Mark 1:6-8

There are two baptisms that believers experience. One is to be baptized for the remission of our sin, the other, is to be baptized with the power of the Holy Spirit who can get us safely to our forever home with God. 

Jesus (Yahweh saves) Christ (Son of God) fulfilled everything…. we only need to walk in His salvation.

Students often performed menial tasks for their rabbis, but even they were not expected to remove someone’s sandals. That task was left to slaves. John humbly understood and accepted his own role in the coming Kingdom.

Mark 1:6-8

⁶ Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. ⁷ And he preached, saying, “There comes One after me who is mightier than I, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to stoop down and loose. ⁸ I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 

Matthew 3:11

²⁷ It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.” 

John 1:27

⁵ for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 

Acts 1:5

³ For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, And floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring; 

Isaiah 44:3

²² And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 

John 20:22

¹³ For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 

1 Corinthians 12:13