Featured How many times Did God Baptize With the Holy Ghost

You should discern with the Lord's help that Matthew 3:11 baptism is one and the same as happening at the same time rather than referring to a baptism with the Holy Ghost initially and another baptism with fire as if happening at a later time.

You are not going to find an exhortation in any of the epistles for saved believers to be given another calling to seek after a baptism with fire, but instead, you will find warnings in the scripture that speaks against such another calling as if another gospel.

2 Corinthians 11:2-4 & 2 Corinthians 13:5 & 1 Timothy 4:1-2 & 1 John 4:1-4

You should consider that teaching as stemming from Pentecostals/Charismatics circles as preaching another gospel or another baptism with the Holy Ghost as if that one is the baptism with fire.

Kundalini, an eastern mysticism, do teach meditation and yoga like instructions where participants will experience a supernatural manifestations of joy, peace, fire, electricity, power, etc, that they would continually seek such a phenomenon again and the irony is when saved believers get seduced by these spirits of the antichrist, some will testify that this other baptism is not a one time event but one that can happen continually... just like kundalini.

Some will even assume the phenomenon to be a continual filling of the Holy Spirit that the believer is to continually seek after for another filling, misapplying Ephesians 5:18 towards that apostasy as well.

There is even a book out by an author that believes there are 3 baptisms with the Holy Ghost and the pastor I was working with at Wal-Mart believed that there were five baptism with the Holy Ghost as inferring personal experiences himself.

So that is why you are to be wary of any other calling than the one you have been given that comes at the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ & Him crucified.

Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

So I hope in the Lord Jesus Christ for you that if you had experienced something else, that was not the Holy Spirit or whatever you may assume as being that baptism of fire, because you were complete in Him when you had received Jesus Christ.

 

So basically you are saying you do not have an actual rebuttal for the scriptures that reproves you for teaching as you were?

FYI Those that promote fire as a separate event from the initial baptism with the Holy Ghost, also promote receiving power as a separate event from the initial baptism with the Holy Ghost at the calling of the gospel, but this scripture proves them & you wrong.

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

That is what Jesus told His remaining disciples to wait for in Jerusalem after His ascension.

Luke 24:49 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. 50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

Luke, being the writer of the Book of Acts, as led by the Holy Spirit, then how can you separate fire or power from the initial baptism with the Holy Ghost? You can't. So either you are trying to fit your supernatural phenomenon into scripture or you are reading into scripture what is not there in any exhortation to believers nor churches in the New Testament for saved believers to seek after as if they do not have that fire or power to live as the sons of God.