Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore, let us go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For we have no continuing city here, but we seek one to come.
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Jesus' baptism with the holy Spirit is God's cleansing for our spirits. The invisible Spirit of God is pure; it is sweet, and it makes people holy when they are filled with it. It is the only kind of "water" that can reach into the soul and make it perfectly clean before God. Many times, we are encouraged by God to drink this water so that our hearts may be renewed with life and joy.
"Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters!" cried God through Isaiah. The holy Ghost is this water, and Jesus said that God would flood our souls with it if we would only ask. Jesus said, "If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water!" And to a sinful but humble woman of Samaria, the Lord said, "Whoever drinks of the water I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." This is God's promise to you-if you are thirsty.
Paul said that we drink of this water when we are baptized with the Spirit (1Cor. 12:13). This is the cleansing, the infilling, to which Jesus is calling sinners to come. He has opened the door to this living fountain for every soul that wants to be free from sin and live in peace with God forever. It is pure water that springs from the bosom of God, and it refreshes the souls of men and women thirsty for life as nothing else can do.