Monday, April 27, 2009

The Purpose of the Holy Spirit Baptism (and video from the men's encounter water baptisms)

The videos below were taken Sunday featuring the baptisms at our men's encounter. This brief water baptism service took place after a service in which all 46 men present received the baptism of the Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.
The purpose of Holy Ghost baptism is not to speak in tongues but for the following: 1)the POWER OF GOD TO KEEP YOU CLEAN, WHOLE, SANCTIFIED. 2)to put the FIRE OF GOD burning in you! 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: 3)to give you the BOLDNESS OF GOD in you! Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.(Power to be a witness for Christ!) 4)so that the GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT can flow through you! 1Corinthians 12:7-11 "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." 5) so that the PERSONALITY OR CHARACTER TRAITS of the Holy Spirit can change you into a man or woman controlled by the Spirit of God. Galatians 5:19-23 "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." 6) Holy Spirit LEADERSHIP. John 14:16 "I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever. John 14:17 He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. John 14:26 "The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and make you remember all that I have told you." John 16:13 "When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of what he hears and will tell you of things to come."

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