{"id":15530,"date":"2025-04-07T07:51:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2025-04-08T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:16:15","slug":"baptism-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15530\/baptism-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I saw this short video clip (below) on Facebook recently and was surprised by the caption with it.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I ever really connected that some Christians teach water baptism is the\u00a0<u>same<\/u> as being filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 This was sad to watch.\u00a0 These very sincere looking people<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> are being taught that this IS the holy Ghost baptism.\u00a0 Uggh!!! <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\ud83d\udc94 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12113\" style=\"color: #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/smiley-with-tears.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> No, it&#8217;s not!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where is the real relief for them? \u00a0(Like we see when someone really gets the real holy Ghost?) You can see their sincere desire for the Lord, but what they are getting is a lie.\u00a0 And the end of that lie is the death of their souls, unless they continue on to get the real holy Ghost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On top of that, seeing the numerous comments of people who believe that water baptism is the same as Spirit baptism was eye opening.\u00a0 I also saw where God\u2019s children, who commented about speaking in tongues, have wrong ideas about it (that it is a gift, that not all believers have that gift, etc.).\u00a0 Lord help them and us.\u00a0 It makes me want even more to do my part to be a witness for the truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I wanted to share this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1LtDTaMdjp\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1LtDTaMdjp\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1744202403672000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2F30p0BOoPpMspBuRhP76w\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1LtDTaMdjp\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lyn\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1909591104283885992\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1909591104283885992<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, I saw this short video clip (below) on Facebook recently and was surprised by the caption with it.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I ever really connected that some Christians teach water baptism is the\u00a0same as being filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 This was sad to watch.\u00a0 These very sincere looking people are being taught that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15533,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions\/15533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}