Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – February 11, 2025 (The Third Day – Genesis 1:9-13) Acts 1:4-5 – And, after being assembled with them, He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, “Which you heard from Me. For John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” The promise of the Father was not revealed when it was mentioned in Luke 24:49, but it is now made known to be the baptism in the Holy Spirit, which endues the recipient with power from God. The element that John baptized in was water, but the one that Jesus will baptize in is the Holy Spirit. The verb ‘baptizein’ can mean, wash, soak, dunk, plunge (into water). In this case, we may understand from the description of Jesus’ baptism in the Holy Spirit, that the Spirit came upon Him and remained. Also, He told the disciples that the Holy Spirit would be with them and in them, and that the Holy Spirit would flow out of them as rivers of living water (John 14:16-18, 7:38-39). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 2/11/2025
