1Pe 3:21-22; 1Pe 2:5,9; Heb 7:24-25; Heb 4:15-16; Rom 8:31-39; Mat 6:7-8.
Class Outline:
Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Sunday,
March 20, 2011
Spiritual Gifts Part 98: Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
The Doctrine of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
C. The Baptism of the Spirit is the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in placing every new believer into permanent union with the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Body the Church.
Point 4. Definition and description of the Baptism of the Spirit.
10. The baptism of the Spirit could not occur until there was the strategic victory of Jesus Christ in the angelic conflict.
Now there was the need for a universal priesthood, since every believer was now a target of satan, .
Peter points to the baptism of the Spirit as the thing that protects our conscience against the attacks from the kingdom of darkness in the form of persecution and accusations.
Our priesthood operates through Jesus Christ our great High Priest. It is a benefit and a result of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
The Greek here literally means “save to the uttermost”, “save completely”, “save to the completion”, “save intact”.
The verb sozo is in the present tense here, which is often (though not always) an indicator of action that is experiential, ongoing in time.
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
This is not referring to eternal salvation [redemption, propitiation, reconciliation], because He accomplished that at the cross, one perfect sacrifice for all time.
This is talking about deliverance after grace-by-faith salvation, when the believer needs our High Priest to intercede at the Right Hand of the Father for us.
He is able to carry the believer right through all trails, temptations and infirmities, unto the completion of the journey of this life, and present him or her faultless in the day of the Rapture.
Past:
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Present:
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Future:
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”
And as we proceed, we face the hostility of the world, and the attacks from the kingdom of darkness, and the temptations of our sin nature.
After all, He experienced what it was like to suffer and to be tempted in all things as we are.
