" Still again we read in 2 Sam. Of the about seventy occurrences of the word pneuma (πνεῦμα) in Acts, fifty five refer to the Holy Spirit. 4. It united the Church (Acts 4:32) b. It was the Word of God done into wood, gold, silver, brass, cloth, skin, etc. “But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. Some will not make it. It is not an acquisition to be purchased at any price. It considers his personhood, noting that the Holy Spirit is a true person and not simply a divine force. There is much reasoning in these days about inspiration that appears at first sight very learned, but that will not bear much rigid scrutiny or candid comparison with the exact statements of the Word of God. They ministered chiefly to the chosen people, but the message was not confined to them. Truth hidden from man for ages and which they had not discovered and could not discover by the unaided processes of human reasoning has been revealed to apostles and prophets in the Spirit. Some are always won for God’s Kingdom. In the body of Christ, we each have a part to play for the common good of the body of Christ. Sometimes there is a certain reaction; a certain operation of God’s Spirit on our spirit produces a result, and that result opens the way for still larger results. ii.13, A. R. V., "Which things also we speak not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth combining spiritual things with spiritual words." If this laying hold of Christ is real it will suffice to save, for it is not the strength of the grasp, but the object grasped, which saves. It considers his personhood, noting that the Holy Spirit is a true person and not simply a divine force. a. and to walk on the ragged edge of the precipice where lurk the deadly perils? And with the Holy Spirit’s teaching there comes the power to accept what is taught. A change of a word, or letter, or a tense, or case, or number, in many instances would land us into contradiction or untruth, but taking the words exactly as written, difficulties disappear and truth shines forth. This moment has traditionally been called the birthday of the Church. Among these people we find those of great native gifts, capable of worthy achievement; but in their lives no evidence of the operation of the Divine. He has at least a vague impression of the awfulness of his sinful condition. But Paul never taught anywhere that the Lord would return in his lifetime. There is an episode where He spoke to the church at Antioch to separate Saul and Barnabas for the ministry. No prophet's utterance was of the prophet's own will, but he spoke from God, and the prophet was carried along in his utterance by the Holy Spirit. He kept constantly urging his servants to renewed exertions in their efforts to find other guests. Are all teachers? The accuracy, precision and inerrancy of the exact words used is amazing. Again we read in Heb. It was not mere architecture. To the superficial student, the doctrine of verbal inspiration may appear questionable or even absurd; any regenerated and Spirit-taught man, who ponders the words of the Scripture day after day and year after year, will become convinced that the wisdom of God is in the very words, as well as in the thought which the words endeavour to convey. To give us the eyes to see, the heart to appreciate, and the hand of faith to grasp the riches in Christ Jesus, this is the work of the Holy Spirit. 2:1). And we are not faithful to our Lord, not faithful to the Church of God, not faithful to our own profession, not faithful toward those who need our help, when we refuse, or neglect, to help discharge this duty. As he was still living when he wrote the words, he naturally and properly did not include himself with those who had already fallen asleep in speaking of the Lord's return. He gives this as a proof that the inspiration of the prophet does not differ from the inspiration of the artist or architect, but in doing this, he loses sight of the fact that the tabernacle was to be built after the "pattern shown to Moses in the Mount" (Ex. 1 Cor. All, let it be constantly borne in mind, the result of the operation of the Spirit of God, brought to bear on the minds and hearts of men through the preaching and teaching of God’s Word, and the administration of the Divinely ordained sacraments. There is much more which an intelligent confession of this part of our Creed should embrace than it was possible to set forth in that one address. Jesus had been setting the law given through Moses over against the Pharisaic traditions, and in doing this, He expressly says in this passage that the law given through Moses was "the word of God." It is made possible for the one to whom the call comes to accept. Both the Old Testament and New Testament acquaint us with the person and work of the Holy Spirit. The natural man is blind, deaf and dumb to spiritual things, and this includes faith. As a man, that is except as the Spirit taught him and used him, the prophet might be as fallible as other men are but when the Spirit was upon him and he was taken up and borne along by the Holy Spirit, he was infallible in his teachings; for his teachings in that case were not his own, but the teachings of the Holy Spirit. Yet, this initial step should be followed by successive steps continuing while life lasts; the result of which is an ever growing appreciation of the preciousness of the Gospel, the fulness of God’s love, the perfection of Christ’s righteousness, and the blessedness of the life hid with Christ in God. Do we yield to His gracious solicitations? Pentecost, oil on canvas by El Greco, c. 1600; in the Prado, Madrid. When we read these words, we are listening not to the voice of man, but to the voice of God. This is particularly true with that step which we call enlightenment. Today on Groundwork, let's discuss the meaning packed into these two simple lines and exactly what we're professing belief in when we recite them. 6. The Divine origin of nature shines forth more clearly in the use of a microscope as we see the perfection of form and adaptation of means to end of the minutest particles of matter. So that with the Lord’s invitation there goes, hand in hand, a constant gathering of souls as recruits for the Lord’s army. This is the reason we confess, as the Third Article teaches us, “I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord, or come to Him.” This is not a flattering confession. What good does it do us while we are ignorant of its existence? There is not one of the most distinctive and precious doctrines taught in the Bible that men have ever discovered apart from the Bible. Everything everywhere in human life substantiates the Scripture teaching that man is by nature spiritually dead, that a new life must be begotten in him. 1. We further believe that the Holy Spirit, as is the case with the other members of the family of the Deity, has a particular work to perform, especially with respect to the carrying out of the plan whereby the children of men are to be saved. Faith is not a natural attribute of the present inner-life, lying dormant, to be awakened by the proper environment, as are the emotions of anger and human love. This is the reason Jesus says: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, born of the water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God (St. John 3:3, 5). — St. John 16:13. Take the parallels of Luke and Acts and discern the work of the Holy Spirit through the apostles and the relationship of Jesus Christ's work. A community of God’s children is established. Answer: The Holy Ghost came down upon the Apostles ten days after the Ascension of our Lord; and the day on which He came down upon the Apostles is called Whitsunday, or Pentecost. Not in the least. The Apostles' Creed: The Holy Spirit. And this leading has special reference here to the Christian life. iii.7, "Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day if ye will hear His voice." ii.13, "For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe." 7. A very scholarly and brilliant preacher seeking to minimize the difference between the work of the Holy Spirit in apostles and prophets and His work in other men calls attention to the fact that the Bible says that Bezaleel was to be "filled with the Spirit of God" to devise the work of the tabernacle (Ex. Make it your guide and stay. The revelation made to the prophets was independent of their own thinking. The apostles by the help of the Holy Spirit completed their task. 2. Everywhere, in past and present times, the world has been full of people eagerly alive to the opportunities which the world affords, pleasure and gain; but averse, wholly dead, to the things of God. There are many who tell us to-day that we should test the statements of Scripture by the conclusions of human reasoning or by the "Christian consciousness." Nothing could be plainer than Paul's statement "in words which the Spirit teacheth." What was the work of the witness? We believe also that the Holy Spirit is an equal partner in all the great and multiplied activities whereby the universe was produced, and is controlled. We might call this an enlightment. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; …” The Lord knew that the disciples were not ready at that point to bear all that He could teach them. xii.29). The Holy Spirit as “Helper” did the work of revelation, making known to … This article is more than 11 years old. Before He ascends to the Father, Jesus breathes on His Apostles and imparts to them the Holy Spirit. At His Ascension, Jesus told the apostles not to start on their mission of making disciples of all nations until they received “power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8). In a similar way God says in 1 Thess. But some one may ask, "If the Holy Spirit is the author of the words of Scripture, how do we account for variations in style and diction? The prophet was simply the mouth by which the Holy Spirit spoke. I doubt not that the early disciples, in spite of their lack of understanding, and exhibitions of weakness, had as large a measure of the Holy Spirit when they stood on Olivet as the average Christian of today; but they went back to Jerusalem to wait, and watch, and pray for His larger coming. Everywhere throughout the Gospel reverberates the cry, “repent and believe the Gospel.” Everywhere, in one or another form, stands written the promise: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). This is the only way to growth in grace. May this series bless and inspire you. And as He went about on earth He was constantly inviting, urging men to come to Him that He might enrich them by the bestowal of His blessings. The biggest negative is that it is probably too wide ranging and could do with a bit more focus. In a similar manner, the Divine origin of the Bible shines forth more clearly under the microscope as we notice the perfection with which the turn of a word reveals the absolute thought of God. It was the Holy Spirit who spoke in the prophetic utterances. If Jesus Christ is the only Saviour of mankind; if what He has done, without any possible addition from any possible source, is sufficient for man’s salvation; if all that is needed for the appropriation of Christ, and all His blessings, is simply to take it by faith; then the question may recur, with renewed intensity, — what necessity can there be in the plan of salvation for the presence and work of the Holy Spirit? Today, then, we will continue this line of thought. This is the reason Jesus says, through the Apostle, “No man can say, say believingly, with an appropriating faith, “that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.” The perfect salvation in Christ Jesus awaits us, but the organ of appropriation is wanting. Throughout all ages Jesus stands at the portal of that narrow way which leads to heaven, and says: “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” He has made complete satisfaction for our sins. Nothing less will do. The teaching that the “ Spirit of the Lord God coming upon ” those who preach the gospel is the same as the “ Baptism of the Spirit ” the Apostles experienced during their ministry. It is true he says in 1 Thess. “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things….” (John 14:26). The doctrine is becoming very common and very popular in our day that the work of the Holy Spirit in preachers and teachers and in ordinary believers, illuminating them and guiding them into the truth and opening their minds to understand the Word of God is the same in kind and differs only in degree from the work of the Holy Spirit in prophets and apostles. Some see the Spirit as some sort of vague force that inspires people to certain heights of artistic expression or particular giftedness. Never has there been, never will there be another. It produced works with evidences (Acts 4:14-17, 5:14-16) c. It empowered the believers to witness (Acts 4:19-20). We read in 1 Cor. The child that has just laboriously learned to read a few sentences in its primer has not gone very far in comparison with a Shakspeare or a Goethe; but these men began in this way, and without it they could not have reached their later estate. 12:3. To request a printable copy [PDF] send an email to: editor@lutheranlibrary.org with the title of this post. And Bezaleel needed as much special inspiration to reveal the truth in wood, gold, silver, brass, etc., as the apostle or prophet needs it to reveal the Word of God with pen and ink on parchment. In comparison with the unutterable darkness which prevailed before it would not be without justification; but it is enlightenment only as the mastery of the alphabet opens the way to the great field of literature. Salvation full and free has been prepared by Christ, is found in Him, and received with Him. Jesus Himself tells us that it was largely His mission, on going back to heaven, to send the Holy Spirit to teach us all things, to lead us into all truth; that is, of course, all truth needful for our salvation. Even among the really sober minded, who have caught visions of the light of heavenly truth, who have heartily chosen the better part, how great the still inherent weakness, how frequent the failures. The necessity of this work, and the steps in its progress are the points under which our thoughts will be grouped. I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.". We do well therefore to carefully distinguish what Paul may have thought as a man and what he actually did teach as an Apostle. This helps us see that Jesus’ action of breathing on them on Resurrection Day was an initiation into the Holy Spirit, not the fullness they were meant to have. Here again we are told that the utterance of God's prophet was the word of God. But that there is only one way of coming into possession of Christ, and all that He has wrought for our salvation, is also clearly revealed. Thus, the work of the Holy Spirit as the Helper or Comforter has been completed. So with our Christian life. We Christians believe that there is a God one of the persons of which Being is properly called the Holy Spirit. It is alone by faith. When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth. In the many Bibles that I have read and worn out, I have marked with a red pen countless references to the Holy Spirit in both the Old and New Testaments. It is evident from these verses that the work of the Holy Spirit in apostles and prophets is of a distinctive character. xii.4, 8-11, 28, 29, R. V., "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.... For to one is given through the Spirit wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits: to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally even as He will.... And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues. And man has now no power of begetting it again. When thus borne along by the Holy Spirit it was God who was speaking and not the prophet. The only hand which can take the gift is faith. There is also the account of the Holy Spirit forbidding Paul to go to Asia to preach the gospel. Even Christian people, or those professedly so, give abundant evidence of the natural incapacity of the unaided human heart for the things of the Spirit. But it is the truth of all Scripture, and of enlightened experience as well. Some in the church see the Spirit as the dispenser of spectacular gifts. Christians talk about the Holy Spirit, but rarely know how to recognize the Spirit's presence and activity in the world. The fact that the Bible does contain truth that man never had discovered we know not merely because it is so stated in the Scriptures, but we know it also as a matter of fact. The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles on the day of the Pentecost is described by the Evangelist Luke in the opening chapters of his book of the “Acts of the Apostles.” God decided to make this event a turning point in world history. that in extent, or efficacy, it needs to be supplemented? “The carnal,” that is, the natural, fleshly, “mind is emnity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be” (Rom. This is the unmistakable teaching of God’s Word. x.15, 16, "Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that He had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord. John 16:12-13a: “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. Do all speak with tongues? Many do not like to make it. Acts of the Apostles, part 7: The Acts of the Holy Spirit. And after each new accession, the plaintive announcement went forth, “and yet there is room.” And that there might be no shadow of doubt as to the inclusiveness of His invitation, He says: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”. At first he sees spiritual things much after the fashion of the blind man who, after Christ’s first application, saw men as trees walking. The Seventy Disciples and Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ are those Whom our Saviour chose in addition to the Twelve and sent forth unto the work of preaching. The Holy Spirit kept him from this as from all other errors in his teachings. Corroboration of the truth of this condition we find everywhere, on the pages of all history, sacred as well as secular. If we could not account at all for this fact, it would have but little weight against the explicit statement of God's Word with any one who is humble enough and wise enough to recognize that there are a great many things which he cannot account for at all which could be easily accounted for if he knew more. What good does the heaven and earth filling riches of Christ do those who are ignorant of His true value, or dead to all power of appropriation? The dying thief on the cross, who in penitence and faith, clung to Christ in his extremity, received that which not only healed the wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores of his moral and spiritual life; but gave him that adornment of the inner life without which no one can stand approved before the throne of God. The priests and prophets of Israel were constantly delivering the message the heart of which was always God’s call. How difficult it is to win them to the paths which are sane and safe. Indeed, it is a mark of the Divine wisdom of this Book that the same truth is expressed with absolute accuracy in such widely variant forms of expression. Another Person than themselves was thinking and speaking and they were seeking to comprehend what He said. Holy Spirit works in the lives of believers to renew, sanctify, and make us holy. The book of Acts is called Acts of the Apostles but more aptly it is the work of the Holy Spirit working through the apostles. Do all interpret?" Jesus had repeatedly told the disciples that He was going to die and be raised from the dead, but th… Just a little patient study of God’s holy Word, just a little observation with grace enlightened eyes, will suffice to make this point clear. We are now dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. xxv.9, 40) and that therefore it was itself a prophecy and an exposition of the truth of God. There are those who think that in 1 Cor. Are we vitally interested in them? xxiii.2, R. V., "The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was upon my tongue." The Apostles' Creed: The Holy Spirit 14 Days This reading plan talks about the Holy Spirit's divinity, his full membership in the Godhead. Are we anxious to have Him? After Jesus ascended to Heaven His Apostles, together with Mary and other members of the original Christian Church, continued to pray together until the feast of Pentecost when, in accordance with Jesus' promise, "they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. xxxi.1-11). And His work for man’s salvation was complete. There is nothing in the Bible more inspired than the tabernacle, and if the Destructive Critics would study it more, they would give up their ingenious but untenable theories as to the composite structure of the Pentateuch. Over and over again in these passages we are told that it was the Holy Spirit who was the speaker in the prophetic utterances and that it was His word, not theirs, that was upon the prophet's tongue. In what way can we speak of an absolute necessity of the Spirit’s work? Nothing more is needed. We believe that He is the third person of the holy Trinity, that He is co-equal with the Father and the Son in all that makes each of these persons God. We will take as our subject. The Holy Spirit is the third member of the Trinity. The result of their work, the New Testament, is our complete rule of faith and practice, and provides all the guidance we need to please God and go to heaven. They are truths which have to do with the genesis of the Christian life, but they are not only for our Christian childhood, but vital yet for the ripest Christian manhood and womanhood. The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts . Just as fully God as the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit is unseen, yet very active, empowering individual believers and the Church alike. The first step in the process of bringing the spiritually dead to life and the aliens to membership in God’s kingdom is the proclamation of God’s desire that it should be done, and that He has made all provisions by which it may be done. The work of the Holy Spirit in apostles and prophets is an entirely distinctive work. Holy Spirit in Apostles and Prophets, and his work in other men, often refer to the fact that the Bible says that Bezaleel was to be "filled with the Spirit of God" to devise the work of the Tabernacle, as a proof that the inspiration of the prophet does not differ from the inspiration of the artist The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prophets and Apostles. We read in 1 Cor. In man’s original state of integrity he unquestionably lived in the sphere of faith, his whole life was a life of faith, of receptive dependence on God; but when sin came faith died. There has been a good deal of confusion about the person and work of the Holy Spirit. And to this end He sends forth His call. by Dennis Pollock . This is also a necessary inference from the fact that thought is conveyed from mind to mind by words and it is the words which express the thought, and if the words were imperfect, the thought expressed in these words would necessarily be imperfect and to that extent be untrue. Without this work no one can be saved. The utterances of the Apostles and the prophets were the Word of God. It contains truth that men never could have discovered if left to themselves. Mar 22, 2019. Jesus is the world’s only Saviour. The apostles received “the power from on high,” and they began to preach and bear witness to Jesus as the risen Christ, the King and the Lord. These who are only embittered and hardened withdraw, or appear only to oppose; those who are attracted, who begin to recognize in what God offers in His message that which fits to the needs of their souls, come out more and more decidedly on God’s side. 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