Matthew 3
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Real Baptism, From Chafer's Systematic Theology:
The Baptism of the Spirit is the Spirit's mighty undertaking by which He joins the individual believer to Christ's Body and thus to Christ Himself as the Head of the Body. Because of this great achievement on the part of the Spirit, the believer is from that moment in Christ and is thus brought under the influence of His headship. No influence could be more transforming, more purifying relative to position, or more vital in its outworking than that engendered by a removal from the fallen headship of Adam into the exalted Headship of Christ. No other transformation is comparable to this.
I have no special, unique, personal opinions on baptism to share. So, I have included Chafer's discussion above. His discussion is so wonderfully precise.
I don't know this for a fact, but, I am pretty sure that I have spent more time thinking about and studying and meditating over the doctrines related to baptism than anyone else.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
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