THREE BAPTISMS
THE YIELDED LIFE IS THE JOY FILLED
LIFE
PHILIPPIANS 3:8
THE ONE DECISION
• THAT CAN CHANGE
EVERYTHING IS YIELDING to
GOD!
-YIELDING TO GOD WILL LEAD
YOU TO VICTORY, JOY AND
PEACE
•NO MATTER WHAT OR WHEN
PAUL’S LIFE TEACHES US THE KEY TO
TRUE JOY
• GAL 2:20----I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, IT IS
NO LONGER I WHO LIVES BUT CHRIST WHO LIVES
IN ME; AND THE LIFE I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I
LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO
LOVED ME , AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME
• PHIL 2:11---EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW AND EVERY
TONGUE CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD
IN OTHER WORDS: THE YIELDED AND
APPREHENDED LIFE
THREE BAPTISMS-THREE YIELDINGS
• BAPTISM IN WATER AFTER SALVATION
• BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH EVIDENCE
OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES
• BAPTISM OF LOVE WITH ACTIONS OF LOVE TO
GOD AND OTHERS
BAPTISM
• FROM THE GREEK WORD=BAPTIZO (JN 1:25)
• TO BE SATURATED, YIELDED, SURRENEDER TO,
FULLY APPREHENDED
• EXAMPLE OF A WHITE CLOTH AND RED DYE
• WILLFUL SURRENDER
YIELDING #1
DYNAMICS
• A YIELDING OF SELF TO JESUS THROUGH
BELIEVING, CONFESSING, REPENTING, RECEIVING
• BY FAITH WE RECEIVE HIS GRACE—EPH 2:8
• STRUGGLE: ACCEPTING HIM AS BOTH SAVIOR
AND LORD---MANY WANT TO STILL BE LORD
• REWARD: YOU BECOME BORN AGAIN-2 COR
5:17-21
OUTWARD EVIDENCE
ABOUT WATER BAPTISM
• IT IS A COMMAND OF GOD AFTER SALVATIONMARK 16:16 AND MATTHEW 28:18-20
• IT IS AN IDENTIFICATION WITH JESUS’S DEATH,
BURIAL AND RESURRECTION-ROM 6:3
– WE BAPTIZE BY EMERSION-MATT 3:16 (JESUS CAME
UP OUT OF THE WATER)
• IT IS AN OUTWARD EVIDENCE OF AN INNER
WORK (AN OUTWARD COVENANT SIGN)
• WE BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON
AND HOLY SPIRIT (MTT 28:19) AND ADD “IN
JESUS’ NAME AT THE END (ACTS 2:38)
BENEFITS OF WATER BAPTISM
• IT IS A COMMAND OF GOD AND MUST BE
OBEYED
• IT IS AN EVIDENCE AND PUBLIC TESTIMONY
THAT YOU HAVE YIELDED TO JESUS
• THERE IS A GREATER AWARENESS OF THE
LORD’S PRESENCE AFTER WATER BAPTISM
(MATT 28:20---AND LO I WILL BE WITH YOU
ALWAYS…)
• IT BRINGS YOU GREAT JOY
2ND YIELDING
• BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT—ACTS 2:4
– YIELDING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT (BODY, MIND AND
SPIRIT), TO BE SATURATED
• TO BE EMPOWERED WITH HOLY GHOST POWER,
GIFTS AND FRUIT
• ANOTHER DYING TO YOURSELF (ACTS 1:8)
• UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE (ACTS 2:17)—”LAST
DAYS”
• PROBLEM: SATAN OPPOSES AND TRIES TO STOP
YOU AND KEEP YOU SELF-LED VS SPIRIT-LED
OUTWARD EVIDENCE
BENEFITS
• THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BRING THE GIFTS OF
THE SPIRIT THROUGH A YIELD SPIRIT-FILLED
BELIEVER TO MEET THE NEED OF THE BODY
– 9 GIFTS (1 COR 12)
• THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL MATURE THE FRUIT OF
THE SPIRIT THROUGH A SPIRIT YIELDED
BELIEVER
• -9 FRUIT (GAL 5)
3RD YIELDING
• BAPTISM OF LOVE—SATURATED WITH GOD’S
LOVE)
• A YIELDING TO GOD (GOD IS LOVE—1 JN 4:8)
• A DYING OF SELF TO LOVE GOD AND OTHERS
(JOHN 3:16)
• PROBLEM: IT IS HARD TO LOVE SOME PEOPLE
OUTWARD EVIDENCE
• THE LOVE OF GOD WILL BE SEEN IN YOUR
ACTIONS AND WORDS
• PEOPLE WILL BE DRAWN TO GOD’S
GOODNESS AND THE GOODNESS OF GOD
WILL LEAD THEM TO REPENTANCE
• YOU WILL HAVE GREAT JOY BECAUSE YOU
BRING GREAT JOY
• YOU WILL FULFILL MATT 22:37-40
THREE QUESTIONS
• HAVE YOU YIELDED TO JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR
AND LORD?
– HAVE YOU BEEN WATER BAPTIZED?
• HAVE YOU YIELDED TO THE HOLY SPIRIT?
– HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE INITIAL EVIDENCE OF
SPEAKING IN OTHER TONGUES?
– ARE YOU YIELDED SO THE GIFTS CAN FLOW THROUGH
YOU?
• HAVE YOU YIELDED TO GOD SO HIS LOVE CAN
FLOW THROUGH YOU?
– ARE YOU LOVING GOD AND OTHERS FULLY?