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EPISODE 348 – BE IMMERSED IN THE SPIRIT 2
Apostle BennieCHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
Saturday, 6th January, 2024
BE IMMERSED IN THE SPIRIT 2
“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
Matthew 3:11 (NKJV)
To be BAPTIZED is from the Greek word, “baptizo” which means to be immersed or dipped into.
Most people are familiar with water baptism. So whenever they hear of baptism, they think of being dipped into water. Others argue that unless you are baptized into water you are not saved.
So what happens to the young lady who believed and received Jesus on a sick bed and “died” the following day?
Is that person saved or not?
John 3:16 does not demand water baptism. And the scriptures are clear, whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Read Romans 10).
Being baptized into water is not what leads one to salvation. Water baptism is an ordinance which is just the outward declaration of your new birth experience.
When you believed and received Jesus, you were baptized into Christ’s body.
“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body…” 1 Corinthians 12:13 (NKJV).
This means that when you got born again, you were baptized into the body of Christ.
There is a further explanation here in Romans 6, where the Apostle Paul, gives a detailed explanation of what happened in baptism :
“Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways].” Romans 6:3-4 (Amplified Bible)
At new birth, you were immersed into Christ. The significance of this immersion is that, when you became born again, your testimony is not only that Jesus died for you. His death wasn’t just a substitutionary sacrifice. Your testimony is that, when Jesus died you died with Him, you were buried with Him and now you share in His newness of life. This is the matter of identification.
You were completely immersed into Him to live like Him. This means the old you died and now it is the new you that lives. This new you that lives is Christ (Read Galatians 2:20)
All of these became our experience by the Spirit of the Lord.
The newness of life which we have is not an isolated life. It is an organic life which is constituted in the Body of Christ by the Spirit of Christ.
To be immersed in the Spirit can be seen in these folds:
1. It is to be baptized or immersed into Christ. This immersion is into Christ’s body (which is also the Church) and extensively immersed into His Kingdom.
2. It is also to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Now these two points I have given above don’t necessarily happen one after the other. They happen simultaneously. The day you were baptized into the body, you were also baptized with the Spirit. Which is the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
3. The third point is not a one-time experience but a continuous experience. This is the CONTINOUS INFILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
As mentioned in Ephesians 5:18;
“Do not get drunk with wine, for that is wickedness (corruption, stupidity), but be filled with the [Holy] Spirit and constantly guided by Him.”
Understand that, to be filled with the Holy Spirit here, means to be overflowed, soaked and saturated with the Spirit.
Though everyone in Christ has the Holy Spirit, the degree to which you express or manifest the power of the Spirit is according to the degree by which you are immersed and soaked daily in and with the Spirit.
This doesn’t suggest that one who is born again, maybe in the Spirit or not.
This is it, at new birth you were born of the Spirit (John 3:6) into the Spirit. Which means you are in the Spirit as you are in Christ.
However, since you are in the Spirit continue to be immersed and soaked with the Spirit.
Let the life in the Spirit soak and saturate your heart and mind.
Immerse your thoughts, desires and actions in the Spirit.
Hallelujah!
Shalom
DIG DEEPER
(Matthew 3:11-12; Acts 1:4-5; Colossians 3:1-4; Ephesians 5:18-19)
WE PRAY
REPEAT THIS PRAYER WITH MORE PASSION
-That our plans and desires will be immersed and soaked in Spirit.
– That nothing we do will be of the flesh but by the influence of the Holy Spirit.
BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
Genesis 17 – 21
DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– My plans, ideas and desires are soaked and immersed in the Holy Spirit.
– I am under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
– I live a continuous saturated life of the Holy Spirit.
– I am not ordinary.
– I walk daily in this consciousness.
Oh Thank you Lord Jesus!
My life is saturated and soaked daily by the Holy Spirit
I died with Christ
I share in the newness of His Life
The life that I now live ,,heyyyyy!!!!!
I live by the faith of the Son of God
My plans and desires are completely immersed and soaked in the Holy Spirit. I live with this consciousness..thank u sir
I am one with Chrst
Oh how fully I manifest the Holy Ghost because I am fully saturated in Him
Thank you Jesus
However, since you are in the Spirit continue to be immersed and soaked with the Spirit.
Ohhhh
Since I live by the Spirit, I walk and keep in step with the Spirit
It’s a daily walk in the Spirit
Glory to God!
I get drunk with the Spirit.
One of my favorite scriptures – Ephesians 5:18
I walk daily in the consciousness of the influence of the HOLY SPIRIT.
I live a continuous saturated life of the Holy Spirit….This is my daily conscious living
I immerse my thoughts,desires and actions in the spirit
My plans, ideas and desires are soaked and immersed in the Holy Spirit.
Hayaaa continuous immersion in the holy spirit is my daily life
Glorrreeey
[…] We have seen previously that to be BAPTIZED is to be immersed or dipped into. […]
Glory to Jesus.
I’m immersed into the body of Jesus Christ.
Kabashadaba
I am filled with the Holy Ghost. I walk daily being soaked and saturated in the Holy Ghost. Thank You Holy Spirit
Thank you Sweet Holy Ghost…You’re everything to me
I’m soaked in your love, presence and humility
I dedicate myself to be in alignment with your desires and mindset
Glory to God
I soak myself in the Spirit
I walk continually in the Spirit.
My life is continually filled with the Holy Ghost
The Holy Spirit does not come and leave me. It is with me forever and ever
Im baptized into the body of Christ
When Christ died i was dead with Him and I was buried with Him and now i share in the newness of His life.
This is my testimony as a believer
Glory to Jesus
Im filled with the Holy Spirit
The life of the Spirit soaks and saturates my heart and mind
My thoughts, desires and actions are immersed by the Spirit of God
Im always under the influence of the Holy Spirit
Im a Man of the Spirit
This is my consciousness
This is my reality
Oh Hallelujahhhhhhhh
Gloryyyyyyyyyyyy
Thank you precious Holy Spirit for your life at work in my life
I am under the influence of the Holy Spirit. I do nothing by the flesh. In the name of the Lord Jesus
I am immersed in the Spirit.
Being born in and of the Spirit so my actions, plans and thoughts are soaked and immersed in the Holy Spirit
Thank You dear Lord, I’m born of the Spirit into the Spirit… I remain soaked and saturated in Him Daily
I immerse my thoughts, desires and actions in the Holy Spirit continually
I Immerse my thoughts, desires and actions in the Spirit.
In the name of Jesus
My life is saturated and soaked daily by the holy spirit