The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . de-sign to teach us a mode by which he is limited in thebaptism of the Spirit? Does he design to teach usthat the Holy Spirit is poured down on a humanhead or sprinkled upon it, or does he intimate thatone is taken up and immersed into the divine Per-son? Does not the baptism of the Holy Spirit meanthis only to an unprejudiced mind, that the HolySpirit descends upon the human life and enters itand thereby unites it to Christ—to God in an actualmystical union with the Christ life—and by the pow-er and operation of God raises th
The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . de-sign to teach us a mode by which he is limited in thebaptism of the Spirit? Does he design to teach usthat the Holy Spirit is poured down on a humanhead or sprinkled upon it, or does he intimate thatone is taken up and immersed into the divine Per-son? Does not the baptism of the Holy Spirit meanthis only to an unprejudiced mind, that the HolySpirit descends upon the human life and enters itand thereby unites it to Christ—to God in an actualmystical union with the Christ life—and by the pow-er and operation of God raises the man from a stateof death to newness of life? In regard to the HolySpirit, we must use baptism in a sense apart fromthe mode of water baptism. This shows conclusively that the word baptizeCbaptizo), as used in the Bible, has a meaning anda use separate and distinct from its modal signifi-cance in the Greek; and no matter what mode wemay draAV from it, we must not be unmindful thatbaptism itself is separate and distinct in its signifi-cations from all H02OOW W H < H MM W w H fN OH w (78) The Waij to the Kingdom of Heaven. 79 We all know what a star is in the Greek; however,the stars that John beheld in the Masters hand as hestood among the candle stands were not the lumina-ries of the heaven, but stood for the seven min-isters of the Churches of Asia. So we have justlearned that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is notwhat the word means in the Greek, but is the de-scent of the Holy Spirit into the lives of men;and bj the word descent he simply means thathe has come down from above to dwell with menand make them new creatures in Christ Jesus.
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