Sapate Me 6, 2018
Ko e Papitaiso ‘a
e Laumālie Ma‘oni‘oní
(the
baptism of the Holy Spirit)
Fehu‘i #45
‘Oku malava ‘e he papitaiso vaí ‘o fakama‘a ‘a e angahalá ?
‘Ikai, ko e
ta‘ata‘a pe ‘o Kalaisí pea mo e fakafo‘ou ‘a e Laumālie Ma‘oni‘oní ‘oku malava ke fakama‘a kitautolu mei he
angahalá́́.
Is baptism with water the washing away of
sin itself?
No, only the blood
of Christ and the renewal of the Holy Spirit can cleanse us from
sin.
LUKE 3:16
pea toe lea ‘a
Sione kiate kinautolu kotoa, ‘o pehē, “Ko au ‘oku ou papitaiso kimoutolu ‘aki
‘a e vai: ka ‘oku ha‘u ha toko taha ‘oku mālohi ‘iate au, ko e toko taha ‘oku
‘ikai te u taau ke vete ‘a e nono‘o ‘o hono topuva‘e: te ne papitaiso kimoutolu
‘e ia ‘i he Laumālie Mā‘oni‘oni mo e afi.”
LUKE 3:16
John answered them all, saying, “I baptize
you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the
strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and fire.”
R. KENT HUGHES
The
great classic text that celebrates and announces the believer's baptism
into Christ is 1 Corinthians 12:13: “For
in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or
free-and all were made to drink of one Spirit.” That speaks of the Spirit's
initiating us into the body of Christ, and that happened to me when I was just
twelve years old. I'd never heard of the baptism of the Holy Spirit but I was
indeed baptized by the Holy Spirit. And now as the years have gone by, what was
an objective fact has become a subjective reality in my life.
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