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Holy Baptism
Jesus' baptism is with the Holy Spirit. John said that Jesus baptism is not with water but with the Holy Spirit. "He who is coming after me... he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire."1 This is most likely a reference to one event, probably Pentecost.
Jesus gave his life as a sacrifice to God. "Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God."2
Christ gave up himself as an offering for sin so that we might be made holy through that offering. "And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth."3 The Holy Spirit worked in Jesus and his people became holy by association. "We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."4
Reuniting Body and Soul
The Holy Spirit raised Jesus bodily from the dead and accordingly the disciples were able to physically handle him. This Holy One also gives life to those he indwells, that is resurrection of soul and body as in Jesus. "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his spirit which dwells in you."5 Christ human frame died but it was regenerated by the Holy Spirit. "Christ... being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the Spirit."6
Christ died under his own ability and authority and had power to take up his life again. "For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from the Father."7 "According to the working of his great might which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead."8
Conclusions.
The worst sin is specified as blasphemy against the Holy One. John the Baptist became "strong in the Spirit." Christ is filled with the power of God. Christ washes us with the Holy Ghost. The Spirit brought power to Christ's life. Christ was an offering to God. The Holy One brings obedience, submission, faith, trust, zeal and life. All that is necessary for the work of a Christian. In death, Christ was protected by the Holy Spirit of God.
Notes
1Matthew 3.11 2Hebrews 9.14 3John 17.19 4Hebrews 10.10 5Romans 8.11 61 Peter 3.18 7John 10.17,18 8Ephesians 1.19,20
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire
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