What Is This Baptism By The Spirit? – according to (v.13)… it has something to do with the CHURCH as the body of Christ. There are four keys that help us understand the biblical significance of what it means to be baptized by the Spirit.
(1) EVERYBODY – "For by (with/in) one Spirit we were ALL BAPTIZED into one body." - Acts 2:33,38-39.
(2) UNITY – while there is a DIVERSITY among the people of God—there's also a Spirit-wrought UNITY (1 Cor 12:12-13).
(3) MINISTRY – "the manifestations of the Spirit… given to each one for the profit of all." Every person baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ—has a specific and necessary function in the body (v.21-22; 14:12).
(4) POTENCY – Acts 1:5,8 – after the Spirit of God came upon them, they were empowered to effectively witness to the truth of Christ and His resurrection… and the gospel of Christ became the power of God unto salvation… and the Roman world was ‘turned upside down.'
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Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987...