HE will give us the Holy Spirit and Fire

My Sunday Scripture 2009.12.13


When all the people asked him, 'What must we do, then?'

he answered, 'Anyone who has two tunics must share with the one who has none, and anyone with something to eat must do the same.'

There were tax collectors, too, who came for baptism, and these said to him, 'Master, what must we do?'

He said to them, 'Exact no more than the appointed rate.'

Some soldiers asked him in their turn, 'What about us? What must we do?' He said to them, 'No intimidation! No extortion! Be content with your pay!'

A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to wonder whether John might be the Christ,

so John declared before them all, 'I baptise you with water, but someone is coming, who is more powerful than me, and I am not fit to undo the strap of his sandals; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing-fan is in his hand, to clear his threshing-floor and to gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out.'

And he proclaimed the good news to the people with many other exhortations too.

Saint Luke 3:10-18

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My Reading Notes:
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In the kingdom of heaven, we wash ourselves not with water, but with fire.
We wash the flesh with water, but clean the soul with fire. When we can see deep into our sin, we had washed our soul with fire: the fire HE had given us.

And the clean souls could proceed. They could march ahead, with a Holy Spirit, they are free and they can go anywhere.