Walking Out Of The Fire

              

Luk 3:16 ASV - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:      This fire is the cleansing the power of God in our life's bring us to a an absolute place of surrender to this truth .   John baptized Jesus and it say's  immediately the Spirit of God drove Jesus into the wilderness .                There is time in every mans life where God really does become your Lord and he requires you to come to a place of obedience . A man of the flesh a natural man cannot possibly know the will of God in his life when he lives a life in the world and the dictates of his flesh .  Jesus says Many are Called but few are chosen . Chosen for what and to do what  ?              Jhn 4:23 ASV - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshipers.
Jhn 4:24 ASV - God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
What the church must realize is Jesus died for the purpose of every one believing in him to be filled with the spirit of God .  I know the difference of the feel good gospel and the true gospel .  To know the will of God in your life will cost you everything you have in this world .                            Lot and his wife in Sodom were living in that world of hopelessness and anguish .   Yet they just could not pull themselves out of Sodom something held them there .   They were so bound to there life in Sodom it says when the Angels came they hesitated they moped around the dwelling and could not make that decision to leave . The Angels said you must go now this city is soon to be destroyed with FIRE !  You must read this passage again and realize the shadow of the truth is also about people today . Jesus said when you see that day approaching do not go down to retrieve anything but go up on the mountain .   They were so torn by the lust of their life style they could not go.  The Angels had to forcefully take their hands and pull them out of Sodom , tear them out of their home and worldly Sodom.  
      Gen 19:29 ASV - And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.       Gods mercy for Abraham and his plea for Lot , if there be one righteous person in Sodom will you destroy Sodom ,  There is none righteous no not one .  
john 14    And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be With You For Ever ! ,   even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall Be In You.
Luk 3:17 ASV - whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Greek: ptuon  Fan:   denotes "a winnowing shovel or fan," with which grain is thrown up against the wind, in order to separate the chaff, Mat 3:12; Luk 3:17.
Threshing Floor Greek: halon   "a threshing-floor," is so translated in Mat 3:12; Luk 3:17, RV (AV, "floor"), perhaps by metonymy for the grain.   
Greek: achuron  Chaff:
"chaff, the stalk of the grain from which the kernels have been beaten out, or the straw broken up by a threshing machine," is found in Mat 3:12; Luk 3:17.
Greek: diakathairo  Purge:    "to cleanse thoroughly," is translated "will throughly purge" in Luk 3:17, AV (RV, "thoroughly to cleanse;
Greek: pur Fire:      of the holiness of God, which consumes all that is inconsistent therewith, Hbr 10:27; 12:29; cp. Rev 1:14; 2:18; 10:1; 15:2; 19:12; similarly of the holy angels as His ministers, Hbr 1:7; in Rev 3:18 it is symbolic of that which tries the faith of saints, producing what will glorify the Lord;  of the Divine judgment, testing the deeds of believers, at the judgment seat of Christ, 1Cr 3:13, 15;
Jesus spoke to Peter and said that satan had ask for you to sift you like wheat .                 Luk 22:31 ASV - Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: 
Luk 22:32 ASV - but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.   but I have prayed [especially] for you [Peter], that your faith [and confidence in Me] may not fail; and you, once you have turned back again [to Me], strengthen and support your brothers [in the faith . Jesus did not pray that he be spared from the sifting but that he be made stronger in his faith by going through that experience .  1Pe 4:12 ASV - Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:
Luk 22:34 ASV - And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, until thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. 

 Peter said he was ready to die for Christ but when the time came and Jesus knew he would deny him.   It was inexperience in Peter ,    that absolute faith in actual living and walking in Gods word .     Jesus said once you have repented and walk in the humility of true faith than go and strengthen  you brothers .       Just as you and I must go through the fire of  Gods word it will teach us and cleanse us and purge us of everything that does no conform us to this glorious truth.             
Luk 3:16 ASV - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire:    To be totally submerged in water and in the fire of the Holy Ghost .    Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Jesus went into a tomb under the earth and water Baptism is that type and shadow of the Lords death .     We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.    For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;  This is not another doctrine this the the word of God the true gospel .
Greek: pur Fire:     of the holiness of God, which consumes all that is inconsistent therewith, Hbr 10:27; 12:29; cp. Rev 1:14; 2:18; 10:1; 15:2; 19:12; similarly of the holy angels as His ministers, Hbr 1:7; in Rev 3:18 it is symbolic of that which tries the faith of saints, producing what will glorify the Lord;    
    1 Cor 15        For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Peter was with the one hundred and twenty when they were filled with the Holy Ghost , and on that same day Peter stood up full of the Holy Ghost  and convicted the people with his word unto salvation .                  Act 2:36 ASV - Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.
Act 2:37 ASV - Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?    Pricked    Greek: katanusso Prick (Verb):  primarily, "to strike or prick violently, to stun," is used of strong emotion, in Act 2:37 (Passive Voice), "they were pricked (in their heart)."  Rom 11:8.        2Co 7:10 ASV - For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.      
Greek: metanoia  Repent, Repentance:  "afterthought, change of mind, repentance    "repentance" from sin,    the mercy of God in giving "repentance" or leading men to it is set forth 
And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  Every One Of You not some of you every one must be baptized     

 Act 2:39 ASV - For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him. God is still calling people to this promise
 Repent and be baptized and you SHALL !  receive the gift of the Holy Ghost .   My dear brothers if you have not had this experience the power of Gods spirit , being filled with his spirit just as the days of Acts . This never stopped as some have said , God is pouring his spirit out upon people every day .   In mark 16 the very words of Jesus went out unto the whole world and even today his words are going forth , to the broken contrite hearts of men crying out to God for salvation .  And Jesus himself says Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.  This is every soul that the Lord our God shall call the whole creation , souls are still being born upon this earth and God is still creating his handy work .  Jesus said He was the sower sowing the seeds of his fathers word .     He that hath ears, let him hear.        Mat 13:23 ASV - And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.    Your heart is the key here God is after our hearts .

Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.                                                                                                                                                                       Mar 16:17 ASV - And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mar 16:18 ASV - they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.             Doubt and unbelief  , apostasy in the church .      Jesus said he was the only true Sheppard of the sheep .     Jhn 10:1 ASV - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.    Only one true Gospel this one that Jesus preached  , he was anointed to bring this great salvation to mankind .                                                                                                               Isa 61:1 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;                                            
Luk 4:18 ASV - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,      There is only one gospel and this is the fathers word to us The good tidings the good news .                                  

Peter said to Repent and be Baptized ,  it is about your cross and and putting to death your old man ! you carnal flesh Jesus said you must pick up your cross and follow me .       It is all based upon the wheat and the chaff , the wheat being the good seed falling into the good ground which is your heart .   Mat 10:38 ASV - And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.     1Co 15:50 ASV - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.   The cross is an instrument of suffering ,  the threshing floor the chaff from the Wheat ,  the chaff being your carnal fleshly life every that that does not conform to the word of righteousness .  Adam was only a living soul .But Jesus was a Life giving spirit      So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.      1Co 15:45 ASV - So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.    Adam disobeyed Gods commandant not to eat from the tree of Good and Evil , God cursed Adam and his offspring we were all born from Adam and under his curse .  And Jesus became that life giving spirit ,  he is the Last Adam . That is where the word reconciliation is applied to you and I . You cannot be reconciled to something you were never a part of in the past , The word says you were called from the foundation of the world God knew you from the beginning of time.  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.   Through his blood and his sacrifice he is the only way into the kingdom of God .  Jesus reconciled you back to God his father because your fleshly father Adam lost your inheritance to Gods eternal life , Jesus was the last Adam and he is your reconciliation unto the father and eternal life .
  Rom 6   Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?   We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;  6 verse  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;   

 Heb 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.      Heb 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
    I spoke earlier of when Jesus was speaking of the gift of the holy Ghost being given and it all hinged upon his death on the cross .  Jhn 16:7 ASV - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.  
Jhn 16:8 ASV - And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:    I believe the revelation here is that Jesus is saying with out the Holy Ghost living in you and abiding in you . You cannot discern the power of Gods work in your life .
 1Co 2:10 ASV - But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.    
1Co 2:11 ASV - For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 ASV - But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
Jhn 14:16 ASV - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,
Jhn 14:17 ASV - even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
Jhn 14:18 ASV - I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
2Co 1:22 ASV - who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Eph 1:13 ASV - in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Eph 4:30 ASV - And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
 Dan 3:17 ASV - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king.
Dan 3:23 ASV - And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Dan 3:24 ASV - Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spake and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
Dan 3:25 ASV - He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
The only thing that burned on Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego was the bonds that held them fast in the furnace . But it says that as they looked upon them they were up and walking in the fiery furnace untouched by the fire and walking with Jesus .    The bonds that held Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego  was the only thing that burned  in the fire.         The very thing that will bind us up is sin and the lust of our flesh the very works of our flesh.   The cross Jesus speaks of is that very instrument that will put to death our old carnal man and bring about life everlasting .  
And we shall come walking out of the fire by the purging of our spirit ,  being purified as gold holy and except able unto God which is our reasonable service Rom 12-1
Dear friend I am not selling another Gospel another doctrine or even a religion .     The love of God compels us to love all mankind , mark 16 is that truth and power to over come . If some of you have this word operating in you now praise God  .
2Pe 1:4 ASV - whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
2Pe 1:5 ASV - Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 ASV - and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 ASV - and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.
2Pe 1:8 ASV - For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.