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Devotions with Pastor Dick Guilfoil

2/19/2021

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"I indeed..... but He"
Matt. 3:11
“I indeed baptize you with water… but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.”
Have I ever come to a place in my experience where I can say –
  • "I indeed – but He"?
Until that moment does come, I will never know what the baptism of the
Holy Ghost means.
  • I indeed am at an end, I cannot do a thing: But He begins just there
  • He does the things no one else can ever do.
Am I prepared for His coming?
  • Jesus cannot come as long as there is anything in the way either of goodness or badness.
When He comes
  • Am I prepared for Him to drag into the light every wrong thing I have done?
  • It is just there that He comes.
Wherever I know I am unclean,
  • He will put His feet;
Wherever I think I am clean,
  • He will withdraw them.
Repentance does not bring a sense of sin, but a sense of unutterable unworthiness.
When I repent,
  • I realize that I am utterly helpless;
  • I know all through me that I am not worthy even to bear His shoes.
Have I repented like that?
  • Or is there a lingering suggestion of standing up for myself?
The reason God cannot come into my life is because
  • I am not totally into repentance.
"He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire." Matt. 3:11
John does not speak of the baptism of the Holy Ghost as an experience, but as a work performed by Jesus Christ.
  • "He shall baptize you"
The only conscious experience those who are baptized with the Holy Ghost ever have is a sense of absolute unworthiness.
I indeed was this and that; but He came, and a marvelous thing happened.
  • I get to the margin where He does the things no one else can ever do.
Pastor Dick
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