Tag - Baptism

Don’t Forget The Holy Spirit

S. O. A. P. Here’s Your 90 second AM Devotional! S-cripture: Acts 19:2 And asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” O-bservation: When Paul the Apostle arrived in Ephesus, he immediately ran into some "Followers of Jesus." He asked them if they had received the Holy Spirit when they first received Christ. They said they hadn't even heard of the Holy Spirit. A-pplication: St. Paul is known as the great preacher of the "Gospel of Grace." It's evident here that he was also a huge promoter of the "Baptism...

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The War Is On

S. O. A. P. Here's your 90 second AM devotional! S-cripture: Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. O-bservation: Following His public baptism by His cousin, John the Baptist, Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into a barren place to be tempted by the devil. The earliest renderings of the term "To Be Tempted" happens to be ... "The War Is On." A-pplication: The parallels to our own acceptance of Jesus as Lord and Savior and our public baptism cannot be lost in this passage. Like Jesus, there is a public scene where we make...

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