Who has been baptized into the body of Christ and made to drink of one Spirit?
Paul declares that all, every last one of us—whether Jew or Gentile, bond or free—have been baptized into the Body of Christ and placed or made to drink into one Spirit. He is not selecting only a few more spiritual people; he addresses all of them.
Les explains that Paul is not picking out just a few of the more spiritual Corinthians; he is addressing all of them. Every one of us, Jew or Gentile, bond or free, has been baptized into the Body and made to drink into one Spirit. The Corinthians were mostly carnal, fleshly, even babes, yet they were in Christ and in the Body of Christ. They had a long way to go. Paul wrote these two letters because the Corinthian people had questions, including how to handle marriage and meat offered to idols, and their carnality is why he had to address these matters.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
More Questions
Does 1 Corinthians 12:13 mean we are baptized in water or baptized by the Spirit?
In 1 Corinthians 12:13 the "one Spirit" by whom all are baptized is identified as the Holy Spirit, so this baptism is a Spirit baptism, not a water baptism — the verse is as dry as a bone with not a drop of water in it.