Brothers in the Son :
The Holy Spirit and Jesus
Next | Index | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Contact Ron | Tellout
5B. Baptism in the Holy Spirit 
Jesus Baptizes others with the Holy Spirit. John said that Jesus baptizes not with water as he did 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 own life as a sacrifice to God. "Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God." (2) Christ offered himself up as an offering for sin so that we might be sanctified 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 therefore made his people holy by association. "We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." (4)
Holy Spirit Reunites Jesus' Body and Soul.
The Holy Spirit raised Jesus bodily from the dead and therefore the disciples could handle him. This Spirit will also give 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 n 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 eternal sin is specified as blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. John the Baptist became "strong in the Spirit." Christ is filled with the Spirit. Christ baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire. The Spirit brought power to Christ's life. Christ was an offering through the Spirit to God. The Holy Spirit brings obedience, submission, faith, trust, zeal and live. All that is necessary for the work of a Christian. In death, Christ was protected by the Holy Spirit of God.
Notes
(1) Matthew 3.11 (2) Hebrews 9.14 (3) John 17.19 (4) Hebrews 10.10 (5) Romans 8.11 (6) 1 Peter 3.18 (7) John 10.17,18 (8) Ephesians 1.19,20
"The Relationship of the Holy Spirit and Jesus."
