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I INDEED BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER…BUT HE…SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND FIRE. MATTHEW 3:11 HAVE I EVER COME TO A PLACE IN MY EXPERIENCE WHERE I CAN SAY — “I INDEED…BUT HE”? UNTIL THAT MOMENT DOES COME, I WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST MEANS. “I INDEED” AM AT AN END, I CANNOT DO A THING: “BUT HE” BEGINS JUST THERE — HE DOES THE THINGS NO ONE ELSE CAN EVER DO. AM I PREPARED FOR HIS COMING? JESUS CANNOT COME AS LONG AS THERE IS ANYTHING IN THE WAY, EITHER OF GOODNESS OR BADNESS. WHEN HE COMES AM I PREPARED FOR HIM TO DRAG INTO THE LIGHT EVERY WRONG THING I HAVE DONE? IT IS JUST THERE THAT HE COMES. WHEREVER I KNOW I AM UNCLEAN, HE WILL PUT HIS FEET; WHEREVER I THINK I AM CLEAN, HE WILL WITHDRAW THEM. REPENTANCE DOES NOT BRING A SENSE OF SIN, BUT A SENSE OF UNUTTERABLE UNWORTHINESS. WHEN I REPENT, I REALIZE THAT I AM UTTERLY HELPLESS; I KNOW ALL THROUGH ME THAT I AM NOT WORTHY EVEN TO BEAR HIS SHOES. HAVE I REPENTED LIKE THAT? OR IS THERE A LINGERING SUGGESTION OF STANDING UP FOR MYSELF? THE REASON GOD CAN COME INTO MY LIFE IS BECAUSE I AM NOT THROUGH WITH REPENTANCE. “HE…SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND FIRE.” JOHN DOES NOT SPEAK OF THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY GHOST AS AN EXPERIENCE, BUT AS A WORK PERFORMED BY JESUS CHRIST. “HE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU.” THE ONLY CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE THOSE WHO ARE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST EVER HAVE IS A SENSE OF ABSOLUTE UNWORTHINESS. “I INDEED” WAS THIS AND THAT; “BUT HE” CAME, AND A MARVELLOUS THING HAPPENED. GET TO THE MARGIN WHERE HE DOES EVERYTHING. BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: PSALMS 110-112; 1 CORINTHIANS 5 |
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