If you hold a bottle of water the bottle possesses the water, if you throw that bottle in the ocean the ocean possesses the bottle. If the cap is off the water flows in and out and the bottle is fully immersed, possessed, in the flow, directed and moved by the ocean current.
I don't want to possess, I want to be possessed.
That's why Jesus said "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father
promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with
water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." Acts 1:4b-5.
Baptism MEANS immersion, plunging beneath, in...
That was AFTER he had breathed on them John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
One was Possessing (the bottle in the hand), the other is Baptizing, being possessed, of the Spirit of God. Immersed. Flowing. controlled by something greater than the bottle.
And that is the reason the Charismatic Movement has been so strong.
It's not that complicated and I'm always amazed that it's so hard to comprehend for so many.
The Acts 19 account shows simple disciples of John the Baptist comprehending this with ease and entering in.
Why is this such a hard thing for so many in the church to understand?
Or, does Jesus still say to us today what he said in Mark 7:13?
I'll let you look that one up.
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