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What Is Baptism?Bible Questions Answered
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Baptism with holy spirit. Both John the Baptist and Jesus Christ spoke about baptism with holy spirit. (Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16; Acts 1:1-5) That baptism is not the same as baptism in the name of the holy spirit. (Matthew 28:19) Why is that so?
Only a limited number of Jesus’ followers are baptized with holy spirit. These ones are anointed with holy spirit because they are called to serve with Christ in heaven as fellow kings and priests over the earth.f (1 Peter 1:3, 4; Revelation 5:9, 10) Their subjects will be the millions of Jesus’ followers who have the hope of everlasting life in Paradise on earth.—Matthew 5:5; Luke 23:43.
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What Is Baptism?Bible Questions Answered
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Baptism with fire. John the Baptist said to his listeners: “That one [Jesus] will baptize you with holy spirit and with fire. His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing floor completely and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with fire that cannot be put out.” (Matthew 3:11, 12) Note that there are differences between baptism with fire and baptism with holy spirit. What did John mean by this illustration?
The wheat represents those who will listen to Jesus and obey him. They have the prospect of being baptized with holy spirit. The chaff symbolizes those who will not listen to Jesus. Their end is a baptism of fire, which symbolizes their everlasting destruction.—Matthew 3:7-12; Luke 3:16, 17.
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