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\"Ephesus.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Missional work in Ephesus (ruins to the right) involves plenty of unplanned-for work, namely ushering some disciples of John the Baptist into the fullness of the Pentecost era.<\/p>\n

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19:1<\/span>\u00a0While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples there\u00a019:2<\/span>\u00a0and said to them, \u201cDid you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?\u201d They replied, \u201cNo, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.\u201d\u00a019:3<\/span>\u00a0So Paul said, \u201cInto what then were you baptized?\u201d \u201cInto John\u2019s baptism,\u201d they replied.19:4<\/span>\u00a0Paul said, \u201cJohn baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.\u201d\u00a019:5<\/span>\u00a0When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus,\u00a019:6<\/span>\u00a0and when Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.\u00a019:7<\/span>\u00a0(Now there were about twelve men in all.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nThere is a salvific difference, or least a life-difference, between the baptism of John (repentance and into the future Messianic work) and the baptism of the Spirit (repentance, death and resurrection of Christ, and Spirit endowment). They needed a baptism into the Lord<\/b> Jesus, and when they were, they received the powerful Spirit \u2014 and spoke in tongues and prophesied, and this demonstrated the presence of God\u2019s Spirit.<\/p>\n

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Does this suggest that every baptism into the Lord Jesus entails a tongue-speaking and prophesy-speaking act of the Spirit?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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What strikes me in this text, and something I\u2019ve not pondered before, is the distinction between a baptism by John of repentance (and faith in Jesus as Messiah) and a baptism into the Lord Jesus.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missional work in Ephesus (ruins to the right) involves plenty of unplanned-for work, namely ushering some disciples of John the Baptist into the fullness of the Pentecost era. 19:1\u00a0While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. 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