Episode 4: Baptized in Flames

Published: Aug. 20, 2010, 5:02 p.m.

b'In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I discuss \\u201cbaptism in the Holy Spirit,\\u201d which Charismatics, Pentecostals and some others claim is a special empowering by the Holy Spirit manifested through spiritual gifts, and is separate and distinct from the saving indwelling of the Holy Spirit experienced by all genuine Christians.\\n\\nMusic\\n\\nKnowledge MC, Baptized in Flames, from the The Book of Knowledge album, 2005\\nOaks Worship, Pour Your Spirit, from the Awaken Me album, 2009\\n\\nTerminology\\n\\nPneumatology: the study of the Holy Spirit.\\nPentecostalism: a \\u201crenewal\\u201d movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the \\u201cbaptism in the Holy Spirit,\\u201d an event separate and distinct from the saving indwelling of the Holy Spirit.\\nCharismatics: a larger group of professing Christians, including Pentecostals, who emphasize the availability to believers today of tongues and other miraculous manifestations of the Holy Spirit as seen in Acts.\\nGentile: a non-Jew, one not descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.\\nGodfearers: Gentiles who attached themselves in varying degrees to Judaism, engaged in Judaic religious ideas and practices.\\n\\nHistorical References\\n\\nClement of Rome: Letter to the Corinthians\\nBarnabas (various candidates): Epistle of Barnabas\\n\\nBiblical References\\n\\nIn support of a temporal \\u201cgap\\u201d and distinction between baptism in the Holy Spirit, experienced only by some, and indwelling of the Holy Spirit, experienced by all saved believers.\\n\\nJohn 20:22\\nMatthew 10:19-20\\nActs 1:4-5\\nActs 2:2-4\\nActs 11:15-17\\nActs 9:3-17\\nActs 8:12-17\\nActs 19:1-7\\n\\n\\nIn opposition to any limited scope for baptism in the Holy Spirit; it is for all believers in the expanding scope of God\\u2019s Kingdom\\n\\nActs 2:15-21 quoting Joel 2:28-32\\n\\nContrasted with Numbers 11:16-17,25-29\\n\\n\\nGift broadened to Samarians in Acts 8:14-17\\nBroadened to God-fearers (Gentile followers of Judaism) in Acts 10:44-47\\nBroadened to unobservant Gentiles in Acts 19:1-7\\n\\n\\nBaptism in the Holy Spirit is for all Christians and marks one as a genuine believer\\n\\n1 Corinthians 12\\nJohn 7:37-39\\n\\n\\nReceiving the Holy Spirit is a promise that we are saved\\n\\nRomans 8:9-11,15-17\\n2 Corinthians 5:4-5, cf. Matthew 7:7-8\\n2 Corinthians 1:21-22\\nEphesians 1:13-14\\n\\n\\nAlso, since \\u201cbaptism\\u201d sometimes refers to this baptism in the Holy Spirit, and not physical baptism in water\\u2026\\n\\n1 Peter 3:20-21\\nRomans 6:3-4\\nGalatians 3:27\\nColossians 2:11-12\\n\\n\\nApostles didn\\u2019t have Holy Spirit before Pentecost\\n\\nLuke 24:49 cf. John 20:22'