The Holy Spirit and the Church, Part 1

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3. The Holy Spirit and the Church See Ephesians 1:22, 23; 2:12-16; 3:4-16.

a. The Holy Spirit the Church. The Spirit’s baptism is the operation by which the Church is constituted. “By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one spirit” ().

There are seven references to the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Five are (Matt. 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; John 1:33; Acts 1:5); one (); and one (). In the five prophetic Scriptures, we find that two speak of the baptism of the , and of . The baptism of the Spirit, and of fire, are not the same. The baptism of the Spirit speaks of the of the Church, while baptism of fire speaks of . Matthew 3:11 and are those passages which speak of the baptism of fire. It was in these Scriptures that Christ was addressing His messages to saved people and to “vipers” (). Mark’s and John’s accounts include no “baptism of fire,” for they are not addressed to “vipers.”

All five prophetic portions point to the future; the one historic passage looks back; therefore, the baptism of the Spirit comes in between the two. This is Pentecost.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit was not that which enabled the apostles to do miracles, for they performed miracles before they were baptized with the Spirit. The Church is an , not an organization, and the baptism of the Spirit is that act of God which believers into that organism. Whenever the words “baptism of the Spirit” are used, they are always applied , to a , never to an individual. When were “we” and the Corinthians () baptized with the Spirit? At Pentecost, once and for all. When one receives Christ, he is sealed in Christ with the Spirit. “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise” (Eph of thy fields when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.” Thus, we see that the harvest was for three classes:

1. Israel in General.
2. The Poor.
3. Strangers.

All three received blessings of the harvest. The baptism of the Spirit, which was the fulfillment of the Feast of Harvest (Weeks), was for three classes of people:
1. Israel. At Jerusalem (Acts 2:37, 39).
2. Samaritans (the Poor). At Samaria (Acts 8:9-17).
3. Gentiles (Strangers). At Caesarea (Acts 10:34-44).


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