{"id":14629,"date":"2016-08-22T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2016-08-22T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:58:58","slug":"i-indeed-but-he-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=14629","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Indeed&#8230;But He&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I indeed baptize you with water\u2026but He\u2026will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=Matthew+3%3A11\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew 3:11<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/InsifiZxVXU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\">\u00a0Have I ever come to the point in my life where I can say, \u201cI indeed\u2026but He\u2026\u201d? Until that moment comes, I will never know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit means. <em>I indeed<\/em> am at the end, and I cannot do anything more\u2014 <em>but <\/em><em>He<\/em> begins right there\u2014 He does the things that no one else can ever do. Am I prepared for His coming? Jesus cannot come and do His work in me as long as there is anything blocking the way, whether it is something good or bad. When He comes to me, am I prepared for Him to drag every wrong thing I have ever done into the light? That is exactly where He comes. Wherever I know I am unclean is where He will put His feet and stand, and wherever I think I am clean is where He will remove His feet and walk away.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Repentance does not cause a sense of sin\u2014 it causes a sense of inexpressible unworthiness. When I repent, I realize that I am absolutely helpless, and I know that through and through I am not worthy even to carry His sandals. Have I repented like that, or do I have a lingering thought of possibly trying to defend my actions? The reason God cannot come into my life is that I am not at the point of complete repentance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.\u201d John is not speaking here of the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an experience, but as a work performed by Jesus Christ. \u201c<em>He<\/em> will baptize you\u2026.\u201d The only experience that those who are baptized with the Holy Spirit are ever conscious of is the experience of sensing their absolute unworthiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I indeed<\/em>\u201d was this in the past, \u201c<em>but He<\/em>\u201d came and something miraculous happened. Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I indeed baptize you with water\u2026but He\u2026will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. \u2014Matthew 3:11 \u00a0Have I ever come to the point in my life where I can say, \u201cI indeed\u2026but He\u2026\u201d? Until that moment comes, I will never know what the baptism of the Holy Spirit means. I indeed am at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14635,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}