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Holy Baptism Day 74
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
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
1Matthew 3.11 2Hebrews 9.14 3John 17.19 4Hebrews 10.10 5Romans 8.11 61 Peter 3.18
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