Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 379.<\/p>\n
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\nthe study of the Spirit is it
\nimpresses us with the reality of<\/p>\n
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\nGod’s existence and the
\ncloseness of his work in our own<\/p>\n
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\npersonal lives.
\nAnd in our last study, we’re <\/p>\n
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\nstruck by the diversity of ways
\nin which this idea of the Spirit<\/p>\n
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\nis actually used.
\nAnd with the young people just <\/p>\n
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\nnow, we did one of those mind
\nmaps or spider diagrams where we<\/p>\n
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\njust have lots of tentacles
\ncoming out and listing all the <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent ways in which this
\nidea of the Spirit is used in <\/p>\n
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\nScripture.
\nAnd we ask the question why? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the answer is it covers all
\nthe different facets of the work<\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nSo it starts with God’s actual <\/p>\n
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\npower, himself brooding upon the
\nface of the earth, and he starts<\/p>\n
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\nhis creative process as man
\ncorrupts the way of God and <\/p>\n
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\nintroduces the concept of an
\nunclean spirit or the mind of <\/p>\n
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\nman, the things of flesh.
\nThen God’s Spirit word works <\/p>\n
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\nwith us through His Son as well,
\nillustrated by miracles, and he <\/p>\n
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\ndevelops a spiritual way of
\nthinking through the Word, which<\/p>\n
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\nis also described as being the
\nspirit. <\/p>\n
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\nChrist’s words, my the words I
\nspeak, they are spirit in life. <\/p>\n
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\nIt develops a spiritual way of
\nthinking for us ultimately to <\/p>\n
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\nbecome spirit beings in the
\nKingdom age. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s the journey of the
\nspirit in terms of how God works<\/p>\n
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\nwith each and every one of us.
\nAnd God’s spirit is the means by<\/p>\n
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\nwhich God achieves his creative
\nwork with you and with me. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course, we can’t separate
\nthe spirit from God because it <\/p>\n
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\nis God.
\nIt’s his energy, it’s his work <\/p>\n
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\nbeing outworked.
\nAnd in Scripture, of course, God<\/p>\n
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\nexplains how His spirit
\ninteracts with the human race. <\/p>\n
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\nNow what we’re going to be
\nlooking at this morning, and one<\/p>\n
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\nof the things I just want to
\nstart by by making this comment,<\/p>\n
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\nat different times in history,
\nGod has manifested or <\/p>\n
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\ndemonstrated his spirit in
\ndifferent ways with the human <\/p>\n
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\nrace.
\nAnd I’m going to say that again,<\/p>\n
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\nat different times in history,
\nGod has manifested His spirit <\/p>\n
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\npower interacting with human
\nbeings in different ways. <\/p>\n
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\nSo as we start the journey of
\nthe Spirit this morning, going <\/p>\n
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\nthrough Scripture, we’ll see the
\nway in which God interacts with <\/p>\n
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\npeople in different ways at
\ndifferent times through the <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit.
\nSo logical place to start. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat are the opening words of
\nthe Scriptures? <\/p>\n
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\nIn the beginning, God, because
\nit’s all about God. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the beginning, God created
\nthe heavens and the earth. <\/p>\n
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\nThe earth was without falling,
\nvoid and darkness was upon the <\/p>\n
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\nface of the deep, and the Spirit
\nof God moved upon the face of <\/p>\n
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\nthe waters.
\nSo the third sentence of the <\/p>\n
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\nBible introduces the theme of
\nthe ruach or the Spirit for us. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Spirit of God is moving upon
\nthe face of the waters and the <\/p>\n
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\ncreative Symphony is about to
\nopening, about to open this <\/p>\n
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\ncrash of chords with this
\nenormous work, this explosion of<\/p>\n
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\ncreation.
\nBefore that starts, we have <\/p>\n
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\nthis, this image in our minds of
\nof a round sphere with no, no <\/p>\n
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\nshape apart.
\nThem being in a sphere covered <\/p>\n
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\nin a mantle of water and wrapped
\naround that we have the Spirit <\/p>\n
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\nof God which is moving or
\nbrooding upon the face of the <\/p>\n
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\nwaters.
\nWe’ll look at that a little more<\/p>\n
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\nlater this morning.
\nBut look at this passage. <\/p>\n
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\nJust think through the
\nimplications of some of these <\/p>\n
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\nwords.
\nPsalm 33 verse 6 by the word of <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh were the heavens made and
\nall the host of them by the <\/p>\n
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\nbreath.
\nAnd it’s our words, Ruach or <\/p>\n
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\nspirit of His mouth.
\nNow if you think about it <\/p>\n
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\nliterally, the heavens were made
\nby God’s power working through <\/p>\n
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\nthe angels.
\nAnd yet here in Psalm 33, verse <\/p>\n
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\n6, it says the by the word of
\nYahweh were the heavens made, <\/p>\n
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\nand the host of them by the
\nbreath or the spirit of His <\/p>\n
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\nmouth.
\nSo there’s some connection here <\/p>\n
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\nbetween the idea of the spirit
\nof the breath and of the words. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s what we want to
\nexplore now, this relationship <\/p>\n
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\nbetween the spirit and the
\nbreath and the words by which <\/p>\n
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\nall things were actually made.
\nSo let’s examine these in order.<\/p>\n
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\nYou may recall the definition of
\nruach that we looked at <\/p>\n
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\nyesterday from the theological
\nword book of the Old Testament, <\/p>\n
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\nand I won’t go through that in
\ndetail again, but just look at <\/p>\n
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\nthe first line.
\nThe basic idea of ruach is air <\/p>\n
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\nin motion.
\nWe looked at that, the idea of <\/p>\n
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\nthe breathing out or the
\nexhaling of air, the concept of <\/p>\n
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\nair in motion.
\nAnd he goes on to say the <\/p>\n
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\nconnotations of breath include
\npower and courage. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he keeps going.
\nHe never spoke a truer word. <\/p>\n
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\nThen he made the comment that it
\nactually gets used in multiple <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent actual ways.
\nOK, the ruach can exhibit a <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I think that’s an <\/p>\n
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\nunderstatement, actually.
\nBut it starts with this idea of <\/p>\n
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\nbeing air in motion, Our word
\nruach. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s translated most frequently
\nas spirit, but it is also <\/p>\n
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\ntranslated in the Old Testament
\nas breath. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s actually translated
\nsomething like 90 times as wind <\/p>\n
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\nand sometimes it’s literally
\ntalking about wind and it uses <\/p>\n
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\nthe word ruach.
\nNow we can think of that and <\/p>\n
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\nthink, well, actually that’s
\nthat’s quite logical. <\/p>\n
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\nThere are examples of wind being
\nused as a tool like God. <\/p>\n
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\nDid you think of any really
\nspectacular examples as one that<\/p>\n
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\njust leaps to mind straight away
\nwhere God used wind in the <\/p>\n
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\nexamples?
\nYep, in the plagues. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, so where do you use wind?
\nIn the plagues? <\/p>\n
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\nActually, when you as soon as
\nyou say plagues, actually the <\/p>\n
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\nnumber of passes, they used it
\nto take away the locusts. <\/p>\n
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\nYep.
\nIt’s also used in the crossing <\/p>\n
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\nof the Red Sea fairly
\nspectacularly. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a mighty wind that parts
\nthe water, so it’s not <\/p>\n
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\nsurprising the idea of wind.
\nThe word ruach is often <\/p>\n
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\ntranslated as wind, but the
\nsignificance of it goes a little<\/p>\n
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\ndeeper than that.
\nGod’s spirit power, it breathes <\/p>\n
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\nout of Him.
\nSo it’s like the movement of <\/p>\n
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\nair.
\nSo the analogy of a breath is <\/p>\n
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\nquite a graphic way, isn’t it,
\nof explaining it. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is something which which
\nemanates from God Himself. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so therefore the word ruach
\nis translated as breath. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, let’s go back to that
\npassage we just looked at <\/p>\n
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\nbefore.
\nBy the word of Yahweh were the <\/p>\n
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\nheavens made and all the host of
\nthem by the breath or the ruach <\/p>\n
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\nof His mouth.
\nSo it is translated as breath in<\/p>\n
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\na number of places.
\nAll right. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we think about it, we say
\nwe’re also the Spirit of God, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich breathes out of them.
\nIt’s also responsible for <\/p>\n
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\nsustaining life.
\nWe looked at that. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, it’s used of life
\nitself when someone gives up the<\/p>\n
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\nghost, as the phrase is used of
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nHe gave up the Spirit.
\nHe died Jairus’s daughter whose <\/p>\n
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\nspirit revived or came back to
\nher again because Christ <\/p>\n
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\nrestored life.
\nSo we think actually this idea <\/p>\n
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\nof spirit sustains life and it
\nstarts to be used almost as a <\/p>\n
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\nsynonym for life.
\nSo the word spirit starts to be <\/p>\n
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\nused of this idea of being the
\nlife force itself. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s why then we find in
\nScripture that those two ideas <\/p>\n
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\nstart getting joined together so
\nthat so it starts being <\/p>\n
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\ntranslated as the spirit or the
\nbreath of life. <\/p>\n
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\nI’d like you to come back with
\nme to Genesis chapter 6 and <\/p>\n
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\nverse 17.
\nWe’re going to look at 2 <\/p>\n
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\nexamples, one in Genesis 6 and
\nthe other in Genesis 17 where <\/p>\n
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\nthis ruach is described as being
\nor translated as being the <\/p>\n
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\nbreath of life.
\nGenesis 6 verse 17 we read and <\/p>\n
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\nbehold, I even I do bring a
\nflood of waters upon the earth <\/p>\n
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\nto destroy all flesh, wherein is
\nthe breath of life from under <\/p>\n
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\nheaven.
\nEverything that is in the earth <\/p>\n
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\nshall die.
\nWe turn over the page to Genesis<\/p>\n
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\nChapter 7, verse 15.
\nThey went in unto Noah into the <\/p>\n
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\nark, 2 into two of all flesh,
\nwherein is the breath of life. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd sometimes it’s useful to
\nwrite in the margin to slide <\/p>\n
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\nboth of those places.
\nThe word breath there is the <\/p>\n
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\nword ruach.
\nSo in Genesis 6, verse 17, the <\/p>\n
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\nword breath is the word ruach.
\nAnd again, in Chapter 7, verse <\/p>\n
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\n15, the breath of life, the word
\nbreath is ruach. <\/p>\n
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\nIt probably would have been
\nhelpful if the translators had <\/p>\n
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\nactually used the phrase spirit
\nof life rather than the breath <\/p>\n
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\nof life there.
\nWhy come back with me to Genesis<\/p>\n
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\nchapter 2?
\nBecause there’s a trap here for <\/p>\n
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\nyoung players.
\nBecause in Genesis chapter 2, <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a phrase breath of life,
\nwhich we’re very familiar with. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a completely different
\nexpression neighbor. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Genesis chapter 2, verse six,
\nsorry, verse 7, Yahweh Elohim <\/p>\n
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\nformed man of the dust of the
\nground and breathed into his <\/p>\n
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\nnostrils the breath of life and
\nman became a living soul. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that is a completely
\ndifferent expression there. <\/p>\n
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\nThe word breath is neshima, the
\nidea of air. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if I put these two up, just
\nbe careful. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a little trap here for
\nus in the English. <\/p>\n
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\nThe phrase breath of life in
\nGenesis 6:00 and 7:00 is quite <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent from this breath of
\nlife that we have in Genesis <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 2.
\nSo in Genesis chapter 2, on the <\/p>\n
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\nright hand side of the screen
\nthere, when he sees, he breathes<\/p>\n
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\ninto his nostrils the breath of
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s Nishama or Nishamet, the
\nbreath, the air of life, as <\/p>\n
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\nopposed to Genesis 6 and Genesis
\n7 where the phrase breath of <\/p>\n
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\nlife is actually the ruler claim
\nthe spirit of life. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what’s the difference?
\nWell, the air of life is <\/p>\n
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\nliterally the air that we
\nbreathe. <\/p>\n
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\nAll living things need air.
\nIf we take a living person and <\/p>\n
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\nwe stop them from having air
\nfor, I don’t know, make it safe?<\/p>\n
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\nSafe’s not the right word.
\nMake it permanent. <\/p>\n
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\nTake air away for an hour, and
\nwhat have you got? <\/p>\n
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\nA dead carcass.
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\nand you pump it full of air
\nagain, will it live? <\/p>\n
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\nNo, because something’s missing
\nlife, and that’s the real work. <\/p>\n
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\nbetween the two is to see where
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\nAnd there’s a number of
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\nif he gathered unto himself, his
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\nhis breath, that’s the ability
\nto breathe, all flesh would <\/p>\n
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\nperish together and man would
\nturn again to dust. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 42 verse five, He that
\ngiveth breath, Nishima, the air,<\/p>\n
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\nthe ability to breathe air unto
\nthe people upon earth, and <\/p>\n
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\nspirit ruach life to those that
\nwalk therein, or Job 33 verse 4.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Spirit of God hath made me,
\nand the breath of the Almighty <\/p>\n
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\nhath given me life.
\nAnd the last one there I think <\/p>\n
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\nwill turn up because this is
\nanother one of those traps for <\/p>\n
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\nunweary players where the
\ntranslators haven’t helped us. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s turn up.
\nGenesis Chapter 7 and verse 22. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll just read that Genesis 7
\nverse 22 all in whose nostrils <\/p>\n
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\nwas the breath of life of all
\nthat was in the dry land died. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the question is in Genesis 7
\nverse 22, when we have the word <\/p>\n
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\nbreath, is it ruach or is it
\nneshima? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a trick question because
\nthe answer is in the Hebrew of <\/p>\n
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\nthe translators haven’t helped
\nus by just putting the one <\/p>\n
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\nphrase breath in there.
\nBut both Ruach and Nishima are <\/p>\n
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\nboth there in the original.
\nSo Robert’s translation, all in <\/p>\n
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\nwhose nostrils was the breath of
\nthe spirit of life? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause actually it was both
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\nOK.
\nSo actually seeing the way in <\/p>\n
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\nwhich it’s used in Scripture
\nmakes this reasonably clear for <\/p>\n
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\nus as we go through because of
\ncourse, both those elements are <\/p>\n
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\ntalking about this idea of of
\nbreathing out, and it’s a close,<\/p>\n
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\nclose association with the idea
\nof the Spirit and the mouth, <\/p>\n
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\nwhat else is breathed out of the
\nword of God? <\/p>\n
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\nSorry, I just gave it away,
\ndidn’t I? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat else is breathed out of the
\nmouth of God? <\/p>\n
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\nIs is word.
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\nspeaking, there’s an exhaling <\/p>\n
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\nbox, and it’s very closely <\/p>\n
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\nspeak. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s this close
\nassociation between breathing <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now the idea of the voice or<\/p>\n
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\nthe words which also breathe out
\nof the mouth of God, There’s <\/p>\n
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\nsomething which is being
\nexpressed or exhaled out of the <\/p>\n
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\nmouth of God.
\nSo, and we won’t turn it up, but<\/p>\n
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\nin Paul’s epistle to Timothy,
\nfirst of Timothy, sorry, second <\/p>\n
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\nof Timothy, isn’t it?
\nSecond of Timothy 3, verse 16, <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does he say about
\nScripture? <\/p>\n
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\nHe said all Scripture is given
\nby and you want to finish that <\/p>\n
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\ngiven by inspiration of God.
\nYou know what the word <\/p>\n
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\ninspiration is?
\nI’m not going to get the <\/p>\n
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\npronunciation right, but it’s
\nTheo Neustos and the new is the <\/p>\n
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\nsame as a pneuma.
\nSo Theo is God. <\/p>\n
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\nLiterally it means God breathed.
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\nIt’s God breathed, and that <\/p>\n
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\nreally highlights for us the
\nbeauty of this idea here of the <\/p>\n
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\nGod and it’s profitable for
\ndoctrine, for a proof, for <\/p>\n
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\ncorrection, for instruction,
\nrighteousness, that the person <\/p>\n
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\nof God may be perfect or
\ncomplete, thoroughly instructed <\/p>\n
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\nto all good works because it’s
\nbeen breathed out of the mouth <\/p>\n
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\nSo we think about our passage <\/p>\n
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\nagain by the word of Yahweh,
\nwhere the heavens mark, and all <\/p>\n
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\nthe host of them by the breath
\nof his mouth. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there’s this enormous
\nassociation, very strong <\/p>\n
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\nassociation between God’s Spirit
\nand his words. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the power of God emanating
\nfrom God that’s contained in his<\/p>\n
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\nunderestimated. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s closely looked with
\nthis idea of his power or his <\/p>\n
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\nruach.
\nI mean, I love those words of <\/p>\n
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\nScripture.
\nHow did the creating creation <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God said, let there be light<\/p>\n
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\nand there was light.
\nSo when God spake, or as the <\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 33 goes on to say, he
\nspake in verse 9 and it was <\/p>\n
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\ndone, He commanded and it stood
\nfast. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you see, the Psalm is just
\nemphasizing for us the fact that<\/p>\n
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\nactually it’s God’s Word which
\nembodies his meaning, His <\/p>\n
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\npurpose, His intention that
\ncreated the heavens and the <\/p>\n
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\nearth.
\nSo words from God are not just <\/p>\n
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\nsound waves traveling through
\nthe air. <\/p>\n
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\nThey express His purpose and His
\nintent. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s that beautiful section
\nwhich we’ll all be familiar with<\/p>\n
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\nfrom the Gospel of John, John
\nchapter 1, where he draws on the<\/p>\n
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\nwhole creation process and then
\nhe emphasizes the importance of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Word.
\nIn the beginning was the Word <\/p>\n
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\nand the Word was with God and
\nthe Word was God. <\/p>\n
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\nThe same was in the beginning
\nwith God. <\/p>\n
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\nAll things were made by him.
\nWithout Him was not anything <\/p>\n
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\nmade that was made.
\nSo we see the way in which this <\/p>\n
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\nidea of the words of God and
\nGod’s own existence are actually<\/p>\n
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\ntied together.
\nYou know, as an aside, brothers <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters, it’s value the word
\nof God that we have on our laps,<\/p>\n
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\nthe ability to read it.
\nIt is the power of God that is <\/p>\n
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\nable to transform us and change
\nus to be made after the image of<\/p>\n
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\nSo always in our mind, just <\/p>\n
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\nalways value the opportunity we
\nhave every day of being able to <\/p>\n
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\ndrink, drink deeply from the
\nword of life because it is the <\/p>\n
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\nembodiment of God’s thinking
\nprocess. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s the way the new
\ncreation works. <\/p>\n
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\nThe entrance of thy word giveth <\/p>\n
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\nlight.
\nAnd it’s the power of the word <\/p>\n
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\nthat works that creative process
\nwith you and with me. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in Scripture, words are
\nalways very closely related to <\/p>\n
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\nI mean, even in a human sense, <\/p>\n
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\nheart, the mouth speaks. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the words, our incredible
\nrevealer of what sits inside our<\/p>\n
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\nhearts, that’s Matthew 12, verse
\n34. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so as the Gospel of John
\nsays, you can’t separate the <\/p>\n
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\nexpression of his thoughts, of <\/p>\n
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\nhis purpose, of his intent.
\nThat’s what the word logos <\/p>\n
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\nactually means.
\nWell, it’s the same as a spirit <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the word expresses its
\npurpose, the spirit accomplishes<\/p>\n
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\nit.
\nSo there’s this very strong <\/p>\n
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\nNexus between them.
\nSo Brother Thomas puts it rather<\/p>\n
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\nwell.
\nThe ideas and the thoughts of <\/p>\n
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\nthe deity are as much spirit as
\nhis physical power. <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s thoughts are a moral power
\nbreathed forth in His words, and<\/p>\n
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\nthat is spirit.
\nIn the same way that the <\/p>\n
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\nlightning or any energy source
\nis also spirit breathed forth or<\/p>\n
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\nradiant from His substance.
\nGod’s thoughts breathe forth or <\/p>\n
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\nrevealed in any way He may
\ndetermine constitutes the truth.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd therefore Scripture says the
\nspirit is truth or the truth is <\/p>\n
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\nthe Spirit.
\nAnd that’s why the Lord could <\/p>\n
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\nsay my words are spirit, and the
\napostle John could say the <\/p>\n
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\nspirit is the truth because it’s
\nactually an expression of what <\/p>\n
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\nGod wants to have achieved.
\nSo to produce physical results, <\/p>\n
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\nsuch as raising the dead, he
\nsaid, a material power or spirit<\/p>\n
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\nis required.
\nBut when purely moral results <\/p>\n
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\nare the things desired, the
\ntruth is the Spirit that <\/p>\n
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\noperates upon the heart.
\nSo now we understand why Christ <\/p>\n
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\nsaid in John 6, the words that I
\nspeak to you, they are Spirit <\/p>\n
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\nand they are life.
\nAnd it’s this beautiful blending<\/p>\n
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\ntogether of God’s purpose with
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\nWord.
\nNow, as you look at what’s <\/p>\n
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\ncarefully. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll find that actually what
\nHe’s starting to do is give us <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent ways in which this <\/p>\n
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\noperating here. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if just read those words
\ncarefully and see if you can <\/p>\n
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\nspot what he’s actually showing
\nus about the two different ways <\/p>\n
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\nin which the Spirit is operating
\nand he contrasts and together. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m going to go to the last
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\nWhat have I just done? <\/p>\n
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\nActually, you know what I’m.
\nThat hasn’t come up there. <\/p>\n
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\nActually, I had changed that.
\nI just wonder if I’ve got an old<\/p>\n
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\nreversion up there.
\nAll right, I’m going to do this <\/p>\n
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\nHave a look at this little <\/p>\n
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\nFor physical results, such as <\/p>\n
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\nraising the dead, material power
\nor spirit is required. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s he suggesting there?
\nWhat he’s saying there is that <\/p>\n
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\nwhen the Spirit is given as a
\nHoly Spirit power to someone, <\/p>\n
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\nthey can do things that were
\notherwise not possible. <\/p>\n
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\nSo raising the dead is not
\npossible. <\/p>\n
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\nSpeaking in tongues without
\nhaving learned the language is <\/p>\n
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\nnot possible.
\nHealing someone that’s blind is <\/p>\n
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\nnot possible to a natural human
\nbeing, and so God’s power or <\/p>\n
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\nenergy has to be given to
\nsomeone to do that. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he refers to that as being
\nmaterial power or spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nBut when moral results are
\nrequired, well, it’s the truth, <\/p>\n
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\nor as he says up here, the ideas
\nand thoughts of God. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he said the idea and thoughts
\nof God, this spirit as is, is <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:15,760 –> 00:21:18,880
\nphysical power.
\nGod’s thoughts are a moral power<\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:18,880 –> 00:21:22,160
\nand that is spirit.
\nHe said in the same way that the<\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:22,160 –> 00:21:24,840
\nlightning breathed forth and
\nenergy is spirit. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:25,040 –> 00:21:27,840
\nSo he’s saying there’s two,
\nthere’s two different ways, <\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:27,840 –> 00:21:31,920
\nthey’re both spirit, but one is
\nGod’s spirit power and the other<\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:31,920 –> 00:21:35,440
\nis a spirit mind.
\nNow why is that important? <\/p>\n
345
\n00:21:35,760 –> 00:21:37,120
\nWe’re going to see that
\nincreasing. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:21:37,120 –> 00:21:40,680
\nThese studies go on because we
\nhave the responsibility to <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:40,680 –> 00:21:45,280
\ndevelop the mind of the spirit.
\nNow, in that sense, God’s Spirit<\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:45,280 –> 00:21:51,280
\nmust dwell in us, but what we
\nhaven’t been given is the Holy <\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:51,280 –> 00:21:55,200
\nSpirit power in terms of the
\nability to do supernatural <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:55,200 –> 00:21:57,600
\nthings.
\nSo let’s see how Brother Roberts<\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:57,600 –> 00:22:01,120
\npicks this up.
\nSo Brother Roberts writes an <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:01,120 –> 00:22:03,760
\narticle in 1883 in The
\nChristadelphian. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:04,320 –> 00:22:09,080
\nHe said spirit is firstly the
\nsubstance, that’s the power, and<\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:09,080 –> 00:22:12,880
\nsecondly, the character is the
\nmoral power of divine and holy <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:12,880 –> 00:22:16,920
\nbears of the first.
\nThat’s God’s Holy Spirit power. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:17,600 –> 00:22:19,160
\nWe know little or nothing in
\nthat. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:19,160 –> 00:22:22,440
\nWe don’t possess it.
\nWe don’t have that as part of <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:22,440 –> 00:22:25,880
\nour daily experience.
\nNow we know of it, that the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:25,880 –> 00:22:28,440
\nowner of it has eternal life,
\nthe power of an endless life. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:28,440 –> 00:22:33,520
\nGod is a spirit being full of
\npower in this life, but of the <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:33,520 –> 00:22:37,840
\nseeker, that’s the character of
\nGod, the mind of God. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:22:37,880 –> 00:22:43,920
\nSpiritual things we know, and we
\nmust know much because it’s upon<\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:43,920 –> 00:22:46,880
\nour manifestation of the
\ncharacter of the Spirit. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:47,080 –> 00:22:50,160
\nIt’s the mind of the Spirit, the
\nspiritual things. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:50,640 –> 00:22:52,360
\nOur eternal future depends on
\nthat. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:52,640 –> 00:22:56,120
\nIf any man have not the Spirit
\nof Christ, he’s none of his. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:56,960 –> 00:22:59,160
\nHe goes on to say.
\nSo we conclude that in the <\/p>\n
368
\n00:22:59,160 –> 00:23:02,840
\nquestion of the Spirit in
\nrelation to whether men and <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:02,840 –> 00:23:08,760
\nwomen possess it, now it must be
\neither in the character or the <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:08,760 –> 00:23:11,200
\npower.
\nAnd these aspects are widely <\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:11,200 –> 00:23:15,080
\ndifferent in themselves and
\ntheir operation and connection. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:16,200 –> 00:23:20,920
\nSo in terms of the Holy Spirit
\npower, you said the power is <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:20,920 –> 00:23:24,520
\nthat which is beyond the
\ncapability of the flesh to <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:24,560 –> 00:23:27,880
\nperform of itself.
\nIt has to be bestowed upon <\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:27,880 –> 00:23:30,800
\nsomeone.
\nSo the apostles were given the <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:30,800 –> 00:23:34,840
\nHoly Spirit power.
\nIt descended upon them in the <\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:34,840 –> 00:23:37,120
\nNew Testament times.
\nThat could be passed on by the <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:37,120 –> 00:23:41,200
\nlaying on of the apostles hands.
\nThat’s the giving of the power <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:41,320 –> 00:23:43,840
\nof the Holy Spirit.
\nAnd that enabled them to do <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:43,840 –> 00:23:47,680
\nthings which were actually not
\nnatural for men and women to <\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:47,680 –> 00:23:50,920
\nnormally do.
\nAnd so he says that power, being<\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:50,920 –> 00:23:53,280
\nthat which is beyond the
\ncapability of the flesh to <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:53,280 –> 00:23:56,760
\nperform itself, must be bestowed
\nupon the person. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:57,000 –> 00:24:00,600
\nHe has to be invested with it.
\nHe’s utterly capable of <\/p>\n
385
\n00:24:00,600 –> 00:24:07,320
\nbestowing it upon himself or
\nproducing it, but the character <\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:07,680 –> 00:24:11,160
\nwas never bestowed.
\nGod doesn’t come along and say <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:11,520 –> 00:24:14,720
\nI’m going to come along and make
\nyou a godly person. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:24:17,520 –> 00:24:20,200
\nIt’s a process, process that
\ncomes from the word of God, <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:21,480 –> 00:24:24,440
\nwhereas when it’s the Holy
\nSpirit gift, the power to do <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:24,440 –> 00:24:28,800
\nmiracles that was bestowed.
\nSo hopefully, brothers and <\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:28,800 –> 00:24:30,160
\nsisters.
\nYou can see the difference <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:30,160 –> 00:24:33,720
\nbetween those two things because
\nthat becomes fundamentally <\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:33,720 –> 00:24:37,520
\nimportant in our understanding
\nof the subject of the Spirit. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:38,320 –> 00:24:42,080
\nSo he says we now have no case
\nwhere the character was given in<\/p>\n
395
\n00:24:42,080 –> 00:24:43,920
\nsuch a manner.
\nIt’s something which has to be <\/p>\n
396
\n00:24:43,920 –> 00:24:46,760
\ninvolved by the individual.
\nIt is not a gift. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:24:46,960 –> 00:24:48,560
\nIt’s not something which is
\nbestowed. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:48,720 –> 00:24:55,960
\nThe development of a godly mind
\nis be ye transformed by the <\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:55,960 –> 00:24:59,640
\nrenewing of your mind.
\nIt’s a process that takes place <\/p>\n
400
\n00:25:00,320 –> 00:25:05,880
\nover the course of time.
\nNow what that simply means then <\/p>\n
401
\n00:25:05,960 –> 00:25:09,880
\nis that in Scripture this idea
\nof the of the Spirit is used in <\/p>\n
402
\n00:25:09,880 –> 00:25:11,760
\nthese two different spheres of
\noperation. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:25:12,440 –> 00:25:16,080
\nOn one hand, the Spirit is used
\nof the power of God, which was <\/p>\n
404
\n00:25:16,080 –> 00:25:19,960
\ngiven to men and sometimes to
\nwomen on specific occasions to <\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:19,960 –> 00:25:22,520
\ndo things they otherwise could
\nnot do. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:22,800 –> 00:25:25,440
\nIt enabled them to do literally
\nsupernatural things. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:25,720 –> 00:25:29,840
\nOn the other side, we have the
\nspiritual character of God which<\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:29,840 –> 00:25:35,080
\ndevelops inside a transformed
\nmind and that is never <\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:35,280 –> 00:25:39,360
\nspiritually injected into a
\nperson to make them a better <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:39,360 –> 00:25:41,400
\nperson.
\nA different brethren have <\/p>\n
411
\n00:25:41,400 –> 00:25:43,680
\nwritten about this and they all
\nseem to use different phrases to<\/p>\n
412
\n00:25:43,680 –> 00:25:45,800
\ndescribe it.
\nYou will have seen there Brother<\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:45,800 –> 00:25:49,720
\nRoberts talks about the moral
\ncharacter of God versus the <\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:49,960 –> 00:25:53,320
\nsubstance or the power of God.
\nBrother Fred Pearce in his book <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:53,960 –> 00:25:57,240
\non the Holy Spirit talks about
\nGod’s supreme power, the ability<\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:57,240 –> 00:26:01,040
\nto do miracles versus the
\nqualities of the divine mind, a <\/p>\n
417
\n00:26:01,040 –> 00:26:03,640
\nway of thinking.
\nOur brother John Thomas talks <\/p>\n
418
\n00:26:03,640 –> 00:26:06,920
\nabout physical power.
\nThis is a moral power. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:26:07,160 –> 00:26:10,320
\nBut they’re only just using
\ndifferent words to explain this <\/p>\n
420
\n00:26:10,320 –> 00:26:14,760
\nconcept, this, this, this, this
\nway, in which the spirit works <\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:15,080 –> 00:26:18,880
\nin two different ways.
\nNow why am I laboring this? <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:20,520 –> 00:26:24,200
\nBecause.
\nAll all wrong doctrine on the <\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:24,200 –> 00:26:28,480
\nSpirit comes from a muddling
\ntogether of those two things. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:30,040 –> 00:26:31,320
\nThat’s a big statement, but
\nit’s. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:31,320 –> 00:26:34,280
\nActually true, when you boil the
\nwhole thing down to the essence <\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:34,280 –> 00:26:37,080
\nof it all.
\nWrong doctrine on the subject of<\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:37,080 –> 00:26:40,680
\nthe Spirit comes down to
\nmuddling up those two things. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:42,120 –> 00:26:45,840
\nSo when people talk about.
\nHaving the Holy Spirit power of <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:45,840 –> 00:26:49,280
\nGod, and they say, oh, you’ve
\ngot to have the Holy Spirit come<\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:49,280 –> 00:26:52,840
\ndown into you to help you
\nbelieve or to enable you to <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:52,840 –> 00:26:55,800
\nresist sin.
\nThey’re merging those two things<\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:55,800 –> 00:26:58,560
\ntogether.
\nWell, when people talk about the<\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:58,840 –> 00:27:02,800
\nHoly Spirit giving in the New
\nTestament as a power to work <\/p>\n
434
\n00:27:02,800 –> 00:27:05,760
\nmiracles and wonders and say,
\noh, those passages all apply to <\/p>\n
435
\n00:27:05,840 –> 00:27:10,280
\nus to develop the mind of the
\nSpirit, they’re implying that <\/p>\n
436
\n00:27:10,280 –> 00:27:13,120
\nthe mind of the Spirit is
\ndeveloped when God just injects <\/p>\n
437
\n00:27:13,120 –> 00:27:16,560
\nit into you and you now have the
\nHoly Spirit and therefore you <\/p>\n
438
\n00:27:16,560 –> 00:27:20,160
\nthink in certain ways.
\nAnd hopefully you can see where <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:20,160 –> 00:27:21,800
\nthat leads in terms of
\naccountability. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:23,200 –> 00:27:25,400
\nAnd the phrase is if you.
\nSee someone saying, oh, all we <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:25,400 –> 00:27:29,160
\nhave to do is just surrender to
\nthe Holy Spirit and allow it to <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:29,160 –> 00:27:32,840
\ncome into us to make us holy.
\nWhen you hear phrases like that,<\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:33,120 –> 00:27:35,560
\nyou realize that they are
\nmerging those two together. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:36,200 –> 00:27:39,400
\nAnd what does that do?
\nIt removes accountability. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:40,360 –> 00:27:43,520
\nIt takes away the emphasis from
\nneeding to read the word. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:44,320 –> 00:27:47,440
\nIt removes responsibility to
\nhave our minds renewed or <\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:47,440 –> 00:27:50,680
\ntransformed through the power of
\nGod’s Word. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:51,120 –> 00:27:54,280
\nAnd it means, frankly, I just
\nlet God do it all for me. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:55,400 –> 00:27:57,680
\nAnd it removes the
\naccountability to say, actually,<\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:57,720 –> 00:28:00,560
\nI need to acknowledge my mind
\nneeds to change. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:28:00,760 –> 00:28:04,000
\nAnd God’s given us the ability
\nin the Spirit Word to make that <\/p>\n
452
\n00:28:04,000 –> 00:28:07,400
\ntransition.
\nSo when you think about it, it <\/p>\n
453
\n00:28:07,400 –> 00:28:11,280
\nunderpins the Catholic Church
\nwith their whole claim for the <\/p>\n
454
\n00:28:11,280 –> 00:28:15,000
\nhierarchy of the church and the
\ninfallibility of the Church. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:28:15,000 –> 00:28:17,480
\nWhy?
\nBecause we’ve had the Holy <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:17,480 –> 00:28:21,400
\nSpirit of God come into us to
\ngive us knowledge and therefore <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:24,920
\nwe can speak with authority.
\nInteresting thing is you read <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:24,920 –> 00:28:29,000
\nChristian self help books and
\noften brothers and sisters say I<\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:29,000 –> 00:28:31,680
\nfound this really good Christian
\nbook on bringing up children or <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:31,680 –> 00:28:34,040
\non marriage.
\nAnd it’s fine approach with <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:34,040 –> 00:28:39,400
\ncaution because this is one of
\nthe central tenets of all of <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:39,400 –> 00:28:42,960
\ntheir books and they write with
\nauthority and clarity. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:43,120 –> 00:28:45,720
\nThat’s great because you read
\nthe preface and they think <\/p>\n
464
\n00:28:45,720 –> 00:28:48,520
\nthey’ve been guided by the Holy
\nSpirit to be able to say these <\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:48,520 –> 00:28:51,280
\nthings.
\nSo be very careful with those <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:51,280 –> 00:28:53,360
\nthings because they merge those
\ntwo together. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:53,520 –> 00:28:56,400
\nAnd it’s a characteristic of
\nbasically all false Christianity<\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:56,880 –> 00:28:59,560
\nwhere it leads to with with the
\nwith the Pentecostals, of <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:59,560 –> 00:29:02,320
\ncourse, is the Spirit of God
\ncomes into me and I’m now saved.<\/p>\n
470
\n00:29:03,040 –> 00:29:06,080
\nOnce saved always say because
\nthe Spirit of God’s going to <\/p>\n
471
\n00:29:06,080 –> 00:29:09,920
\nmake sure fact, it’s really the
\nequal and opposite of the theory<\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:09,920 –> 00:29:12,840
\nof the devil.
\nWith the devil if I do. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:12,840 –> 00:29:17,400
\nBad stuff, it’s not my fault,
\nit’s I can blame the devil when <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:17,400 –> 00:29:20,040
\nit comes to doing good stuff.
\nIt’s not my responsibility. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:20,040 –> 00:29:22,440
\nThe Spirit will come in and will
\nhelp me believe, help me have <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:22,440 –> 00:29:24,400
\nfaith, help me resist, and help
\nme be a good person. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:24,400 –> 00:29:27,320
\nIn fact, it saved me.
\nSo it’s actually quite <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:27,320 –> 00:29:28,920
\ninteresting.
\nTo see the way in which they are<\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:28,920 –> 00:29:31,160
\nequal and opposites when they
\nway that they actually work. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:31,160 –> 00:29:35,440
\nIn fact, if I put up a diagram.
\nThe truth. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:29:35,840 –> 00:29:37,880
\nTalks about us developing the
\nmind of God. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:37,880 –> 00:29:40,000
\nWe have to have the Spirit of
\nGod on us. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:40,000 –> 00:29:43,800
\nThere is no question, but it’s
\ntalking about the mind of God <\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:47,360
\nand it’s a response of faith to
\nwhat God has said in His word. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:52,200
\nFaith comes by hearing and
\nhearing by the word of God. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:52,600 –> 00:29:55,520
\nWhereas the churches teach that
\nyou have to have the Holy Spirit<\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:55,520 –> 00:29:57,440
\npower come into you and give you
\nthe gift of faith. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:29:59,440 –> 00:30:02,080
\nThen on.
\nOccasions in the 1st century was<\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:02,080 –> 00:30:05,480
\na great example of it.
\nThe Holy Spirit power is given <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:05,480 –> 00:30:09,040
\nto men and women to do certain
\nthings and we’ll see why as we <\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:09,040 –> 00:30:12,040
\ngo through our studies.
\nThe false teaching on it is that<\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:12,080 –> 00:30:14,360
\nall believers are given the Holy
\nSpirit power. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:14,400 –> 00:30:16,800
\nIt’s an external influence that
\ncomes into US. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:17,160 –> 00:30:19,360
\nI hear a few people had the
\nability to do miracles, but <\/p>\n
495
\n00:30:19,360 –> 00:30:21,320
\nthat’s pretty minor.
\nNo, really. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:30:21,320 –> 00:30:23,480
\nActually, you’ll have to have
\nthe Holy Spirit power that comes<\/p>\n
497
\n00:30:23,480 –> 00:30:25,400
\nin and it helps us to
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:26,040 –> 00:30:28,680
\nWhat does that tell you?
\nWell, don’t expect to read the <\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:28,680 –> 00:30:30,680
\nBible and believe it and
\nunderstand it. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:30,920 –> 00:30:33,360
\nIt’s too hard.
\nPeople with the Holy Spirit will<\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:33,360 –> 00:30:36,800
\nbe able to explain it to us.
\nIt’s a very dangerous philosophy<\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:36,960 –> 00:30:40,480
\nbecause it closes the Bible to
\npeople’s ability to say, oh, <\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:40,520 –> 00:30:43,520
\nread the Bible, you believe.
\nIt’s really simple. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:30:43,520 –> 00:30:47,720
\nAbraham doesn’t say in Genesis,
\nAbraham received the Spirit <\/p>\n
505
\n00:30:47,720 –> 00:30:49,520
\ncoming down and it made him
\nbelieve. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:30:50,320 –> 00:30:53,480
\nIt says God spoke.
\nDid Abraham believe them? <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:53,760 –> 00:30:55,960
\nIt’s that simple.
\nAnd God counted that for <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:55,960 –> 00:30:59,040
\nrighteousness.
\nSo the concept of faith comes to<\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:59,200 –> 00:31:02,000
\nus believing what God actually
\nsays. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:31:03,640 –> 00:31:08,000
\nOK, let’s move on.
\nI’ll just keep an eye on the <\/p>\n
511
\n00:31:08,000 –> 00:31:10,080
\ntime there.
\nWhat time, brother Danny, do we <\/p>\n
512
\n00:31:10,080 –> 00:31:14,400
\nhave to finish on the hour?
\nIs it 11:00? <\/p>\n
513
\n00:31:14,400 –> 00:31:17,080
\nOh, yes.
\nOK, good. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:17,240 –> 00:31:19,200
\nThank you.
\nBrother Daniel pointed out that <\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:19,200 –> 00:31:22,000
\nthere’s a clock sitting on the
\nchair there, which is quite <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:22,000 –> 00:31:24,680
\nhelpful to actually see as
\nopposed to tapping my watch a <\/p>\n
517
\n00:31:24,680 –> 00:31:27,960
\nfew times to to see what it was
\nactually telling me. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:31:28,520 –> 00:31:31,440
\nOK, so when we hear confusion on
\nthe subject, it’s actually <\/p>\n
519
\n00:31:31,440 –> 00:31:33,360
\nbecause people merge these two
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:31:34,040 –> 00:31:37,040
\nNow once we get that right,
\nthere’s a whole lot of things <\/p>\n
521
\n00:31:37,040 –> 00:31:40,560
\nstart dropping into place, quite
\nsimply in Scripture, and we <\/p>\n
522
\n00:31:40,560 –> 00:31:43,920
\nstart to realize that there are
\nspheres of operation or time <\/p>\n
523
\n00:31:43,920 –> 00:31:48,840
\nperiods when God’s Holy Spirit
\npower was active to do certain <\/p>\n
524
\n00:31:48,840 –> 00:31:50,960
\nthings at specific points in
\ntime. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:52,280 –> 00:31:55,800
\nSo there are some aspects of the
\nwork of the Spirit which are <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:59,280
\ncontinuing, which have been
\nworking all through history. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:59,800 –> 00:32:03,200
\nSo, for example, we talk about
\nGod’s Spirit that sustains life.<\/p>\n
528
\n00:32:03,960 –> 00:32:07,160
\nWell, thankfully that’s been a
\ncontinual process. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:32:08,080 –> 00:32:11,560
\nSo when we read in Job 34 verse
\n14, if He set his heart upon man<\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:11,560 –> 00:32:14,520
\nand gathered to himself, his
\nSpirit or ruach, all flesh would<\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:14,520 –> 00:32:17,600
\nperish together.
\nThankfully, God’s Spirit has <\/p>\n
532
\n00:32:17,600 –> 00:32:21,600
\ncontinued its work down through
\nhistory of keeping men and women<\/p>\n
533
\n00:32:21,600 –> 00:32:24,720
\nlike us alive.
\nSo it’s a continual application <\/p>\n
534
\n00:32:24,920 –> 00:32:28,360
\nof God’s Spirit.
\nSimilarly, the obligation to <\/p>\n
535
\n00:32:28,360 –> 00:32:31,600
\nwalk after the spirit rather
\nthan after the flesh is an <\/p>\n
536
\n00:32:31,600 –> 00:32:35,000
\nobligation that sat there with
\nall the faithful from Adam all <\/p>\n
537
\n00:32:35,000 –> 00:32:38,600
\nthe way onwards through till now
\nto be spiritually minded. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:32:38,600 –> 00:32:41,520
\nRomans 8 has has some beautiful
\npassages. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:32:41,520 –> 00:32:44,040
\nWe’ve already looked at some of
\nthose and we will again in our <\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:44,040 –> 00:32:47,960
\nstudies which talk about the
\nbeing led by the Spirit of God. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:48,680 –> 00:32:51,760
\nBut in contrast, there’s been
\nother manifestations of God’s <\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:51,760 –> 00:32:55,440
\nSpirit which have been for
\nparticular periods of time for <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:55,440 –> 00:32:58,880
\nparticular purposes.
\nNow that should be intuitively <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:58,880 –> 00:33:02,720
\nself obvious.
\nWe don’t have a Tabernacle. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:04,240 –> 00:33:07,560
\nWhere God’s?
\nPresence and Glory actually <\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:07,560 –> 00:33:12,720
\ndwells in the Most Holy place,
\nand where His power is seen in a<\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:12,720 –> 00:33:16,960
\npillar of fire and a pillar of
\ncloud to lead us in the way. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:17,840 –> 00:33:22,040
\nLikewise, we don’t have the Lord
\nJesus Christ full of the Holy <\/p>\n
549
\n00:33:22,040 –> 00:33:25,680
\nSpirit personally walking
\nbetween the towns of this <\/p>\n
550
\n00:33:25,680 –> 00:33:30,480
\ncountry, preaching and doing
\nmiracles as a witness to the <\/p>\n
551
\n00:33:30,480 –> 00:33:34,800
\nveracity of His words.
\nFor both of those were very <\/p>\n
552
\n00:33:34,800 –> 00:33:39,200
\npowerful manifestations of God’s
\nSpirit at specific times in the <\/p>\n
553
\n00:33:39,200 –> 00:33:41,720
\npast.
\nWe’ll take the example of the <\/p>\n
554
\n00:33:41,720 –> 00:33:45,040
\nprophets now.
\nThe prophets clearly spoke under<\/p>\n
555
\n00:33:45,040 –> 00:33:47,880
\ninspiration.
\nThey had the Holy Spirit power <\/p>\n
556
\n00:33:47,880 –> 00:33:51,240
\nof God, the ability to do things
\nwhich was not naturally <\/p>\n
557
\n00:33:51,240 –> 00:33:54,560
\navailable.
\nAnd not only did they actually <\/p>\n
558
\n00:33:54,560 –> 00:33:58,680
\nteach in Israel and explain to
\nthem the word of God, but they <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:58,680 –> 00:34:01,400
\nwere also used by God to
\ncomplete the Canon of scripture.<\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:01,680 –> 00:34:04,400
\nWhere would be be if the words
\nof Isaiah hadn’t been written <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:04,400 –> 00:34:08,320
\ndown, or Ezekiel, or Daniel, or
\nJeremiah or any of the prophets.<\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:08,560 –> 00:34:12,520
\nSo they were also used by God
\nunder inspiration to actually <\/p>\n
563
\n00:34:12,520 –> 00:34:16,639
\ncomplete the Canon of Scripture.
\nYou know, after the prophet <\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:16,639 –> 00:34:21,920
\nZechariah in Malachi, there was
\na period of some 400 years. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:34:22,080 –> 00:34:25,199
\nIt’s called the inter Testament
\nperiod between the Old Testament<\/p>\n
566
\n00:34:25,520 –> 00:34:28,320
\nand the New where there were no
\nprophets. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:34:29,920 –> 00:34:32,560
\nNow that shouldn’t come as a
\nsurprise to us because Israel <\/p>\n
568
\n00:34:32,560 –> 00:34:35,840
\nhad been told that that would be
\nthe case. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:34:36,199 –> 00:34:42,280
\nSo Micah 3 verse 6 Therefore
\nnight shall be unto you, that <\/p>\n
570
\n00:34:42,280 –> 00:34:46,960
\nyou shall not have a vision, and
\nit shall be dark unto you, that <\/p>\n
571
\n00:34:46,960 –> 00:34:51,159
\nye shall not divine.
\nAnd the sun shall go down over <\/p>\n
572
\n00:34:51,159 –> 00:34:54,960
\nthe prophets, and the day shall
\nbe dark over them. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:34:55,440 –> 00:34:56,719
\nAnd that’s exactly what
\nhappened. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:34:57,560 –> 00:35:01,840
\nSo there’s a 400 year period
\nwhere there were no prophets <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:01,880 –> 00:35:06,600
\nspeaking under inspiration.
\nYet 400 years later. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:07,280 –> 00:35:10,960
\nIn the 1st century, suddenly
\nonce again there were prophets. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:11,480 –> 00:35:15,120
\nActually the gift of prophecy
\nwas one of the specific gifts of<\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:15,120 –> 00:35:18,120
\nthe Holy Spirit that was given
\nand as we’ll see probably <\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:18,120 –> 00:35:22,000
\ntomorrow, it was actually the
\nsecond highest ranking role, if <\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:22,000 –> 00:35:24,840
\nyou could use that expression.
\nIn the 1st century ecclesias, <\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:25,040 –> 00:35:31,840
\nGod hath said over them first
\napostles, secondarily prophets. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:35:32,240 –> 00:35:34,840
\nThat’s in first of Corinthians
\n12 verse 28. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:35:35,600 –> 00:35:39,400
\nAnd yet somewhat obviously we
\ndon’t have spirit guided <\/p>\n
584
\n00:35:39,400 –> 00:35:42,560
\nprophets today.
\nSo you can see the way in which <\/p>\n
585
\n00:35:42,560 –> 00:35:46,680
\nthose powers from God were given
\nto people at specific periods of<\/p>\n
586
\n00:35:46,680 –> 00:35:49,560
\ntime for certain things.
\nNow the same applies of course <\/p>\n
587
\n00:35:49,560 –> 00:35:51,840
\nto power of miracles.
\nThey were seen in the life of <\/p>\n
588
\n00:35:51,840 –> 00:35:54,280
\nMoses.
\nWe have prophets like Elisha <\/p>\n
589
\n00:35:54,320 –> 00:35:58,040
\nable to do miracles and Elijah.
\nThere were no miracles in the <\/p>\n
590
\n00:35:58,040 –> 00:36:00,600
\n400 year period between the Old
\nand New Testament. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:00,920 –> 00:36:03,720
\nSuddenly in the days of the Lord
\nJesus Christ and the apostles, <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:03,800 –> 00:36:06,880
\nthere was an enormous number of
\nmiracles because the power of <\/p>\n
593
\n00:36:06,880 –> 00:36:10,360
\nthe Holy Spirit was given to men
\nand women to speak in tongues <\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:10,360 –> 00:36:13,160
\nparticularly, but also to men to
\ndo these miracles in their <\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:13,160 –> 00:36:17,400
\npreaching of the truth.
\nAnd it’s powerfully self-evident<\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:17,440 –> 00:36:22,520
\nthat the Spirit power to do
\nmiracles is not even today. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:36:24,400 –> 00:36:26,680
\nSo if we step back it.
\nSimply tells us that there are <\/p>\n
598
\n00:36:26,680 –> 00:36:30,200
\nelements of God’s Spirit which
\nwere manifested in different <\/p>\n
599
\n00:36:30,200 –> 00:36:34,240
\nways in different epochs and
\ntime for particular periods. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:36:34,600 –> 00:36:38,280
\nAnd that’s key to understanding
\nthe work of the Spirit through <\/p>\n
601
\n00:36:38,280 –> 00:36:42,240
\nScripture and through history.
\nAnd one of our objectives in our<\/p>\n
602
\n00:36:42,240 –> 00:36:45,960
\nnext few studies is to
\nunderstand why the Holy Spirit <\/p>\n
603
\n00:36:46,000 –> 00:36:49,720
\npower was given at particular
\ntimes in history. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:36:50,920 –> 00:36:53,840
\nNow this is just for.
\nIllustration purposes, but here <\/p>\n
605
\n00:36:53,840 –> 00:36:58,120
\nare some examples of times where
\nthere were spectacular <\/p>\n
606
\n00:36:58,360 –> 00:37:01,800
\noutpourings of the work of the
\nHoly Spirit, power, obviously <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:01,800 –> 00:37:04,040
\ncreation and we’ll look at that
\nagain shortly. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:04,840 –> 00:37:08,480
\nBut the birth of the nation was
\nan extremely important time, the<\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:08,480 –> 00:37:12,880
\ntime of Moses and the setting up
\nof of Israel as a as a, as a <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:12,880 –> 00:37:14,800
\nnation.
\nWe’ll look at that again in a <\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:14,800 –> 00:37:17,320
\nfew minutes.
\nThe time of the birth of Christ <\/p>\n
612
\n00:37:17,320 –> 00:37:20,320
\nand the establishment of the new
\necclesias was again a time where<\/p>\n
613
\n00:37:20,320 –> 00:37:24,200
\nthere was this burst of activity
\nof the Holy Spirit power for <\/p>\n
614
\n00:37:24,200 –> 00:37:27,440
\nparticular reasons, obviously,
\nthe return of Christ in the <\/p>\n
615
\n00:37:27,440 –> 00:37:29,960
\nKingdom.
\nWe will see that on earth again.<\/p>\n
616
\n00:37:30,320 –> 00:37:32,480
\nThat doesn’t mean, by the way,
\nthat there weren’t prophets <\/p>\n
617
\n00:37:32,480 –> 00:37:35,280
\nthrough that time period that
\nhad the Holy Spirit by way of <\/p>\n
618
\n00:37:35,280 –> 00:37:37,200
\ninspiration or Elisha and so
\nforth. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:37:37,440 –> 00:37:41,520
\nBut these are epochs in history
\nwhere there were spectacular <\/p>\n
620
\n00:37:41,760 –> 00:37:45,240
\nmanifestations of the Holy
\nSpirit, and one of those was in <\/p>\n
621
\n00:37:45,240 –> 00:37:48,920
\nthe 1st century, and they were
\ntold explicitly that that <\/p>\n
622
\n00:37:48,920 –> 00:37:52,720
\nmanifestation of the Holy Spirit
\nwas going to be withdrawal. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:37:52,960 –> 00:37:55,520
\nSo I just want to try and convey
\nto us, brothers and sisters, the<\/p>\n
624
\n00:37:55,520 –> 00:37:57,480
\nfact that there are the Holy
\nSpirit. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:37:57,480 –> 00:38:00,880
\nPower of God is given
\nselectively to enable <\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:00,880 –> 00:38:04,760
\nsupernatural or unnatural things
\nto be done when God has <\/p>\n
627
\n00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:08,080
\nparticular purposes in mind.
\nAnd hopefully as we go through <\/p>\n
628
\n00:38:08,080 –> 00:38:12,720
\nour studies, we’ll see why that
\nwas necessary at these these <\/p>\n
629
\n00:38:12,720 –> 00:38:16,440
\nfulcrum points of history, these
\nenormously important turning <\/p>\n
630
\n00:38:16,440 –> 00:38:19,160
\npoints in history.
\nAll right, let’s start with the <\/p>\n
631
\n00:38:19,160 –> 00:38:23,360
\nfirst of those, Genesis.
\nGenesis Chapter. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:38:23,360 –> 00:38:27,560
\nOne, we talked about the Spirit
\nof God moving upon the face of <\/p>\n
633
\n00:38:27,560 –> 00:38:30,880
\nthe waters and I used the
\nexpression yesterday, the Spirit<\/p>\n
634
\n00:38:30,880 –> 00:38:35,600
\nof God brooding upon the face of
\nthe waters, the ruler or the <\/p>\n
635
\n00:38:35,600 –> 00:38:39,360
\nSpirit of God.
\nThe word movement is the spirit <\/p>\n
636
\n00:38:39,360 –> 00:38:43,680
\nmoved upon the face of the
\nwaters is the Hebrew word rakaf,<\/p>\n
637
\n00:38:44,720 –> 00:38:53,800
\nRACHAPH rakaf and it means to
\nshake or to flutter like a Boo. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:38:55,120 –> 00:38:56,240
\nIt’s.
\nOK, that’s. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:38:56,240 –> 00:38:58,600
\nInteresting.
\nSo what’s being conveyed when we<\/p>\n
640
\n00:38:58,600 –> 00:39:02,600
\nthink of this, this sphere of,
\nof the round globe with no <\/p>\n
641
\n00:39:02,600 –> 00:39:06,560
\nstructure, no shape, it’s just
\nround ball and we think of the <\/p>\n
642
\n00:39:06,560 –> 00:39:11,000
\nwater and we think of this, this
\nenergy field of God’s Spirit <\/p>\n
643
\n00:39:11,000 –> 00:39:15,040
\nthat’s just just brooding or
\nhovering over the face of the <\/p>\n
644
\n00:39:15,040 –> 00:39:16,720
\nwaters.
\nNow, I don’t know about you, but<\/p>\n
645
\n00:39:16,720 –> 00:39:20,880
\nin my mind that looks like this,
\nthis really incredible latent <\/p>\n
646
\n00:39:20,880 –> 00:39:24,920
\nscene of energy ready to explode
\ninto the creative work. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:39:25,200 –> 00:39:28,520
\nAnd I can just see this in the
\ndarkness of the inky blackness <\/p>\n
648
\n00:39:28,520 –> 00:39:33,040
\nof space, the sphere upon which
\nthe Spirit of God is just <\/p>\n
649
\n00:39:33,040 –> 00:39:35,120
\nsitting there, hovering, ready
\nto move. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:39:36,320 –> 00:39:41,880
\nBut the word rakaath is next
\nused in Deuteronomy 32, and it’s<\/p>\n
651
\n00:39:41,880 –> 00:39:46,280
\nSpeaking of God himself.
\nAs the eagle. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:39:46,440 –> 00:39:51,280
\nStirs up her nest and fluttereth
\nRakaath over her young, <\/p>\n
653
\n00:39:51,920 –> 00:39:55,920
\nspreading abroad her wings, and
\ntakes them and bears them on her<\/p>\n
654
\n00:39:55,920 –> 00:39:58,560
\nwings.
\nGod says that’s what he does <\/p>\n
655
\n00:39:58,760 –> 00:40:03,520
\nwith his people, Israel.
\nSo what’s now being? <\/p>\n
656
\n00:40:03,520 –> 00:40:09,120
\nCovered is this idea of a bird
\nthat’s protecting its young. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:40:09,280 –> 00:40:13,160
\nThat’s the next use of this word
\nrakaf, that’s used of the <\/p>\n
658
\n00:40:13,160 –> 00:40:16,520
\nspirit.
\nAnd so then we have. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:40:16,520 –> 00:40:20,320
\nA theme that develops in
\nscripture of God as the eagle <\/p>\n
660
\n00:40:20,640 –> 00:40:23,720
\ncaring for the young.
\nSo we have a series of beautiful<\/p>\n
661
\n00:40:23,720 –> 00:40:25,960
\npassages.
\nExodus 19. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:40:25,960 –> 00:40:30,960
\nHe bare them on eagle’s wings.
\nOr Psalm 91, He covered them <\/p>\n
663
\n00:40:30,960 –> 00:40:34,240
\nwith his feathers, and under his
\nwings they came to trust. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:40:35,120 –> 00:40:40,800
\nOr Ruth came to trust under the
\nshelter of his wings in Ruth 2, <\/p>\n
665
\n00:40:40,800 –> 00:40:45,240
\nverse 12, or in Psalm 17.
\nThose who put their trust in God<\/p>\n
666
\n00:40:45,960 –> 00:40:50,200
\ncan hide under the shadow of His
\nwings. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:40:52,000 –> 00:40:56,480
\nAnd when we say they?
\nActually make that we. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:40:58,360 –> 00:40:59,360
\nBecause when we’re talking about
\nthe. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:40:59,360 –> 00:41:02,160
\nSpirit of God, which was wrapped
\naround the earth, about to <\/p>\n
670
\n00:41:02,160 –> 00:41:05,040
\ncreate that creative process and
\nstart that process. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:41:05,040 –> 00:41:09,720
\nThat’s the way in which God
\ncares for His creative beings. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:41:10,680 –> 00:41:13,960
\nIt’s the work that He’s doing
\nwith His creation. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:41:15,080 –> 00:41:16,400
\nYou know, we looked the other
\nday, brothers. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:19,040
\nThis is the fact that God is
\neverywhere present by His <\/p>\n
675
\n00:41:19,040 –> 00:41:22,160
\nSpirit, Brother Robert said.
\nOh, as the releasing that comes <\/p>\n
676
\n00:41:22,160 –> 00:41:23,480
\nfrom that, we say, well, yes
\nthere is. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:41:23,760 –> 00:41:26,640
\nHe can see every thought.
\nI think he, he’s there all the <\/p>\n
678
\n00:41:26,640 –> 00:41:28,160
\ntime.
\nWe’re never hidden from God. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:41:28,160 –> 00:41:30,240
\nHe, he hears and sees
\neverything. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:41:30,520 –> 00:41:33,400
\nAnd that’s true.
\nBut what else does it say? <\/p>\n
681
\n00:41:36,560 –> 00:41:44,400
\nIt says we’re never alone.
\nWe’re never alone in times of <\/p>\n
682
\n00:41:44,400 –> 00:41:51,800
\nsadness or loneliness, in times
\nof anxiety or hurt. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:41:52,960 –> 00:41:56,160
\nIf God’s everywhere present, why
\nHis Spirit? <\/p>\n
684
\n00:41:56,760 –> 00:42:01,360
\nWe are never alone.
\nAnd here in the. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:42:01,360 –> 00:42:05,080
\nWay in which the Spirit is
\ndescribed as hovering like a <\/p>\n
686
\n00:42:05,080 –> 00:42:07,240
\nbird upon the face of the
\nwaters. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:42:07,240 –> 00:42:12,640
\nWhat it conveys to us is the way
\nin which God was going to work <\/p>\n
688
\n00:42:12,640 –> 00:42:16,240
\nthrough the creation process to
\ncreate men and women and earth, <\/p>\n
689
\n00:42:16,560 –> 00:42:19,720
\nwhich would be full of the
\nknowledge of the glory of Yahweh<\/p>\n
690
\n00:42:19,720 –> 00:42:22,520
\nin the same way that the Lord
\nhas covered the seas. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:42:24,080 –> 00:42:26,480
\nAnd as we see, the way in which.
\nThese things are developed in <\/p>\n
692
\n00:42:26,480 –> 00:42:27,960
\nScripture.
\nWe start to realize that <\/p>\n
693
\n00:42:27,960 –> 00:42:32,560
\nactually the Spirit of God is
\nnot just an abstract force. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:42:33,360 –> 00:42:37,240
\nIt’s guided by God.
\nIt is him at work. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:42:38,440 –> 00:42:41,920
\nAnd therefore what we actually.
\nSee is the care and the work of <\/p>\n
696
\n00:42:41,920 –> 00:42:46,120
\nthe Almighty.
\nAll right at that point. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:42:46,160 –> 00:42:49,920
\nIt’s worth pausing to consider
\nthe character of the Spirit. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:42:49,920 –> 00:42:52,840
\nWhen we talk about the Spirit
\nhovering like an eagle and and <\/p>\n
699
\n00:42:52,840 –> 00:42:56,560
\nwe see that it’s an attribute of
\nGod actually caring, it raises a<\/p>\n
700
\n00:42:56,560 –> 00:43:01,280
\nquestion about the Spirit.
\nIs the spirit a caring thing? <\/p>\n
701
\n00:43:02,560 –> 00:43:05,400
\nDoes it have its own independent
\ncharacter? <\/p>\n
702
\n00:43:05,800 –> 00:43:10,200
\nIs it a moral power?
\nDoes the spirit itself feel? <\/p>\n
703
\n00:43:10,920 –> 00:43:14,120
\nLook at these couple of
\npassages, Ephesians 4 verse 30, <\/p>\n
704
\n00:43:14,120 –> 00:43:17,720
\nGrieve not the Holy Spirit of
\nGod, whereby you sealed <\/p>\n
705
\n00:43:17,840 –> 00:43:21,320
\nredemption, or Acts 5 verse 9
\nAnd Peter said unto her, How is <\/p>\n
706
\n00:43:21,320 –> 00:43:24,560
\nit that you’ve agreed together
\nto tempt, which obviously means <\/p>\n
707
\n00:43:24,560 –> 00:43:27,400
\nan necessary idea to test the
\nHoly Spirit. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:43:28,840 –> 00:43:30,120
\nSo does that mean that the
\nSpirit. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:43:30,120 –> 00:43:32,760
\nHas feelings that it can
\nactually be grieved. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:43:34,520 –> 00:43:37,760
\nAnd that’s where it’s really
\nimportant for us to come back to<\/p>\n
711
\n00:43:37,800 –> 00:43:41,200
\nour fundamentals again.
\nAnd shortly we’ll see why this <\/p>\n
712
\n00:43:41,200 –> 00:43:44,600
\nis absolutely essential.
\nRemember the instructor <\/p>\n
713
\n00:43:44,600 –> 00:43:50,160
\nquestion, is God separate and
\ndifferent from the Spirit of <\/p>\n
714
\n00:43:50,160 –> 00:43:51,920
\nGod?
\nAnd the answer is no. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:43:52,560 –> 00:43:55,000
\nGod and his spirit cannot be
\nseparated. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:57,440
\nThey’re both one.
\nIt’s the sun and the light that <\/p>\n
717
\n00:43:57,440 –> 00:44:00,320
\ncomes from the sun of 1.
\nSo God and the spirit that comes<\/p>\n
718
\n00:44:00,320 –> 00:44:05,000
\nfrom God are both 1.
\nSo what’s that actually telling <\/p>\n
719
\n00:44:05,000 –> 00:44:07,480
\nus?
\nWell, it’s telling us that when <\/p>\n
720
\n00:44:07,480 –> 00:44:11,600
\nwe speak of the Spirit hovering
\nlike an eagle, when we speak of <\/p>\n
721
\n00:44:11,600 –> 00:44:15,800
\nthe Spirit being grieved, we’re
\nactually talking about God <\/p>\n
722
\n00:44:15,800 –> 00:44:17,960
\nhimself.
\nIt’s not like the Spirit is a <\/p>\n
723
\n00:44:17,960 –> 00:44:21,040
\nseparate being running around
\nwith its own feelings like some <\/p>\n
724
\n00:44:21,040 –> 00:44:24,000
\nseparate creature, which, by the
\nway, is what the Trinity <\/p>\n
725
\n00:44:24,000 –> 00:44:27,600
\nteaches.
\nNo, it’s actually an expression <\/p>\n
726
\n00:44:27,880 –> 00:44:31,720
\nof God’s thinking himself.
\nAnd so Brother Edward Whitaker <\/p>\n
727
\n00:44:31,720 –> 00:44:34,480
\nand Brother Reg Carr in their
\nbook on the Spirit, talk about <\/p>\n
728
\n00:44:34,560 –> 00:44:36,400
\nautonomy.
\nYou know what autonomy is? <\/p>\n
729
\n00:44:36,400 –> 00:44:38,720
\nIt’s when, when?
\nWell, in fact, let me read it. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:44:39,400 –> 00:44:43,240
\nSince the Holy Spirit is not a
\nperson, it could not, of course,<\/p>\n
731
\n00:44:43,240 –> 00:44:47,560
\nbe grieved in a personal sense
\nby the figure of speech, an <\/p>\n
732
\n00:44:47,560 –> 00:44:51,120
\nautonomy, the phrase the Holy
\nSpirit stands for God. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:44:52,360 –> 00:44:56,040
\nSo when the Holy Spirit guides
\nthem to do something like the <\/p>\n
734
\n00:44:56,040 –> 00:44:59,200
\nHoly Spirit LED Jesus into the,
\nit’s the work of God. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:45:00,320 –> 00:45:03,840
\nWhen I talked about don’t grieve
\nthe holy, don’t grieve God. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:45:03,840 –> 00:45:06,320
\nSo the phrase the Holy Spirit
\nthere, it’s talking about God <\/p>\n
737
\n00:45:06,400 –> 00:45:09,440
\nand his energy.
\nYou can’t separate the two from <\/p>\n
738
\n00:45:09,440 –> 00:45:11,480
\nthem.
\nAnd so the phrase Holy Spirit <\/p>\n
739
\n00:45:11,480 –> 00:45:16,080
\nstands for God himself, whose
\nspirit power was the medium of <\/p>\n
740
\n00:45:16,120 –> 00:45:18,520
\nmiraculous ministry in the
\necclesia. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:45:18,720 –> 00:45:22,680
\nSo we can’t actually separate
\nbetween the Spirit and God <\/p>\n
742
\n00:45:22,680 –> 00:45:24,880
\nhimself.
\nIt is not some sort of material,<\/p>\n
743
\n00:45:24,880 –> 00:45:30,440
\nmysterious, independent spirit
\nwhich works independent of God, <\/p>\n
744
\n00:45:30,440 –> 00:45:34,960
\nand that’s critical.
\nBecause the subject. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:45:34,960 –> 00:45:38,680
\nOf the Spirit.
\nEvery few decades it raises its <\/p>\n
746
\n00:45:38,680 –> 00:45:42,360
\nhead again in the Brotherhood.
\nAnd it is again today. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:45:42,480 –> 00:45:46,320
\nIn different parts of the
\necclesial world we see people <\/p>\n
748
\n00:45:46,320 –> 00:45:49,320
\nstarting to write more about how
\nGod’s Spirit needs to come into <\/p>\n
749
\n00:45:49,320 –> 00:45:51,480
\nme, to help me understand, to
\nhelp me believe. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:45:52,320 –> 00:45:54,600
\nIn fact, it’s interesting and
\nit’s quite, it’s quite. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:45:55,080 –> 00:46:00,040
\nIt slips in very quickly, so we
\nask for God to bless our <\/p>\n
752
\n00:46:00,040 –> 00:46:04,200
\nmeeting.
\nShould we ask for God? <\/p>\n
753
\n00:46:04,200 –> 00:46:08,800
\nTo give words of wisdom to the
\nbrother giving the exhort, no. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:46:10,960 –> 00:46:13,400
\nBecause God’s not going to.
\nInject words of wisdom. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:46:14,880 –> 00:46:17,400
\nWhat we’re asking for.
\nIs for God’s blessing to be upon<\/p>\n
756
\n00:46:17,400 –> 00:46:21,200
\nthe meeting and for our brother
\nto be speaking to us from the <\/p>\n
757
\n00:46:21,200 –> 00:46:23,360
\nWord and for the Word to open
\nour hearts and mind. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:46:23,360 –> 00:46:27,640
\nBut God is not going to put
\nextra words into the brother <\/p>\n
759
\n00:46:27,640 –> 00:46:31,400
\nthat he wouldn’t naturally have
\nsaid because that is the Holy <\/p>\n
760
\n00:46:31,400 –> 00:46:35,160
\nSpirit power.
\nSo you can see how we’ve <\/p>\n
761
\n00:46:35,240 –> 00:46:38,840
\nactually got to be quite careful
\nabout this the subject and where<\/p>\n
762
\n00:46:38,840 –> 00:46:41,960
\nit starts creeping in us as our
\ncommunity uses more and more <\/p>\n
763
\n00:46:41,960 –> 00:46:46,840
\nChristian songs or Christian
\nsong books, you find the stuff <\/p>\n
764
\n00:46:46,840 –> 00:46:49,320
\nis rife.
\nSo the Praise the Lord’s <\/p>\n
765
\n00:46:49,320 –> 00:46:51,400
\nSongbook is being used by a
\nnumber of ecclesias in New <\/p>\n
766
\n00:46:51,400 –> 00:46:54,040
\nZealand for worship in the
\nSunday morning meetings. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:46:54,040 –> 00:46:57,280
\nThe Praise the Lord’s Songbook
\nis a conglomeration of Christian<\/p>\n
768
\n00:46:57,280 –> 00:47:01,320
\nsongs, and some of them are
\ntruly terrible. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:47:02,600 –> 00:47:05,120
\nBecause they openly.
\nSpeak about the Holy Spirit <\/p>\n
770
\n00:47:05,120 –> 00:47:06,680
\ncoming in and doing various
\nthings in us. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:47:06,920 –> 00:47:09,880
\nThey’re being still quiet, but
\nthe Holy Spirit’s moving in this<\/p>\n
772
\n00:47:09,880 –> 00:47:12,400
\nplace to heal and restore us.
\nThe minister is Grace. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:47:14,040 –> 00:47:16,280
\nSo actually we.
\nNeed to be vigilant on this <\/p>\n
774
\n00:47:16,280 –> 00:47:18,600
\nparticular topic.
\nVery, very careful about the <\/p>\n
775
\n00:47:18,640 –> 00:47:21,720
\norigins of our music.
\nAnd so with our hymn book, which<\/p>\n
776
\n00:47:21,720 –> 00:47:24,360
\nhas its origins with the
\nBrotherhood over the last 150 <\/p>\n
777
\n00:47:24,360 –> 00:47:29,200
\nyears, our Brotherhood has been
\nextremely careful in. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:47:29,200 –> 00:47:31,600
\nTerms of the hymns.
\nWhich they would accept from <\/p>\n
779
\n00:47:31,880 –> 00:47:35,080
\nfrom society as a whole.
\nIn effect, they modified a <\/p>\n
780
\n00:47:35,080 –> 00:47:39,640
\nnumber of them exactly to remove
\nsome of these specific elements.<\/p>\n
781
\n00:47:39,640 –> 00:47:41,760
\nSo it’s something we actually
\nneed to be careful of. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:47:42,080 –> 00:47:45,280
\nDon’t, don’t take it for granted
\nand just ignore it. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:47:45,400 –> 00:47:48,160
\nIt’s something we need to be
\nvigilant on in terms of our <\/p>\n
784
\n00:47:48,160 –> 00:47:51,960
\nmeaning and understanding.
\nAll right, OK, we’ve got a few <\/p>\n
785
\n00:47:51,960 –> 00:47:54,000
\nminutes left.
\nI’d like to look at this next <\/p>\n
786
\n00:47:54,000 –> 00:47:58,640
\nepoch of the of this outpouring
\nand an extraordinary way of <\/p>\n
787
\n00:47:58,640 –> 00:48:02,600
\nGod’s Holy Spirit power.
\nAnd that was the time when the <\/p>\n
788
\n00:48:02,600 –> 00:48:05,280
\nnation was brought together as a
\nwhole. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:48:07,560 –> 00:48:08,920
\nBecause if you think.
\nAbout it. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:48:08,920 –> 00:48:11,680
\nThe bringing of Israel out of
\nEgypt was one of those <\/p>\n
791
\n00:48:11,680 –> 00:48:14,080
\nextraordinary turning points in
\nhistory. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:48:14,600 –> 00:48:18,360
\nIt’s when the purpose of God
\nmoved from working with a man of<\/p>\n
793
\n00:48:18,360 –> 00:48:22,240
\nfaith, Abraham and his immediate
\nfamily, Isaac and Jacob, Jacob’s<\/p>\n
794
\n00:48:22,240 –> 00:48:26,200
\ntwelve sons, to now incorporate
\na whole multitude and to <\/p>\n
795
\n00:48:26,200 –> 00:48:30,560
\nconstitute them as a nation.
\nSo, So God’s work with the human<\/p>\n
796
\n00:48:30,560 –> 00:48:34,240
\nrace is now working with an
\nentire nation of individuals. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:48:35,320 –> 00:48:38,920
\nIt’s the point in time where
\nGod’s purpose with the land of <\/p>\n
798
\n00:48:38,920 –> 00:48:41,200
\nIsrael began to come to
\nfruition. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:48:42,360 –> 00:48:45,560
\nA place that Yahweh.
\nThy God has chosen to set his <\/p>\n
800
\n00:48:45,560 –> 00:48:48,440
\nname there, and yet it had been
\nfull of the Amalekites and the <\/p>\n
801
\n00:48:48,440 –> 00:48:51,200
\nAmorites full of iniquity.
\nHe was going to cleanse that <\/p>\n
802
\n00:48:51,200 –> 00:48:54,560
\nland and establish His covenant
\npeople in that land. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:48:54,840 –> 00:48:58,000
\nAn incredibly important time
\nperiod in the history of the <\/p>\n
804
\n00:48:58,000 –> 00:49:00,120
\nworld.
\nThis was the point when the <\/p>\n
805
\n00:49:00,120 –> 00:49:03,480
\nMosaic system of things, the
\nwhole Law of Moses and all of <\/p>\n
806
\n00:49:03,480 –> 00:49:06,360
\nthe worship associated with the
\nLaw of Moses was to be <\/p>\n
807
\n00:49:06,360 –> 00:49:08,440
\ninstituted.
\nYou know, the Law of Moses <\/p>\n
808
\n00:49:08,440 –> 00:49:12,880
\nlasted for more than a millennia
\nin terms of defining worship <\/p>\n
809
\n00:49:12,920 –> 00:49:16,240
\nwith Israel, over 1200 years or
\nthereabouts. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:49:16,800 –> 00:49:20,120
\nAnd so the concept of
\nestablishing a whole system of <\/p>\n
811
\n00:49:20,120 –> 00:49:25,320
\nworship also took place in the
\ntime of the Exodus. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:49:26,480 –> 00:49:29,480
\nThe Mosaic heaven and earth was
\ngoing to then run until it was <\/p>\n
813
\n00:49:29,480 –> 00:49:32,840
\nreplaced by the the new covenant
\nin God’s own Son. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:49:33,080 –> 00:49:37,080
\nSo truly this was one of those
\nfulcrum points of history. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:49:37,400 –> 00:49:41,400
\nAnd so, not surprisingly, it was
\na time when the spirit power of <\/p>\n
816
\n00:49:41,520 –> 00:49:44,520
\nGod was revealed in spectacular
\nways. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:49:46,120 –> 00:49:48,800
\nNow I.
\nAsked the young people if they <\/p>\n
818
\n00:49:48,800 –> 00:49:52,720
\ncould think of different ways in
\nwhich God’s power was revealed <\/p>\n
819
\n00:49:52,720 –> 00:49:54,240
\nat that time.
\nAnd of course, they came up with<\/p>\n
820
\n00:49:54,240 –> 00:49:56,720
\nall sorts which I hadn’t thought
\nof in my list. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:49:56,960 –> 00:49:59,440
\nThey mentioned the burning Bush
\nthat wasn’t conjuged, I think. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:49:59,480 –> 00:50:01,600
\nWell, yeah.
\nAnother one of them, one of the <\/p>\n
823
\n00:50:01,600 –> 00:50:04,200
\nyoung girls mentioned, oh,
\nsandals that never wore out. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:50:04,960 –> 00:50:07,160
\nThink, well, yeah, that’s not
\nnormal. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:50:08,560 –> 00:50:11,640
\nI mentioned many parents would
\nbe delighted if they could put <\/p>\n
826
\n00:50:11,920 –> 00:50:14,240
\nshoes on their children that
\nwere never going to wear out for<\/p>\n
827
\n00:50:14,240 –> 00:50:17,760
\ndecades.
\nSo these were unusual things <\/p>\n
828
\n00:50:18,080 –> 00:50:19,640
\nwhere God’s spirit power was
\ninvolved. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:50:19,640 –> 00:50:22,600
\nWe think of of miracles, you
\nknow, not too many people can <\/p>\n
830
\n00:50:22,600 –> 00:50:25,040
\ntake a stick and throw it on the
\nground and have it become a <\/p>\n
831
\n00:50:25,040 –> 00:50:27,960
\nserpent and then pick it up
\nagain and suddenly it’s a rod <\/p>\n
832
\n00:50:27,960 –> 00:50:29,720
\nagain.
\nOr put their hand inside their <\/p>\n
833
\n00:50:29,720 –> 00:50:32,640
\ncloak and pull it out and it’s
\nnow full of leprosy and put it <\/p>\n
834
\n00:50:32,640 –> 00:50:34,720
\nback in again and bring it out
\nand now it’s not. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:50:34,720 –> 00:50:39,240
\nBut we think of the plagues
\nthemselves and then we think of <\/p>\n
836
\n00:50:39,240 –> 00:50:42,760
\nthe parting of the Red Sea, that
\nthese were enormous outpourings <\/p>\n
837
\n00:50:42,920 –> 00:50:46,160
\nof God’s spirit power in an
\nextraordinary way. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:50:47,560 –> 00:50:50,040
\nBut it also happened more.
\nPersonally, in terms of the Holy<\/p>\n
839
\n00:50:50,040 –> 00:50:54,000
\nSpirit gifts being given to
\npeople, actually just before we <\/p>\n
840
\n00:50:54,000 –> 00:50:57,960
\ngo to those, listen to this
\nExodus 15. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:50:58,240 –> 00:51:00,520
\nExodus 15, verse 8 is the song
\nof Moses. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:51:01,160 –> 00:51:04,960
\nSo this is the song recording
\nthe triumph of going through the<\/p>\n
843
\n00:51:04,960 –> 00:51:07,680
\nRed Sea.
\nExodus 15, verse 8. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:51:07,840 –> 00:51:10,840
\nWith the blast of thy nostrils,
\nthe waters were gathered <\/p>\n
845
\n00:51:10,840 –> 00:51:13,440
\ntogether, the flood stood
\nupright as in heap, and the <\/p>\n
846
\n00:51:13,440 –> 00:51:15,640
\ndepths were congealed in the
\nhearts of the sea. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:51:15,840 –> 00:51:20,080
\nWhen it sees with the blast of
\nthy nostrils, the word blast is <\/p>\n
848
\n00:51:20,080 –> 00:51:22,880
\nruach.
\nWith the breath of. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:51:22,880 –> 00:51:27,040
\nThy nostrils, or again that its
\nblow with thy wind. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:51:27,240 –> 00:51:30,680
\nRuach and the sea covered them.
\nThey sank as lead in the mighty <\/p>\n
851
\n00:51:30,680 –> 00:51:33,240
\nwaters.
\nExodus 15, verse 10. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:51:33,480 –> 00:51:36,920
\nSo yes, the Holy Spirit power
\nwas revealed in some spectacular<\/p>\n
853
\n00:51:36,920 –> 00:51:40,760
\nways, but I’d like you to come
\nwith me to Numbers 11 because <\/p>\n
854
\n00:51:40,760 –> 00:51:43,760
\nwhat we find is, is what we
\nthink of as more convincingly. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:51:43,760 –> 00:51:48,480
\nThe Holy Spirit gifts were also
\ngiven out to people as well. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:51:48,760 –> 00:51:51,800
\nNumbers Chapter 11.
\nSo it’s, it’s very similar to <\/p>\n
857
\n00:51:51,800 –> 00:51:55,520
\nthe 1st century in that there’s
\nsome, some extraordinary things <\/p>\n
858
\n00:51:55,520 –> 00:51:59,080
\nbeing established here, a major
\nchange in how God worked with <\/p>\n
859
\n00:51:59,080 –> 00:52:01,480
\nhis people.
\nAnd so the Spirit gifts were <\/p>\n
860
\n00:52:01,480 –> 00:52:03,920
\npoured out rather extraordinary
\nas well. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:52:03,920 –> 00:52:08,280
\nSo Numbers 11, Moses is
\ncomplaining about the enormous <\/p>\n
862
\n00:52:08,280 –> 00:52:11,200
\nburden of carrying all of the
\nchildren of Israel. <\/p>\n
863
\n00:52:11,200 –> 00:52:14,920
\nAnd God says, that’s fine, I
\nwant you to take 70 elders. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:52:15,160 –> 00:52:18,960
\nAnd then he says, Numbers 11
\nverse 17, I will come down and <\/p>\n
865
\n00:52:18,960 –> 00:52:22,000
\nI’ll talk with you there.
\nHe said, And I’ll take up the <\/p>\n
866
\n00:52:22,000 –> 00:52:28,040
\nSpirit which is upon thee, and
\nwe’ll put it upon them, and they<\/p>\n
867
\n00:52:28,040 –> 00:52:31,080
\nshall bear the burden of the
\npeople with thee, that thou bear<\/p>\n
868
\n00:52:31,080 –> 00:52:35,280
\nit, not thyself alone.
\nOver to verse 25. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:52:35,280 –> 00:52:39,520
\nYahweh came down in a cloud and
\nspake to Moses and took of the <\/p>\n
870
\n00:52:39,520 –> 00:52:44,800
\nSpirit that was upon him, and
\ngave it unto the 70 elders. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:52:45,000 –> 00:52:47,880
\nAnd it came to pass that when
\nthe Spirit rested upon them, <\/p>\n
872
\n00:52:48,080 –> 00:52:50,760
\nthey prophesied and did not
\ncease. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:52:51,440 –> 00:52:56,360
\nSo there is the Holy Spirit
\npower of God which Moses had <\/p>\n
874
\n00:52:56,880 –> 00:53:01,480
\nbeing shared from Moses to the
\n70 elders who then had the <\/p>\n
875
\n00:53:01,480 –> 00:53:05,000
\nSpirit of Yahweh in them for the
\nwork that they were to do. <\/p>\n
876
\n00:53:05,320 –> 00:53:07,920
\nAnd it was also illustrated by
\nthe fact that they prophesied <\/p>\n
877
\n00:53:07,920 –> 00:53:11,000
\nand did not cease.
\nSo we can see there’s a very <\/p>\n
878
\n00:53:11,000 –> 00:53:15,080
\nspecific outpouring of the
\nspirit power of God. <\/p>\n
879
\n00:53:16,000 –> 00:53:19,400
\nLater that spirit power was
\ngiven to Josh, to Joshua, <\/p>\n
880
\n00:53:19,920 –> 00:53:23,000
\nNumbers 27, verse 18.
\nYahweh said to Moses, Take thee,<\/p>\n
881
\n00:53:23,000 –> 00:53:28,240
\nJoshua the son of Nun, a man in
\nwhom is the Spirit, and lay thy <\/p>\n
882
\n00:53:28,240 –> 00:53:31,320
\nhand upon him.
\nThat’s Numbers 27 verse 18. <\/p>\n
883
\n00:53:31,800 –> 00:53:36,120
\nAnd then by Deuteronomy 34 verse
\n9, Joshua the son of Nun was <\/p>\n
884
\n00:53:36,120 –> 00:53:40,880
\nfull of the spirit of wisdom,
\nfor Moses had laid his hands <\/p>\n
885
\n00:53:40,880 –> 00:53:43,680
\nupon him, and the children of
\nIsrael hearkened to him. <\/p>\n
886
\n00:53:43,960 –> 00:53:48,240
\nAs Yahweh commanded Moses, so
\nthe spirit of wisdom, again, <\/p>\n
887
\n00:53:48,240 –> 00:53:51,880
\nthat’s one of the gifts of the
\nHoly Spirit that’s mentioned in <\/p>\n
888
\n00:53:51,880 –> 00:53:54,920
\nfirst of Corinthians 12.
\nAnd so we can see the way in <\/p>\n
889
\n00:53:54,920 –> 00:53:59,600
\nwhich this the spirit power was
\nspecifically given to men to do <\/p>\n
890
\n00:53:59,600 –> 00:54:02,040
\ncertain things at those points
\nin time. <\/p>\n
891
\n00:54:02,360 –> 00:54:04,560
\nYou know, the work of the Spirit
\ndidn’t just end there. <\/p>\n
892
\n00:54:04,960 –> 00:54:07,760
\nAnother time period that was
\nextremely important was the <\/p>\n
893
\n00:54:07,760 –> 00:54:12,240
\nbuilding of the Tabernacle, the
\nhouse for God to be able to <\/p>\n
894
\n00:54:12,240 –> 00:54:15,400
\ndwell or the tent for God to be
\nable to dwell in. <\/p>\n
895
\n00:54:16,160 –> 00:54:21,720
\nAnd so in Exodus 31, God says,
\nsee, I have called by name <\/p>\n
896
\n00:54:22,040 –> 00:54:24,880
\nBezaleel, the son of you, right,
\nthe son of her, of the tribe of <\/p>\n
897
\n00:54:24,880 –> 00:54:29,880
\nJudah.
\nAnd I have filled him with the <\/p>\n
898
\n00:54:29,880 –> 00:54:34,040
\nSpirit of God in wisdom and in
\nunderstanding and in knowledge <\/p>\n
899
\n00:54:34,040 –> 00:54:37,800
\nand in all manner of workmanship
\nto devise cunning works, to work<\/p>\n
900
\n00:54:37,800 –> 00:54:41,280
\nin gold and silver and brass.
\nYou know, it wasn’t just that <\/p>\n
901
\n00:54:41,280 –> 00:54:44,640
\nBezaleel had done a really
\nclever apprenticeship. <\/p>\n
902
\n00:54:46,080 –> 00:54:50,120
\nAnd learned to be clever.
\nHe was actually given a special <\/p>\n
903
\n00:54:50,160 –> 00:54:53,720
\ngift by God to enable them to do
\nthat work. <\/p>\n
904
\n00:54:54,520 –> 00:54:57,760
\nVerse 6 And behold, I’ve given
\nwith him the holy of the son of <\/p>\n
905
\n00:54:57,760 –> 00:55:01,600
\na Heisman.
\nAnd in the hearts of all that <\/p>\n
906
\n00:55:01,600 –> 00:55:06,040
\nare wise hearted, I have put
\nwisdom that they may make all <\/p>\n
907
\n00:55:06,200 –> 00:55:11,200
\nthat I have commanded thee.
\nAnd so God actually gave Spirit <\/p>\n
908
\n00:55:11,400 –> 00:55:16,880
\nguided abilities specifically to
\na group of people to build the <\/p>\n
909
\n00:55:16,880 –> 00:55:19,480
\nTabernacle and the furniture
\nthat was in it. <\/p>\n
910
\n00:55:19,480 –> 00:55:23,000
\nIt’s not surprising when we
\nthink of of the beauty of what <\/p>\n
911
\n00:55:23,000 –> 00:55:24,560
\nwas there.
\nI would love to have been able <\/p>\n
912
\n00:55:24,560 –> 00:55:28,680
\nto see the Caribou.
\nWe’re just the thought of the of<\/p>\n
913
\n00:55:28,680 –> 00:55:32,960
\nthe mercy seat and the Caribou
\nfigures all beaten out of one <\/p>\n
914
\n00:55:32,960 –> 00:55:36,480
\npiece of gold.
\nHow do you do that just truly <\/p>\n
915
\n00:55:36,480 –> 00:55:39,640
\nextraordinary work.
\nWell that’s because those men <\/p>\n
916
\n00:55:39,920 –> 00:55:43,920
\nwere given the gifts by God of
\nwisdom and skill and <\/p>\n
917
\n00:55:43,920 –> 00:55:47,680
\nunderstanding to be able to
\nactually create those rather <\/p>\n
918
\n00:55:47,680 –> 00:55:52,120
\nextraordinary things, The hearts
\nof all who were wise hearted. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:55:53,480 –> 00:55:55,440
\nWe get that confirmed in Exodus
\n36. <\/p>\n
920
\n00:55:55,440 –> 00:55:58,840
\nThen wrought easily on holy
\nheaven every wise hearted man in<\/p>\n
921
\n00:55:58,840 –> 00:56:03,120
\nwhom Yahweh put wisdom and
\nunderstanding to know how to <\/p>\n
922
\n00:56:03,120 –> 00:56:07,000
\nwork or manner of work.
\nExodus 36 and verse one. <\/p>\n
923
\n00:56:08,520 –> 00:56:11,760
\nAnd then the presence.
\nThe Angel of the Presence dwelt <\/p>\n
924
\n00:56:11,880 –> 00:56:13,960
\nthere.
\nIt was, it was visible in the in<\/p>\n
925
\n00:56:13,960 –> 00:56:17,320
\nthe pillar of fire, in the
\npillar of cloud that led them <\/p>\n
926
\n00:56:17,320 –> 00:56:19,560
\nthere.
\nAnd also the glory of of this, <\/p>\n
927
\n00:56:19,760 –> 00:56:22,400
\nof the presence of Yahweh filled
\nthe holy place. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:56:22,680 –> 00:56:27,400
\nSo much so that it was fatal for
\nthe high priests to go in there <\/p>\n
929
\n00:56:27,600 –> 00:56:30,800
\napart from the Day of Atonement.
\nAnd then there was a special <\/p>\n
930
\n00:56:30,800 –> 00:56:34,320
\nprocess of ceremony they went
\nthrough before a high priest was<\/p>\n
931
\n00:56:34,320 –> 00:56:37,640
\nallowed to go into the Most Holy
\nPlace. <\/p>\n
932
\n00:56:38,840 –> 00:56:44,000
\nIt’s obvious this was an era of
\na special outpouring of the Holy<\/p>\n
933
\n00:56:44,000 –> 00:56:49,240
\nSpirit in all sorts of ways
\nbecause of God’s purpose at that<\/p>\n
934
\n00:56:49,240 –> 00:56:53,080
\nparticular time.
\nThere was of course, themed. <\/p>\n
935
\n00:56:53,080 –> 00:56:57,240
\nTo be a further time in history
\nwhere God’s Holy Spirit was to <\/p>\n
936
\n00:56:57,240 –> 00:57:02,320
\nbe visibly and very directly
\ndemonstrated on a significant <\/p>\n
937
\n00:57:02,320 –> 00:57:05,840
\nscale.
\nOnce again, it was going to <\/p>\n
938
\n00:57:05,840 –> 00:57:11,280
\ninvolve the ushering in of a new
\nera because the Mosaic system of<\/p>\n
939
\n00:57:11,280 –> 00:57:14,960
\nthings was to be removed.
\nThe Mosaic heavens and earth <\/p>\n
940
\n00:57:14,960 –> 00:57:18,360
\nwere going to be removed.
\nA better covenant, as it’s <\/p>\n
941
\n00:57:18,360 –> 00:57:23,960
\ndescribed in Hebrews 8 verse 6,
\nwas going to replace the Mosaic <\/p>\n
942
\n00:57:23,960 –> 00:57:27,120
\ncovenant, and this was then
\ngoing to incorporate the <\/p>\n
943
\n00:57:27,120 –> 00:57:30,880
\ngreatest work of salvation of
\nall time as the Holy Spirit was <\/p>\n
944
\n00:57:30,880 –> 00:57:33,760
\nmanifested to Israel in the work
\nof His Son. <\/p>\n
945
\n00:57:34,840 –> 00:57:37,280
\nAnd God willing, that will be
\nthe subject that we look at in <\/p>\n
946
\n00:57:37,280 –> 00:57:38,360
\nour study tomorrow.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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