Luke 3:16-17
16 John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”
We are immersed or baptized in God as Spirit when delivered and reborn in Him, escaping the just punishment of final judgment with fire. Those not heeding and believing who Jesus is and what He did in our place to reconcile us to the Father will be as the leftover shells of wheat that have no life and are burned up at harvest time. This is why Jesus and John told us to repent (turn from sin to Him) and trust fully in His work, not ours to be saved from our sentence.
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