praise God!
As things become dire, people realize they have to pick a side.
We have 16 Catechumens tomorrow at Easter Vigil. We have had an additional 12 throughout Lent. My church is vibrant and filled with young families.
A spiritual renewal that will provide the foundation for our national renewal and return to constitutional government.
Happy to see this.
Folks,
there is a lot of baptism.
Jesus was baptized in suffering. look it up. We all want that baptism, don’t we?
So which baptism are we talking about here?
Act 19:3 “Then what baptism did you experience?” he asked. And they replied, “The baptism of John.”
Now this is Paul asking the question. But it is a proper question to ask now also. Now read the above in context.
Paul in Ephesus
Act 19:1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions until he reached Ephesus, on the coast, where he found several believers.
Act 19:2 “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” he asked them. “No,” they replied, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
Act 19:3 “Then what baptism did you experience?” he asked. And they replied, “The baptism of John.”
Act 19:4 Paul said, “John’s baptism called for repentance from sin. But John himself told the people to believe in the One who would come later, meaning Jesus.”
Act 19:5 As soon as they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Act 19:6 Then when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in other tongues and prophesied.
With water baptism you might get lucky and get wet, maybe a little sweat and dirt removed. It is a SIGN. A sign to who?
The REAL baptism is being BAPTIZED IN THE SPIRIT. Are you? How do you know? Worthy of reflection
By the way, being baptized in the Spirit in not just about speaking in tongues and prophesizing.
The number of adult baptisms has also continued to rise over the border in Belgium, almost doubling in a decade, from 186 in 2014 to 362 in 2024,
That is not a large number in the scheme of things. But if they are real, they are part God’s chosen. Are they real? we don’t know, that is God’s domain.
We can look at the fruits. fruit development is a long season usually.
As the violent oppression of Democrat scum grows, so will the response.