Sorry @eternally-gratefull, this is going to be a long post but, your heart is so tender and loving towards God... I have to say all of this to you....
When we first believe in Jesus Christ and get saved and born again, we are SEALED with the Holy Spirit but, the BAPTISM with the Holy Spirit occurs the 1st time we are FILLED with the Holy Spirit and this “baptism and being filled” can happen when we are first saved or it can happen later.
From scripture, we know there are 3 baptisms - water, Spirit and Fire.
“I baptize you with
water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and
fire.
Matthew 3:11 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Matthew 3:11&version=NIV
From scripture, we also know the Holy Spirit “seals” us......
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were
sealed for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 4:30 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Ephesians 4:30&version=NIV
.......and we are to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit.....
On one occasion, while he (Jesus) was eating with them, he gave them this command:
“Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be
baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 1:4-5 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Acts 1:4-5&version=NIV
Another verse:
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?” “John’s baptism,” they replied.
Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
Acts 19:1-6 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Acts 19:1-6&version=NIV
..... and be “filled” with the Holy Spirit.
And the disciples were
filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 13:52 -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Acts 13:52&version=NIV
Sealed => God’s “Mark” on us as His possession. (Analogy: God buys a cellphone - God owns it now.)
Baptism => First time God “fills” us with New Wine the Holy Spirit. We may even feel and act drunk like they did on Pentecost. He endues us with power to be witnesses for Jesus Christ in the Earth. (Analogy: God “activates” His cellphone.)
Filled => Stir up the Gift of the Holy Spirit with songs of praise and worship, meditating on God’s Word, fellowship with believers, etc. (Analogy: God charges His cellphone to 100%.)
NOW, we can send and receive texts, phone calls, videos, chats, etc to and from God! We can hear His voice, engage in a relationship with Him!
@KelbyofGod is encouraging all Believers to let God “activate and charge us up 100%” with His Holy Spirit.
GM sister, thanks for taking the time to share what you see, but I can not agree with you.
as you said, were were sealed with the spirit, if you look at it, that is when we recieve the spirit, in the OT this was symbolized by Moses pouring the anointing oil on the Levite who was being consecrated as priest. It also occured when the oil was poured over Arron, who would become high priest, (Remember the NT states we are made kings and priests)
but looking back to that, something happened first, before the anointing took place, we had the washing in the Jordan, of course, this is nothing more than moses baptizing them in the Jordan river, (the word baptism was not used back then, and to be honest it would not be used today, except for whatever reason, the people who translated the NT transliterated the word
Baptizo By removing the O and replacing it with an E.
so in the symbolic ceremony of a Levite being made into a priest, we have them being baptized in the Jordan, the sacrifice was given (the lamb) and then they were anointed with the holy oil. (The lamb represents Christ and his death, the oil represents the Holy Spirit who consecrates the person as priest as he is poured out into him)
noW, you mentioned John, it’s good you see this, as he said he indeed baptized in water, but as he said the one coming will baptize with the HS and Fire, this can be a confusing statement but in Matt 3, he tells us what this means,
12 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
we see a few things here
1. this thing Jesus was going to do was in order to seperate the wheat (believers) from the chaff (unbelievers)
2. the wheat would be gathered together and eventually put in the barn (heaven)
3. the chaff would be put in the fire with shall never be quenched, (there is only on fire in scripture spoken of in this manner, and that is the fires of hell, where Jesus will baptize the unbeliever at the great white throne)
baptism of the Holy Spirit is the means by which the believer is seperated
1. he washes us by baptizing us into the death and burial of Christ (Romans 6 with titus 3: 5)
2. the spiritual baptism of the Hs is the means by which the Hs spiritually circumcised us with the circumcision done without hands (col 2: 11-13) where we are forgiven of all sin, and because the handwriting of things whicy were against us were against us was nailed to the cross, we who were dead in tresspasses and sins are made alive in Christ (as I said earlier, if we have not received the baptism of the spirit, we are still dead in our sin, this passage as much as says those exact words)
3. he then immerses (baptizes) us into Christ himself (gal 3:27) Where we are no longer in Adam, but in Christ,
4. he immerses (baptizes) us also into the body of Christ (1 cor 12: 13) Where we are one body with many parts. after We are in the body and anointed by the HS as priests, the in dwelling of the spirit allows him to teach us and eventually give us our gifts. (As I have said many times, it is not the baptism which gives us gifts but the anointing,)
it saddens me when people see the word baptism and they automatically assume it means water, baptism is not a native English word, so we should use the native (Greek) defenition of The word any time we see it. Not it’s interposed English interpretation which was made up by people along time ago.