Christ is the Lamb of God (John 1:29):
Here in verse 29 John proclaims Christ to be “lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” These are strong words to a Jew who understands the Old Testament law and sacrificial system, for it was a lamb that was to be sacrificed for the atonement of ones sins, although it only forgave the sins it did not take away the sin (Leviticus 14:10-25). John is saying that it is through Christ that the sins of the world are going to be taken away. He is saying that Christ is the one Isaiah was speaking of (Isa 52:12-13), John is pointing to Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross being the ultimate blood sacrifice for all of mankind’s sin. We must understand that this does not mean all of the world is forgiven only those who accept Christ as their savoir.
It is through Christ we are baptized in the Holy Spirit (John 1:33)
John goes on to explain that he baptizes with only water but Christ is going to baptize with the Holy Spirit. The other gospels also tell us that John the Baptist said this and Christ also mentions it in Acts 1:5 as well. These five talk of what is coming after Christ’s time on earth. In Acts 2:1-6 tells us when it happened for the first time and ever since then it has continued to happen. This is important for all of us who follow and have accepted Christ into our lives. For it through the Spirit of God, that we are able to be connected with God. Christ’s blood sacrifice on the cross, is how we are able to be forgiven, it is through the spirit of God that we are cleansed and sanctified.
Through the Spirit we are all connected (1st Corinthians 12:12-13)
It wasn’t until the day Pentecost that the spirit of God came to dwell in men, the Spirit may have come and dwelled for a period of time in a person but not for a long period. But because of the perfect sacrifice on the cross, being the ultimate atonement of mankind’s sin (1st John 2:1-2). It is through the Holy Spirit that we who believe and follow Christ are connected to one another. Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 12:12-13, that it is through the Spirit of God that “we have all been baptized into Christ’s body by one Spirit, and we have all received the same Spirit.” It is not that we receive a different spirit from God it is the same for all Christians.
All believers (v. 3) are infused by the same God. by one Spirit we were all baptized: The verse might be better translated “in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body.” Christ, the exalted and ascended Head of the body, is the active agent who places the new member of the body in the sphere of the Holy Spirit for His care and safekeeping. All believers are baptized into the body in the sphere of the Holy Spirit and thereby made part of the body of Christ, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free. No one has it over another in Christ’s church; everyone enters the same way: by faith into the promise of Abraham (Gal. 3:26–29). Each of us has equal share in the same Spirit of God: we have all been made to drink into one Spirit. Some of the Corinthians—probably the pneumatikon (v. 1)—believed that only certain gifted individuals were especially in tune with the Spirit, but Paul puts every believer on an equal footing in the Spirit. It is unlikely that “drinking” refers to common participation in the cup of the Lord’s Supper. The Spirit not only surrounds us in baptism; but since we have drunk of the Spirit He also dwells within us.[1]
[1]Radmacher, E. D. 1999. Nelson's new illustrated Bible commentary. T. Nelson Publishers: Nashville
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