Matthew 3:11
John Baptizes with Water, Jesus Baptizes with the Holy Spirit
11"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Mark 1:18
John Baptizes with Water, Jesus Baptizes with the Holy Spirit
8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
Luke 3:16
John Baptizes with Water, Jesus Baptizes with the Holy Spirit
16John answered them all, "I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
John 1:32-33
John Baptizes with Water, Jesus Baptizes with the Holy Spirit
32Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.'
Acts 5:29-32
God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him
29Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men! 30The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead—whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. 31God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. 32We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
All four gospels and the Acts speak of the Holy Spirit...The presence of God in today's world...The four gospels teach us that John the Baptist baptized with water...John the Baptist wanted us to repent, his baptism was a baptism of repentance...John came to prepare the way for Jesus, the Messiah...Job even yearned for the Holy Spirit...
Job, who many say is about a book of patience...I never seen Job as a patient man, as I read the Scripture on him...Job had heard about and probably read about God, but now it was different, his life became very difficult...Job was persistent, very persistent and was seeking the presence of God, the Holy Spirit...Job realized after he talks with God that His understanding is far beyond his...Meeting the Holy Spirit would make Job a more trusting servant and person...Job repented and sat in the dust and ashes, now not as one feeling sorrow for what he had lost and his health, but one who knows the true power of God and is mourning about his sins...
Our Messiah, Jesus baptized with the Holy Spirit...After Jesus was resurrected He spends forty days with His disciples...He tells His disciples that they will be baptized with the Holy Spirit...They are not given this baptism immediately...On the day of Pentecost (after Jesus ascended), the Holy Spirit comes to the disciples...St. Peter in Acts chapter five tells the Sanhedrin that God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him...
The Trinity is the belief of God as three aspects, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit...The Holy Spirit is the presence of God, in our lives, (as well as, God in the lives of others)...The Spirit of God was written about before man, when it (the Spirit of God) was hovering above the waters in Genesis 1:2...The Spirit of God was with the three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob...Isaiah writes about the Spirit of the LORD will rest on one of the descendants of Jesse...This descendant would be the Messiah, our LORD Jesus...Jesus would bring to fruition the three aspects of God ... The three aspects are 1) God, our Father, 2) Jesus, His Son, and 3) the Holy Spirit, who was with Him throughout His time on earth...
When St. John writes about Jesus as the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...He was with God in the beginning, we see Jesus was originally with God...The Word means purpose and reason was with God from the start... Jesus has always been with the (and in the presence of) God...
St. John also tells us in chapter 4:24 (Jesus says) God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in spirit and truth...God is not like us, in the flesh...But is a living (Jesus tells us in Mark 12:27, our God is not the God of the dead, but of the living), thriving spirit...To worship Him, we must worship this truth about the spirit (of God)...
St. Luke in one of the most exciting descriptions and stories of the Holy spirit writes about it in Acts chapter two...The Holy Spirit comes at the Pentecost and the disciples of Jesus are filled with the Holy Spirit...This was fifty days after Jesus' death...Jesus had told them the Holy Spirit would come in Acts 1:8...The presence of God is among His followers, the Twelve are speaking in different languages, so all can understand...Three thousand new followers are brought into the fellowship that day and our early Christianity roots are started...
Jesus is God's Son that came to flesh, who would have no sin...Just as we are Sons of God who come to flesh, but with sin...Jesus saves us as we believe in Him and can take away those sins, through God's plan and His wonderful grace...