Eph.4:4,5 – There is one body and one Spirit, just as you also were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
Every time I read this passage my mind goes back to the forerunner of the ministry of Jesus, John the Baptist. His message was simple but announced the beginning of the gospel age. I see John in his camel skin coat standing in the Jordan River baptizing thousands of people. His message was “the One coming after me is mightier than I. I baptize in water unto repentance He will baptize you in he Holy Spirit and fire”. John’s preaching and actions were a prophetic proclamation, his baptizing of thousands of people was a picture of multitudes being immersed, or baptized into a person, the Holy Spirit. John was proclaiming the coming kingdom which we live in today, whoever comes to Jesus can be gloriously filled and immersed with the Holy Spirit. Jonathan Edwards spoke of this day that we live in as a gospel feast where we enjoy this communion of the Spirit. Check out his comments on this passage.
“Christ eats of the same feast with believers, and he eats with them. They sit with the king at his table. Christ tells us that if we will open the door, he will come in and sup with us, and we with him. Christ sat with his disciples at his first sacrament, which signifies that he always has communion with them in the same spiritual blessings. In SOS 5:1 we read first of Christ’s eating and then commanding his friends to eat: “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.” And believers are also partakers of the same glory with Jesus Christ. They shall sit with him in his throne.
Believers also in the gospel feast have communion one with another. They all partake of that one bread. They have one Lord, [one] faith, one baptism. All drink into one Spirit, are all united together by partaking of the same influence of the same head. ‘Tis one Spirit that unites them all, so that they make but one body.”
This baptism, or immersion, into God is the very source of our lives. We are surrounded by His love, protection and peace that is beyond comprehension. He is our satisfaction, our guidance, and the strength of our lives. It is in this common drinking of His presence that we find oneness with the Lord and our brothers and sisters in Christ. This is why Jesus came, not to just give us length of days but to bring us into life itself, the very life that the Father and Son have enjoyed from eternity.