Baptism of Fire; Week 30
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Welcome to week 30 of the 2025 Home Fellowship Bible study under Dr. Kevin Zadai’s Warrior Notes Ministry. Here are my comments and insights on Dr. Kevin’s Home Fellowship Lesson for this week. I urge you to share your comments using the Comment link. Dr. Kevin Zadai’s suggested exercises are listed below. I’ve added my comments here to start the session exercises. See the website Jesus-abc.net and click on the”fellowship” link and then “video” to find the corresponding transcript of this week’s lesson. I may purposely leave a brief comment so that others can comment on Dr. Kevin’s exercises on the blog. Your comment can be lengthy, but stay on topic. You can comment on these questions or anything that strikes you in Dr. Kevin’s discussion. It does not matter if five people have already commented on the same topic/question. You have something to share and do not know whose life you will affect.
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Week 30_2025
Q ) Talk about the difference between water baptism and the baptism of Holy Fire.
Your Comment. Please,
When you Receive Christ, you are saved. By receiving Christ, we receive the Holy Spirit within us. This gives us the ability to be justified in God’s sight. It’s not something that we have to work to accomplish.
This is what is meant when you hear pastors and teachers mention that you cannot work for your salvation. I know the verse that says Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. That has to do with sanctification and the gifts that you earn for the talents the Lord has given you before the foundations of the world were created at the Bema Seat of Christ – when we, those who have accepted Him, stand before Him.
So now that baptism of Fire is the greater measure. It’s the place you and I were created for. It’s the communion with God on a level where He is just blessing you and giving to you Himself in a way He always wanted to from the beginning of creation. And that is His love for you. You personally, not just the Ecclesia corporately. It is about you. And it is about Him. You have to remember that and go into the Holy of Holies with bold assurance of the work of justification, the work of Christ, making you justified in God’s sight.
We have to realize that we are worthy of receiving from Him, not because of what we do necessarily, but because of who He is and what He has done for you personally as an individual. I say all this because I remember a time in my life when I ‘felt’ I could not go into the Holy of Holies because I ‘thought’ I was not good enough. I needed to confess. Yes, we all need to confess. But we also need to understand what the Lord commands us to do. And that is to enter into His presence with Thanksgiving and Praise. The scriptures are very clear about what the Lord has done through His Son, made possible by His sacrifice.
Now the baptism of Fire. When I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I could not stop crying for five minutes. It was in a public forum, I thought to myself, how embarrassing. But immediately, I noticed there were others sobbing and weeping, and others looking around, thinking we were all crazy. It may be foolishness to those who are perishing for all eternity, but for those who are saved, for those who know and love their Lord, and that’s only done through the reception of the Holy Spirit, it is Salvation for all eternity. It is the design and place we were meant to be in here, so we must always speak to our Lord. We must always move in a way where we know He is our partner, He is our friend, He is our Lord, He is our Abba Father, and then that Holy Fire that comes from the Throne of Heaven begins to burn in your heart more and more. The more you seek Him, the more of Him you will have.
The water baptism, of course, is an outward representation of the Salvation process. So we die to self. It is a representation of burial, going into the water and beneath, and then rising above. I always think of the water as a different dimension, so we leave this place by dying to it, and we come up into a new place. The analogy is quite powerful. I always remember what Jesus told us that His disciples are not of this world. We are a new creation. We are born again. We are the handiwork of God, and for Him we were created.
Q ) Talk about what happens when the fire of God comes upon you.
Your Comment. Please,
It seems as if I put on a bulletproof garment. I recall that around the holidays, while finishing my overnight shift at work. I had been listening to praise and worship music for about an hour before the daylight hours. It was as if nothing in the world could harm me. There was nothing the enemy could throw at me that would derail my purpose, my joy, and my sight. The enemy could do nothing, and I could simply let the love of God flow out of me, regardless of the situation and circumstances. I would imagine that’s what the 144,000 will look like as we read of them in the Book of Revelation. I’m not familiar with your personal views on eschatology. But I could see that there was nothing anyone could do to stop the Gospel from going forward. Nothing that the world could do to prevent those 144 Jews from the 12 tribes of Israel from going out and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ during the crisis of the tribulation.
But it doesn’t have to be that extreme. The world around you doesn’t have to be literally on fire for you to be on fire with the Holy Spirit. You can go forward and share the Gospel and not suffer injury to person or body; you can accomplish on the job, whether on the computer or anywhere else, where the Spirit of God guides you and gives you directions with the little tiny choices that you make and what it is that you are doing. That could be motherhood. That could be fatherhood. That could be being a wife or a husband. Or a son or daughter in a family. Or it could be a member of an association. That Holy Fire will give you what you need to make the right decisions on your drive down the highway, and when things do not seem to be going in the right direction. But that fire will burn a clear path for you.
Q ) Share testimonies about how you prayed in tongues for specific things and you saw the manifestation of the Lord coming through for you.
Your Comment. Please,
I have been experiencing the joy of the Lord in ways that truly amaze me. He’s making all things new. He’s redeeming the time as I approach my senior citizenship. I am like a little boy once again. I have the joy and innocence of a child reigning in my heart as God shows me His love and compassion. And that takes a life dedicated to working out your salvation with fear and trembling, with joy and the power of resurrection. I see it as I prayed with tongues. I’ve seen things in my past that I could reclaim that I thought were lost, because, well, they were in the past. But they’re never lost. They’re pearls of great price. And you receive them by letting go of all worldly desires and holding on to what truly matters.
Q ) Pray for each other and stand in agreement for a family member, or a wayward child to come home, pray for them.
Your Comment. Please,
Dear Lord, I thank You for all You have done. I thank You for always being there, even when I was so far from You in thought and in deed. God, You were there in the lowest, the lowest places that I had spent my time in my life. Lord, You were there when I found You in such a great way. Well, You were there when I turned away from You due to my own personal hostility, lack of patience, and sin. I thank You for always being there, waiting like the father of the prodigal who once again threw a robe, a Garment of Praise, over me and showered me with gifts. And I hope all can say this prayer, and to some extent, and in the process here, and receive from the Lord the Garment of Praise, the Garment of Holiness, that Joy that surpasses understanding. That would make no sense to the world. But it’s a treasure that we cannot put a price on. Amen.
Pray with one another and for one another, especially for those with specific needs or prayer requests. Please pray for me and everyone receiving the weekly email at Warrior Notes Tribeca, including the ministry team and Dr. Kevin Zadai. Anyone with a suggestion can post a comment, email me, or do both. What can we do as a body to support a local mission, such as the Bowery Mission in NYC? The links for this mission and others like it are included in each weekly email I send. Stay in the Lord, and don’t let anything steal your joy. Circumstances come our way, but circumstances cannot take complete control of us. Christians should not be given over to situations but should take appropriate actions when the waves rage. God bless you and keep you! Please respond to the questions Dr. Kevin Zadai asks us to discuss in the video for this week’s home fellowship. In addition, you might want to share your thoughts on any of the questions for the week’s lesson by adding a Comment on Kevin’s suggested questions. Share your personal experiences. Comment on any part of the video, not necessarily the questions Dr. Kevin suggests. Tell us what God is saying to you. Please share it with us, but first, watch this week’s lesson video or read the transcript on the Warrior Notes Tribeca website.
God Bless, and thank you,
Scott.
Enter into the New Covenant that God has made for humanity. Heaven is waiting for you! You are eternal. Where will you spend that eternity? The New Covenant! Salvation prayers in other languages. Accept the New Covenant that God has offered to all humanity. Just accept this gift with the simple prayer below. (Yeshua Hamashiach)