{"id":5289,"date":"2010-01-18T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/acts-and-mission-77.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:54:10","slug":"acts-and-mission-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/acts-and-mission-77.html","title":{"rendered":"Acts and Mission 77"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ephesus.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Missional work in Ephesus (ruins to the right) involves plenty of unplanned-for work, namely ushering some disciples of John the Baptist into the fullness of the Pentecost era.<\/p>\n

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19:1<\/span> While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples there 19:2<\/span> and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They replied, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 19:3<\/span> So Paul said, “Into what then were you baptized?” “Into John’s baptism,” they replied.19:4<\/span> Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.” 19:5<\/span> When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, 19:6<\/span> and when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy. 19:7<\/span> (Now there were about twelve men in all.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nThere is a salvific difference, or least a life-difference, between the baptism of John (repentance and into the future Messianic work) and the baptism of the Spirit (repentance, death and resurrection of Christ, and Spirit endowment). They needed a baptism into the Lord<\/b> Jesus, and when they were, they received the powerful Spirit — and spoke in tongues and prophesied, and this demonstrated the presence of God’s Spirit.<\/p>\n

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Does this suggest that every baptism into the Lord Jesus entails a tongue-speaking and prophesy-speaking act of the Spirit? <\/div>\n
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What strikes me in this text, and something I’ve not pondered before, is the distinction between a baptism by John of repentance (and faith in Jesus as Messiah) and a baptism into the Lord Jesus.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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