Friday | 11 July 2025
Baptism into the Holy Spirit is indicated by the capacity to speak in tongues. Act 2:4. By the Spirit, a believer is able to join the intercession and travailing prayer of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and to journey with Christ, through obedience to the word, on the pathway of salvation that He pioneered for them. Significantly, a son of God is granted the same strength that Christ received from the Holy Spirit for His offering and suffering journey from Gethsemane to Calvary. Luk 22:43-44. Heb 9:14.
The sevens Spirits of God is the power for a person’s journey on the pathway of salvation. Journeying with and in Christ, they are able to be His witnesses in the world. Explaining this implication of baptism by the Holy Spirit, Jesus said to His disciples, ‘But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.’ Act 1:8. By the Spirit, they are able to pray and prophesy, and to testify as a son of God.
In this regard, any Christian who has received the baptism of the Spirit is then able, as part of a community of believers, to be a co-worker with Christ. That is, through the seven Spirits of God, they are able to proclaim the gospel, and support those who are responding to the gospel so that they are brought to birth as sons of God. Noting this implication of baptism by the Holy Spirit, Jesus said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water’. Joh 7:38. It is the seven Spirits of God that flow out of the innermost being of a son of God as a river of living water. This is the ministry of the word through which their hearers can be born again and nourished as sons of God.
Further Study:
Acts 2
References:
Act 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Luk 22:43-44
Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Heb 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Act 1:8
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the Earth.
Joh 7:38
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.