"I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and [with] fire:"
Commentary
- Fire baptism, and blessing and prosperity, don't mix.
- Suffering with Christ, and blessing and prosperity, don't mix.
- The church has quit preaching messages about suffering with Christ, and the fire baptism has been eliminated.
- The word of God itself will bring this (ref. parable Mat 15)
- God's word is going to bring tribulation and persecution in your life, which is fire baptism.
"Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
Commentary
- Don't look for the tribulation and persecution to subside.
"And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,"
Commentary
- This would be the final fire for Jesus (age 33).
- Because Jesus wasn't looked for where carpenters reside, he wasn't a carpenter.
- Fire started for Jesus around 12 years old.
- If you try to escape the fire now, you won't be ready when the real one comes.
"And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify [him]: and the third day he shall rise again."
Commentary
- The Roman soldiers had a field day with mocking and scourging Jesus.
- Shows how much the world really hates us.
- First opportunity people get, they'll treat you like anything but the child of God.
"Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [him], and desiring a certain thing of him.
And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared of my Father."
Commentary
- The higher the seat, the greater the heat.
- The longer you walk with God, the greater the fire baptism.When God puts you in the fire, he's with you.
- Jesus loved John more than the rest of the apostles because John loved Jesus more than most of the Apostles.
- Old Testament Curtains have four colors = White, Scarlett, Blue, Purple = 4 Gospels
- Blue Gospel is John's Gospel, and John writes about the deity of Jesus.
"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt."
Heb 12:5-9
"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?"
Commentary
- Longer you walk with God, the longer the chastising
Mar 6:30-33
"And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him."
Commentary
- Class dismissed till next Sunday.
I didn't know, now I know...
Zebedee
- In the Bible, Zebedee was a Hebrew fisherman, the husband of Salome, and the father of James and John, two of the Apostles of Jesus
Color Symbolism in the Bible
The color blue is used quite extensively in the Old Testament to describe the various hangings in the holy places. It is also used as a symbol of wealth and the corruptions thereof, but it should be noted that purple is used far more frequently for such distinctions. In general blue should be viewed as a heavenly color. Below is only a representation of the color's use in scripture, it occurs far more frequently than demonstrated here.
Direct Meaning:
- describing hangings, curtains, coverings (along with purple and scarlet / crimson) - Exodus 26:1;36; 27:16; 28:8, II Chronicles 3:14; etc.
- holy covering - Exodus 28:31, Numbers 4:5-7;11-12, Esther 8:15
- the Lord's commandments - Numbers 15:38-40
- corruption through vanity, whoredoms and idolotry - Jeremiah 10:8-9, Ezekiel 23:3-8
- heavenly - Exodus 24:10, Ezekiel 1:26; 10:1 (sapphire)
- holy service - Exodus 28:31, Esther 8:15
- chastening - Proverbs 20:30 (KJV)
- water(s) - spirit (John 4:13-14; 7:37-39, Revelation 21:6; 22:17, Matthew 3:11-16), people / multitudes (Revelation 17:15, Jeremiah 46:7-8; 47:1-3, Isaiah 8:7; 17:13)
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