Peter Roselle: Living in Union with the Spirit of Holiness (Matthew 3:11 TPT)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 17/12/2020

Peter Roselle: Living in Union with the Spirit of Holiness (Matthew 3:11 TPT)
Matthew 3:11 in the Passion Translation quotes John the Baptist saying, “Those who repent I baptize with water, but there is coming a Man after me who is more powerful than I am. He will submerge you into union with the Spirit of Holiness and with a raging fire!” Our prayer life is crucial to living in union with God’s Spirit of Holiness. Deuteronomy 32:11-12 (Voice) says, “Just as an eagle stirs up its nest, encouraging its young to fly, and then hovers over them in case they need help, and spreads its wings and catches them if they fall, and carries them up high on its wings; So the Eternal guided Jacob through the wilderness without the help of any foreign god.” That is a promise we stand on! We don't have to turn to the secular culture for answers on how to live our lives. We need to dig into the Word to find out how God wants us to live.

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Matthew 3 (TPT)
11 Those who repent I baptize with water, but there is coming a Man after me who is more powerful than I am. He will submerge you into union with the Spirit of Holiness and with a raging fire!

John says in verse 11 of Matthew 3, "Those who repent, I baptize with water. But...."
Don't you love those in the Bible? It's like he was saying, "If you think baptism with water is good, hang on! There's one coming after me a man who's more powerful than I am." 

And in the Passion Translation it says, "He will submerge you into union with the Spirit of holiness." That's such a beautiful word-picture isn't it? I get submerged into holiness, this combining of my life, which is still tainted by the sin in the world, with the Spirit of holiness. You become one with that spirit. 

Then you just increased your immune system dramatically from sin because you're one with holiness. It's the spirit of the Lord. And then He adds, "And with a raging fire" in the Passion Translation. He'll submerge you into union with the spirit of holiness and with a raging fire. So that tells me that our prayer life could be stoked up that we could have this loving relationship with a loving Father and not think anything about asking Him questions. 

"And what do you think Lord?" Like I was saying last week, I couldn't find my guitar strap. I'm looking all over the place where I practice. It was already on the guitar. Like, why didn't you just stop and ask? And I did, I just stopped and said, "Lord could you please tell me where this thing is?" Because I'd retraced my steps, I did everything. He said, "You don't even need it to go practice just go in there and sit down and start playing." And it was already on the guitar. But when you lose your keys, don't get all frantic, pray. God knows where your keys are. I promise, He'll tell you if you're listening and I don't think there's any part of life that should be excused from this, right? I'll just kind of, just telling you my journey. 

So when I first became a Christian, I had come out of a drug lifestyle and that was a very chaotic life. There wasn't a lot of structure and order. And there was a lot of breaking of the traditional rules, right? That's what the world holds up in high esteem. If you live a decadent lifestyle and you're good at it, you earn lots of social capital. So, I started reading God’s Word it gave me structure on how I was supposed to live. I started learning to worship. I was already a guitar player, so started learning how to play worship songs. I was going to church on a regular basis and started volunteering. I just did not understand that prayer could be a two-way dialogue. I did not know I should expect to hear from the Lord while praying. Now, while we pray, our palms up, in a receiving mode. "I expect to hear from you God."  He loves me much more than I realized. It might sound like an oversimplification, but if you want to improve your prayer life, focus on seeing God as a loving Father, not an angry Judge. When you realize He loves when you want to talk to Him. 

Deuteronomy 32:11-12 in Voice translation says, “Just as an eagle stirs up its nest, encouraging its young to fly, and then hovers over them in case they need help, and spreads its wings and catches them if they fall, and carries them up high on its wings; so the Eternal guided Jacob through the wilderness without the help of any foreign god.”

We don't have to turn to the secular culture for answers on how to live our lives. We need to dig into the Word to find out how God wants us to live.