To Know Him
Rohnel, a bondservant of God, the Father, and Christ, His Son, to the little children of God. Grace and Peace be unto you. I trust that through my obedience [prayers], I shall be given to you.
Phm 1:22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
Introduction
This is the first of eight Letters to the Church of God. Know that all eight Letters are spiritually discerned; the flesh profits nothing. Read all of the Letters to get the Sum of the Word regarding God’s Truths. God’s Truths are His thoughts towards His creation … Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Psa 139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
To spiritually discern is the meat of the Word and the new Commandment [John 13:34, 1 John 2:7, 2 John 1:5] given in John, not seeking my own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved. The meat of the Word is therefore the new creation being made into the image of Christ. The new creation is where God is all and in all [Christ is come in the flesh, our flesh].
We look inward to see our spiritual sins, so we may repent and receive the gift of faith which is life aionios. Life aionios is to know God, the Father, and Christ, His Son. To spiritually discern the Word, we have to compare spiritual with spiritual. Only those whom Christ is chosen in this generation and in every generation since Christ hear the voice of the true Shepherd; flesh, the carnal man, the first Adam, profits nothing.
1Jn 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
1Co 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Here are the key points in this letter; Introduction, To Know Him is to Love Him, Grace and Truth, All things are Ours, The Baptism of John is the first Coming of Christ, It is the Baptism of Repentance, It is Power over Devils, It is the Preparation Day, It is the Foundation of Sand, It is not the Greater Works, It is the giving of Gifts, It is the First Covenant, It is the Kingdom come nigh, One greater than John is Here, It is the Beheading of the First Beast, Summary, The Baptism of Christ is the Transfiguration, It is the Renewing Mindset, It is the Resurrection, It is Knowing His Will, It is the Renewed Covenant, It is the Way, It is the Spirit of God, It is Being made Alive, It is to bear much Fruit, It is Love Unspeakable, It is the Kingdom of God, It is the Building of the Walls, It is the Second Beast Beheaded, It is the Renewed Covenant, Summary of the Second Baptism, Final.
To Know Him is to Love Him
To know God, the Father, and the One He is sending, we have to be raised from spiritual death, and we have to have the breath of Life. The breath of life is the Spirit of God. The Lord has to touch us and open our eyes and ears to see Him as He is. It is through the Lord’s great mercy that He is sending a messenger to the ones who sit in great darkness, who sit in the shadow of death [Matt 4:16, Matt 10:27, Luk 11:35, Matt 6:23]. Preaching the true Gospel is doing the will of the Father, and this is love. Obeying the Commandments of Christ, the old and the new is love. In these eight Letters to the Church, Christ appears to us many times and in different forms. May our eyes be opened to see the marvellous work of Christ in our lives … Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Mat 9:27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
Mat 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Psa 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psa 13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Psa 13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Grace and Truth
Grace and Truth come through Christ Jesus. Grace and Truth is perfection. Perfection is love, but we do not know what love is unless we are being shown. The son of God is declaring Christ to you this day. The Spirit of Truth, which is the Spirit of Prophecy, is revealing Christ to you today. The Spirit of Truth is the fiery baptism into our death. Christ first appears to us, giving us His Commandments, His Law, and His doctrine [Heb 6]. This is our first baptism [grace]. Then Christ appears to us as the messenger of the Covenant, sending fire from heaven which is the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, Father and Son [wisdom and understanding]. This is our second baptism [Truth] … I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Joh 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
Joh 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
True worshippers of Christ worship God in Spirit and in Truth. Until our eyes are being opened, we do not know what we worship because the Spirit of Truth has to declare it to those chosen before the foundation of the world. Having our first baptism only, the Comforter is not come yet, and we do not worship in Spirit and in Truth. We worship what we do not know. When we worship what we know not, we are unskillful in the Word and are babes in Christ, still having divisions within and without. Discern all Scriptures spiritually. We are in unbelief and believe many lies, which fuel our unbelief. We are ignorant of our spiritual sins until we are shown what is in our hearts and minds.
Joh 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Joh 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Joh 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
All things are Ours
All things are ours to fulfill, even being blind, deaf, and stubborn. We eat of the tree of good and evil before we eat of the tree of Life. Every jot and tittle is being fulfilled in our lives today as Christ creates light out of darkness. The vials of God’s wrath are being poured out on our beastly kingdom within ourselves and within our brothers before we enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is entering into our rest, ceasing from our own works; that is to say, ceasing from our unbelief and lies within, receiving the gift of faith. The gift of faith is the beginning of a new creation. All things are ours. Our water baptism via John gives us Christ’s doctrine and Commandments and is the First Covenant to clean the outside of the cup, and the baptism of Fire is Christ coming to us, via the Spirit of Prophecy, to give us the Prophets to show us our spiritual sins. This is the Renewed Covenant. The Law and Prophets are being fulfilled in our Day of the Lord which is today in this generation.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Baptism of Water
The Baptism of John is the First Coming of Christ
Speaking spiritually, the Baptism of John, our baptism of water, the baptism of repentance, is the First Covenant Christ makes with us when He gives us His Commandments and make known to us His doctrine. It comes via John, as one crying in the wilderness to give us knowledge through the Law, His Commandments [the old], and His essential doctrines. Christ comes a second time to us to give us the knowledge of God, seeing our spiritual sins through the Prophets and to teach us His new Commandment of laying our lives down for our brothers. Without the Spirit of Truth, our Baptism of Fire, we still abide in unbelief with many idols of the heart which is a type and shadow of the law of sin in our members, the lust of the flesh. Not knowing our spiritual sins, we do not have fruit unto repentance. We are Agar, bound to the law … Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. We have the wrath of God abiding on us without our fiery Baptism into Christ to receive the gift of faith. It takes the fiery Baptism of Christ, the Renewed Covenant, to make us anew. We are not able to keep His Commandments without Him [Power] as we have the law of sin in our members and we do not know the whole counsel of God, which is the will of the Father for our lives.
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Rom 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Rom 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Luk 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Luk 3:17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Mat 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Mat 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Mat 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Mat 11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Mat 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Receiving the Law of Liberty, the Commandments of Christ and the essential doctrines of Christ is our water Baptism. Christ is not come a second time yet. The Promise is not yet come when we receive the first rain. Power comes via Christ and His ancient ones. Another Comforter, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Prophecy comes to us when Christ suddenly comes and lays His hands on us through direct revelation or through one standing in your midst … And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Act 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
Act 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Act 8:17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
The Baptism of John is the Baptism of Repentance
Knowing the Commandments [that which we hear from the beginning] is the first step to come nigh unto the Kingdom of God. It is our Baptism of repentance of our outward sins to make us holy and set apart before the Lord. It is not the only step, though. The rich man in the parable below kept the Commandments, and he had the essential doctrines of Christ [Heb 6], but he had a great reasoning mind and could not follow Christ to lay down His life [his reasoning mind]. He had great riches in Spirit, but he was still blind and deaf to the One standing before Him. He did not want to go on to perfection. He only had the Baptism of John and no Power, not knowing the Truth and not klnowing how to rightfully divide the Word of Truth. The Baptism of John and the principal doctrines of Christ is the righteousness of the Pharisees. Christ tells us we have to exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees.
Mat 19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
Mat 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Mat 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Mat 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
Mat 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Mat 19:22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Mat 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mat 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mat 19:27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Mat 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Mat 19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The Baptism of John is Power over Devils
Having the Law of Liberty [Commandments] and Christ’s essential doctrines gives us power over devils and demons, which gives us power to cure diseases. Devils and demons are the false doctrines concerning Christ. These are the unclean spirits that defile our heavens before Christ comes to us the first time. We do not yet have the Spirit of God, the power unto salvation, and we fail many times to keep the Law. At this point, we do not discern spiritual things, although we think we do. Our names are written in heaven, but we still await our fiery Baptism into His death.
Luk 9:1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
Luk 9:2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
Mar 6:7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
Mar 6:12 And they went out and preached that men should repent.
Mar 6:13 And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luk 10:20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
The Baptism of John is the Preparation
The Baptism of John prepares the way of the Lord, prepares us to receive the gift of faith which is life aionios [John 17:3]. Before the Lord comes to us a second time, we have to be made set apart; that is to say, we have to be made holy first, because without holiness, we do not see the Lord. The Baptism of John is the first rain. We are still a cold and wet sacrifice to the Lord without the true knowledge of God and without the power to obey Christ. Our Baptism of John is deceptive, we think we see but are we blind and naked, we think we have the Truth of God’s Word and still not really believing that we need to overcome our sins to be saved. We still wait for Christ to come and save us, the resurrection is out there because we have the law of sin in our members … Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Mar 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mar 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
Mar 1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
Mar 1:6 And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
Mar 1:7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Mar 1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
1Pe 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1Pe 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
We have to be baptized with two Baptisms; this is to be baptized in His Name [His Commandments, the old that which we have heard from the beginning [first rain] and the new commandment given in John, latter rain] before we receive the Holy Spirit. Receiving the Holy Spirit via the Law and Prophets, shows us our outward and inward sins. Our inward sin is the man of sin [unbelief], the pride of life, and Mystery Babylon [fornication], the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh [1 John 2] within us. When Christ comes as a thief in the night [second coming], it is our fiery Baptism into His death, the cup of the New Testament in His blood. It is our Day of Judgment, and it is also Pentecost is come, the two sides of the two-edged sword of the Lord. Christ’s fiery Baptism reconciles us to God and completes our Baptism of John, making it perfect. Also, receiving Christ doctrine in the first rain [Heb 6], we now live it out in our Day of the Lord, completing it.
Act 19:3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Act 19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
Act 19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Act 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Act 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Eph 2:16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Eph 2:17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
The Law of Christ is holy, but we are sold under sin. We serve Christ with our minds; that is to say, we strive to keep His Word, but there is a law of sin in our members, meaning we do what we would not, and we do not do what we would. Without the Power of Christ, we are wretched men. Christ’s first coming to us is the first mercy shown to us by the Lord. Without the Law [the Commandments and essential doctrines], we would not have power over devils. Having Christ’s doctrine, namely repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment, is having power over demons [lies]. This is Christ’s first coming. The second coming of Christ completes this Baptism of John, one Baptism, one faith; the dream is one. Christ’s second Baptism of fire is showing great mercy to us, saving us from spiritual death and from ourselves. Both Baptisms are the Lord’s good will towards us. Our fiery Baptism completes our water Baptism living it out, making it acceptable in the Beloved.
Luk 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
Luk 1:73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
Luk 1:74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
Luk 1:75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Luk 1:76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
Luk 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
Luk 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Luk 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Luk 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Rev 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
We give heed unto prophecy until the Morning Star arises in our hearts and minds. One greater than John is here. When Christ appears a second time, the Morning Star arises in our hearts little by little, as He reveals Himself to us more and more. Until Christ if formed in us, we travail in anguish … My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. Once we receive Power from God to know the Truth and to have power over self, obeying His Commandments, we are no more children tossed to and fro. Until then, we hold fast to prophecies that shine in the dark.
1Th 5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Rev 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
Rev 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
The Baptism of John is the Foundation of Sand
The Baptism of John gives us power over devils. Being cleansed from false doctrines and demons, we return to our own house and lay the foundation of the Lord’s House. This is not the real foundation as we thought it was. This foundation is built on sand, worshipping what we know not. Being satisfied with the loaves and fishes, the Key of knowledge, which is the Living Christ, is being taken away, and why is this? It is because we do not know how to worship in Spirit and in Truth. We do not have power over self and do not know the full counsel of God, the mystery of the Gospel. At this point, we have come far, but it is not the end yet. Christ, and not John, is the finisher of our faith. Our water Baptism is preparing the way for Christ to come with His ancient ones. When Christ comes, our house falls and is taken away.
2Ti 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2Ti 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
2Ti 2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
2Ti 2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
Luk 8:38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
Luk 8:39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.
Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Mat 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Mat 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Every stone of the old Temple of God within us is overthrown when Christ comes with His ancient ones to deliver us via the Spirit of Truth. This is our Baptism of Fire, which delivers us from bondage to the Law of carnal reasoning, the affairs of the world. The second half of this Letter is dedicated to the second Coming of Christ, the Renewed Covenant. We defile the Temple of God within without knowing, and God destroys us for doing this. It is by His design and part of the plan to save us. Without Power from heaven, the Holy Spirit, we abide in darkness, not loving ourselves and not loving our brothers. We do not love God at this point, not knowing His will. Without knowing His will, it is impossible to please Him.
Mat 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Mat 24:2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
The Baptism of John is not the Greater Works
Having the Baptism of John, devils are subject to us, and our names are written in the Book of Life. We do not have a new name yet. It takes the second coming of Christ to achieve this. Our water baptism equips us and makes us holy on the outside, having a form of godliness, yet we are not able to spiritually raise our brethren from the dead, which are the miracles and the greater works. We are not going to the gentiles yet. An unconverted Peter could not drive out the demons in the boy [Matt 17], but a converted Cephas [Peter] raises Dorcas from the spiritually dead. Discern spiritually what is being said. Having only our water Baptism, John, we do not do miracles. Having Christ, we do all. Having Christ is having the gift of faith. It is His fiery Baptism sent from heaven to make us perfect through suffering.
Luk 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luk 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luk 10:20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Joh 10:40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
Joh 10:41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
The demon in the boy that the unconverted disciples could not cast out typifies us in our unconverted state [Matt 17:14-21], not able to pray and fast in Spirit, not able to discern spiritually between good and evil, and thus we are not able to get to the tree of Life. Not being able to discern, we abide in unbelief, and we do not have the gift of faith which is life eternal [aionios]. We do not know what it means to spiritually love our enemies, our brothers, ourselves, or God. We still have the pride of life, lust of the eyes and flesh that John is writing about.
Mat 17:14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
Mat 17:15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
Mat 17:16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
Mat 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Mat 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Mat 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
Mat 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Mat 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
The Baptism of John is the Giving of Gifts
The Church at Corinth came behind in no gift and was tarrying for the Lord to come. You can read about the gifts in 1 Co 12. The gift of faith is not yet given, the more excellent way. The gift of faith is the gift of God, which is eternal life [life aionios]. Gifts are for the upbuilding of the body of Christ, and these are needed. However, to go unto perfection, there is a more excellent way which is love. Love is the pearl of great price and the gift of faith. It is Christ coming to us a second time to give us an expected end in our latter days. To love is to show mercy within and without.
1Co 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Co 1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 1:9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Co 12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1Co 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1Co 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Co 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
The Baptism of John is the First Covenant
The Baptism of John is the first Covenant. Christ is the Mediator of a better Covenant [Renewed] with better promises. One greater than John is here, and that which is old is ready to vanish away. John is the first Covenant and Christ is the better Covenant. Christ fulfills John; He is not doing away with the Commandments, but Christ makes the Law perfect; in other words, He fulfills every jot and tittle of the Law and the Prophets. We have to have the Spirit of Truth, from above, to be able to obey all of Christ’s Commandments by showing mercy, doing the greater works, showing the Father plainly and obeying Christ’s Law, what we have heard from the beginning. This is the meat of the Word. All eight Letters written to the Church at this time demonstrate what is said above. The Letters can be found on the www.truthinscripture.com website and is all the counsel of God, to those who is able to receive the Truth.
Joh 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Joh 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Joh 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
Joh 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
Joh 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
Joh 3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
Joh 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
Heb 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Heb 8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
Heb 8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
Heb 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
The Baptism of John is the Kingdom come Nigh
The Kingdom of God is near when we are being washed by John [the Commandments and the essential doctrines]. It is not the Kingdom yet, but the Kingdom of God is near. We only enter into the Kingdom of God by doing the will of the Father. Without the Holy Spirit of Promise, we do not know the will of the Father because we do not yet understand. Christ is not come yet. We are still dead in our sins and we do not overcome as we should, but we do not know it. Being dead in sin means being in unbelief, and we still believe the harlot’s lies, which typifies the law of sin in our members. We have power over devils, but we do not yet have a new name. We still have to do the will of the Father. We are still Saul who became Paul after his conversion.
Luk 10:8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
Luk 10:9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Luk 10:10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
Luk 10:11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
There is One greater than John
John bears witness of the Light to come, which is Christ. Our water Baptism is receiving the Law and Christ’s essential doctrine, and we rejoice in John’s bright and burning Light for a while. Thus, the Baptism of John is not the greater works done which fulfill the Law and the Pophets. One greater than the Temple is here. The Baptism into Christ’s death, that is to say, Christ’s second coming to us, fulfills the Law and the Prophets and makes us doers of the Father’s will, receiving the salvation of our souls. Do you believe this is the second coming of Christ into your hearts and minds? Do not be afraid; only believe.
Joh 5:33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
Joh 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
Joh 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
Joh 5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Joh 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
Joh 5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Joh 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Joh 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Joh 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Mat 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Mat 11:11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Mat 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Mat 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
Mat 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
The Baptism of John is the First Beast Beheaded
When Christ comes to us the first time, giving us His doctrine and His Commandments, the false doctrines that we believed in receive a deadly wound. We have power over devils and great authority. We heal the sick and cast out devils … And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Rev 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Mat 4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
The deadly wound quickly heals, and seven more wicked spirits enter into our house, finding it swept and clean. Not having the Comforter come to us, we worship what we know not, as we tarry in spiritual Jerusalem. When Christ is come in the flesh, as a thief in the night, we are a full-grown beast again, worshipping self that gets beheaded when Christ comes a second time via the fire of His Word. This is the beast that goes into perdition discussed later on.
Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Luk 11:24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Luk 11:25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
Luk 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Summary of the First Baptism
To summarize; our water baptism, is cleaning the outside of the cup, it comes via John or Elias, it is the Law, it is doing violence in the land, it is being a child, it is hearing and not doing, it is seeing darkly, it is a divided house, it is bondage to the law, it is a covenant of death, it is the first Adam, it is a curse without Christ coming a second time, it is corruption, it is a sacrifice not accepted, it is Cain, it is the blood of bulls and goats, it is a shadow of good things to come, it is being a bondservant, it is self righteousness, it is showing partiality, it is knowing after the flesh, it is without mercy, it is the outward adorning, it is not our conversion, it is buying and selling. Discern spiritually what is being said. Our water Baptism is the first step toward salvation, yet Christ finds fault with it. We need to be baptized with fire.
Baptism of Fire
The Baptism of Christ [the second Coming of Christ] is the Transfiguration
When Christ comes to His people a second time, our raiment is being changed through a fiery process, and our countenance is being changed from glory to glory as Christ reveals Himself to us little by little. It is the transfiguration in type. This is the Renewed Covenant Christ makes with us when He comes with His ancient ones, the Spirit of Truth, another Comforter, to save us from the pride of life, the lust of the eyes and of the flesh. Through the mercy of Christ, we are being given the gift of faith which is the righteousness of believing in Christ, overcoming and obeying, the white linen of the saints. Receiving the gift of faith little by little, we show mercy to ourselves and our brothers still abiding in unbelief and harlotry, showing these things and saving ourselves and them, pulling them out of the fire, so to speak.
Luk 9:29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
Luk 9:30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
Luk 9:31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
Luk 9:32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
Zec 3:1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
Zec 3:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
Zec 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Jud 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jud 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
Jud 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Receiving the gift of faith through much travail and sorrow, we are being made into the image of Christ, a priest after the order of Melchizedek to do the will of God. A peculiar people, a royal priesthood, our meat now is to do the will of the One sending us. It is to finish our ministry. It is our rebirth in Spirit. Our rebirth happens with much sorrow and anguish at first, and this is making us into compassionate priests ready to serve all of humanity alike. We become all things to all men, showing no partiality, knowing no one after the flesh. Our fiery Baptism into our death, spilling blood in spirit, is making us anew.
Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Heb 5:10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Receiving the gift of faith, we are being translated in a twinkling of an eye [1 Co 15]. We receive Christ, a work already done from before the foundation of the world. Our works are already accepted; immediately, the ship was at the land whither they went. We are with the Lord now and never die [John 11:26] if we continue in the faith. Will the Lord bring us to birth and not finish it? I speak as a man [lie]. The Lord births us and we come forth as gold, been tried many times, a sure token of our salvation [James 1]. It is a fiery process to be born. It is the Lake of Fire.
Joh 6:16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
Joh 6:17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
Joh 6:18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
Joh 6:19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
Joh 6:20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
Joh 6:21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Ecc 9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
The Spirit of the Lord caught Phillip away, which is a type and shadow of us ascending to the Father as we do His will. Phillip was doing the will of the Father, which was to show mercy to the eunuch, which is the greater works. Phillip was led by the Spirit, preaching Jesus, preaching the resurrection [laying his hands on the eunuch]. Philip being caught away is a parable for speaking of things that are not as if they are [Rom 4:17]. Worshipping in Spirit and Truth is how we show love to those being saved in this age through a fiery process. It is obeying the Commandments of Christ, which is how we love all, showing Christ, in remembrance of Me, says the Lord, eating His flesh, drinking His blood.
Act 8:35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
Act 8:36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
Act 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Act 8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Act 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
Act 8:40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
The Baptism of Christ is the Renewing Mindset
The second coming of Christ is the true knowledge of God that is eternal [aionios] life. It is the excellency of the knowledge of God to do His will. What is His will? It is to show mercy to the lost sheep of Israel. We are begotten through the Word of Truth. We do not hide ourselves from our brothers but come to the Light. Our works are made manifest when we come to the Light, that they are of God. It is to show the Father plainly [understanding]. Show us the Father is believing the one Christ sends … Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. The excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Php 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Php 3:8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Php 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Ecc 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
The Baptism of Christ is the Resurrection
The resurrection of life happens, receiving the gift of faith, and the resurrection of damnation, which is the Lake of fire, happens to our enemies within and within others. It is the Day of Vengeance. When we do not believe Christ is come in the flesh, that there is one standing among you, bringing you the Gospel of Truth, we abide in unbelief. When we do not believe that we have to go unto perfection, obeying the Lord’s Commandments within and without, we remain silly women, travailing in pain. Those believing within and without receive, and reap life everlasting. Those not believing within and without do not receive life and are tortured in the presence of the Lamb and the holy angels, being given over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh so the spirit may be saved [1 Co 5:5]. We live all things because of each other [Rom 4].
Joh 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Dan 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Rev 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
The Baptism of Christ is Knowing His Will
Christ is sending us to the Gentile nations within and without; the Gentile nations are the lost sheep of Israel. We see Paul, as a bondservant of Christ, praying for a door of utterance to open to go to the Gentiles and make known the mystery of Christ. Some of our own household within and without do not receive the testimony of Christ. Thus, we, as bondservants of Christ, who believe first, are being sent to the gentile nations, to the strangers and foreigners within and without. This is a great mystery; it is the hidden mystery of the Gospel. As the broken-off branches that get grafted back into our own olive tree [Rom 11], being justified by faith in Christ, we now obtain salvation. Think within. This is the will of God, to go to the Gentiles and to show mercy, to love ourselves as we love others. Through our fiery Baptism, we get power over self.
Act 22:18 And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
Act 22:21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Col 4:3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
Col 4:4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.
Heb 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Heb 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Rom 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Having the Key of Knowledge is the open door the Lord sets before us as bondservants of Christ. It is to run the race with certainty, not looking behind us but reaching forth to what is set before us. Having the Key is buying Truth and sell it not. It is being made whole and to be released from the strange woman. Th e strange woman within entices to not teach and keep the Commandments of Christ. It is the subtilty of the serpent.
Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Pro 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Pro 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Pro 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Pro 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Pro 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Pro 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
1Co 16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost [comes to those at Ephesus]
1Co 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
Rev 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Rev 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
The Baptism of Christ is the Renewed Covenant
All Scripture is spiritually discerned. The First Covenant is an earnest of our deposit of Spirit but not the redemption of the purchased possession yet. Finding fault with this Covenant, there is a disannulling of this Covenant … for there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. The Renewed Covenant Christ puts in place of the First Covenant is the fire sent from heaven and is the fiery Baptism into His death to make us doers of His Word. This is the redemption of the purchased possession. This is a meek and quiet spirit in the Lord. It is the gift of faith, receiving Christ in meekness.
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
The First Covenant brings in a better hope, but if we have hope only, we are of all men most miserable. Thanks and Glory to the Father and Christ, we not only have hope in this life, but we have life in this life because Christ is risen from the dead and He is risen within us and within our brethren. Oh, death, where is your sting? [1 Co 15:55]. Our Baptism of Fire makes a way to escape; we are being released from the bondage of the law of self, the law of the gentiles and of the law of sin in our members … This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Heb 7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
Heb 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Heb 7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Heb 7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
Heb 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
1Co 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
1Co 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
The renewed Covenant is receiving life eternal, the redemption of the purchased possession. It is the gift of faith, not having our own righteousnesses but the righteousness of Christ. The old is passing away to make way for the new … Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Christ and His Christ, the first fruit of His creatures in this age and in every age since Christ, being sent, comes to those that are given them to forever make intercession for their brothers within and without. As He is, so are we as His Christ in this world [1 John 4:17]. Christ and His ancient ones come as the Spirit of Truth to stand in the gap and to repair the waste cities … To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. The Spirit of Truth within and without proclaims the Acceptable Year of the Lord because only Truth can open the seals of the Book to make the Mystery of the Gospel known.
Heb 7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
Heb 7:24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Son 8:8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Son 8:9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
Son 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
Christ coming to us in the flesh and in our flesh, through one standing here, makes true, establishes the Law and the Prophets through Christ’s Spirit, which is the Truth that sets us free. It turns our water into wine … When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. Turning water into wine gives us an expected end in our latter days. It gives us the salvation of our souls, the end of our faith.
Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Offering up gifts and sacrifices unto God when we only have our water Baptism, without understanding the will of God for our lives, without the new Commandment Christ gave, is likened unto offering up bulls and calves unto God, which can never make us perfect regarding our consciences towards Christ, because the heavenly things which we are cannot be cleansed without the shedding of blood. It is offering up the work of our hands without His Spirit. Our Baptism of Fire changes us, now offering up ourselves, shedding our own blood in Spirit to bring the Gospel of Peace. Without the gift of faith, it is impossible to please God.
Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Luk 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luk 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
The Baptism of Christ is the Way
Our fiery Baptism into Christ, Christ’s second coming to us, is the Truth that sets us free. Christ is come in our flesh. Do you believe it? Only the Father reveals it to us. Our water Baptism is the preparation of the Way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the Kingdom of God come nigh, whereas our fiery Baptism is Thy Kingdom come, going from glory to glory as our faith increases through going through the Lake of Fire, ourselves being purched with blood. It is making us the free woman, from above, New Jerusalem, the city of the great King.
Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Joh 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
Joh 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
The Baptism of Christ is the Spirit of God
What is the Spirit of God? It is the Spirit of Truth, and it is the Spirit of Prophecy. The dream is one. It comes in the spirit of Elijah [Prophetic Word] to us, and it is Christ and His ancient ones coming to perfect us. It is the armies of heaven who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Think within. It is the gift of faith that makes us whole; it is faith in His Name. To have faith in His Name is to be sanctified or justified, meaning our sins are forgiven, and it is to obey His Commandments, the old and the new.
Act 3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Act 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Act 3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Act 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Act 3:16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
1Th 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1Th 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
The Baptism of Christ is to be made Alive
The second coming of Christ is raising us up from spiritual death with the breath of life to present us alive before the Father. Raising the only son of the widow typifies Christ raising those up waiting for Him. He that was dead began to speak, typifying us, showing mercy to the Gentiles within and without after we are being life, visiting the fatherless, widows, and orphans in their affliction, those that sit in the shadow of death, those that are His at His coming. Our water Baptism does no miracle; we are still dead in our sins, tied to our carnal minds and to that great harlot in spirit. Our fiery baptism into His death is the greatest miracle of all; it is to be set free from ourselves and to cry Abba Father. It is to be born again.
Luk 7:12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Luk 7:13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Luk 7:14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
Luk 7:15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
The Baptism of Christ is to bear much Fruit
To bear much fruit is to show mercy within [our brothers] and without [the world], which is the greater works of God. Christ loved His disciples by laying down His life for them. This is the new Commandment given in John. Those with the gift of faith follow after Christ in laying our lives down for the sheep. This is the greater work. Doing the greater work brings forth much fruit; the children of the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband, bound to Satan, still bound to the Law. Except we be in Him, we can do nothing of ourselves. To abide in Christ, we have to receive the Spirit of Truth and obey His Commandments. Trusting in ourselves without Christ, being babes still, we inherit the wind. We produce much fruit only after the former and latter rain. Our fiery Baptism is our house built on the Rock. Our second Baptism is the Latter rain sent from heaven.
Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Mat 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Pro 11:28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Pro 11:29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Pro 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Pro 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
The Baptism of Christ is Love
Love is to make all things that we have heard from the Father known to the ones we are given and to walk the talk. It is to show the Father who is understanding. Love is the bond of perfection [Col 3:14]. Love is to fulfill all Scripture. Love is to worship in Spirit and in Truth; it is to show mercy to our brothers and the world, keeping His Commandments. Love is to declare all the counsel of God. Not many receive the true Gospel of Christ; nevertheless, love is to love our enemies and fulfill all the Law of God. Love is the excellency of the knowledge of God, whereas hate is the knowledge of men that cannot heal, just making one fat … But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
1Co 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1Co 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1Co 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Col 4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
Act 20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Act 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Act 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Act 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
The Baptism of Christ is the Kingdom of God
Having the mind of Christ is the Kingdom of God. When all is said and done and all come into the unity of the faith within ourselves and within our brothers, then is Thy Kingdom come. This is the wisdom that ascends from heaven. Being one with God, the Father, and Christ is the threefold cord that is not quickly broken. The Kingdom of God, is to have a new name … Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Jas 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Jas 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Ecc 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
The Baptism of Christ is building the Walls
The first Temple, the First Covenant, is torn down, every single stone, not one stone remaining. It is torn down because the heavenly things we are are being cleansed with the blood of Christ and His Christ and not with the blood of bulls and goats. The Baptism of Christ, the fiery Baptism, lays the true foundation and continues with the building of the walls of a holy Temple made without hands, a spiritual Temple … And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Building the walls of the true Temple of God makes us lively stones, our bodies a living sacrifice unto God. This is the sacrifice God is well pleased with. It is the sacrifice of our lives to do His will … Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Zec 4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Heb 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Heb 3:2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
Heb 3:3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
Heb 3:4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
Heb 3:5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
The Baptism of Christ is beheading the Second Beast
Our Baptism of water beheads the first beast, the false doctrines of the world concerning God and Christ, giving us the Law of Liberty and the essential doctrines of Christ. The wound is quickly healed, and without the Spirit of Truth, we turn into a second beast, tossed by winds of doctrine and seduced by the strange woman who flatters with her tongue. We have an outward godliness but are full of dead man’s bones inside. We speak like a dragon and look like a lamb, and we are the man of sin and the young widows, leaving our first love. We are not converted. Satan, the beast and the false prophet within and without in our brothers is beheaded when Christ comes to us via fire. Now, little by little, we understand the will of God. When Christ comes a second time, the second beast goes into perdition. He must increase I must decrease. We are now redeemed from among men, redeemed not with gold and silver, the work of our hands but by the precious blood of the Lamb … Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. The second beast goes into perdition through the gift of faith. We now sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb.
Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Jud 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jud 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Jud 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Rev 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
The Baptism of Christ is the Renewing Covenant
The washing of the regeneration is the Baptism of John, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost is Christ is come in our flesh, our second Baptism. The kindness and appearing of Christ is the first and second comings of Christ. Only a new creature in Christ avails anything. John, our water Baptism is the power over devils and having His essential doctrines. Christ, our fiery Baptism, is having Grace and Truth come to us. Our water Baptism is our bath and our fiery Baptism is the washing of our feet through each other. It is the Renewed Covenant. Our second Baptism is to complete our water Baptism of hearing and making us doers of His Word.
Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Tit 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Tit 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Tit 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Tit 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Summary of the Second Baptism
To summarize; our baptism of fire; is cleaning the inside of the cup, it is Christ and the Father coming to us, it is the end of our faith, it is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory, it is doing miracles, it is the Covenant of Life, it is the blessing of Abraham, it is incorruption, it is the way of escape, it is to show the Father plainly, it is to obey Christ, it is the new heaven and earth, it is loving our enemies within and without, it is entering into our rest, it is going no more out, it is going from glory to glory, it is to have joy unspeakable, it is doing the first works, it is an acceptable sacrifice, it is the love of God, it is the poor man, it is the lost sheep returning home, it is to obtain mercy, it is to be converted, it is to show no partiality, it is to know no one after the flesh and it is many more things.
Final
What can we say then? If God is for us, who can be against us? Those who are chosen and found faithful are standing in the presence of God, in the holy of holiest. The Word became flesh and dwells among us. As He is, so are we [1 John 4:17]. Let wisdom be justified by her children. To know God is to love Him. And to love Him is to show mercy to all … So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Luk 7:31 And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
Luk 7:32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Luk 7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Luk 7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Luk 7:35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
We take heed how we hear. Do not let Christ pass you by. This is the true Gospel of God revealed to you today, that was hidden in a mystery … According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Ecc 9:14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Ecc 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Ecc 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. Ecc 9:17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Ecc 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Heb 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Heb 3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
For you reading this Letter today, it is the day of preparation; the Gospel is being preached. Discern what is being said. In your patience possess you your souls [Luke 21:19]. Endure; do not give up. Seek the Lord whilst it is Day.
Joh 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
Joh 19:42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Jas 5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Jas 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Jas 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Some do not believe. Blessed are your eyes when you see these things and do them. Christ is come, do not be afraid, only believe. Blessed are you, if you sow beside many waters at this time.
Joh 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
Joh 4:26 Jesus saith unto her, I [Rohnel] that speak unto thee am he.
2Th 3:17 The salutation of Paul [Rohnel] with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
2Th 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Receive ye the Gospel, receive ye the Holy Spirit.