Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, Part 5.

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Today we want to look at the baptism and fullness of the Holy Spirit.

There's a great deal of confusion in Protestant circles concerning the baptism of the Holy Spirit

because certain Pentecostal and charismatic Christians

claim that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a second work of grace in

the life of the believer, which brings one into a fuller and deeper experience of the Holy

Spirit.

They believe that when a person becomes a Christian, he is indwelt by the Spirit, but

he is not baptized in the Holy Spirit.

In order to come into this deeper walk with God, you need to have a second work of grace,

a second experience of the Holy Spirit called the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

often accompanied by speaking in tongues, which will initiate you into this deeper walk of the Spirit.

I think this view is completely wrong.

It seems to me that the Scripture is relatively clear that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is not a second work of grace,

but it is an initiatory work of the Spirit by means

of which we are placed into the body of Christ. It is through the baptism of the Holy Spirit

that we are end-dwelt by the Spirit and made to be members of the body of Christ.

1 Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 13 seems to make that clear.

1 Corinthians 12, 13, for by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body.

Jews or Greeks, slaves, or free, and all were made to drink of one spirit.

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