This is my personal experience different from previous experience about the God, the Holy Spirit and the things come after that recorded just to remember the goodness of God during my 72 years of age.
As I am trying to put up the tee on the crack of the rock to put the ball on it before I can drive the ball to the direction and expected it to land on the tiny fairway below and to set up to play the ball to the green. The course led to the nice hotel like the back of the yacht and just a few holes away that far as I try to reach it. The hotel and the golf course surrounded by sea water of many hue of blue colors contrast with the white sand and tiny green fairways in different levels. Yes I did hit the ball but the wind is too strong carried the ball fly to the right drop in to the water. Missed the tiny fairway I tried to land. The fairway of that course is seem so tiny and difficult to put the ball on it but during this time actually I am just an on and most of the time off golfer I seldom play the game I used to love so much but still enjoy even just a dream so much as after dreaming of meditating on some verses in the Scripture but unfortunately I have forgotten all of them when I woke up. Even the ball dropped in the water I still like the way the Lord put the things even in the dream so enjoyable. Praise God.
Yesterday 8 February 2015, having preached about the Holy Spirit from John 20: 21-23 and in all that I believe with my whole heart that He, the Holy Spirit is God, one in the Trinity God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and today in the morning as I spent time reading the Scriptures I have received the out-poured of the Spirit like the first day I received the New life in Christ Jesus both tear and tongue. Then these verses came.
Acts 15:15-19 This agrees with what the prophets said. Scripture says,
16 'Afterwards, I will return. I will set up David's fallen tent again. I will restore its ruined places again. I will set it up again 17 so that the survivors and all the people who aren't Jewish over whom my name is spoken, may search for the Lord, declares the Lord. 18 He is the one who will do these things that have always been known!' 19 "So I've decided that we shouldn't trouble non-Jewish people who are turning to God.
Things I have asked God many days before about the different of the Baptism of the Spirit and Baptism of fire when people came to talk about and to me become grey area because many try to use the Bible's word and I believe what I read is not my Lord's words but those words were recorded as "John the Baptizer's message" and I believe Jesus Christ alone is enough for our lives to walk in this world. I may be wrong but I will not offer my belief to argue with anyone who practice and receive the lives transforming results. I have seen people transformed after they born again and baptized by the Holy Spirit. I did not mean that I against the Baptism of fire that many people do believe. I have seen those who baptize by the Holy Spirit and so call baptism of fire have same result that many people later had their lives transformed. I do not deny the practice of both but from many others fear the baptism by the fire because they really see those word is not from the Lord Jesus Himself just from someone who called John the Baptizer ...I believe this thing is not revealed to me yet as the Word said but when this fully revealed it will proved that what John the Baptizer meant to be as....
Deuteronomy 29:29 Some things are hidden. They belong to the LORD our God. But the things that have been revealed in these teachings belong to us and to our children forever. We must obey every word of these teachings.
Matthew 3:11 I (John the Baptizer) baptize you (Jewish) with water so that you (Jewish) will change the way you (Jewish) think and act. But the one who comes after me is more powerful than I (John the Baptizer). I am not worthy to remove his sandals. He will baptize you (Jewish) with the Holy Spirit and fire. (At that time John the Baptizer doing his ministry by the Jordan river) Then John the Baptizer continued......
Matthew 3:12 His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into a barn, but he will burn the husks in a fire that can never be put out."
I confess that I still in grey to say JUST JESUS IS ENOUGH for life transformation when we faced or encounter Lord Jesus Christ life will change but that the first step but to have life abundantly you need the baptism of the Holy Spirit until the Spirit over flow out so you will have so many Christlike life. He (The Baptizer) will burn the hush in a fire that can never be put out. This process is never satisfied human's criticized mind so we find so many way to satisfy what we believe. Anyway there will be no clear explanation or you might have one. It is all right to me and let we stay together for the glory of God, Christ is the head of His body we should not condemn each others because one day the truth will be revealed.
Matthew 11:1-7 After Jesus finished giving his twelve disciples these instructions, he moved on from there to teach his message in their cities. 2 When John was in prison, he heard about the things Christ had done. So he sent his disciples 3 to ask Jesus, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for someone else?"
4 Jesus answered John's disciples, "Go back, and tell John what you hear and see: 5 Blind people see again, lame people are walking, those with skin diseases are made clean, deaf people hear again, dead people are brought back to life, and poor people hear the Good News.
6 Whoever doesn't lose his faith in me is indeed blessed."
Matthew 11:7 As they were leaving, Jesus spoke to the crowds about John. "What did you go into the desert to see? Tall grass swaying in the wind?
Anyway many disciples have experience about the Resurrection Christ and received the Holy Spirit to have God's life in them ....but Lord Jesus said many more to come but even though let us see....
John 20:24,25 Thomas, one of the twelve apostles, who was called Didymus, wasn't with them when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples told him, "We've seen the Lord." Thomas told them, "I refuse to believe this unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my fingers into them, and put my hand into his side." This is probably why John 20:20 has recorded these words "When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were glad to see the Lord." Without marks on His hands and His side, non of disciples will not recognize the RESURRECTED CHRIST.
Lord, I am so much worse than Thomas, I have never seen the Lord with my old eyes and do not understand many of God's Word as well as many people do but I believe with all my heart that you give that understandings and will remain on God's grace to believe, to trust You with my all ability of understanding You gave, what else this lump of clay can do?. I have to totally depend on Your grace and Your grace alone can carry me through. Hallelujah.!!!
Praise be to God our Father, my Lord Jesus Christ. and God the Holy Spirit......Amen
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