The Baptism of JOHN

John 3:3 in reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again" in this context Jesus makes it clear to Nicodemus, one of the senior members of the Jewish ruling council, the threshold that affords admission into the kingdom. You must be born again.
Jesus continues to explain to Nicodemus, in verse 5 of john 3 that unless you are born of water n the spirit, you can never see the kingdom of God. There are therefore two components of salvation. The baptism of water and the baptism of the spirit. Both of which are necessary for our entry into the kingdom. Are you baptized through immersion into water? If not, then you haven't fulfilled one of the righteousness that gives you the ticket to heaven.
Remember the encounter between Christ n john the Baptist, when the lord went to the Jordan, where john was baptizing. John tried to deter Jesus saying it was Jesus who was supposed to baptize him. In Mathews 3:15 Jesus replies' let us do this now, it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness' then john consented.
In this scenario, Jesus makes it clear that even himself he had to pass through the baptism of water to fulfill the righteousness of the heavenly kingdom. And remember it is baptism with water, immersion in water. Do not be cheated, fire is not the baptism that Jesus tells Nicodemus in JOHN 3 neither is the act of pouring water on the heads of the faithful. In Mathews 3:16 we see Jesus being immersed in water. It says,  "as soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water......' This means he had been immersed in water.
And what is the significance of this immersion, it is symbolically, the death of our sinful self and the resurrection of our new self. The immersion means we are dying into sin while our coming out of the water is the resurrection in the body of Christ. At baptism we are united with christ, we now graduate to share in his inheritance as sons of God.
By the way at baptism, the spirit of God will testify and will promote us into sons of God. In Mathews 3:16 -17 immediately Jesus came out of the water, the spirit of the lord descended upon him and it testified saying 'this is my son whom I love, with him I am well pleased'.
This illustration is indeed enough to explain the chronology of the birth Jesus talks about in john 3. The birth of water n the spirit. In the life of Jesus, we see the encounter of Jesus with the holy spirit at baptism, for the first time. That means the lord opens heavens and pours his spirit when we undergo the baptism of immersion.
The baptism of the spirit therefore comes almost immediately when we resurrect out of the water and here God the father loves us and he recruits us as his sons to share in the inheritance of Christ.
Now remember after baptism, we open doors to temptations. The 40 days of hunger and really sufferation r ushered in. But just like Jesus we r called upon to stand firm in our faith. Paul reminds us in romans 6 from verses 1, now that we have become a new, we need to act in the spirit of Christ, resist evil and demands of our sinful self. We must remember our bodies are now the temples of the holy spirit, by which we need to act to the decrees of the father. We need to walk in the light of the lord and make our ways pure, for our God is a perfect God.
To my beloved reader, unless your born of water n the spirit, you can never inherit the kingdom of God. If you are not baptized then this is your time. And if you did and you think it was not in accordance with the baptism of john the Baptist, I mean the baptism of immersion, please get in touch with me for Jesus is coming and he should find you ready. Shalom