do NOT change”, in Holy Spirit baptism (ref. Ex. 3:14-15; 6:8; Mal. 3:6a). That is, the anointing of Christ Jesus’s life in and through us to unveil all that is the gospel of God (Rom. 1:1b; 15:16), so as to be Christ Jesus, unveiling Him before the eyes of this world, is not even able to be accomplished in fullness, as Father God intends, apart from Holy Spirit baptism.
—To take away the first part of Jesus’s sufferings, which has to do with redemption of our bodies through healings and miracles by His stripes through His present body on earth, that is, as a present, never-ending/ never-having-been-removed Grace and Truth of redemption through the unchanging scriptural legitimacy of baptized by Jesus in Holy Spirit believers, is disingenuous and a fallible misrepresentation of our Savior toward fellow believers, and especially towards the world. It makes Jesus a liar in promising the disciples that we can do the works He did and greater, and then telling them to teach ALL that He commanded, if He didn’t mean it as an eternal truth.
—When He is encouraging us through the scriptures that we, by Holy Spirit, through Holy Spirit baptism, can be like Him and walk like Him, how do we justify this no longer being a “now truth” of the gospel, if the Good News of Christ Jesus is a new Covenant eternally put into effect by His death?
—To dismiss as a present Gracing ‘baptism in Holy Spirit’ as it is witnessed in the scriptures through Acts is the means satan has used to dismiss the power of the redemption that is by Jesus’s stripes, which is physical healings and miracles, and deliverance, through His body on earth. For it has created a stumbling block in the minds of people, setting an unsurety of this open heaven ripped veil access towards God, negating as a reality this huge part of the gospels’ revelation of God Himself being in our midst via His manifested kindness in power.
—There actually is a link to the ripped flesh of Jesus towards our healing and the ripped veil of heaven towards boldness and confidence in access to the Father (I Pet. 2:24; Heb. 10:19-20). satan knows this, and has therefore caused this lie of no more present Grace-gifts of Holy Spirit through baptized in Holy Spirit believers, so as to bring about a rift in the church, and thus as an obstacle towards salvation. It has become an obstacle towards really believing in the goodness of God, and accordingly defraying augmenting in our growing from faith into faith.
—The devil has historically been pervasively after destroying bodies, mankind created in the image of God, until they are destroyed completely in death. Anything he can do to shred the image of God he does with vengeance.
“Unto this was the Son of God manifest, in order that He might destroy the works of the devil.” I John 3:8 (Lit. frm Grk txt)
“Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all those being oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.” Acts 10:38 (Berean Lit. Bible)
—The working of I Corinthians 12 Holy Spirit Gracings, especially of healings and miracles (vs 9b-10a; Mk. 16:18b), through Holy Spirit baptized believers, remind him of Jesus destroying his works while He was on Earth, as seen in the gospels, making it to look like the baptized in Holy Spirit Jesus is back on earth, but in greater intensity. Because instead of this taking place through one single Man in one place in one nation, it is now through multitudes in many places in many nations. If he can therefore cause believers to believe this force of Holy Spirit baptism is no longer “truth”, he then reduces the image and likeness of CHRIST Jesus destroying his works, and continues his ravage less abated against mankind.
—The force of “faith through love working” is the Fire in Holy Spirit Baptism which will so supernaturally scorch to less than ashes the pervasive lie from hell, unveiling the truth of God the Father’s character of beyond comprehension goodness and kindness in having sacrificed His Son, to stripes and a cross, towards our redemption – spirit, soul, AND body. (Rom. 8:32; Eph. 1:6b-9).
—It will unveil an overwhelming revelation of exactly what His love looks like from the cross, from the finished work of the cross, a grace of “forgiveness” experienced beyond what we have heretofore ever been a part of. It will set men, women, and children, from every tribe and tongue and nation, increasingly, into unstoppable thanksgiving and praise and worship beyond anything we can imagine (Rev. 5:9ff; 15:3b4). It will bring about, literally, a dumping, in some cases as high as the hills, “mountains” they will say on the news, of forsaken “sin”, (I.e. Acts 19:18-19), the stuff of this age that held too many too easily in bondage.
—The truth of Baptism in Holy Spirit and Fire will unveil the Father’s heart on earth, unveiling still more Old Covenant mysteries of the gospel, to a depth that will set us in unstoppable awe.
—hell’s kingdom shudders to think what this truth restored and walked in, actively, by the church as a whole, might even look like. That’s why their age long fight to discredit the Promise of the Father.
Are you listening Beloved?
… Selah …
You are greatly Loved!
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.