{"id":524,"date":"2009-09-27T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:23:48","slug":"luke-316-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/524\/luke-316-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke 3:16-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question concerning Luke 3:16-17:\u00a0 &#8220;John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I had a man pose a thought to me on the internet today.\u00a0 He said that it is wrong to want to be baptized with the holy Ghost AND fire.\u00a0 He said we want the first, but not the second.\u00a0 He says that John was saying that there are two separate things Jesus was talking about.\u00a0 The baptism of the holy Ghost is for the wheat &#8211; and then the baptism of fire is for the damned, the chaff.\u00a0 He said the &#8220;baptism of fire&#8221; is described in Luke 3:17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Cloven tongues of fire appeared in Acts 2, that is what I had always thought about\u00a0the holy Ghost and fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">His take was\u00a0a different one\u00a0on these verses.\u00a0 Wanted to know what you thought about that.\u00a0 Is the baptism of the holy Ghost and fire one and the same?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Gary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Gary:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Jesus administers only one baptism, the baptism of the holy Ghost and fire.\u00a0 Neither Jesus nor John, nor Paul, nor any other man of God taught that &#8220;the holy Ghost and fire&#8221; should be understood to mean that he administers two.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Let&#8217;s keep our focus on the basics.\u00a0 There is enough work to do, just to persuade God&#8217;s saints of the ABC&#8217;s of the kingdom, to keep us busy enough. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>&#8212; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, I have a question concerning Luke 3:16-17:\u00a0 &#8220;John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire&#8221; I had a man pose a thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}