He will baptize you with His Spirit.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

“I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.”

(Mark 1:8)

The baptism in the Holy Spirit, something as simple as the redemptive work of Jesus, available to everyone, some has made this a complicated and dogmatic matter, away from the intent of our Creator. It has become––in certain sects or institutions––an emotional and symbolic step established as a prerequisite for admission into the fold of the ecclesiastic congregation.

The Son of God promised us the coming of the Holy Spirit in his gigantic work of creating the Church of Jesus Christ, emphasizing that this work would not be emotional, but instructive, transforming our minds and spreading God’s Word into our hearts (Jn 16:2-13). We praise Yahweh God because he is worthy of praises and adoration, but not as a Christian or holy banner. True worshiping is a man born in piety, and faith is attained by hearing and meditating on the Word of God, for “whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13-17).

This has happened in the almost 2000 years passed. Humans who have accepted over the centuries Jesus as their Lord and Savior, have experienced a baptism in the Holy Spirit; that is, in the depth of their beings, the Spirit of God is manifested in their consciences, letting them see with assurance about their sins are forgiven, that this ‘old burden’ has been lifted off, and a regenerative process has begun with a new life––different from the previous one––has flourished, where we begin to see the world around us with another perspective by striving since then to walk toward God: praying, studying his Divine Word enclosed in the Holy Bible; and feeling the need to communicate that we now understand but certainly did not know before. This new life is a reflection of “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17).

Not that in order to have the Holy Spirit our demonstrations now must become highly emotional and public. Every human being has his own personality and character, as well as different cultures in which everyone was reared. The manifestation of Yahweh’s Spirit is not associated with simplicities or temporary euphoria, but real worshipers, mostly there where we are alone with God and we cannot pretend with external events––whether as a product of theatrical or sincere desire––and that is why the Lord warns us clearly that: “Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues… that your alms may be in secret… and when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men… but you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly” (Mt 6:2-7).

The manifestation of the Holy Spirit is not jumping, not falling, not pouncing, not speaking in angelic tongues––or demonic––because both: angels and demons speak the same language, only a side remain faithful to God and other as enemies in revolt.

It is not raising your hands so the leader of your congregation or neighbor could see you and thus be counted among ‘the faithful.’ No; the Holy Spirit’s mission is more than such simplicities.

Nothing has to do in believing that since then you will not be sinful, nor will fall, with highs and lows. It is not that, but now you have God’s help, to overcome those spiritual strongholds that made you live in uncertainty, insecurity, and which were intended to spiritual death attached to its eternal consequences.

The human while dwelling in this mortal body always in some way will be a sinner, and hence the importance of Christ’s Resurrection defeating death and giving us the certainty that one day we would be hopeful loosed from this perishing body, and coating us with one immortal in the likeness when he was transfigured before his apostles (9:2-8).

Fear not if you’re rejected because you do not speak in tongues or do not go shouting and jumping in the congregation. Nothing you have to do as liability in order to become a son of the Blessed One; but in faith accept and receive your Christ as Savior and Lord. If you are kicked out of a congregation because you do not believe in their bunch of emotional dogmas and doctrines, then go to another, and if one day all pushes you into solitude with God, then enter into your room because he will secretly listen and guide you to springs of living waters.

That new man, a new creature and son of God born by faith in Christ Jesus and cultivated by the Holy Spirit, is the one which the Lord described to the religious Nicodemus (Jn 3:3-7); warning him beforehand about this was as certain as he was the Only Begotten of the Creator, but in turn also an invisible and unaccountable fact to human eyes, because: “the wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit” (Jn 3:8).

[These and other New Testament prophecies are explicatively compiled in the author's book entitled: 'The Four Prophetic Gospels;' in print and digital editions]

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