Mark O’Grady – Born of the Spirit – Class 4 – The Spirit Confirms

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As we saw in our last study, the
Lord Jesus Christ was full of

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the Holy Spirit which assisted
him in his 3 1/2 year ministry.

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So as he preached the Gospel of
the Kingdom, there were signs

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and miracles that attested as a
witness to the power of the

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Gospel message itself.
And as we’ve seen, there were

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particular periods in history
where there were spectacular

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outpourings of the Holy Spirit.
And one of these was the 1st

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century ecclesia when the Lord
Jesus Christ preached the

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gospel.
And after that, it’s a time when

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the Holy Spirit power of God was
manifested in a very dramatic

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way.
The Mosaic system was about to

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be removed.
The Jewish people would be

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dispersed from their land for
nearly two millennia.

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The gospel had to be taken to
the Gentiles and and worshiped,

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established in all these little
communities of believers

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throughout the then known world.
And so on that basis, the Holy

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Spirit power of God was
remarkably demonstrated in

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miraculous ways, not just by the
Lord Jesus Christ, but then

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subsequently by the apostles and
then on to further others in

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ecclesial life.
Now once again, it’s helpful to

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reiterate that the manifestation
of the Holy Spirit of God was

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operating in two very different
spheres, and it’s important for

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us to understand the difference
between them.

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There is the Spirit, which is
the spirit power of God, the

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ability to do things that men
and women could otherwise not

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normally do.
It’s a physical thing.

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Brother Roberts describes it as
being a thing of substance.

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It’s the power and energy out of
which all things were created.

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And then secondly, distinct from
that, we have the word spirit

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being used in relation to the
character of God.

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It’s easy to think of a
spiritual way of thinking, but

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it’s the mind, the values and
the character of God, and that’s

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the Spirit of God that we must
have develop within us and be

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led by.
Now it’s vital that we

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understand the distinction
between those two things.

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The Holy Spirit power of God,
the ability to do supernatural

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things, as opposed to the Spirit
of God, which is a spiritual way

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of thinking.
God’s moral values, his

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character and his mind, a mental
and moral outlook.

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Now, of course, in the 1st
century, the work of the Spirit

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encompassed both of those
elements in their day and age.

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Now our objective from this
particular study this morning is

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to understand the unique
circumstances that applied in

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the 1st century ecclesia and to
show that the Holy Spirit power

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which they were given for
particular reasons is quite

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different from the Holy Spirit
in our life today.

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And in our last study we asked
the question, well, why was this

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Holy Spirit power necessary?
And we mentioned the fact that

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unbeknownst to the disciples,
the Lord was about to be removed

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and the work of preaching the
gospel was going to fall

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squarely upon their shoulders.
And the task in front of them

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was quite extraordinary.
A summary of the things that we

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looked at the other day.
They were going to have to go

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out and preach the gospel of a
risen Christ throughout the

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entire world.
They then had to steer the

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brotherhood through the end of
the Mosaic system, the Jewish

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and Mosaic world, and that was
incredibly destabilizing even

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for Gentile ecclesias who always
were able to look back to

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Jerusalem as the mother
ecclesia.

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Suddenly it was no longer there.
They were obviously now to take

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the gospel to the Gentiles, and
I’ve looked it up there

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separately from preaching
through all the world.

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There’s a concept here, and that
is that the truth was going to

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go not just to Jews but to the
Gentiles, with all the

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complexities that that entail.
They then had to establish the

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operation and structure of
ecclesias, distributed ecclesia

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life, little ecclesias, little
groups of believers operating

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and worshiping in a
fundamentally different way from

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worship under the Mosaic system.
And then I also had to complete

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the Canon of Scripture for use
for the next two millennia.

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So how could the Lord assist
them in that work after He was

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gone?
When He says in Matthew 28,

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verse 20, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world,

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the end of the Aon, how did He
actually do that?

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In what way was the Lord working
with them, even to the end of

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the world?
And the answer is by giving to

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them from His Father the gift of
the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Now we won’t turn these up, but
actually one of the very first

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descriptions that the Lord gave
to the disciples was in the

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second year of His ministry.
It’s the passage we looked at

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the other day in Matthew 10 when
He called the 12 disciples and

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He sent them out with the Spirit
power.

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In verse 19 and 20 of Matthew
10, He told them to take no

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thought.
What you shall speak, it shall

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be given you, because it’s not
you that speak, but the Spirit

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of your Father which speaketh in
you.

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And that was the first
indication that they were going

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to have this extra power which
would enable them to speak with

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words of inspiration from God.
And they didn’t even need to

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worry about what they were going
to say.

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The words would be just there
through the work of the Spirit.

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That message was repeated to
them on another occasion in Luke

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12, verses 11:50, when the Lord
forewarned them that they would

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be put on trial by the Jewish
leaders and the Holy Spirit

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would teach them what’s to say.
That’s just before the parade

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ministry.
Then on the 3rd occasion, the

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Olivet prophecy is our Lord
sitting on the Mount of Olives

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just before His in that last
week of His life, just before

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His death, and he’s explaining
the words of the Olivet prophecy

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to His disciples.
What’s going to happen to the

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city and to them?
In Mark 13, verse 9, He repeats

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the message from earlier, but
this time he adds one extra

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element, and that is that this
was going to be an international

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thing.
The gospel would go out before

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all nations and be preached and
that they would be brought

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before rulers and kings.
So he’s now broadening out the

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work of the Holy Spirit.
Then later after his death and

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resurrection, we know that in
the time that he spent with them

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just before his departure, he
explained to them in more detail

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what the Holy Spirit would
entail.

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And we find that recorded in
several places that one

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conversation.
It’s recorded in Mark 16 verse

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15, in Luke 24, verse 47, and
again in Acts chapter 1.

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And here’s a summary of the
things they had been told about

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the Holy Spirit gifts that they
were to be given.

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It was to going to come upon
them.

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It’s described as them being
baptized with the Holy Spirit.

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That’s in Acts chapter 1.
Now just keep that one in memory

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because we’re going to look at
this phrase.

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Being baptized with the Holy
Spirit a bit later.

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It was a promise from the
Father.

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They would be endured or clothed
with power from on high.

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It would be accompanied by signs
that would follow with them

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confirming the word.
The ability to cast out devils,

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heal people, speak with tongues,
not be hurt by venomous or

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poisonous things, and the
ability to heal with sick.

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That they would have a mouth and
wisdom which their adversaries

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would not be able to gainsay.
That the Holy Spirit would speak

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through them in an hour when
it’s needed, when they’re on

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trial without premeditation or
thought.

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Now look at that list and it’s
self-evident that that is not a

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power that we have today.
That’s the power of the Holy

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Spirit that was going to be
given to them.

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So when people say we have to
have the power of the Holy

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Spirit like the disciples do,
understand that it was a

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specific thing given to them for
a specific purpose at a

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particular point in time.
The Holy Spirit was also to be a

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witness.
In fact, the apostles themselves

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go on to say that so in Acts 5
verse 32, we are His witnesses

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of these things, and so also is
the Holy Spirit whom God hath

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given to them that obey Him.
But the clearest information,

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and we saw this yesterday that
was given to them about the role

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of the Holy Spirit was in the
description of the Comforter.

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And this is what we looked at
yesterday in terms of what the

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Comforter would actually do.
It would strengthen them in

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Christ’s absence.
It would be sent by Christ at

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the request of God.
It would abide with them.

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And the phrase in the original
is forever, but it literally

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means for the aeon or the
period.

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Now just keep that on the back
of your mind because we are

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going to look at that phrase a
little bit later.

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It was the Spirit of truth.
It was the Holy Spirit.

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It would dwell with them.
It would be in them.

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It would teach them all things.
It would bring to their

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remembrance everything that
Christ had taught them in the

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preceding 3 1/2 years.
It would be a witness to Christ.

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It would guide them to all
truth.

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And it was also involved in
reproving the world, sin,

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righteousness, and judgments to
come.

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All right, well, let’s turn now
to Acts chapter 2, the day of

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Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit
actually is received by them.

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Because in Acts chapter 1,
Christ had told them they were

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going to be baptized by the Holy
Spirit, that they were to go

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back into the city of Jerusalem,
and they would wait there until

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the Holy Spirit was received by
them.

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And so they’re all with 1 accord
in the upper room as it’s

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described in chapter 1.
In chapter 2, verse one, when

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the day of Pentecost was fully
come, they were all with 1

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accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound

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from heaven as of a rushing
mighty wind.

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Now we’re quite familiar with
the concept of pneuma.

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Now what is it?
The movement of air.

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So isn’t it appropriate as the
sound of a mighty rushing wind

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is this enormous outpouring of
the Holy Spirit is physically

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demonstrated before they’re sent
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So it’s so appropriate that
there’s a rushing mighty wind.

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And it says in verse three,
there appeared unto them cloven

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tongues of fire, like as of
fire, and it sat upon each of

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them and they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit and began

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to speak with other tongues.
Just a few things I want to note

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from this particular record.
First of all, on chapter one,

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verse 5, what was described as
being a baptism of the Holy

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Spirit, You should be baptized
with the Holy Spirit.

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And he says John truly baptized
with water, but ye shall be

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baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Not many days hints.

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That’s Acts 1 and verse 5.
So this is one of a very few

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occasions where there is a
direct outpouring from heaven of

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the Holy Spirit.
That’s what’s covered in this

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phrase, baptized of the Holy
Spirit.

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There are only two other
occasions that I can find.

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Can you think of any of them?
By the way, when the Holy Spirit

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came direct from heaven, two
other occasions.

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Anybody, Brother Daniel, Jesus
baptism.

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Sorry, the baptism of, of Jesus,
Yes.

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So the Lord’s baptism, the
Spirit descends like a dove upon

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him.
So that’s another occasion where

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the Holy Spirit comes down
directly and there’s a third

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occasion.
Anybody think what it is?

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It’s sometimes called the Little
Pentecost X11X10 and X11, which

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is the baptism of Cornelius.
We’ll have a look at that

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shortly actually.
But in X11 verse 16, the Holy

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Spirit coming down on them,
Peter says, I remembered the

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word of the Lord, how he said
John indeed baptized with water,

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that ye should be baptized with
the Holy Spirit.

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So the events in Acts chapter 10
and 11 are actually another

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baptizing directly of the Holy
Spirit.

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So that phrase, baptism of the
Spirit is a it’s a specific

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reference to a time when the
Holy Spirit descends directly

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upon people.
OK, the second thing to note

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from Acts chapter 2 is this
description of cloven tongues of

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fire sitting on their heads.
In fact, John the Baptist had

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actually told them that would
happen.

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He was told himself, he was told
in Matthew 3, Sorry, He said to

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the others, I indeed baptize you
with water unto repentance, but

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he that cometh after me is
mightier than I, whose shoes I’m

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not worthy to bear.
He shall baptize you with the

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Holy Spirit and with fire.
So that’s in Matthew 3, verse

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11.
So John the Baptist had told

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them they would be baptized with
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All right, white tongues.
Why cloven and why fire?

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Well, it’s appropriate that it’s
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It’s the word glosser, because
they’re immediately filled with

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the Spirit and they speak in
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Same word glosser.
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But there’s something else
appropriate of the shape of a

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tongue.
These are men who were sent to

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preach the gospel throughout the
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And so it’s so appropriate that
it’s a shape of a tongue upon

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people that are actually sent
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others.
And when it says tongues of

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fire, it reminds us, doesn’t it,
of seven laps of fire burning

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before the throne in Revelation
4, verse 5, which are the seven

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spirits of God, which Revelation
4 goes on to say, which are sent

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forth into all the earth.
So the seven lengths of fire,

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the symbol of God’s divine
agents that He sends forth to

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preach throughout all the world
and to do His work through all

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the world.
Well, there are little tongues

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of fire upon the head of these
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The question comes up, well, why
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It simply means separated.
What’s the point being made by

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separated tongues of fire?
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actually the fire appeared in
one unit and then separated onto

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all their individual heads.
Just imagine how dramatic that

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would be.
In comes this roaring flame into

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the room, and then it just
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It divides out into tons of fire
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people’s heads.
And I think that’s a very

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appropriate suggestion that the
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the point that there was one
stream of fire which was being

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separated out into these
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What’s the point that’s made by
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Well, in first of Corinthians 12
verse 4, Paul says there are

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diversities of gifts, but the
same Spirit or in verse 13 of

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that chapter, for by 1 Spirit we
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And so we have the spirit coming
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into these individual tongues or
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Now it’s really helpful to note
that with the Holy Spirit power

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being poured out here, the
effect of it was very visible

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and demonstrated.
And the Holy Spirit gifts in

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acts are always demonstrably
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And I’m going to use the phrase
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And when I say supernatural,
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something which is not naturally
possible for a human being.

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Now there were real pragmatic
effects and benefits from them

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being able to suddenly speak out
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We know the word tongues as the
idea of languages.

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It’s not gibberish like we often
find in Pentecostal churches

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today.
It was the ability to go forth

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and speak in different languages
because they were sent to preach

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throughout all the world.
Another interesting thing here

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is it would appear that the Holy
Spirit gifts here were called

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out not just upon the 12, but
upon the whole group, including

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the sisters.
That’s quite a fool.

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Now, what in the record would
make us think that?

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Have a look at Acts chapter 2
and see if there’s anything on

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the record which would indicate
that the sisters actually have

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the Holy Spirit gift here poured
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Any thoughts?
And verse 17, excellent.

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So when Peter’s, when they’re
all speaking in tongues and the

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Jews come along and think, hey,
what’s this?

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Are these people drunk?
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This is a fulfillment of that
which is spoken by Joel the

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prophet.
Now let’s read it, verse 16.

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This is that which was spoken by
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It’ll come to pass in the last
days, saith God.

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I’ll pour out my spirit upon all
flesh, and your sons and your

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daughters shall prophecy.
Your young men will see visions,

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your old men will dream dreams.
And on my servants and on my

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handmaidens I will pour out in
those days of my spirit, and

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they shall prophecy.
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in Corinthians that there were
sisters who had certain spirit

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gifts, though they weren’t the
gifts that gave them the roles

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of leadership, of being apostles
or prophets who were to lead and

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expound.
And it was actually in that

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context that the apostle Paul in
Corinthians talks about sisters

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keeping silence in the ecclesia
because the gifts that they had

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were specific gifts and they
were to be used in keeping with

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the principles of the roles of
male and female as set out in

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Scripture.
But it is interesting that

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actually that some of the gifts
were given to some of the

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sisters.
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consistent with the Old
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We have Holder the prophetess or
or Deborah in the days of

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Deborah and Baywith.
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So as I mentioned before, the
only other occasion where the

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Holy Spirit comes down directly
is in Acts chapter 10 with the

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calling of Cornelius.
And that it was, it was an

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event.
Let’s turn over to it.

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It was an event which caused
very great astonishment, bearing

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in mind, of course, that the
Jews had a very deeply ingrained

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distrust of the Gentiles, who
are described in Scripture as

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being dogs and unclean.
And if you’re not allowed to go

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in and eat a meal with them,
they’re that unclean, why would

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you share the gospel with them
of all people?

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And the events of Acts chapter
10 were astounding in terms of

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the message it gave to the
believers.

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And what it was showing them was
just as the as the call of the

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gospel was going to the Jews, so
it would also go forth to the

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Gentiles.
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Holy Spirit descends on the
Jews.

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In Acts chapter 10, it actually
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So as we’re there, have a look
towards the end of the chapter,

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look at the way it’s described
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It says the Holy Spirit fell on
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In verse 45 on the Gentiles also
was poured out the gift of the

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Holy Spirit.
Verse 47, they received the Holy

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Spirit.
In Chapter 11, verse 15, which

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is now Peter recounting it back
in Jerusalem, the Holy Spirit

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fell on them.
In a Chapter 11, verse 16, they

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were baptized with the Holy
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So it’s quite a spectacular
event and Peter makes a

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particular point and we see this
coming up in his narrative as he

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explains to the others what
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So in 10 verse 47, he says, can
any man forbid water that these

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should not be baptized which
have received the Holy Spirit

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and not these words as well as
we Chapter 11 verse 15.

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The Holy Spirit fell on them as
on us at the beginning, Chapter

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11 verse 17.
God gave them the light gift as

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he did unto us.
And he’s making the point that

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the same thing happened to them
as happened to us back in Acts

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chapter 2.
And therefore they were baptized

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with the Holy Spirit.
Now this is recognized by those

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who hear it’s recognized by
those who with Peter and

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observed it and they were
astounded and they got the point

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because there was a particular
purpose of this visible

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demonstration.
So in chapter 10, verse 45, they

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of the circumcision of the
circumcision were astonished

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because that on the Gentiles
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On Chapter 11, verse 18, they
glorified God, saying then God

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has also to the Gentiles granted
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So the point that was being made
was that the gospel was going to

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be extended to the Gentiles and
that’s why there is this unique

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actual outpouring.
All right, come back with me to

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Acts chapter 8 because the work
of the Holy Spirit got underway

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and is actually extended out to
the Samaritans in Acts chapter

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8.
We won’t go through the record

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in detail, but we know that that
Philip went out preaching and he

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was doing miracles in verse 6.
And there is great joy in that

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city.
And in verse 12 they believe

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Philip and so they are baptized,
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So then they sent and told those
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In verse 14, when the apostles
heard that Samaria had received

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the word of God, they sent Peter
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And when they come in verse 15,
they prayed for them so that

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they might receive the Holy
Spirit.

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And in verse 17, then Peter and
John laid their hands on them

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and they received the Holy
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Now this little incident
establishes a very important

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principles or concepts in terms
of how the Holy Spirit operated

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in the 1st century ecclesia.
The first thing to note was that

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the Holy Spirit gifts were given
here after they had believed and

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been baptized.
Now that tells us that the

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imparting of the Holy Spirit
power is a gift on people was

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not designed to let them
understand.

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It was not designed to make them
believe.

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They had heard, believed and
been baptized, and after that

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they received the gift of the
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Now that same principle is
illustrated again in Acts

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chapter 19.
You may remember the record when

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there were 7 disciples in
Ephesus who when Paul spoke to

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them, they explained they had
not so much as even heard about

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the Holy Spirit.
And it turned out that they’ve

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been baptized by John the
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And Paul explains to them the
truth in Christ Jesus.

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And it says when they heard
this, they were baptized in the

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name of the Lord Jesus in verse
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And then after that in verse 6,
Paul lays his hands on them and

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the Holy Spirit comes upon.
Leave a marker here in Acts 8.

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We’re going to come back to it
again, but just come over with

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me to Ephesians chapter 1.
There’s this quite a useful

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passage here in Ephesians which
makes the order of events

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really, really clear.
You hear, you believe, you get

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baptized, and after that they
receive the Holy Spirit.

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Ephesians one verse 13, verse
12, he speaks about those who

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trust in Christ, verse 13, in
whom ye also trusted.

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After that you heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your

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salvation, in whom also after
you believed, you were sealed

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with that Holy Spirit of
promise, which is the earnest of

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our inheritance.
And so it makes the point here

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that the Holy Spirit was not
given to enable them to

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understand or to enable them to
have faith.

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It was after that that they were
sealed with the Holy Spirit of

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promise.
It’s quite a useful passage in

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terms of of confirming that.
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The second feature that comes up
in Acts chapter 8 is that the

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the Holy Spirit gifts were given
to those in Samaria by the the

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laying on of hands of the
apostles.

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Now, as we’ve mentioned, there
are very few examples in the New

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Testament of the Holy Spirit
being given to anybody other

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than through the laying on of
hands.

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There’s the baptism of Christ,
there’s the day of Pentecost,

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and there’s the baptism of
Spirit of Cornelius and his

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household.
And basically in every other

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occasion it requires the laying
on of hands, particularly by the

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apostles.
So we got this statement in

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chapter 8, verse 14 that it was
actually through the laying on

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of hands of the apostles that
the gift was given.

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It’s also illustrated Acts 6
verse 7 when the holy when the

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apostles laid their hands on the
on the seven chosen brethren so

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that they were then full of the
Holy Spirit.

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Acts 19 verse 6 Paul lays his
hands on the 12 disciples at

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Ephesus and they received the
Holy Spirit.

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Second of Timothy one verse 6
Paul speaks about him passing on

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the Holy Spirit to Timothy by
the laying on of his hands.

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In fact, it would appear that it
was the apostles hands

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specifically that had to be laid
on them for the passing on of

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the Holy Spirit.
Now there are a few possible

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exceptions to this, three only
actually that I could find.

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And I think that every one of
those is actually capable of a

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very good robust explanation as
well. 1 is when Ananias lays his

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hands on the Apostle Paul,
another on the other two are

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references in Timothy, one where
it talks about the laying on of

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hands and it talks about the
prophecies that were made before

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the presbytery or the elders.
And the other is when Paul

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writes to Timothy, he says lay
hands suddenly on no man.

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I actually think if we read
those 3 passages very, very

437
00:27:41,640 –> 00:27:45,360
carefully, they don’t they’re
not actually exceptions to the

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00:27:45,360 –> 00:27:48,280
principle of it being the
apostles hands.

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00:27:48,800 –> 00:27:51,600
Timothy himself says the Holy
Spirit was in Timothy by the

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00:27:51,600 –> 00:27:53,960
laying on of his hands,
actually.

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00:27:54,240 –> 00:27:56,640
And so the minute it’s possible
to go through with those

442
00:27:56,640 –> 00:28:00,240
exceptions, but but even
assuming those exceptions were

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00:28:00,480 –> 00:28:05,760
two or three exceptions, even if
that was correct, then it still

444
00:28:05,760 –> 00:28:08,000
involves the laying on of hands
of people who have the Holy

445
00:28:08,000 –> 00:28:11,360
Spirit.
What’s important about that?

446
00:28:12,080 –> 00:28:15,760
Well, it’s making the point that
receiving the Holy Spirit coming

447
00:28:15,760 –> 00:28:19,400
down dwelling in US was not
something that was happening in

448
00:28:19,400 –> 00:28:23,640
their day, let alone ours.
And so the concept of the Holy

449
00:28:23,640 –> 00:28:26,480
Spirit coming into us and
indwelling in US, it’s, it’s

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00:28:26,520 –> 00:28:30,800
utterly foreign to the record of
what took place with the Holy

451
00:28:30,800 –> 00:28:33,840
Spirit in the 1st century
ecclesia.

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00:28:34,920 –> 00:28:40,200
OK, good.
The next key point, and this is

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00:28:40,200 –> 00:28:43,880
a really important one for us to
remember, is that the giving of

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00:28:43,880 –> 00:28:49,760
the Holy Spirit was not for the
personal benefit of the

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00:28:49,760 –> 00:28:52,720
receiver.
I’m going to say that again, the

456
00:28:52,720 –> 00:28:56,760
giving of the Holy Spirit was
not for the personal benefit of

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00:28:56,760 –> 00:28:59,760
the one receiving it.
That might seem like a strange

458
00:28:59,760 –> 00:29:04,560
point, but it’s actually quite
important because when people

459
00:29:04,560 –> 00:29:08,160
claim that we have to have the
Holy Spirit in us to help us

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00:29:08,160 –> 00:29:13,720
believe or to help us understand
or to help us resist sin, it’s

461
00:29:13,720 –> 00:29:16,800
always an application in their
mind of the Holy Spirit coming

462
00:29:16,800 –> 00:29:19,640
in to help me do things as far
as I’m concerned.

463
00:29:19,960 –> 00:29:23,320
But the focus of the New
Testament is always that the

464
00:29:23,320 –> 00:29:26,720
Holy Spirit gifts were given to
people for the furtherance of

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00:29:26,720 –> 00:29:30,440
the work that they could do in
the spreading of the work of the

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00:29:30,440 –> 00:29:34,040
gospel.
So let’s have a look at this

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00:29:34,320 –> 00:29:36,120
first of Corinthians 12, verse
7.

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00:29:37,080 –> 00:29:40,720
But the manifestation of the
Spirit is given to every man to

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00:29:40,720 –> 00:29:46,280
profit with all.
Now at first blush when you read

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00:29:46,280 –> 00:29:48,520
that, you’d think, well, isn’t
that something that actually the

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00:29:48,520 –> 00:29:51,120
Spirit’s given so that people
can benefit from it themselves?

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00:29:51,800 –> 00:29:53,920
Well, it’s not a very helpful
translation.

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00:29:53,920 –> 00:29:58,680
The phrase to prophet with all
proto symphorum means literally

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00:29:58,680 –> 00:30:02,440
for the collective good.
So the Holy Spirit is given to

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00:30:02,480 –> 00:30:06,560
people for the collective good.
So the ESP translates that to

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00:30:06,600 –> 00:30:11,080
each is given the manifestation
of the Spirit for the common

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00:30:11,080 –> 00:30:13,120
good.
And that’s actually the whole

478
00:30:13,120 –> 00:30:14,800
point that Paul’s making in that
chapter.

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00:30:15,160 –> 00:30:18,960
The whole context of it is that
the Spirit gifts needed to be

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00:30:18,960 –> 00:30:22,920
given and used for the benefit
of other people, not for the

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00:30:22,920 –> 00:30:26,400
individual.
So in verse 25, he speaks about

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00:30:26,400 –> 00:30:29,880
the the members needing to have
the same care one for another.

483
00:30:30,040 –> 00:30:33,560
He talks about the fact that the
gifts were not to cause a schism

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00:30:33,720 –> 00:30:39,280
or a division in the ecclesia,
as Brother Graham Pierce wrote

485
00:30:39,280 –> 00:30:41,960
in his book, The Holy Spirit and
the Holy Spirit Gifts.

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00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:47,240
It is abundantly clear the
disparate activity was limited

487
00:30:47,240 –> 00:30:51,200
to certain people who used it
not primarily for themselves,

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00:30:51,640 –> 00:30:55,080
but for the good of others.
This is quite different from the

489
00:30:55,080 –> 00:30:59,280
idea of every believer receiving
the divine effluence for their

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00:30:59,400 –> 00:31:05,840
own use in their own lives.
Of course, people benefited from

491
00:31:05,840 –> 00:31:08,240
having the Holy Spirit in the
same way that we’d benefit from

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00:31:08,240 –> 00:31:11,840
having the Scriptures that
helped them understand and learn

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00:31:11,840 –> 00:31:15,000
more about the purpose of God.
But the Holy Spirit gifts were

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00:31:15,000 –> 00:31:17,720
not given to people for their
own advancement.

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00:31:18,120 –> 00:31:20,800
And that’s the very point that
the apostle Paul makes in

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00:31:20,800 –> 00:31:24,720
chapter 12.
It would actually seem from the

497
00:31:24,960 –> 00:31:28,280
from the Record Acts that
initially after this first

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00:31:28,320 –> 00:31:32,120
manifestation with the speaking
in tongues that the Holy Spirit

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00:31:32,120 –> 00:31:35,360
miracles were done first by the
apostles and the earlier

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00:31:35,360 –> 00:31:39,280
references indicate that.
So Acts chapter 5 verse 12, why

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00:31:39,320 –> 00:31:44,000
the hands of the apostles were
many signs in wonders, war among

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00:31:44,000 –> 00:31:46,800
the people.
And then that work starts to

503
00:31:46,840 –> 00:31:49,600
expand out, including the
working of miracles.

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00:31:50,360 –> 00:31:56,320
So Acts 6 verse 8 Stephen, full
of faith and power, did great

505
00:31:56,320 –> 00:32:00,960
wonders and miracles among the
people by chapter 8.

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00:32:01,120 –> 00:32:05,000
In verse 6 and verse 13, Philip
is doing miracles, including

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00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:07,760
healing and miracles and
science.

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00:32:09,080 –> 00:32:13,240
But then as the Spirit gifts
started to spread out amongst

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00:32:13,240 –> 00:32:16,920
the Gentiles and the cliches
were starting to be set out in

510
00:32:16,920 –> 00:32:20,160
different regions of the world,
the role of the Holy Spirit

511
00:32:20,160 –> 00:32:24,440
gifts actually broadens and a
wider distribution of the Holy

512
00:32:24,440 –> 00:32:28,560
Spirit gifts becomes apparent.
And the diversity of the Holy

513
00:32:28,560 –> 00:32:31,080
Spirit gifts starts to become
very broad.

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00:32:31,240 –> 00:32:34,160
Wasn’t just miracles and
speaking in tongues.

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00:32:34,400 –> 00:32:37,600
And so now it’s not just the
spreading of the gospel, but the

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00:32:37,600 –> 00:32:40,160
establishment of these new
colleges.

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00:32:41,080 –> 00:32:44,640
And it’s worth stopping again to
consider why this might be.

518
00:32:45,760 –> 00:32:48,440
And I’d like you to put yourself
in a city where the Apostle Paul

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00:32:48,440 –> 00:32:53,160
has come and he’s converted you
and, and maybe, I don’t know, 20

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00:32:53,400 –> 00:32:57,680
or 50 other people in your city.
There’s been a substantial

521
00:32:57,680 –> 00:33:00,600
response.
There’s been many new baptisms.

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00:33:01,160 –> 00:33:03,640
And then after five weeks, the
Apostle Paul says, like, I’m

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00:33:03,640 –> 00:33:05,280
sorry, I’ve actually got to go
on.

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00:33:05,280 –> 00:33:07,800
There’s, there’s more work to be
done in other cities.

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00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:12,040
And he may or may not leave
behind one of his supporters,

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00:33:12,240 –> 00:33:15,560
but then he’s gone.
So how’s your ecclesia going to

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00:33:15,560 –> 00:33:18,600
function now?
How are you going to operate?

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00:33:19,640 –> 00:33:22,680
You’re a Gentile.
You don’t have any background in

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00:33:22,680 –> 00:33:25,840
the Old Testament law.
Who’s going to explain to you

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00:33:25,840 –> 00:33:28,720
how to read the Jewish
scriptures and what they they

531
00:33:28,720 –> 00:33:30,880
say about the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ?

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00:33:31,280 –> 00:33:34,400
You have no gospels to read yet.
There are no epistles.

533
00:33:34,800 –> 00:33:37,000
So you know there has to be a
breaking of bread.

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00:33:37,000 –> 00:33:39,480
But then what?
How are you going to operate as

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00:33:39,480 –> 00:33:41,800
an ecclesia?
And you can see why the Holy

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00:33:41,800 –> 00:33:45,840
Spirit gifts were given for a
succession of different roles in

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00:33:45,840 –> 00:33:50,160
the ecclesias to enable them to
learn how to actually function.

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00:33:51,120 –> 00:33:53,720
So that’s where the Holy Spirit
gifts come in.

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00:33:54,320 –> 00:33:58,680
And so new roles actually start
to be invented, as it were, and

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00:33:58,680 –> 00:34:01,720
appointed for the work of
running these new Ecleses.

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00:34:03,040 –> 00:34:05,560
Look, I’d like you to come with
me to 1st of Corinthians chapter

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00:34:05,560 –> 00:34:11,000
12, where quite shockfully, the
apostle Paul lists in order some

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00:34:11,040 –> 00:34:15,040
of these roles, in fact, most of
the roles, First of Corinthians

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00:34:15,040 –> 00:34:19,000
chapter 12.
Context, of course, in chapter

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00:34:19,000 –> 00:34:22,760
12, now concerning first one,
now concerning spiritual gifts,

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00:34:22,760 –> 00:34:24,360
brethren, I would not have you
ignorant.

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00:34:24,600 –> 00:34:27,480
It appears that they roached to
him with a series of questions

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00:34:27,679 –> 00:34:31,400
about the Spirit gifts.
So through chapter 12 and 13 and

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00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:34,679
onwards, there’s some very
helpful explanations of the role

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00:34:34,679 –> 00:34:39,120
of the Spirit gifts.
And in verse 28, he lists these

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00:34:39,120 –> 00:34:43,320
gifts God have set some in the
ecclesia, first apostles,

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00:34:43,320 –> 00:34:46,360
secondarily prophets, thirdly,
teachers, after that miracles,

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00:34:46,360 –> 00:34:49,239
gifts of healing, helps
government’s diversities of

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00:34:49,239 –> 00:34:51,520
tongues.
He then talks about those roles

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00:34:51,520 –> 00:34:54,239
and he also talks about
interpretation in verse 30.

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00:34:54,520 –> 00:34:56,920
So it would appear, and I’ve put
them on the screen, that there

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00:34:56,920 –> 00:35:01,560
were some nine different roles
in ecclesial life that the

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00:35:01,560 –> 00:35:05,560
apostle mentions.
If we add in a few that are

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00:35:05,560 –> 00:35:08,800
mentioned in Ephesians chapter
4, we also can add in

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00:35:09,080 –> 00:35:14,080
evangelists and shepherds.
So there are different roles for

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00:35:14,080 –> 00:35:18,040
which people were appointed in
ecclesial life, and you can see

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00:35:18,040 –> 00:35:21,760
how those roles would have
played quite a critical role in

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00:35:21,760 –> 00:35:23,360
establishing these new
ecclesias.

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00:35:24,640 –> 00:35:28,840
Now, armed with that, it helps
us start to see a little bit

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00:35:28,880 –> 00:35:31,800
more about as we read through
the New Testament epistles.

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00:35:31,800 –> 00:35:35,720
It helps us appreciate a little
more some of the things that we

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00:35:35,720 –> 00:35:40,120
actually read, because of course
we read the epistles and we take

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00:35:40,120 –> 00:35:43,760
spiritual lessons from them, and
that’s great and that’s

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00:35:43,760 –> 00:35:46,880
appropriate.
So we should but never forget

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00:35:46,880 –> 00:35:49,840
that these were letters written
in a particular context to

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00:35:49,840 –> 00:35:52,760
people who are facing particular
circumstances.

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00:35:53,160 –> 00:35:55,920
And as we start to think about
the work of the Holy Spirit

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00:35:55,920 –> 00:36:00,440
setting up these eccleses, we
start to see why specific things

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00:36:00,440 –> 00:36:02,880
are actually said by the
apostles.

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00:36:04,200 –> 00:36:07,680
Take the second role on that
list, prophets.

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00:36:09,400 –> 00:36:11,480
Now it would appear that the
role of being a prophet was

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00:36:11,480 –> 00:36:15,240
really important.
As he said, God set forth first

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00:36:15,360 –> 00:36:20,840
apostles, secondarily prophets,
thirdly teachers, and then it

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00:36:20,840 –> 00:36:24,000
carries on down the list.
So the role of prophet was

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00:36:24,040 –> 00:36:27,520
obviously quite an important one
in the 1st century ecclesia.

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00:36:28,440 –> 00:36:31,720
Of course, we know the role of a
prophet is not just foretelling

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00:36:31,720 –> 00:36:34,960
the future.
They were people who taught us

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00:36:34,960 –> 00:36:37,160
how to behave, teach people how
to behave.

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00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:41,240
They expound and expand things
to the listeners.

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00:36:41,760 –> 00:36:45,920
And so the role of prophecy
became very important in this

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00:36:45,920 –> 00:36:48,640
time when the eccleses were in
their infancy.

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00:36:49,400 –> 00:36:53,360
Now, once we understand that, it
gives us a different insight

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00:36:53,400 –> 00:36:55,120
into certain passages of
Scripture.

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00:36:55,400 –> 00:37:00,040
Come with me to Ephesians
chapter 2 and have a look at

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00:37:00,040 –> 00:37:01,840
this little phrase in Ephesians
2.

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00:37:02,040 –> 00:37:07,800
It’s one we’ll be familiar with,
Ephesians chapter 2.

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00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:14,600
It speaks about us all having
access in Christ.

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00:37:14,600 –> 00:37:17,520
We’re no more verse 19,
strangers and foreigners, but

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00:37:17,520 –> 00:37:19,640
fellow citizens.
We’re really familiar with.

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00:37:19,640 –> 00:37:23,880
These concepts, verse 20, were
built upon the foundation of the

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00:37:23,880 –> 00:37:28,000
apostles and the prophets, Jesus
Christ himself being the first

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00:37:28,000 –> 00:37:31,280
cornerstone, the chief
cornerstone.

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00:37:32,360 –> 00:37:37,160
So who are those prophets?
Have you ashamed, as I always

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00:37:37,160 –> 00:37:40,000
had, that that was a reference
to the Old Testament prophets

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00:37:40,520 –> 00:37:42,280
because we’re very familiar with
that concept.

601
00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:46,680
The Old Testament prophets, Bear
in mind, prophets was a specific

602
00:37:46,680 –> 00:37:51,240
role, a spirit guided role in
the New Testament eccleses.

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00:37:52,600 –> 00:37:55,240
And actually I believe what’s
being referred to here was the

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00:37:55,240 –> 00:37:57,400
role of those prophets.
Now, why did we say that?

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00:37:58,080 –> 00:38:08,880
We’ll just look on a few verses
in chapter chapter 4 and verse

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00:38:10,280 –> 00:38:12,640
5.
Now verse four, he talks about

607
00:38:12,640 –> 00:38:16,760
the mystery of Christ, which in
other ages was not not made

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00:38:16,760 –> 00:38:24,680
known to the sons of men as it
is now revealed unto his holy

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00:38:24,680 –> 00:38:27,720
apostles and prophets by the
Spirit that the Gentiles will be

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00:38:27,720 –> 00:38:30,600
fellow eats.
So he’s talking about a

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00:38:30,600 –> 00:38:35,000
revelation that was happening in
their day to the apostles and

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00:38:35,000 –> 00:38:38,400
the prophets.
Now he says it’s an explanation

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00:38:38,400 –> 00:38:43,200
of this previous secret that the
Gentiles would actually become

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00:38:43,280 –> 00:38:46,440
heirs.
And so we say, OK, what that

615
00:38:46,440 –> 00:38:50,160
suggests to us is the role of
prophets is actually a much more

616
00:38:50,160 –> 00:38:53,920
central concept in the 1st
century ecclesia than perhaps

617
00:38:53,920 –> 00:38:59,000
we’ve given credit to before.
All right, well, what about the

618
00:39:00,160 –> 00:39:06,480
let’s move on to the gifts.
So these roles were spirit

619
00:39:06,480 –> 00:39:10,480
appointed and they were given
specific spirit gifts.

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00:39:11,680 –> 00:39:16,040
And there are 9 manifestations
of the spirit gifts described in

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00:39:16,040 –> 00:39:20,360
first of Corinthians chapter 12,
and those are recorded for us in

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00:39:20,360 –> 00:39:25,040
verses 7 through 10.
The Word of Wisdom, the Word of

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00:39:25,040 –> 00:39:28,160
knowledge, faith, the gifts of
healing, the in working of

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00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:31,280
powers, prophecy, discerning of
spirits, kinds of tongues, the

625
00:39:31,280 –> 00:39:34,760
interpretations of tongues.
Now some of these, by the way,

626
00:39:34,760 –> 00:39:38,000
we’re actually not familiar with
and we, we struggle a little to

627
00:39:38,000 –> 00:39:42,480
work out what they might be.
But this is a list of the spirit

628
00:39:42,480 –> 00:39:46,680
gifts which were given to the
1st century ecclesias.

629
00:39:47,560 –> 00:39:52,160
Look at the first two, wisdom
and knowledge, a gift of wisdom.

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00:39:52,160 –> 00:39:54,520
Wouldn’t you think that wisdom
and knowledge is something that

631
00:39:54,880 –> 00:39:56,480
that all of us have to attain
to?

632
00:39:58,120 –> 00:40:03,600
But notice how it’s described.
It’s the Word of Wisdom and it’s

633
00:40:03,600 –> 00:40:07,920
the Word of knowledge.
So this was Spirit, gifted

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00:40:07,920 –> 00:40:13,480
ability to share and preach
wisdom and knowledge to the 1st

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00:40:13,480 –> 00:40:14,400
century.
Clear.

636
00:40:14,400 –> 00:40:20,120
It’s inspired teaching.
OK, what about #3 honest, the

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00:40:20,120 –> 00:40:24,320
gift of faith.
Because people who like to

638
00:40:24,320 –> 00:40:28,120
suggest we have to possess the
Holy Spirit power like they did

639
00:40:28,480 –> 00:40:35,280
grab hold of #3 on the list and
they say, ah, without faith,

640
00:40:35,680 –> 00:40:41,880
it’s impossible to please God.
And faith is a gift of the Holy

641
00:40:41,880 –> 00:40:45,200
Spirit.
It says so in First Corinthians

642
00:40:45,200 –> 00:40:48,360
chapter 12.
So we have to have the Holy

643
00:40:48,360 –> 00:40:49,920
Spirit or us, we can’t have
faith.

644
00:40:51,720 –> 00:40:54,080
So how would we actually answer
that?

645
00:40:56,880 –> 00:40:59,880
We say, well, first of all, the
apostle Paul tells us in Romans

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00:40:59,920 –> 00:41:04,840
that faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the word of God.

647
00:41:05,320 –> 00:41:08,000
So actually it’s not something
that’s injected into us as a

648
00:41:08,000 –> 00:41:10,240
supernatural ability.
It’s something that comes from

649
00:41:10,240 –> 00:41:12,960
listening to God’s word.
Then when we think about it,

650
00:41:12,960 –> 00:41:15,600
when we say actually faith’s not
something that’s put into you.

651
00:41:16,160 –> 00:41:19,960
Faith is a response.
Faith is actually God said

652
00:41:19,960 –> 00:41:25,720
something and we believe it.
So faith is a response of belief

653
00:41:26,040 –> 00:41:28,800
to what God has actually told
us.

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00:41:29,560 –> 00:41:32,520
But there’s actually a very
compelling answer.

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00:41:32,840 –> 00:41:34,960
Have a look at First Corinthians
chapter 12.

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00:41:34,960 –> 00:41:39,520
Of course, I hadn’t gone here.
Let’s go back first of

657
00:41:39,520 –> 00:41:42,560
Corinthians chapter 12 just to
have a look at the phrase that’s

658
00:41:42,600 –> 00:41:45,480
actually used because this is
this actually makes it very

659
00:41:45,480 –> 00:41:48,640
clear.
First Corinthians chapter 12 he

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00:41:48,640 –> 00:41:52,200
says in verse 7 the
manifestation of the Spirit is

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00:41:52,200 –> 00:41:54,400
given to every man for the
common good.

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00:41:55,240 –> 00:42:01,160
To 1 is given by the Spirit, the
word of wisdom to another, the

663
00:42:01,160 –> 00:42:06,080
word of knowledge by the same
spirit to another faith by the

664
00:42:06,080 –> 00:42:08,920
same Spirit.
So the point that’s being made

665
00:42:09,080 –> 00:42:11,520
is different gifts were given to
different people.

666
00:42:11,760 –> 00:42:14,840
If this is a description of the
general faith which all people

667
00:42:14,840 –> 00:42:19,640
have to have to be saved, it’s a
bit unfair that only only some

668
00:42:19,640 –> 00:42:22,480
people had that gift given to
them, whereas other people

669
00:42:22,680 –> 00:42:24,680
didn’t get faith, they only had
wisdom.

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00:42:24,680 –> 00:42:26,240
So it’s impossible for them to
please God.

671
00:42:27,200 –> 00:42:30,600
So this is actually talking
about a specific gift of faith.

672
00:42:30,920 –> 00:42:32,800
There’s a reference in the next
chapter though.

673
00:42:32,800 –> 00:42:36,520
You have faith to move
mountains, which is a reference

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00:42:36,520 –> 00:42:38,680
to those words of the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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00:42:39,120 –> 00:42:42,560
Matthew 21 verse 21.
He says, verily, I say to you,

676
00:42:42,560 –> 00:42:46,040
if you have faith and doubt not,
you shall not only do this which

677
00:42:46,040 –> 00:42:49,000
is done to the fig tree, but
also if he shall say to this

678
00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:53,360
mountain, be thou removed and be
thou cast into the city, it

679
00:42:53,360 –> 00:42:56,160
shall be done.
So whatever it was, it was an

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00:42:56,160 –> 00:43:00,320
extraordinary gift of faith.
It’s not a reference to the the

681
00:43:00,320 –> 00:43:04,080
belief without which it’s
impossible to please God.

682
00:43:06,160 –> 00:43:09,320
OK, these Holy Spirit gifts were
so extraordinary, they’re

683
00:43:09,320 –> 00:43:14,080
described as being an earnest or
a down payment of a future

684
00:43:14,080 –> 00:43:18,120
inheritance of glory.
And Ephesians 1, verses 13 to

685
00:43:18,120 –> 00:43:23,800
14, and they’re described in
Hebrews 6 verse 4 as being a

686
00:43:23,840 –> 00:43:28,880
foretaste of the heavenly gift
and the powers of the world to

687
00:43:28,880 –> 00:43:32,040
come.
So the apostles were making the

688
00:43:32,040 –> 00:43:36,600
point there to them that this
was an extraordinary thing which

689
00:43:36,600 –> 00:43:39,800
they had been given.
It’s like a little piece of

690
00:43:39,840 –> 00:43:43,400
evidence of these extraordinary
things that await us all in the

691
00:43:43,400 –> 00:43:47,320
Kingdom, a little full taste, he
said, of the powers of the world

692
00:43:47,320 –> 00:43:49,000
to come.
In fact, there’s a hint in the

693
00:43:49,000 –> 00:43:54,240
record there in Hebrews 6 that
the privilege of being granted

694
00:43:54,240 –> 00:43:58,000
some of these Holy Spirit powers
and the ability to to witness

695
00:43:58,000 –> 00:44:01,240
with them actually gave some
added accountability.

696
00:44:03,120 –> 00:44:07,880
Because if you had a Holy Spirit
gift as a witness of the truth

697
00:44:07,880 –> 00:44:13,840
of the gospel and then turned
your back on it, you really are

698
00:44:13,840 –> 00:44:17,640
to be held accountable after
you, after you’re seeing those

699
00:44:17,640 –> 00:44:19,800
demonstrable extraordinary
things.

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00:44:20,680 –> 00:44:22,480
Because.
And what this shows us actually

701
00:44:22,480 –> 00:44:25,680
is that actually the Holy Spirit
gifts didn’t make people

702
00:44:25,680 –> 00:44:29,120
righteous.
The Holy Spirit gifts didn’t

703
00:44:29,120 –> 00:44:33,800
make people perfect.
The miracle we talked before

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00:44:33,800 –> 00:44:36,800
about these two very different
applications of the concept of

705
00:44:36,800 –> 00:44:40,160
the Holy Spirit.
We have the Holy Spirit power

706
00:44:40,600 –> 00:44:44,360
versus the Holy Spirit character
or the mind of God.

707
00:44:44,360 –> 00:44:48,720
Now the 1st century ecclesia was
one where both of those were

708
00:44:48,720 –> 00:44:50,680
given.
So the Holy Spirit power was

709
00:44:50,680 –> 00:44:52,480
given.
But the giving of the Holy

710
00:44:52,480 –> 00:44:57,640
Spirit power as a gift did not
make people more righteous in

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00:44:57,640 –> 00:45:00,600
themselves.
It was a material thing which

712
00:45:00,600 –> 00:45:04,760
enabled them to do tasks they
otherwise could not, and it was

713
00:45:04,760 –> 00:45:08,440
not a guarantee that they would
develop a spiritual way of

714
00:45:08,440 –> 00:45:11,480
thinking.
It didn’t make that automatic.

715
00:45:11,480 –> 00:45:15,200
Now that’s quite helpful when it
helps us when it comes to

716
00:45:15,240 –> 00:45:18,320
understanding the nature of the
gift of the Holy Spirit power of

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00:45:18,320 –> 00:45:21,120
God that was visible in the 1st
century.

718
00:45:23,040 –> 00:45:25,960
Now let’s have a look, step back
and look at Scripture and think,

719
00:45:25,960 –> 00:45:27,440
well, actually that’s pretty
obvious.

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00:45:28,280 –> 00:45:31,560
The granting of special power
from God to do things

721
00:45:31,560 –> 00:45:36,280
miraculously through history was
no guarantee of them being

722
00:45:36,480 –> 00:45:39,320
spiritually appropriate in the
way they actually thought.

723
00:45:39,480 –> 00:45:43,640
I mean, think for example of the
70 elders, the Spirit was taken

724
00:45:43,640 –> 00:45:47,240
from Moses, given to the 70
elders, and they will prophesied

725
00:45:47,480 –> 00:45:49,040
and it says that they’re
carcasses.

726
00:45:49,040 –> 00:45:51,920
Also, they were part of the
generation whose carcasses

727
00:45:51,920 –> 00:45:54,520
perished in the wilderness
because of a lack of faith.

728
00:45:55,720 –> 00:45:58,920
What about Samson?
Did Samson have the Holy Spirit?

729
00:45:59,840 –> 00:46:02,600
Absolutely.
Did it make him a really

730
00:46:02,600 –> 00:46:07,520
righteous person all his life?
I asked the young people for

731
00:46:07,520 –> 00:46:10,040
examples this morning and they
came up with some and others.

732
00:46:10,120 –> 00:46:12,880
King Saul.
Saul prophesied, says God

733
00:46:12,880 –> 00:46:16,320
removed the Spirit from But one
of the young girls in the class

734
00:46:16,320 –> 00:46:21,720
came up with a cracker example,
Judas Iscariot.

735
00:46:23,680 –> 00:46:28,720
Judas was one of the 12 who was
given the Holy Spirit and sent

736
00:46:28,760 –> 00:46:30,440
out earlier in the book of
Matthew.

737
00:46:31,520 –> 00:46:35,360
And yet he betrayed us all.
And that’s a really stark

738
00:46:35,360 –> 00:46:39,000
example I hadn’t thought of that
shows that actually the granting

739
00:46:39,000 –> 00:46:43,320
of the Holy Spirit power did not
make people righteous in

740
00:46:43,320 –> 00:46:47,000
themselves.
Come with me to Galatians

741
00:46:47,000 –> 00:46:50,720
chapter 3 and we’ll see this
rather powerfully demonstrated

742
00:46:51,080 –> 00:46:54,800
in these New Testament writings.
Galatians, chapter 3.

743
00:47:03,000 –> 00:47:08,720
So I’m too far.
Let me go back a bit, Galatians

744
00:47:08,720 –> 00:47:10,960
Chapter 3 and we’ll pick up the
records.

745
00:47:10,960 –> 00:47:18,360
First of all, in verse 5, He
therefore that ministreth to you

746
00:47:18,360 –> 00:47:21,920
the Spirit and works miracles
among you, doeth He yet?

747
00:47:21,920 –> 00:47:24,360
By the works of the law or by
the hearing of faith.

748
00:47:24,680 –> 00:47:27,920
So it’s very clear in context.
We’re talking here about those

749
00:47:27,920 –> 00:47:32,200
that have the Holy Spirit gifts
and the ability to work miracles

750
00:47:32,200 –> 00:47:34,720
because God administered the
Holy Spirit to them.

751
00:47:34,880 –> 00:47:38,360
And he starts off in verse one.
O foolish Galatians, who’s

752
00:47:38,360 –> 00:47:40,600
bewitched you, but you should
not obey the truth.

753
00:47:41,960 –> 00:47:44,120
Well, that’s an interesting
combination of things.

754
00:47:44,720 –> 00:47:46,920
These are people who have
received the Holy Spirit

755
00:47:47,200 –> 00:47:49,320
earlier, he says in the epistle
they’ve gone and followed

756
00:47:49,320 –> 00:47:54,080
another gospel, which is an
accursed perversion of the

757
00:47:54,080 –> 00:47:58,080
gospel of Christ.
Or what about the Corinthians?

758
00:47:59,000 –> 00:48:01,800
Well, the Corinthians were a
very sad illustration of the

759
00:48:01,800 –> 00:48:04,560
same thing.
It’s very obvious that they have

760
00:48:04,560 –> 00:48:07,520
the Holy Spirit gifts because
Paul writes about them at some

761
00:48:07,520 –> 00:48:11,080
length.
But he also says there was open

762
00:48:11,080 –> 00:48:15,160
fornication among them.
We also find they were suing one

763
00:48:15,160 –> 00:48:18,440
another before unbelievers, Paul
says.

764
00:48:18,440 –> 00:48:23,760
I speak this to your shame.
And extraordinarily, even the

765
00:48:23,760 –> 00:48:29,400
Spirit gifts themselves had
become in themselves a point of

766
00:48:29,400 –> 00:48:33,440
contention for them in the
ecclesia through the selfish use

767
00:48:33,440 –> 00:48:37,560
and indeed misuse of the Holy
Spirit gifts, particularly

768
00:48:37,560 –> 00:48:40,000
around the dramatic gift of the
tongue.

769
00:48:40,720 –> 00:48:43,840
Because in that block through
from chapter 12, chapter 13 and

770
00:48:43,840 –> 00:48:48,600
chapter 14, the apostle Paul
actually rebukes their obsession

771
00:48:48,600 –> 00:48:52,040
with tongues.
And he encourages them rather to

772
00:48:52,040 –> 00:48:54,960
the gift of prophecy, which
edifies or builds up.

773
00:48:56,200 –> 00:49:01,440
He said if there’s not another
interpreter there in chapter 14,

774
00:49:01,440 –> 00:49:07,360
verse 28, then keep silence.
And he also says in chapter 14,

775
00:49:07,360 –> 00:49:12,440
verse 32, that they need to
exercise responsible care over

776
00:49:12,440 –> 00:49:16,600
how they use the gifts.
When he says the spirits of the

777
00:49:16,600 –> 00:49:20,840
prophets are subject to the
prophets, what he’s actually

778
00:49:20,840 –> 00:49:25,840
telling them is to exercise
responsibility and control over

779
00:49:25,840 –> 00:49:28,920
how they actually used these
particular gifts.

780
00:49:29,640 –> 00:49:33,560
So it’s very clear that these
gifts were given for particular

781
00:49:33,560 –> 00:49:37,600
purposes to be able to extend
the work of the truth, but it

782
00:49:37,600 –> 00:49:41,760
wasn’t something which made the
possessor thereof actually a

783
00:49:41,760 –> 00:49:44,640
righteous particular person.
They were given for specific

784
00:49:44,640 –> 00:49:49,760
objectives for a specific
period, and then when those

785
00:49:49,760 –> 00:49:55,120
objectives were fulfilled, the
Holy Spirit gifts were actually

786
00:49:55,160 –> 00:49:57,960
withdrawn.
Now let’s spend a few minutes

787
00:49:57,960 –> 00:50:00,680
looking at this because it’s a
very critical element of

788
00:50:00,680 –> 00:50:03,360
understanding the Holy Spirit
gifts in the New Testament.

789
00:50:03,800 –> 00:50:07,240
First of all, it’s logical if
the Holy Spirit gifts required

790
00:50:07,240 –> 00:50:10,840
the laying on of the apostles
hands, take the apostles out of

791
00:50:10,840 –> 00:50:14,400
it and what’s going to happen?
Well, it’s logical the passing

792
00:50:14,400 –> 00:50:17,360
on of the Holy Spirit gifts
itself would dry out.

793
00:50:18,320 –> 00:50:22,000
Secondly, the gifts were given
initially for the preaching

794
00:50:22,000 –> 00:50:25,240
campaigns to help this initial
preaching campaign.

795
00:50:25,640 –> 00:50:29,400
And note this, that preaching
campaign was for a defined

796
00:50:29,440 –> 00:50:33,160
period of time.
So Christ sees them going into

797
00:50:33,160 –> 00:50:35,640
all the world, preach the gospel
to every creature.

798
00:50:35,800 –> 00:50:39,760
These signs will follow them
casting out devils, speaking

799
00:50:39,760 –> 00:50:41,880
with new tongues, so it says
they went forth, they preached

800
00:50:41,880 –> 00:50:46,520
everywhere and note these words,
the Lord working with them and

801
00:50:46,520 –> 00:50:49,520
confirming the word with signs
follow.

802
00:50:50,080 –> 00:50:53,880
So the Lord said I will work
with you, I’ll be there on the

803
00:50:53,880 –> 00:50:57,640
journey with you and I’ll
confirm this with the signs, the

804
00:50:57,640 –> 00:51:02,200
working of the Holy Spirit.
That’s fine, But then he puts a

805
00:51:02,200 –> 00:51:05,600
time period on it.
Matthew 28, verse 20.

806
00:51:05,600 –> 00:51:07,000
He said that he’s going to be
with them.

807
00:51:07,160 –> 00:51:10,800
He said, no, I am with you
always, even to the end of the

808
00:51:10,800 –> 00:51:16,360
world to the end of the pay on
interesting phrase Matthew 24,

809
00:51:16,360 –> 00:51:18,720
verse 14.
This gospel of the Kingdom will

810
00:51:18,720 –> 00:51:22,680
be preached in all the world for
a witness unto all nations, and

811
00:51:22,680 –> 00:51:28,440
then shall the end come.
And we’re finding this quite an

812
00:51:28,440 –> 00:51:31,200
emphasis here on the fact that
actually was going to be this

813
00:51:31,200 –> 00:51:35,720
particular period of preaching
when this work would actually be

814
00:51:35,880 –> 00:51:38,160
extended.
This phrase, the end of the

815
00:51:38,160 –> 00:51:41,600
world, Sontelia aeon, means
literally the end or the

816
00:51:41,600 –> 00:51:46,280
consummation of the age.
And that phrase is used in

817
00:51:46,280 –> 00:51:50,120
Scripture of the end of the
Mosaic era of things.

818
00:51:50,240 –> 00:51:54,840
So Christ has appeared at the
end of the world, says Paul in

819
00:51:54,840 –> 00:51:58,640
Hebrews 9 verse 26, exactly the
same expression.

820
00:51:58,800 –> 00:52:01,120
So it’s talking about this
period of time, which is the

821
00:52:01,120 –> 00:52:05,000
drawing to close of the Mosaic
end of things.

822
00:52:05,960 –> 00:52:10,800
And so in verse 14 he says once
the gospel is preached, then the

823
00:52:10,920 –> 00:52:13,960
end of that age is actually
going to come.

824
00:52:14,240 –> 00:52:17,760
And so it did.
And by that stage the gospel had

825
00:52:17,760 –> 00:52:19,240
been preached through all the
world.

826
00:52:19,840 –> 00:52:22,000
Romans 10/17 I say, have they
not heard?

827
00:52:22,000 –> 00:52:25,480
Yes, verily, their sound went
into all the earth and their

828
00:52:25,480 –> 00:52:30,000
words unto the end of the world.
Careful, the word world there is

829
00:52:30,000 –> 00:52:32,800
like many, not Aon.
But you get the impression here

830
00:52:32,800 –> 00:52:38,120
that actually this preaching has
happened by Acts 17 verse 6.

831
00:52:38,120 –> 00:52:42,040
They’ve turned the world upside
down by Colossians.

832
00:52:42,040 –> 00:52:45,880
One verse 13, he talks about the
gospel which was preached to

833
00:52:45,920 –> 00:52:49,840
every creature under heaven,
which is exactly what Christ

834
00:52:49,840 –> 00:52:53,480
said he would work with them to
do in Mark chapter 16 and verse

835
00:52:53,480 –> 00:52:57,080
5, that they would go and preach
to every creature and he would

836
00:52:57,080 –> 00:53:00,520
work with them for that to be
actually accomplished.

837
00:53:01,040 –> 00:53:05,760
And so it’s clear that these
signs and these gifts were given

838
00:53:05,760 –> 00:53:08,960
to enable that work of preaching
for a particular time.

839
00:53:10,120 –> 00:53:12,760
But the statements in Scripture
about the withdrawing of the

840
00:53:12,760 –> 00:53:15,720
gifts were actually even more
explicit than that.

841
00:53:17,880 –> 00:53:20,440
And I’m just conscious of time.
So I’m going to try and

842
00:53:20,440 –> 00:53:23,720
paraphrase here.
We’re going to look at First of

843
00:53:23,720 –> 00:53:27,000
Corinthians 1312 and 13 when
they were told the gifts would

844
00:53:27,000 –> 00:53:29,200
be withdrawn.
But before we go there, I just

845
00:53:29,200 –> 00:53:33,280
want to talk about the analogy
of the body because the

846
00:53:33,280 –> 00:53:38,040
preaching of the Gospel and the
building of the of the worldwide

847
00:53:38,040 –> 00:53:43,240
ecclesial body is described as
being the body of Christ.

848
00:53:43,240 –> 00:53:46,760
We know that it’s often used in
relation to the establishment of

849
00:53:46,760 –> 00:53:50,080
the 1st century brotherhood.
There’s a process of birth, then

850
00:53:50,080 –> 00:53:52,920
there’s a development and
there’s a maturing until a

851
00:53:52,920 –> 00:53:57,280
process of adulthood.
And that process took just out

852
00:53:57,280 –> 00:53:59,840
of interest 3 score years and
10.

853
00:54:01,000 –> 00:54:04,200
There was actually a 70 year
period from the beginning of the

854
00:54:04,200 –> 00:54:06,400
gospels right through until the
Apocalypse.

855
00:54:06,840 –> 00:54:10,880
And in that time period the
establishment of this new gospel

856
00:54:11,080 –> 00:54:16,120
was actually completed. 3 score
using 10 Psalm 90 verse 10 is

857
00:54:16,120 –> 00:54:21,160
the lifespan of a man.
Now this same analogy of the

858
00:54:21,160 –> 00:54:26,720
development of the body is used
by by the apostle Paul in the

859
00:54:26,720 –> 00:54:31,400
epistles, in Corinthians and in
Ephesians in relation to the

860
00:54:31,400 –> 00:54:35,440
Spirit gifts.
And once the ecclesial body had

861
00:54:35,440 –> 00:54:39,800
reached a stage of maturity,
then the Spirit gifts were to be

862
00:54:39,800 –> 00:54:41,680
withdrawn.
So let’s look at a couple of

863
00:54:41,680 –> 00:54:45,160
these quite carefully.
First of Corinthians chapter 12.

864
00:54:45,920 –> 00:54:49,280
You know how in first of
Corinthians chapter 12.

865
00:54:49,720 –> 00:54:52,120
Well in first of Corinthians
generally we have the apostles

866
00:54:52,120 –> 00:54:55,480
speaking about the different
parts of the body.

867
00:54:57,160 –> 00:55:01,160
First Corinthians 12, he speaks
in verse 18 about the different

868
00:55:01,160 –> 00:55:04,480
members of the body.
And we go on and we use these

869
00:55:04,480 –> 00:55:07,320
passages to talk about how
everybody’s really important in

870
00:55:07,320 –> 00:55:09,720
ecclesia life.
You can’t say because I’m not

871
00:55:09,720 –> 00:55:12,160
the hand, I’m not part of the
body, because I’m not the eye,

872
00:55:12,160 –> 00:55:15,040
I’m not part of the body.
So every member of the ecclesia

873
00:55:15,040 –> 00:55:17,720
is really important.
Well, that’s a great principle

874
00:55:17,960 –> 00:55:20,200
and no doubt we can derive that
lesson from it.

875
00:55:20,200 –> 00:55:22,560
But you know what he’s actually
talking about in context.

876
00:55:23,320 –> 00:55:25,640
He’s talking about the diversity
of spirit gifts.

877
00:55:26,560 –> 00:55:29,960
This person has that gift.
This person has this gift, this

878
00:55:29,960 –> 00:55:33,360
person has these gifts, and you
actually need the composite of

879
00:55:33,360 –> 00:55:36,440
all the parts for the body to
work together as a whole.

880
00:55:36,560 –> 00:55:39,760
That’s actually in context what
he’s talking about when he talks

881
00:55:39,760 –> 00:55:44,560
about the individual body.
So he’s encouraging them to

882
00:55:44,560 –> 00:55:48,640
understand that the purpose of
the gifts was to build up and to

883
00:55:48,680 –> 00:55:53,840
edify the body as a whole.
So he says there are diversities

884
00:55:53,840 –> 00:55:57,200
of gifts, but it’s the same
spirit in verse 4.

885
00:55:58,360 –> 00:56:02,760
So he then speaks about this
body in verses 13 through to 27,

886
00:56:03,320 –> 00:56:05,760
and he’s talking about the
different roles in ecclesial

887
00:56:05,760 –> 00:56:08,040
life for which the Spirit had
been given.

888
00:56:08,880 –> 00:56:13,320
And then he elevates the
discussion away from them,

889
00:56:13,320 –> 00:56:16,400
squabbling about which gifts
were most important.

890
00:56:16,720 –> 00:56:20,200
And he tells them two
extraordinary and astonishing

891
00:56:20,200 –> 00:56:23,800
things.
The first is actually the gifts

892
00:56:23,840 –> 00:56:25,880
aren’t the most important thing
in ecclesial life.

893
00:56:26,520 –> 00:56:30,760
There’s something which is much
more important, and that is

894
00:56:30,920 –> 00:56:36,120
faith, hope and love.
And so he says in verse 31,

895
00:56:36,280 –> 00:56:39,240
look, desire the best gifts,
those are those that build up

896
00:56:39,240 –> 00:56:40,880
the ecclesia.
But actually I’m going to show

897
00:56:40,880 –> 00:56:44,080
you something better.
There is a more excellent way.

898
00:56:44,080 –> 00:56:47,760
And in chapter 13, he says that
actually all of these other

899
00:56:47,760 –> 00:56:52,200
gifts, if you don’t have love,
then they’re a complete waste of

900
00:56:52,200 –> 00:56:54,640
time.
And he completes it in verse 13

901
00:56:54,640 –> 00:56:57,760
by saying now by its faith, hope
and love, these three.

902
00:56:58,000 –> 00:57:00,000
But the greatest of these is
love.

903
00:57:00,240 –> 00:57:03,120
And so the apostles telling them
that the gifts are not actually

904
00:57:03,120 –> 00:57:07,280
what it’s all about.
And then the 2nd and truly

905
00:57:07,280 –> 00:57:10,960
astounding thing that he tells
them is that actually the gifts

906
00:57:10,960 –> 00:57:12,440
are going to be taken away
anyway.

907
00:57:13,240 –> 00:57:15,680
Don’t get too hung up on
speaking in tongues.

908
00:57:15,920 –> 00:57:18,680
They’re all actually going to be
removed.

909
00:57:19,320 –> 00:57:24,200
So in 13, verse 8, he says very
explicitly that they are going

910
00:57:24,200 –> 00:57:29,640
to be removed.
He speaks of of prophecies of

911
00:57:29,640 –> 00:57:31,840
tongues and the gift of
knowledge.

912
00:57:32,120 –> 00:57:35,600
He says they’re going to fail,
they’re going to cease, they’re

913
00:57:35,600 –> 00:57:41,800
going to vanish away.
And then he says in verse 10 or

914
00:57:41,800 –> 00:57:44,880
verse 9, we know in part, we
prophecy in part.

915
00:57:45,080 –> 00:57:47,600
Here’s the idea of of
individuals.

916
00:57:47,720 –> 00:57:49,240
We’ve got little individuals
with this.

917
00:57:49,240 –> 00:57:51,200
We’ve got little individuals
with that gift we’ve got.

918
00:57:51,360 –> 00:57:53,280
We’ve got all these different
little parts, he said.

919
00:57:53,280 –> 00:57:56,280
But that’s all, all part of
building up the one body.

920
00:57:56,920 –> 00:57:59,040
Verse 10.
When that which is perfect,

921
00:57:59,320 –> 00:58:04,240
mature or complete has come,
then that which is in part will

922
00:58:04,440 –> 00:58:07,960
be done away.
He then uses the analogy of a

923
00:58:07,960 –> 00:58:13,160
child in verse 11 through and
speaks about when he was a

924
00:58:13,160 –> 00:58:14,720
child.
He spakers and thought as a

925
00:58:14,720 –> 00:58:17,200
child.
When I become a man, I put away

926
00:58:17,200 –> 00:58:19,680
childish things and you see what
he’s doing.

927
00:58:20,120 –> 00:58:24,760
He’s talking about the growth of
a body from its infancy as it

928
00:58:24,840 –> 00:58:28,600
matures and when it gets to
maturity the childish things are

929
00:58:28,600 –> 00:58:31,120
no longer needed.
And so he says you needed the

930
00:58:31,120 –> 00:58:32,640
spirit gifts when you were
young.

931
00:58:32,880 –> 00:58:35,960
But now that the occlusional
body is established and that

932
00:58:35,960 –> 00:58:39,720
which is perfect or mature as it
literally means complete or

933
00:58:39,720 –> 00:58:43,560
mature has come, then those
other parts will be left behind

934
00:58:43,760 –> 00:58:46,040
because they are not the most
important.

935
00:58:48,200 –> 00:58:51,880
Then people say, oh, but hang on
a moment, that can’t be the case

936
00:58:52,760 –> 00:58:56,520
because that which is perfect
has not yet come and won’t be to

937
00:58:56,560 –> 00:58:58,840
the Kingdom, and therefore we
must keep them.

938
00:58:58,840 –> 00:59:01,200
So you’re sure they’ll be
removed, but that which is

939
00:59:01,200 –> 00:59:03,920
perfect hasn’t come yet, so we
must still have the Holy Spirit

940
00:59:03,920 –> 00:59:06,000
gifts.
Well, there’s a couple of

941
00:59:06,000 –> 00:59:10,360
fundamental problems with that.
Number one, that would mean that

942
00:59:10,360 –> 00:59:14,840
speaking in tongues and miracles
must still be here, and I

943
00:59:14,840 –> 00:59:17,240
haven’t seen them recently.
I don’t know if you have.

944
00:59:18,640 –> 00:59:22,760
And secondly, it would be saying
that all of those miracles will

945
00:59:22,760 –> 00:59:24,560
be there until the Kingdom, and
then they’ll all stop.

946
00:59:25,680 –> 00:59:27,640
Well, that’s, that’s just not
logical.

947
00:59:28,160 –> 00:59:30,840
In the Kingdom age, the spirit
gifts will be poured out in a

948
00:59:30,840 –> 00:59:33,200
way that we’ve never
comprehended before.

949
00:59:33,880 –> 00:59:37,320
So in context here, he’s
actually saying that when the

950
00:59:37,360 –> 00:59:41,480
ecclesial body was established,
those things would actually be

951
00:59:41,480 –> 00:59:43,800
withdrawn.
Now, I’d just like to pop up a

952
00:59:43,840 –> 00:59:47,840
slide there that has on it a
number of features that he’s

953
00:59:47,840 –> 00:59:50,200
talking about in First
Corinthians 12.

954
00:59:50,520 –> 00:59:53,640
Now there’s another place in the
epistles where he speaks at

955
00:59:53,640 –> 00:59:57,800
length about the growing
together of a body into a mature

956
00:59:57,800 –> 00:59:59,040
man.
Where is it?

957
00:59:59,800 –> 01:00:03,280
Anyone know?
Ephesians?

958
01:00:03,760 –> 01:00:06,040
Now we look at that and we say
that’s the building of the body

959
01:00:06,040 –> 01:00:09,480
of Christ, in fact, down through
the ages until we all come

960
01:00:09,480 –> 01:00:12,240
together in the fullness of the
one man in Christ.

961
01:00:12,560 –> 01:00:16,680
And that’s not incorrect.
But the focus of Ephesians

962
01:00:16,680 –> 01:00:20,920
chapter 4 is on the Holy Spirit
gifts explicitly.

963
01:00:21,440 –> 01:00:24,000
It talks about the gifts that
they’re given, the roles of

964
01:00:24,000 –> 01:00:27,680
apostles and prophets.
It speaks about Christ ascending

965
01:00:27,680 –> 01:00:30,400
and receiving gifts for it to be
given out to men.

966
01:00:30,640 –> 01:00:34,680
And so actually, the context of
Ephesians 4 is actually the

967
01:00:34,680 –> 01:00:37,360
building of the body of Christ
in their day.

968
01:00:38,400 –> 01:00:41,960
Whoops.
And what we find is Ephesians 4

969
01:00:42,160 –> 01:00:46,400
and 1st Corinthians 12 match
with all those same elements of

970
01:00:46,400 –> 01:00:51,560
the maturing of this body.
So what that shows us is that in

971
01:00:51,560 –> 01:00:54,520
context, what’s being talked
about here is the giving of the

972
01:00:54,560 –> 01:00:58,680
Holy Spirit gifts for a
particular purpose, and they

973
01:00:58,680 –> 01:01:03,600
were removed when the completion
of that process was actually

974
01:01:03,600 –> 01:01:07,240
brought about, the completion of
the perfect man.

975
01:01:08,280 –> 01:01:11,000
But least you think, well, hey,
hang on a moment.

976
01:01:11,000 –> 01:01:14,280
You’ve just shattered all the
value of Ephesians 4.

977
01:01:15,200 –> 01:01:19,520
No, actually what happens is
they work on two different

978
01:01:19,520 –> 01:01:24,320
applications and two different
levels because there will be

979
01:01:24,920 –> 01:01:28,960
another outpouring of the Holy
Spirit in the future.

980
01:01:29,680 –> 01:01:33,360
And actually what we’ve got is
these themes of the building of

981
01:01:33,360 –> 01:01:37,520
the body of Christ works both in
its context in the 1st century

982
01:01:37,520 –> 01:01:42,040
ecclesia, but also in its
context of the body of Christ

983
01:01:42,080 –> 01:01:44,800
over the ages.
So we have the building of the

984
01:01:44,800 –> 01:01:47,520
temple as another analogy
analogy that’s used, the

985
01:01:47,520 –> 01:01:51,200
building of a temple.
Well, ultimately the temple will

986
01:01:51,200 –> 01:01:54,960
be complete when Christ returns,
when the way into the most holy

987
01:01:54,960 –> 01:01:58,280
is made available for all of the
Saints of all ages.

988
01:01:58,520 –> 01:02:01,720
And so we find that these are
operating on two different

989
01:02:01,720 –> 01:02:05,440
applications or levels.
And of course, not surprisingly,

990
01:02:05,800 –> 01:02:09,680
Brother Thomas in Faith in the
Last Days has a beautiful and

991
01:02:09,680 –> 01:02:13,200
succinct little summary.
The body of Christ, whether

992
01:02:13,200 –> 01:02:15,920
considered to be under the
figure of a man or a house,

993
01:02:15,920 –> 01:02:18,840
belongs to two states.
There’s that before the

994
01:02:18,840 –> 01:02:22,880
resurrection.
That’s the resurrection which we

995
01:02:22,880 –> 01:02:26,200
all participate in, and to that
after the resurrection.

996
01:02:27,120 –> 01:02:30,120
In the former state, the
ecclesia world had its infancy

997
01:02:30,480 –> 01:02:33,000
and its manhood.
In the days of the apostles.

998
01:02:33,000 –> 01:02:35,960
The institution was in its
infancy, childhood, In the days

999
01:02:35,960 –> 01:02:39,920
of John’s old age and exile
manhood being 70 years old.

1000
01:02:40,960 –> 01:02:44,000
There was a manhood when the
baptismal gifts ceased.

1001
01:02:44,880 –> 01:02:48,360
There shall be a manhood when we
will know experimentally, even

1002
01:02:48,360 –> 01:02:52,200
as we know theoretically.
That’s the post resurrectional

1003
01:02:52,200 –> 01:02:55,640
maturity of the perfect man or
the body of Christ.

1004
01:02:55,840 –> 01:03:00,440
Then every member will see face
to face that which is perfect

1005
01:03:00,760 –> 01:03:03,080
will have come in the full
sense.

1006
01:03:04,000 –> 01:03:06,600
So it’s actually when we see
that suddenly these passages

1007
01:03:06,600 –> 01:03:10,280
just open up and we can see the
way in which the divine mind

1008
01:03:10,520 –> 01:03:16,840
actually works.
And so the work of the setting

1009
01:03:16,840 –> 01:03:22,360
up of the Eccleses was complete.
The Gospel’s been breached, the

1010
01:03:22,360 –> 01:03:25,320
new paradigm of ecclesial life’s
been established, the whole

1011
01:03:25,320 –> 01:03:27,160
Canon of Scripture has been
written.

1012
01:03:28,000 –> 01:03:31,960
And so the work of the apostles
ceased and they were laid in the

1013
01:03:31,960 –> 01:03:35,200
grave.
The tongue of divine guidance

1014
01:03:35,200 –> 01:03:40,520
was still and fell silent.
The pen of inspiration was laid

1015
01:03:40,520 –> 01:03:44,360
down, and then one of the most
extraordinary eras in the

1016
01:03:44,360 –> 01:03:46,720
history of the world came to a
close.

1017
01:03:48,520 –> 01:03:51,880
And from that time till now,
through the rest of the times of

1018
01:03:51,880 –> 01:03:55,640
the Gentiles, as God’s called
out a people for His name, the

1019
01:03:55,640 –> 01:03:59,880
work of the Holy Spirit has
continued on, embedded in the

1020
01:03:59,880 –> 01:04:03,120
word, which they actually
completed in the development of

1021
01:04:03,120 –> 01:04:06,080
the Spirit of God in the hearts
and minds of the believers.

1022
01:04:06,360 –> 01:04:08,080
That’s God willing, We’ll look
at tomorrow.