What does it mean to be baptized by the Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:13?
Being baptized by the Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:13 is not water baptism. It is the Holy Spirit's invisible work placing every believer into the new resurrected personage and into relationship with Christ in His Body, making all believers—Jew or Gentile, bond or free—one in Christ.
Les explains that 1 Corinthians 12:13 is as dry as a bone, with not a drop of water in it, so this baptism is not water baptism. It is the Holy Spirit's work in the area of the invisible, placing believers now in that new resurrected personage into a relationship with Christ in the Body of Christ. Therefore, all believers are baptized into one Body, the Body of Christ. It makes no difference who or what they are; whether Jew or Gentile, bond or free, there is no color line in the Body of Christ, and all are one in Christ.
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.
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Does 1 Corinthians 12:13 refer to water baptism?
The baptism in 1 Corinthians 12:13 is not water baptism; there is no water in the verse.