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How "by one Spirit" Baptized?
By Brock Hartwigsen
I Corinthians 12:13 - "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit." [NKJV]
The Holy Spirit played an important role in the birth of Jesus when He came upon Mary and she conceived (Luke 1:34-35). Likewise, the Spirit plays an important role in baptism (I Cor. 12:13). Just as the Spirit was involved in the physical birth of Jesus, He is involved in the spiritual birth of Christians.
Jesus told Nicodemus that for anyone to enter into "the kingdom of God" he must "be born of water and of the Spirit" (John 3:5). The water is the physical element of baptism. The Spirit is the spiritual or the power element of baptism. In Titus 3:5 we read "according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration [water, the physical element of baptism]." It is the Spirit who renews a person when he is baptized.
Water is simply the physical manifestation of what is spiritually happening when a person is baptized.
Man can physically place a person in the waters of baptism but man cannot raise a person out of spiritual death into life (Rom. 6:4). The Spirit does that.
When a person is baptized, his fellow man places him in the water and the Spirit places Him in Christ.
When a person is baptized, his fellowman raises him out of the water - wet, while the Spirit raises him out of death - alive.
You cannot be baptized by the Spirit into Christ unless you are baptized by man into water. These are not two separate acts, as some teach, but one simultaneous act, for there is only one baptism (Eph. 4:5).
Thus, in order to become a Christian a person's physically body must be baptized by a human in water as a symbol and physical act of obedience, while his spirit is baptized into the "one body" by the Holy Spirit. You cannot be in Christ unless you are baptized by the Spirit. You will only be baptized by the
Spirit when you are baptized by man
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