Class Outline:
Pastor-Teacher John Farley
Sunday,
May 8, 2011
Schedule update:
NO class Wed May 11
NO class Thu May 12
Sunday service May 15 with recorded message
Spiritual Gifts Part 118: Being in Christ, the believer partakes of all that Christ has and is.
The Doctrine of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
C. The Baptism of the Spirit is the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in placing every new believer into permanent union with the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Body the Church.
Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you — not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
Good conscience depends on your relationship: you are in union with Christ!
The resurrection of Christ is the basis for the believer’s confidence in the future.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Retroactive positional truth means to be identified with Christ in His death and burial.
Current positional truth is identification with Christ as He is seated at the right hand of God the Father in His resurrection, ascension, and session.
The ark is a type of Christ. Christ is the antitype, the reality. Here the emphasis is on the resurrected Christ seated at the Right Hand of the Father.
We are in union with the resurrected Christ seated at the Right Hand of the Father as a result of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.
Justification is the legal act of God whereby He declares the believer righteous because He has imputed to the believer His (God’s) own perfect righteousness.
The resurrection of Christ is the proof of the justification of the believer, that he has been declared perfectly righteous forever by God.
We are placed into Christ for safekeeping!!! Just like Noah was placed into the Ark for safekeeping.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
The Baptism of the Spirit: At the moment of salvation, the omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit places the Church Age believer into an eternal vital union with Christ,
thus identifying the believer with Christ and making them a permanent member of the Body of Christ- the Royal Family of God, a new spiritual species, and eternally secure.
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Point 5: The Characteristics of the Baptism of the Spirit.
1. It is not an experience.
2. It is not progressive.
3. It is not related to sin.
4. It is not related to any human merit, ability, or works.
Union with Christ is a permanent identification which distinguishes Christianity from religion.
In religion, man by man’s efforts seeks to gain the approval of God, a satanic function.
In Christianity, the believer through union with Christ has a permanent grace relationship with God.
5. It is obtained in full at the moment of salvation through faith alone in Christ alone.
6. It is eternal and unchangeable in nature.
7. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is known and understood only through learning the relevant mystery doctrine of the Church Age.
8. The baptism of the Spirit is not a matter of the believer’s volition.
9. It is a vital, organic, spiritual union.
The believer is in the resurrected Christ (baptism of the Spirit) and the resurrected Christ is in the believer (indwelling of Christ as the Shekinah Glory), .
“In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.”
