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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY 00:37 HOUR COMING TO YOU HERE FROM THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:39 ADVENTIST CHURCH NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:42 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR ONLINE MEMBERS AND THOSE WHO 00:45 JOIN US ON OUR REGULAR TIME TO STUDY THE LESSON TOGETHER. 00:49 WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH 00:51 THE HOLY SPIRIT. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON 00:54 LESSON #3 ENTITLED THE DIVINITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT . 00:58 NOW, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF TODAY'S LESSON, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD 01:01 ONE BY SIMPLY GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE, JUST 01:05 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN STUDY ALONG WITH US. 01:09 I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME OUR REGULAR CHURCH MEMBERS AND 01:11 VISITORS WHO ARE HERE TODAY. WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT 01:15 GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY, IT'S A BOOK ENTITLED THE TRINITY , 01:19 AND FOR THOSE WATCHING IN NORTH AMERICA, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO 01:21 SEND THIS TO YOU FOR FREE. JUST GIVE US A CALL ON OUR 01:24 RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER - THAT NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - AND 01:30 YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #166. AGAIN, IT'S A BOOK 01:34 ENTITLED THE TRINITY. THOSE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA, 01:38 IF YOU'D LIKE TO READ OUR FREE OFFER, JUST GO TO THE AMAZING 01:40 FACTS WEBSITE: AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY READ 01:45 OUR FREE OFFER RIGHT THERE. JUST TYPE IN THE LITTLE SEARCH 01:48 BAR THE BOOK ON THE TRINITY AND YOU CAN STUDY ALONG WITH US. 01:52 WELL, AT THIS TIME, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR LESSON, AS USUAL, 01:54 WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG. 01:57 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN ME. 02:04 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. AND I KNOW THAT THOSE OF YOU 02:09 HERE ARE READY TO SING, AND I KNOW THOSE OF YOU AT HOME ARE 02:11 DEFINITELY READY TO SING, BECAUSE WE'RE SINGING YOUR 02:14 FAVORITES, LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK, AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO 02:17 START WITH #306 - DRAW ME NEARER - WE'LL DO ALL THREE STANZAS. 02:24 JOIN WITH US - #306. (PIANO MUSIC) (SINGING) 04:35 >>THE NEXT SONG GOES ALONG WITH OUR THEME ON THE HOLY SPIRIT. 04:38 IT'S FOUND ON #270 - O HOLY GOD - O HOLY DOVE OF GOD DESCENDING . 04:45 IT'S ONE THAT WE DON'T SING VERY OFTEN, BUT IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL 04:48 AND, IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT, YOU WILL LEARN IT. 04:52 WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL FOUR STANZAS - #270. (PIANO MUSIC) 04:59 >>LET'S DO IT A LITTLE BIT SLOWER. (PIANO MUSIC) (SINGING) 06:57 >>I HOPE THAT IS YOUR PRAYER FOR TODAY 06:59 AND FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR. AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 07:02 PRAYER AND PASTOR ROSS WILL BE LEADING US IN THAT. 07:11 >>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 07:13 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GATHER 07:16 TOGETHER AND STUDY YOUR WORD AND, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE 07:19 LOOKING AT THE THIRD PERSON OF THE GODHEAD, THE HOLY SPIRIT. 07:22 WE KNOW, LORD, SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED AND SO 07:25 WE INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT, IN A SPECIAL WAY, TO COME AND GUIDE 07:27 OUR HEARTS, OUR MINDS - WE NEED HIM TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT THE 07:32 WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. SO BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER, FOR 07:35 WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 07:38 OUR LESSON TODAY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 07:46 >>MORNING. THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 07:49 HOW IS EVERYBODY? >>GOOD. 07:51 >>GOOD TO BE WITH YOU. WE'RE STUDYING A VERY IMPORTANT 07:55 LESSON DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND, YOU 07:59 KNOW, I NEED TO CONFESS TO YOU THAT, AS I'M STUDYING THIS, I'M 08:05 CONCERNED THAT WE WILL BE LIKE SOMEONE WHO IS STANDING ON 08:09 THE OUTSIDE, TALKING ABOUT DISSECTING AND EVALUATING AND 08:15 TESTING THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHEN REALLY, AS WE STUDY THIS, THE 08:20 MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ON THE INSIDE - 08:23 >>AMEN. >>OF US. 08:24 SO I DON'T WANT OUR LESSON STUDY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO BE US 08:28 ANALYZING AND DEFINING THE HOLY SPIRIT, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY THE 08:31 SPIRIT THAT GIVES US WISDOM TO UNDERSTAND WHO HE IS. 08:35 SO WE NEED THE SPIRIT IN US AS WE TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS. 08:38 THAT'S THE GREATEST NEED. AND WE'RE GOING TO ALSO BE 08:42 DELVING INTO SOME VERY - THE LESSON TODAY IS TALKING ABOUT 08:45 SOME INCREDIBLE MYSTERIES THAT I WILL FREELY CONFESS I 08:48 DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND. I PROBABLY DON'T EVEN 08:50 PARTLY UNDERSTAND. 'NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS 08:54 DARKLY' - SOMEDAY WE'LL UNDERSTAND THIS A LOT BETTER. 08:57 NOW, AS WE DELVE INTO LESSON #3 TODAY, WE ALWAYS LIKE TO START 09:01 WITH OUR MEMORY VERSE, AND THIS MEMORY VERSE, ITSELF, HAS A LOT 09:04 OF GOOD THEOLOGY IN IT. IT COMES TO US FROM 09:06 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13, VERSE 14 - 09:10 2 CORINTHIANS 13:14 - AND IF YOU'D READ IT WITH ME, I'M 09:13 READING IT RIGHT OUT OF THE QUARTERLY - IT'S IN THE NEW 09:15 AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE HERE. YOU READY? 09:19 "THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND 09:24 THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, BE WITH YOU ALL." 09:28 YOU'LL NOTICE THERE'S SEVERAL PLACES IN THE BIBLE WHERE THERE 09:31 ARE INTRODUCTIONS AND INVOCATIONS AND BLESSINGS, AND 09:35 THEY INCORPORATE ALL THE PERSONS OF THE GODHEAD, AND HERE'S ONE 09:39 OF THOSE EXAMPLES: LORD JESUS, LOVE OF GOD, FELLOWSHIP OF THE 09:43 HOLY SPIRIT. JESUS SAID TO GO BAPTIZE IN THE 09:45 NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, THE HOLY SPIRIT. 09:50 I'LL REPEAT SOMETHING I SAID LAST WEEK WHICH IS THAT, OF THE 09:53 DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE GODHEAD, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN BE, 09:56 SOMETIMES, THE MOST DIFFICULT FOR US, AS MORTALS, TO 09:59 UNDERSTAND BECAUSE GOD IS A SPIRIT - SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE 10:03 SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. AND WE LIVE IN THREE DIMENSIONS. 10:08 WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED, PRIOR TO THEIR SIN WHAT WERE THEY 10:14 WEARING? >>NOT MUCH. 10:18 >>WELL, IT SAYS THAT THEY HAD NO CLOTHES - AT LEAST, NO 10:20 ARTIFICIAL CLOTHES - BUT AFTER THEY SINNED, THEY NOTICED 10:22 SOMETHING DIFFERENT. AND THAT MEANS THAT THEY, 10:25 EVIDENTLY, HAD THESE ROBES OF LIGHT AND AFTER THEY 10:28 SINNED, IT DISAPPEARED. ADAM AND EVE COULD TALK TO GOD 10:31 AND TALK TO ANGELS THE WAY THAT WE TALK TO EACH OTHER BUT, AFTER 10:35 SIN, SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THEIR COMMUNICATION. 10:37 AND, FROM WHAT I READ IN THE BIBLE, I BELIEVE THAT WITH SIN, 10:41 A WHOLE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF MAN WAS LOST AND, BECAUSE THAT 10:47 SPIRITUAL DIMENSION WAS LOST, IT'S HARD FOR US TO COMPREHEND 10:50 SOME OF THESE SPIRITUAL THINGS - THESE SPIRITUAL REALITIES. 10:52 ARE THERE ANGELS IN THE ROOM NOW? 10:54 >>OH YES. >>WE CAN'T SEE THEM. 10:57 WHY NOT? BECAUSE SPIRITUAL THINGS 11:01 ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. AND SO, IT'S JUST VERY IMPORTANT 11:06 THAT WE REALIZE THAT THESE ARE SPIRITUAL THINGS AND WE NEED 11:11 GOD'S SPIRIT TO GUIDE US. SOMETIMES THE HOLY SPIRIT IS 11:14 PICTURED AS FIRE AT PENTECOST - SOMETIMES WIND. 11:19 WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED THE SPIRIT CAME DOWN LIKE A DOVE. 11:24 YOU SEE THE HOLY SPIRIT SOMETIMES SYMBOLIZED AS - DID I 11:29 MENTION WATER, ITSELF? YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE 11:32 THIS REFRESHING. AND SO, IT'S A DIFFICULT 11:35 SUBJECT, SOMETIMES, TO UNDERSTAND, BUT WE'RE GOING TO 11:38 DO OUR BEST AND LOOK AT A NUMBER OF VERSES IN THE BIBLE. 11:41 ALRIGHT, UNDER THE FIRST SECTION, TALKING ABOUT THE HOLY 11:43 SPIRIT AND GOD. NOW THE TITLE OF THE LESSON, OF 11:46 COURSE, IS THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE DIVINITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT . 11:52 IS THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD? HERE'S THE BIG QUESTION OF THE 11:54 LESSON TODAY - IS THE HOLY SPIRIT AS FULLY GOD AS 11:59 THE FATHER AND THE SON? NOW, I THINK MOST OF YOU KNOW 12:04 THAT THERE ARE DEAR PEOPLE THAT STRUGGLE WITH THE IDEA THAT 12:09 JESUS IS JUST AS ETERNAL AS GOD THE FATHER. 12:13 THEY BELIEVE THAT, YES, JESUS WAS DECLARED BY GOD - OR MADE BY 12:17 GOD TO BE THE SON OF GOD, BUT THERE WAS SOME POINT WAY BACK IN 12:21 THE FAR, REMOTE RECESSES OF ETERNITY WHEN JESUS DID NOT 12:26 EXIST, AND THEY QUOTE A VAGUE VERSE IN PROVERBS THAT'S REALLY 12:29 TALKING ABOUT WISDOM, THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, 'I MADE YOU IN THE 12:32 BEGINNING' - AND SO THEY THINK THAT GOD, SOMEHOW, CREATED JESUS 12:37 TO BE ANOTHER GOD. BUT PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE IN THE 12:42 PUREST FORM OF THE TRINITY BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS 12:44 EVERLASTING - FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. LET ME TELL YOU 12:49 SOME REASONS THAT I BELIEVE JESUS IS FULLY GOD. 12:52 NOW THERE ARE ANTI-TRINITARIAN PEOPLE THAT WOULD DISAGREE, I 12:55 KNOW, AND IT IS TRUE THAT SOME OF THE EARLY FOUNDERS OF THE 13:01 ADVENTIST CHURCH, BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM ALL 13:04 THINGS CATHOLIC, THEY THOUGHT THAT THE CATHOLIC - THAT THE 13:07 DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY WAS A CATHOLIC INVENTION AND THEY WERE 13:10 ANTI-TRINITARIANS - AND THAT'S TRUE - BUT THE MORE THEY 13:16 STUDIED, THE MORE THEY REALIZED, 'YOU KNOW, THOUGH WE MAY NOT 13:18 LOOK AT THE TRINITY THE SAME WAY AS OUR CATHOLIC FRIENDS DO, THE 13:22 TEACHING OF GOD THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT ALL BEING ETERNAL, 13:26 ALL BEING UNIQUE PERSONS - ALL POWERFUL, ALL KNOWING - IS A 13:31 BIBLICAL TEACHING. WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THOSE VERSES NOW. 13:34 THERE ARE SOME TEACHINGS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT - THERE'S 13:38 NOT A VERSE - I MEAN, YOU START TALKING ABOUT PURGATORY AND SOME 13:39 OF THESE THINGS, THERE'S NOTHING - THEY'RE JUST INVENTIONS - BUT 13:42 THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD VERSES THAT EXPLAIN THIS. 13:46 FOLLOW ME FOR A MOMENT: GOD IS LOVE. 13:53 CAN YOU HAVE LOVE WITH ONE BEING? 13:57 IF LOVE CANNOT BE EXPRESSED, CAN YOU HAVE LOVE? 14:01 SO IN ORDER FOR GOD TO HAVE ETERNALLY BEEN LOVE, THERE HAD 14:04 TO BE MORE THAN ONE. AND, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE, YOU'VE 14:09 GOT THE FATHER, SON, AND THE SPIRIT AT THE CREATION. 14:14 YOU'VE GOT GOD THE FATHER SAYING, 'LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR 14:17 IMAGE' AND 'THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE 14:20 WATERS'. YOU'VE GOT GOD THE FATHER, 14:21 SON, AND SPIRIT RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING AND YOU GO TO THE END 14:24 OF THE BIBLE WHERE IT SAYS 'THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY COME' - 14:27 SO YOU REALLY HAVE THE TEACHING OF THE SPIRIT ALL THE WAY 14:30 THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES - BUT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD? 14:32 ONE OF THE VERSES GIVEN TO US HERE IN THE LESSON IS ACTS 5 - 14:35 IT'S A STORY ABOUT - IT'S KIND OF A SAD STORY - THE DISCIPLES 14:40 IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CHURCH WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY 14:42 SPIRIT. NO MAN SAID AUGHT THAT HE HAD WAS HIS OWN. 14:45 THEY WERE SELLING THEIR POSSESSIONS, LAYING THE PRICE OF 14:48 IT DOWN AT THE DISCIPLES' FEET TO USE FOR THE SPREADING OF THE 14:51 GOSPEL AND SUSTAINING OF THE PEOPLE AND EVERYTHING WAS GOING 14:54 GREAT AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'VE GOT A VERSE - A CHAPTER 14:58 THAT BEGINS WITH 'BUT'. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 15:02 EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFUL: HOLY SPIRIT, CONVERSIONS, GENEROSITY 15:07 - BUT THERE WAS A CHARACTER AND HE INSPIRED HIS WIFE WITH 15:12 COVETOUSNESS - 'A CERTAIN MAN NAMED ANNANIAS, WITH SAPPHIRA, 15:16 HIS WIFE, SOLD A POSSESSION AND HE KEPT BACK PART OF THE 15:21 PROCEEDS, WITH HIS WIFE ALSO BEING AWARE OF IT.' - SHE WAS AN 15:25 ACCOMPLICE IN HIS IDEA - 'AND THEY BROUGHT A CERTAIN PART' - 15:28 NOW THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NOTHING WRONG WITH HIM SAYING, 15:30 YOU KNOW, 'WE SOLD OUR LAND AND WE'D LIKE TO GIVE 50 PERCENT.' 15:32 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT; BUT THEY SAID, 'WE SOLD OUR 15:34 LAND, WE CONSECRATE EVERYTHING WE GET FROM THIS SALE TO THE 15:37 LORD.' BUT THEY DIDN'T. THEY WANTED TO SOUND GENEROUS 15:40 BUT THEY WANTED TO REALLY KEEP SOME FOR THEMSELVES. 15:42 LIKE THE PRIESTS WHO PRAY LONG PRAYERS TO COVER THEIR THIEVERY 15:47 AND JESUS SAID, YOU KNOW, 'THEY BLOW THE TRUMPET BEFORE THEY 15:50 MAKE THEIR OFFERING' - THEY WANTED THE PRAISE OF MEN AND 15:53 THAT WAS THE LAST THING JESUS WANTED BROUGHT INTO THIS NEW 15:57 CHURCH IN ITS PURITY - AND IT SAID, 'HE KEPT BACK PART OF THE 16:00 PROCEEDS, HIS WIFE BEING AWARE OF IT, AND THEY BROUGHT A 16:03 CERTAIN PART AND LAID IT AT THE APOSTLES' FEET.' WITH SOME 16:05 FANFARE THEY PROBABLY SAID, 'THIS IS - WE SOLD OUR LAND AND 16:08 HERE'S THE FULL COST OF THAT LAND.' AND PETER SAID, 16:11 'ANNANIAS, WHY HAS SATAN FILLED YOUR HEART TO LIE TO THE HOLY 16:14 SPIRIT AND KEEP BACK PART OF THE PRICE OF THE LAND FOR YOURSELF? 16:19 WHILE IT REMAINED, WAS IT NOT YOUR OWN? 16:21 AFTER IT WAS SOLD IT WAS IN YOUR CONTROL, WHY HAVE YOU CONCEIVED 16:25 THIS THING IN YOUR HEART? YOU'VE NOT LIED TO MEN BUT TO 16:28 GOD.' NOW, HERE'S THE POINT: WHEN THEY LIED TO THE HOLY 16:32 SPIRIT - HE SAID YOU LIED TO WHO? 16:36 >>TO GOD. >>TO GOD. IS GOD THE HOLY 16:39 SPIRIT? >>YES. 16:40 >>IS THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD? I'M GOING TO JUST TAKE AN OPPOSING 16:44 VIEW - NOW, I BELIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT'S GOD - DON'T 16:47 MISUNDERSTAND - BUT SUPPOSE THAT YOU WERE GOING TO TAKE THAT 16:49 VERSE AND SAY, 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, ALL IT'S REALLY SAYING IS 16:51 THAT, IN THE SAME WAY, WHEN SOMEONE RECEIVES CHRIST - 16:56 RECEIVES YOU, THEY RECEIVE CHRIST. IF YOU'RE - THAT MEANS, 16:59 WHEN YOU LIE, SINCE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF 17:01 GOD, WHEN YOU LIE TO THE SPIRIT YOU LIE TO GOD. 17:03 AND THEY WOULD LOOK AT THIS VERSE IN LUKE 10:16, "HE WHO 17:06 HEARS YOU HEARS ME, HE WHO REJECTS YOU REJECTS ME, AND HE 17:10 WHO REJECTS ME REJECTS HIM WHO SENT ME." 17:12 AND SO, JESUS, THEY ARGUE - NOT ME, I'M JUST SAYING WHAT SOME 17:16 PEOPLE ARGUE WHEN THEY HEAR THIS VERSE IS THAT, WELL, ALL THAT 17:20 PETER WAS SAYING THERE IS THAT SINCE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A 17:23 REPRESENTATIVE OF JESUS, OR THE POWER, OR THE VEHICLE OF JESUS - 17:26 WHEN YOU LIE TO THE SPIRIT, IT'S THE SAME THING AS LYING TO GOD. 17:31 IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 'IF YOU DO IT 17:34 UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE, MY BRETHREN, YOU'VE DONE IT TO ME'. 17:37 AND SO, THAT'S THE ARGUMENT THAT'S MADE THERE, BUT I THINK 17:40 THERE'S A LOT MORE VERSES THAT EXPLAIN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S GOD. 17:44 AND WE'RE GOING TO DIVE INTO SOME OF THOSE HERE IN JUST A 17:45 MOMENT. IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, 17:47 SOMEONE'S GOING TO LOOK UP OR READ FOR ME 1 CORINTHIANS 2 - 17:51 WE'LL START WITH YOU IN JUST A MOMENT - AND I'M GOING TO READ 17:54 ISAIAH 40:13 AND 14 - IT SAYS, "WHO HAS MEASURED THE SPIRIT OF 17:59 THE LORD OR WHAT MAN SHOWS HIM HIS COUNSEL? 18:02 WHOM DID HE CONSULT, AND WHO MADE HIM UNDERSTAND? 18:06 WHO TAUGHT HIM THE PATHS OF JUSTICE AND TAUGHT HIM 18:10 KNOWLEDGE, AND SHOWED HIM THE WAY OF UNDERSTANDING?" 18:13 NOW, WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD - WHEN 18:15 YOU LOOK FOR DEFINITIONS TO DESCRIBE GOD, WHAT ARE THEY? 18:19 OMNIPOTENT - WHICH MEANS WHAT? POTENCY - MEANS ALL POWER - 18:24 OMNISCIENT? THAT'S WHERE YOU GET CONSCIENCE - IT'S KNOWING 18:29 ALL-KNOWING - AND OMNIPRESENT - >>IT'S EVERYWHERE. 18:32 >>AND I SAY OMNIPATHIC - MEANING 'ALL-FEELING' - THAT'S LIKE 18:35 ALL-KNOWING ALSO - SAME THING. ALRIGHT, SO WHEN YOU HAVE THAT 18:39 IN MIND IT SAYS, 'WHO'S MEASURED THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD? 18:42 OR WHAT MAN SHOWS HIM HIS COUNSEL? 18:44 WHOM DID HE CONSULT AND WHO MADE HIM UNDERSTAND?' 18:47 HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING. 18:50 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD KNOWS EVERYTHING. 18:51 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TEACH THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD? 18:53 'WHO SHOWED HIM KNOWLEDGE?' IT'S A RHETORICAL 18:55 QUESTION HE'S ASKING. GO AHEAD, READ YOUR VERSE, FOR 18:57 US, IN 1 CORINTHIANS - I'M SORRY - YEAH, 1 CORINTHIANS 19:00 2:10 AND 11. >>"BUT GOD HAS REVEALED THEM 19:05 TO US THROUGH HIS SPIRIT. FOR THE SPIRIT SEARCHES ALL 19:10 THINGS, YES, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. 19:14 FOR WHAT MAN KNOWS THE THINGS OF A MAN EXCEPT THE SPIRIT OF THE 19:18 MAN WHICH IS IN HIM? EVEN SO, NO ONE KNOWS THE THINGS 19:22 OF GOD EXCEPT THE SPIRIT OF GOD." 19:26 >>NOW THAT LAST PART OF THAT VERSE IS VERY IMPORTANT. 19:28 'NO ONE KNOWS THE THINGS OF GOD EXCEPT THE SPIRIT OF GOD.' NOW 19:32 YOU AND I DON'T KNOW THE MIND OF GOD BECAUSE YOU'D HAVE TO BE GOD 19:34 TO KNOW THE MIND OF GOD. BUT THERE IS ONE THAT KNOWS 19:38 THE MIND OF GOD AND THAT'S THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 19:41 JEREMIAH CHAPTER 23:24, "'CAN ANYONE HIDE HIMSELF IN SECRET 19:45 PLACES, SO I SHALL NOT SEE HIM?' SAYS THE LORD; 'DO I NOT 19:49 FILL HEAVEN AND EARTH?'" THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE 19:52 INFINITE COSMOS - NO CORNER - THAT GOD IS NOT AWARE OF. 19:57 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU - WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING AROUND WITH YOUR 20:00 PHONE YOU SAY, 'OH, I'VE GOT A DEAD SPOT HERE - NO RECEPTION.' 20:03 THERE'S NO PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GO - IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU 20:07 CAN GO FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT TO THE EDGE OF THE 20:09 UNIVERSE - IF THERE WAS A CORNER - YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT 20:12 THE CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE - IF THERE WAS A CORNER IN THE 20:14 UNIVERSE, YOU'D WONDER WHAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL, 20:16 RIGHT? IT JUST GOES ON. BUT THERE'S NO PLACE YOU CAN GO 20:19 WHERE GOD IS NOT THERE - THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE'S TELLING US. 20:23 ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS WOULD BE - THERE'S A STORY YOU FIND IN 20:27 NUMBERS 11:24 - GOD CALLED THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL TOGETHER - THE 20:32 SEVENTY ELDERS - AND GOD SAID, 'MOSES, YOU HAVE TOO MUCH WORK. 20:35 THE SPIRIT I GAVE YOU, I'M GOING TO GIVE THEM, SO THEY CAN HELP 20:38 YOU ADMINISTRATE. AND SO, ALL THE SEVENTY ELDERS 20:41 GOT TOGETHER, BUT TWO OF THEM NAMED ELDAD AND MEDAD DID NOT 20:44 FEEL WORTHY TO RECEIVE THE SPIRIT AND THEY DID NOT COME 20:47 WITH THE REST OF THE ASSEMBLY. SO GOD TOOK THE SPIRIT THAT WAS 20:50 ON HIM AND GAVE IT TO THEM.' CAN YOU THINK OF OTHER TIMES 20:53 IN THE BIBLE THAT HAPPENED? GOD TOOK THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH 20:56 AND GAVE IT TO ELISHA. GOD GAVE HIS SPIRIT AT 20:59 PENTECOST, SO THIS IS LIKE AN OLD TESTAMENT PENTECOST. 21:02 AND THOSE SEVENTY ELDERS WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND 21:05 THEY BEGAN TO PROPHESY - BUT ELDAD AND MEDAD DIDN'T COME, BUT 21:10 THEY WERE OFF TOGETHER IN THE CAMP. 21:12 THEY DIDN'T GO TO THE ASSEMBLY, DIDN'T FEEL WORTHY, AND SOMEONE 21:14 WENT RUNNING TO MOSES AND THEY SAID, 'ELDAD AND MEDAD ARE IN 21:17 THE CAMP AND THEY'RE PROPHESYING. 21:19 FORBID THEM!' AND THAT'S WHEN GOD SAID, 'ARE 21:23 YOU JEALOUS FOR MY SAKE JOSHUA? WOULD GOD THAT ALL HIS PEOPLE 21:25 WERE PROPHETS.' BUT HERE, EVEN THOUGH ELDAD AND MEDAD WERE NOT 21:30 AT THE ASSEMBLY WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT, THE HOLY 21:32 SPIRIT STILL FELL ON THEM AND THEY MAY HAVE BEEN A MILE AWAY. 21:36 SO GOD'S SPIRIT IS OMNIPRESENT AND HE SEES INTO EVERY HEART. 21:40 PROVERBS 15:13, "THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE IN EVERY PLACE, KEEPING 21:44 WATCH ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD." ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US 21:48 - WHOEVER HAS THAT NEXT VERSE - WHAT WAS IT, HEBREWS 9:14? 21:53 >>"HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO THROUGH THE 21:56 ETERNAL SPIRIT OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO GOD, CLEANSE 22:00 YOUR CONSCIENCE FROM DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD?" 22:04 >>YEAH, HERE IT'S TELLING US THAT THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT 22:08 - SO ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD IS HE IS SELF-EXISTENT - 22:12 EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. IS THE SPIRIT EVERLASTING? 22:16 YEAH, YOU FIND HIM FROM BEGINNING TO END IN THE BIBLE. 22:20 LUKE 1:35, "AND THE ANGEL...SAID TO HER, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL 22:26 COME UPON YOU," - THIS IS THE ANGEL SPEAKING TO MARY - "AND 22:28 THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST WILL OVERSHADOW YOU; THEREFORE, ALSO, 22:32 THAT HOLY ONE WHO IS TO BE BORN WILL BE CALLED THE SON OF GOD." 22:37 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT IN THIS ONE 22:40 VERSE. YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT? 22:42 IT TALKS ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COME UPON YOU, THE POWER OF 22:44 THE HIGHEST - WHO IS THAT? THE FATHER - WE'LL TALK ABOUT 22:48 THAT IN JUST A MOMENT: IS THERE A DISTINCTION IN THE ROLES OF 22:51 THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT? - AND "THAT HOLY ONE WHO IS TO 22:54 BE BORN" - HOLY SPIRIT, POWER OF THE HIGHEST - THE FATHER - HOLY 22:58 ONE THAT WOULD BE BORN - JESUS - FATHER, SON, AND 23:01 SPIRIT IN THAT VERSE. DO YOU SEE IT? 23:03 ROMANS 15:9 - NO, ROMANS 15:19, "IN MIGHTY SIGNS AND WONDERS, BY 23:09 THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT" - HOLY SPIRIT'S ALL-POWERFUL - "SO THAT 23:13 FROM JERUSALEM AND ROUND ABOUT TO ILLYRICIUM I HAVE FULLY 23:16 PREACHED THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST." AND SO THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 23:20 THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT. IS THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST 23:23 A NEW TESTAMENT TEACHING? >>NO. 23:26 >>WHERE DO YOU SEE THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 23:28 >>CREATION. >>THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED ON THE 23:31 FACE OF THE WATERS - WERE PEOPLE SPIRIT-FILLED IN THE OLD 23:34 TESTAMENT OR ONLY AFTER PENTECOST? 23:38 I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO SOME SERMONS ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT 23:40 THIS WEEK AND I HAD TO RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH ONE 23:43 PASTOR I WAS LISTENING TO. HE HAD SOME GOOD POINTS, BUT HE 23:47 MADE IT SOUND LIKE YOU'RE EITHER FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OR NOT 23:50 AT ALL, AND I DON'T AGREE. I SEE THE HOLY SPIRIT 23:53 COMING IN VARYING DEGREES. WHEN WERE THE APOSTLES FILLED 23:56 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? 23:58 >>AT PENTECOST. >>PENTECOST. 24:01 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE UPPER ROOM WHEN JESUS BREATHED ON THEM AND 24:03 SAID, 'RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT'? >>FIRE. 24:06 >>WHEN THEY WERE OUT CASTING OUT DEVILS, DID THEY DO THAT WITHOUT 24:09 THE HOLY SPIRIT? BEFORE PENTECOST? 24:12 CAN THE HOLY SPIRIT COME IN DEGREES? 24:14 >>AMEN. >>YES. 24:15 >>I BELIEVE THAT THE POWER CAN COME, YOU KNOW, YOU EVER SEE ONE 24:20 OF THOSE VARIABLE SPEED FANS? YOU CAN TURN IT AND YOU CAN JUST 24:23 KEEP IT ALL FULL - YOU'VE GOT THEM IN YOUR CAR, RIGHT? 24:27 YOU CAN TURN IT DOWN LOW - AND, BASED ON THE NEED, GOD TURNS UP 24:32 THE POWER. AND AT PENTECOST THEY'RE GETTING 24:34 READY TO GO TO THE WHOLE WORLD AND THEY NEEDED TO BE FILLED 24:37 WITH THE SPIRIT A TON - HE TURNED IT ON HIGH AND 24:39 THEN TURNED IT BACK DOWN. AS WE NEAR THE END OF DAYS, I 24:43 THINK GOD'S GOING TO TURN IT BACK ON HIGH AGAIN. 24:45 AND SO, I JUST SEE MANY EXAMPLES WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST SEEMS 24:48 TO COME IN VARYING DEGREES BASED UPON WHAT THE NEED IS AT THE 24:51 TIME. WAS DAVID FILLED 24:55 WITH THE SPIRIT? >>YES. 24:57 >>THE BIBLE SAYS 'TAKE NOT THY HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME.' AND WHEN 25:00 GOD FILLS YOU WITH THE SPIRIT, YOU MAY NOT ALL GET THE SAME 25:02 GIFT. DAVID MIGHT HAVE BEEN FILLED 25:05 WITH THE SPIRIT AND SPOKE OR SANG OR FOUGHT. 25:08 SAMSON WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HE BECAME VERY 25:10 STRONG. HE WAS FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT 25:12 AND REALLY DIDN'T SAY VERY MUCH. AND SO, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD 25:17 CAME ON PROPHETS SOMETIMES AND THEY SPOKE. 25:21 THE HOLY SPIRIT GAVE DIFFERENT POWER AND IN DIFFERENT GIFTS. 25:27 SO, YES, THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS THERE. 25:29 ALRIGHT, THERE ARE SOME QUOTES I WAS GOING TO READ TO YOU, YOU 25:33 KNOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO BELIEVE IN THE SPIRIT OF 25:35 PROPHECY - I SAY THAT BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE VISITORS WHO ARE 25:37 WATCHING THAT ARE FROM ALL DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 25:40 IN THE BOOK MANUSCRIPT RELEASES, VOL. 20 , ELLEN WHITE 25:44 SAYS THERE, "THERE IS ALTOGETHER TOO LITTLE MADE OF THE WORK OF 25:47 THE HOLY SPIRIT'S INFLUENCE UPON THE CHURCH. 25:50 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE COMFORTER IN CHRIST'S NAME. 25:53 HE PERSONIFIES CHRIST, YET IS A DISTINCT PERSONALITY." 25:59 NOW, IF ANY OF YOU WONDERED WHAT SHE THOUGHT ON THE SUBJECT, 26:02 THAT'S - THAT VERSE KIND OF COVERS IT. HE PERSONIFIES CHRIST 26:06 BUT HE IS YET A DISTINCT PERSONALITY. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 26:10 JESUS PERSONIFIES THE FATHER. CHRIST SAID, 'IF YOU'VE SEEN ME, 26:13 YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.' BUT CHRIST IS A DISTINCT 26:16 PERSONALITY FROM THE FATHER. AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS, DO WE 26:21 SEE THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT? 26:24 YOU HAVE - WELL, YOU DON'T SEE THE FATHER, YOU HEAR HIM, BUT 26:27 YOU HAVE JESUS THE SON IN THE WATER - IT'S - YOU KNOW, THERE'S 26:32 ONE TEACHING OUT THERE, IT'S KIND OF MODALISM, THEY BELIEVE 26:35 THAT THERE'S ONE GOD - IF YOU'VE GOT FRIENDS THAT ARE ONENESS 26:38 PENTECOSTAL, THIS IS WHAT THEY BELIEVE. THEY BELIEVE THAT JESUS 26:42 AND THE FATHER ARE REALLY THE SAME - THAT THE FATHER, THE ONE 26:44 GOD, REVEALS HIMSELF DIFFERENTLY. IT'S LIKE HE PUTS 26:47 ON DIFFERENT MASKS BASED ON WHAT HE WANTS TO COMMUNICATE. 26:50 SOMETIMES GOD THE FATHER WILL APPEAR AS JESUS AND SOMETIMES 26:53 HE'LL APPEAR AS THE SPIRIT AND - OR THE SPIRIT IS A FORCE. 26:58 AND THEY STRUGGLE WITH THE BAPTISM BECAUSE HERE AT THE 27:01 BAPTISM YOU'VE GOT JESUS IN THE WATER, THE FATHER SPEAKING TO 27:04 THE SON - AND SO, UNLESS JESUS IS A VENTRILOQUIST, - SEE WHAT 27:08 I'M SAYING - THAT DOESN'T WORK. JESUS IS CLEARLY IN THE WATER. 27:13 HE'S TALKING TO JOHN THE BAPTIST - GOD THE FATHER IS SAYING, 27:15 'THIS IS MY SON' - IT'S ALMOST DECEPTIVE - HE'S MAKING IT SOUND 27:18 LIKE IT'S COMING FROM HEAVEN - HOLY SPIRIT - GOD THE SPIRIT IS 27:20 COMING IN THE FORM OF A DOVE, AGAIN, JUST GIVING US SOMETHING 27:23 THAT WE CAN VISUALIZE, LIKE THAT PEACE, REMEMBER WHEN THE DOVE 27:27 CAME BACK WITH THE OLIVE LEAF IN HIS MOUTH IN THE STORY OF NOAH? 27:30 WHAT DOES THE WORLD USE A SYMBOL OF PEACE? 27:33 THEY GET THAT FROM THE BIBLE - THE DOVE. 27:35 ANYWAY, HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - THIS IS FROM THE BOOK EVANGELISM 27:38 P. 616, "WE NEED TO REALIZE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO IS AS MUCH 27:44 A PERSON AS GOD, IS A PERSON WALKING THROUGH THESE GROUNDS" - 27:49 SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT CAMP GROUNDS. 27:51 NOW THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS AS MUCH A 27:54 PERSON AS GOD WALKING THROUGH THE CAMPGROUNDS. 28:00 A LOT OF US RESPECT THE WRITINGS OF A.T. JONES. 28:04 HE WROTE, "THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT AN INFLUENCE OR AN 28:08 IMPRESSION, NOR PEACE, NOR JOY, NOR ANY THING. 28:12 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON, ETERNALLY A DIVINE PERSON." 28:18 AND SO, WE CAN SEE MANY OF THE EARLY FOUNDERS AND THE SPIRIT OF 28:21 PROPHECY, THEY UNDERSTOOD THIS. URIAH SMITH WAS PROBABLY THE 28:24 MOST FAMOUS OF THE EARLY LEADERS IN THE ADVENTIST CHURCH THAT WAS 28:28 SORT OF ANTI - HE WAS AN ARYAN - ANTI-TRINITARIAN BELIEVER THERE. 28:32 NOW, THE NEXT SECTION HERE TALKS ABOUT BIBLICAL HINTS THAT ALSO 28:37 TELL US ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 28:39 ISAIAH 63:10, "BUT THEY REBELLED AND GRIEVED HIS HOLY SPIRIT; SO 28:44 HE TURNED HIMSELF AGAINST THEM AS AN ENEMY, AND HE FOUGHT 28:47 AGAINST THEM." THIS IS ISAIAH 63 AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT, IN THE 28:51 OLD TESTAMENT, WHEN THEY REJECTED THE HOLY SPIRIT. 28:54 AND YOU CAN GO TO NUMBERS 14:11 FOR THAT REFERENCE. 28:57 "THEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES: 'HOW LONG WILL THESE PEOPLE 29:00 REJECT ME?'" - ALRIGHT, SO NOTICE THAT? 29:03 ISAIAH AND MOSES, IN NUMBERS, ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME STORY 29:07 - ISAIAH SAID THEY REBELLED AND GRIEVED THE HOLY SPIRIT; NUMBERS 29:11 SAID THEY REJECTED JEHOVAH. WELL, THEY'RE BOTH GOD, IS THE 29:16 IMPLICATION OF THIS - THESE ARE THE HINTS THAT THE 29:18 LESSON'S TALKING ABOUT. DEUTERONOMY 32:12, "SO THE LORD 29:22 ALONE LED HIM, AND THERE WAS NO FOREIGN GOD WITH HIM." 29:26 WELL, THEN THE BIBLE SAYS THE SPIRIT LED THEM. 29:28 AND SO IT SAYS, 'THE LORD LED THEM' - IT SAYS 'THE SPIRIT LED 29:30 THEM.' WELL, GOD AND THE SPIRIT ARE BOTH GOD. 29:34 2 SAMUEL 23:2, "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD" - AND THIS IS ACTUALLY 29:39 ONE OF THE LAST STATEMENTS OF KING DAVID - "THE SPIRIT OF THE 29:43 LORD SPOKE BY ME, AND HIS WORD WAS ON MY TONGUE. 29:47 THE GOD OF ISRAEL SAID," - NOW NOTICE, HE'S SAYING 'THE SPIRIT 29:50 OF THE LORD SPOKE BY ME; THE GOD OF ISRAEL' - HE'S CALLING THE 29:54 SPIRIT OF THE LORD THE GOD OF ISRAEL BECAUSE GOD AND THE 29:59 SPIRIT ARE ONE. YOU HAVE THAT THERE. 30:02 YOU SEEING WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE? 30:04 "THE GOD OF ISRAEL SAID, 'THE ROCK OF ISRAEL SPOKE TO ME: HE 30:07 WHO RULES OVER MEN MUST BE JUST, RULING IN THE FEAR OF GOD.'" 30:10 AND THEN WE HAVE THAT VERSE 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 3:16, 30:15 "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND THAT THE 30:18 SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU? IF ANYONE DEFILES THE TEMPLE 30:22 OF GOD, GOD WILL DESTROY HIM. FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS 30:26 HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YOU ARE." AGAIN, CONJOINING THE HOLY 30:31 SPIRIT AND GOD IN THAT VERSE. AND IT'S NOT ONLY IN 30:34 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16, IT'S IN 1 CORINTHIANS 6:19, "OR DO YOU 30:38 NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY 30:40 SPIRIT WHO IS IN YOU?" THE BIBLE SAYS YOUR BODY IS A 30:43 DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD - IT SAYS IT'S A TEMPLE FOR GOD. 30:46 IT SAYS THE TEMPLE FOR GOD, TEMPLE FOR THE SPIRIT - 30:48 GOD AND THE SPIRIT ARE THE SAME. 30:50 NOW, I'M GETTING READY - IF IT WOULDN'T LOOK LIKE A SPECTACLE, 30:54 I'D TAKE OFF MY SHOES BECAUSE THIS IS HOLY GROUND, BUT I'M 30:58 GOING TO TRY TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME THINGS I THINK ARE 31:00 IMPORTANT, BUT YOU NEED TO SAY IT CAUTIOUSLY, ABOUT WHAT IS THE 31:04 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT? 31:09 THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS. 31:11 MATTER OF FACT, I READ AN ARTICLE SOMEONE SENT ME LAST 31:13 NIGHT THAT TALKS ABOUT THE NINE BIG DISCUSSIONS IN THE 31:18 EVANGELICAL WORLD IN 2016 - YOU KNOW, WE'VE REACHED THE END OF 31:21 2016 AND EVERYONE'S SORT OF LOOKING BACK IN RETROSPECT AND 31:24 SAYING, YOU KNOW, THE MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE, THE BIGGEST 31:27 ARGUMENTS, THE BIGGEST STRESS - AND SO, IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, 31:30 THEY WERE SAYING, 'WHAT WERE THE BIG ISSUES?' 31:31 AND THEY PICKED OUT NINE - I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DIDN'T PICK 31:33 TWELVE - ONE FOR EACH MONTH - BUT THEY PICKED OUT NINE. 31:36 TOP OF THE LIST THAT THE EVANGELICALS WERE, OSTENSIBLY, 31:40 TALKING ABOUT THIS LAST YEAR WAS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 31:44 FATHER, THE SON, AND THE SPIRIT - THESE ARE TRINITARIAN 31:47 EVANGELICALS - THEY BELIEVE THE TRINITY VERY MUCH LIKE WE DO - 31:52 AND THEY WERE DISCUSSING DID THEIR RELATIONSHIP - WHAT IS THE 31:56 NATURE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND DID IT PRE-EXIST BEFORE THE FALL 32:00 AND THE CREATION OF THE WORLD? THE BIBLE SEEMS TO BE PRETTY 32:05 CLEAR THAT, AT LEAST DURING OUR WORLD, THAT THERE'S A 32:09 DISTINCTION IN THE ROLES BETWEEN THE FATHER, THE SON, 32:12 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND AGAIN, IT'S SOMEWHAT OF A 32:16 MYSTERY, BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE REVEALED. 32:18 THE GENERAL TEACHING ON THE SUBJECT IS THAT THE FATHER IS 32:21 THE HEAD DEITY AND THE SON IS THE ONE WHO REVEALS DEITY, AND 32:26 THE HOLY SPIRIT CARRIES OUT THE WORK OF THE DEITY. 32:29 WE PRAY, IT SAYS, 'TO THE FATHER, IN THE NAME OF THE SON, 32:35 THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT.' NOW, THERE ARE TWO 32:38 EXAMPLES YOU CAN FIND PROBABLY, IN THE BIBLE, WHERE SOMEONE 32:40 PRAYED DIRECTLY TO JESUS. CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THEY ARE? 32:47 WHEN DID SOMEONE PRAY TO JESUS? WHAT ABOUT WHEN STEPHEN 32:49 WAS BEING STONED? HIS CLOSING PRAYER WAS, 'LORD 32:53 JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.' RIGHT? 32:56 AND THEN - AND THAT'S ACTS 7:59 - AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE END OF 32:59 THE BIBLE, IT TELLS US THAT 'EVEN SO, COME LORD JESUS.' IT 33:06 COULD BE INTERPRETED AS A PRAYER TO JESUS AND SO YOU'VE GOT THAT. 33:12 OTHERWISE, EVERY OTHER TIME IN THE BIBLE, WHEN PRAYER IS 33:15 OFFERED, WE PRAY TO WHO? >>THE FATHER. 33:18 >>TO THE FATHER. THE PRAYERS ARE CARRIED BY THE SPIRIT - INSPIRED 33:23 BY THE SPIRIT - AND WE PRAY IN THE NAME OF - 33:25 >>JESUS. >>THE SON. 33:27 SO IT SEEMS THAT THE FATHER, AT LEAST DURING OUR WORLD, THE PLAN 33:33 OF SALVATION HAS AUTHORITY THAT THE SON RESPECTS AND IT - THAT 33:38 RESPECT WAS EVEN BEFORE OUR CREATION. 33:41 JESUS SAYS, IN JOHN 5:22, "FOR THE FATHER JUDGES NO ONE, BUT 33:45 HAS COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT TO THE SON." 33:47 NOW, THE VERY FACT THAT JUDGMENT WOULD BE COMMITTED OR RELEGATED 33:51 OR DELEGATED TO THE SON WOULD MEAN THAT THE FATHER HAD THE 33:54 AUTHORITY TO DELEGATE IT, RIGHT? HE'S SAYING, 'I WILL DELEGATE 33:57 ALL JUDGMENT TO YOU.' IF THE FATHER'S COMMANDING THE ANGELS 34:00 TO WORSHIP HIM, THE FATHER MUST HAVE SOME SUPREME AUTHORITY. 34:04 IF THE BIBLE SAYS, 'FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS SON' 34:09 - FOR GOD, THE FATHER, SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE - WHO'S 34:12 INITIATING THE GIVING? >>THE FATHER. 34:14 >>THE FATHER. SO, YOU SEE ALL THROUGH THE NEW 34:18 TESTAMENT THERE SEEMS TO BE GOD THE FATHER CREATED ALL THINGS 34:21 THROUGH CHRIST - THE LORD DELEGATED THE CREATION TO THE 34:25 SON AND ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE MADE BY HIM. 34:27 OH, BY THE WAY, THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD POINT: IF JESUS WAS 34:30 CREATED, AS SOME ARGUE, WAY BACK IN THE BEGINNING, HOW CAN IT BE 34:36 TRUE THAT ALL THINGS THAT WERE CREATED WERE CREATED BY CHRIST? 34:39 DID HE CREATE HIMSELF? SEE, IT SAYS 'ALL THINGS' 34:42 THAT WERE CREATED. SO JESUS WAS NOT CREATED 34:44 BECAUSE HE CREATED ALL THINGS. HE IS NOT A CREATION, 34:48 HE IS A CREATOR. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 34:50 >>THAT'S RIGHT. >>THERE'S A DIFFERENCE THERE. 34:53 JOHN 14:28, "...IF YOU LOVED ME, YOU WOULD REJOICE BECAUSE I 34:57 SAID, 'I AM GOING TO THE FATHER,' FOR MY FATHER IS 35:00 GREATER THAN I." IS THAT PRETTY CLEAR? 35:03 NOW, CHRIST ISN'T SAYING THAT GOD THE FATHER IS MORE GOD THAN 35:05 JESUS IS. CERTAINLY WHEN CHRIST WAS ON 35:08 THE EARTH HE LAID ASIDE HIS DIVINITY, SO IT COULD BE A 35:11 REFERENCE TO THAT, BUT EVEN IN THEIR DIVINE STATE YOU 35:15 CAN SEE A DIFFERENCE. LET ME - COUPLE OF QUOTES FROM 35:19 THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY HERE - AND THIS IS FROM THE BOOK 35:21 PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS PAGE 35: "SIN ORIGINATED WITH HIM WHO, 35:28 NEXT TO CHRIST, HAD BEEN MOST HONORED OF GOD" - GOD THE FATHER 35:33 - "AND WAS HIGHEST IN POWER." SHE'S SAYING SIN ORIGINATED WITH 35:35 THE DEVIL WHO, NEXT TO CHRIST, - CHRIST WAS THE MOST HONORED OF 35:39 THE FATHER - THE FATHER WAS BESTOWING THE HONOR. 35:41 WHO CAME FIRST, THE REBELLION OF LUCIFER OR THE CREATION OF OUR 35:43 WORLD? WHAT CAME FIRST? 35:45 >>REBELLION OF LUCIFER. >>REBELLION OF LUCIFER. 35:47 SO, EVEN WAY BACK BEFORE OUR WORLD WAS CREATED, THERE SEEMS 35:53 TO HAVE BEEN SOME RESPECTED DISTINCTION OF ROLES BETWEEN THE 35:58 FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT. ARE YOU SEEING THAT? 36:01 NOW, THE REASON I'M GOING TO SPEND TIME ON THIS IS BECAUSE 36:03 I'M RUNNING INTO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING THAT, FOR 36:07 LACK OF A BETTER TERM, WOULD BE CALLED THE HOLY TRIPLETS - 36:11 MEANING THAT BEFORE THE FALL OF MAN, GOD THE FATHER, THE SON, 36:16 AND THE SPIRIT WERE ALL IDENTICAL IN EVERYTHING. 36:19 THE BIBLE, I DON'T BELIEVE, TEACHES THAT. 36:22 SO YOU'RE GOING TO - IF YOU RUN INTO THIS HOLY TRIPLET THEOLOGY, 36:26 I DON'T THINK YOU CAN SUPPORT THAT. 36:27 NOW, ONE REASON THAT AS ADVENTISTS WE KNOW BETTER - GOD 36:31 DOES NOT ONLY HAVE HIS DISTINGUISHING ROLES THAT BECAME 36:35 NECESSARY WHEN OUR WORLD WAS CREATED. DOES GOD HAVE OTHER 36:38 UNFALLEN WORLDS THAT PRE-EXISTED BEFORE OUR WORLD? 36:43 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT? YEAH, THERE'S OTHER LIFE. 36:46 IT SAYS CHRIST MADE THE WORLDS. SO HE DIDN'T SUDDENLY HAVE 36:48 TO CREATE THIS ORDER OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE 36:52 FATHER, SON, AND THE SPIRIT. WHEN OUR WORLD CAME INTO 36:54 EXISTENCE AND WITH THE FALL OF MAN THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT 36:57 HAD THAT PRIOR TO THE CREATION OF OUR WORLD. ANOTHER QUOTE HERE 37:02 - THIS IS FROM - SAME BOOK - PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS - AGAIN, 37:07 SAME CHAPTER - 35, "INSTEAD OF SEEKING TO MAKE GOD SUPREME IN 37:12 THE AFFECTIONS AND ALLEGIANCE OF ALL CREATED BEINGS, IT WAS HIS 37:15 ENDEAVOR TO SECURE THEIR SERVICE AND LOYALTY TO HIMSELF" - IT'S 37:18 TALKING ABOUT THE FALL OF LUCIFER - "AND COVETING THE 37:20 GLORY WITH WHICH THE INFINITE FATHER HAD INVESTED IN HIS SON. 37:27 BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD IT SAYS THE INFINITE FATHER HAD 37:31 INVESTED. NOW, IF YOU HAVE AN INVESTITURE - ANY OF YOU BEEN TO 37:35 A PATHFINDER INVESTITURE PROGRAM? 37:38 DOES THE CANDIDATE GRADUATING PATHFINDER INVEST THE OLD-TIME 37:44 PATHFINDER OR DOES THE EXPERIENCED AUTHORITY INVEST THE 37:50 - THE GRADUATE - THE ONE WHO'S ACCOMPLISHED HIS TASK? 37:53 IT'S THE SUPERIOR THAT DOES THAT. 37:55 NOW, THE FACT THAT GOD THE FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT 38:00 RECOGNIZE, VOLUNTARILY, AN ORDER AMONG THEM, DOES THAT MEAN THAT 38:07 JESUS IS LESS GOD OR THE SPIRIT IS LESS GOD? NO, IF THEY'RE 38:10 ALL-POWERFUL AND THEY'RE ALL-KNOWING, THEY'RE DIVINE. 38:12 THEY VOLUNTARILY, BECAUSE THEY ARE MOTIVATED BY LOVE, RESPECT A 38:17 DISTINCTION IN ROLES. AND SO, YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE. 38:20 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE, AND THIS IS THE BOOK SPIRIT OF 38:22 PROPHECY VOLUME 2, PAGE 9, "THE SON OF GOD WAS NEXT IN AUTHORITY 38:29 TO THE GREAT LAW GIVER. HE KNEW THAT HIS LIFE ALONE 38:32 COULD BE SUFFICIENT TO RANSOM FALLEN MAN." IT'S TALKING ABOUT 38:35 WAY BACK AT THE FALL HE WAS NEXT IN AUTHORITY TO GOD. ALRIGHT, 38:41 LET ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE OTHER VERSES FROM THE BIBLE. 38:45 HEBREWS 1 - AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME IN A MINUTE 38:47 MATTHEW 28:18, OKAY? YOU GUYS CONFUSED ME THIS TIME 38:52 BECAUSE YOU GOT - YOU'RE MIXED UP - USUALLY YOU GO IN ORDER. 38:55 HEBREWS 1:1 AND 2, "GOD, WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN VARIOUS 39:01 WAYS SPOKE IN TIME PAST TO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, HAS IN 39:05 THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED 39:10 HEIR OF ALL THINGS," - SO THE FATHER APPOINTED THE SON HEIR, 39:13 DO YOU SEE THAT? - "THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS;" - 39:15 HE MADE THE WORLDS THROUGH CHRIST - THE FATHER APPOINTED 39:18 THE SON. THERE'S THIS RESPECTED AUTHORITY. COLOSSIANS 1:16, "FOR 39:26 BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THAT ARE IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE 39:28 ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THRONES OR DOMINIONS OR 39:31 AUTHORITIES [PRINCIPALITIES OR POWERS]. 39:33 ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM." 39:36 AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE ALREADY READ JOHN 3:16. 39:38 GO AHEAD, READ MATTHEW 28:18 FOR US. 39:41 >>"AND JESUS CAME AND SPOKE TO THEM, SAYING, "ALL AUTHORITY HAS 39:46 BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH." 39:50 >>SO CHRIST IS GIVEN ALL AUTHORITY. 39:52 NOW THIS IS A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING BECAUSE YOU COULD SAY, 39:55 'IF HE HAS ALL AUTHORITY, THEN THERE'S NO HIGHER AUTHORITY. 40:00 BUT IT SAYS THE AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN. WELL, WHO IS IT GIVEN BY? 40:05 WHO IN THE WORLD OUT THERE COULD POSSIBLY GIVE CHRIST THIS 40:08 AUTHORITY? THAT'S GOD THE FATHER. 40:11 THEN AGAIN, IT WOULD BE ARGUED, 'WELL, THAT'S JUST WHILE HE WAS 40:14 HERE ON EARTH.' LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE, 1 CORINTHIANS 40:16 15:27, "FOR 'HE'" - GOD THE FATHER - "'HAS PUT ALL THINGS 40:22 UNDER HIS FEET.' BUT WHEN HE SAYS 'ALL THINGS ARE PUT IN 40:25 SUBJECTION' IT IS PLAIN THAT HE IS EXCEPTED, 'WHO PUT ALL THINGS 40:30 UNDER HIM.' PHILIPPIANS 2:9, "THEREFORE GOD ALSO HAS HIGHLY 40:35 EXALTED HIM AND GIVEN HIM THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY 40:39 NAME," - SO WHO IS THE ONE BEING HIGHLY EXALTED? 40:42 >>JESUS. >>JESUS. WHO IS THE ONE WHO 40:44 HIGHLY EXALTS HIM? >>THE FATHER. 40:46 >>THE FATHER. >>YOU FIND THIS - THESE ARE JUST 40:47 A FEW VERSES - YOU FIND THIS ALL THROUGH THE NEW TESTAMENT. 40:51 AND SO, THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT, AT LEAST ON EARTH, THERE 40:53 IS A DISTINCTION OF AUTHORITY, BUT HOW FAR BACK DOES IT GO? 40:59 I BELIEVE THAT THE EARLY CHURCH UNDERSTOOD THAT THESE ROLES ARE 41:04 ETERNAL IN NATURE. OKAY, WE NEED TO MOVE ON WITH THE LESSON - 41:09 THE DIVINE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR NEXT SECTION. 41:13 TITUS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 4, "BUT WHEN THE KINDNESS AND THE LOVE 41:17 OF GOD OUR SAVIOR TOWARD MAN APPEARED, NOT BY WORKS OF 41:20 RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH WE HAVE DONE, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY 41:23 HE SAVED US, THROUGH THE WASHING AND REGENERATION AND RENEWING OF 41:28 THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM HE POURED OUT ON US ABUNDANTLY" - YOU 41:32 NOTICE IT SAYS 'WHOM HE POURED OUT ON US ABUNDANTLY THROUGH 41:35 JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR.' IS THE HOLY SPIRIT A FORCE OR IS THE 41:39 HOLY SPIRIT A PERSON? >>PERSON. 41:44 >>SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, IT LOOKS LIKE THE HOLY SPIRIT'S A FORCE 41:46 BECAUSE HE HAS A POWER, BUT CHRIST CLEARLY CALLS HIM A HE. 41:54 AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT AND WE OFTEN, YOU 41:58 KNOW, JESUS SAID, THE WIND BLOWS THROUGH THE TREES AND YOU CAN 42:02 HEAR THE SOUND OF IT, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM OR 42:05 WHERE IT'S GOING. SO THEN HE SAYS THIS IS LIKE THE NEW BIRTH 42:08 - THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT THAT WORKS IN US. IT'S A PERSON - THE 42:12 BIBLE TALKS ABOUT HAVING A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH 42:14 JESUS. NOW THIS IS ALL RELATED SO STAY WITH ME. 42:18 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TRINITY BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 42:21 RELATIONSHIP OF THE SPIRIT WITH GOD THE FATHER AND THE SON, BUT 42:25 CHRIST SAID, 'IT'S EXPEDIENT THAT I GO FOR UNLESS I GO I 42:29 CANNOT SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT...BUT I WILL BE WITH YOU 42:33 WHEREVER YOU GO.' NOW, IS JESUS OMNIPRESENT NOW IN HIS BODY? 42:41 DOES CHRIST HAVE A PHYSICAL BODY? 42:42 AT HIS RESURRECTION? LET'S START WITH THAT. 42:44 HE DOES. HE APPEARED - 'TOUCH ME, HOLD 42:46 ME, FEEL MY HANDS, SEE I'M REAL.' HE ATE IN FRONT OF THEM - 42:48 HE SAID, 'I'VE GOT A BODY.' HE'S ETERNALLY ALIGNED HIMSELF 42:52 WITH THE HUMAN FAMILY. DID JESUS APPEAR SEVERAL 42:56 TIMES AFTER THE RESURRECTION? >>YES. 42:59 >>DOES HE EVER APPEAR AT TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME? 43:03 >>NO. >>NO RECORD OF THAT HAPPENING. 43:06 THAT'S WHY HE SAID 'IT'S IMPORTANT THAT I GO, BECAUSE I 43:09 CAN ONLY BE WITH YOU PERSONALLY ONE ON ONE. 43:14 I HAVE FOREVER ALIGNED MYSELF WITH THE HUMAN FAMILY THROUGH 43:17 THE INCARNATION.' GOD - JESUS DID NOT GIVE UP THE INCARNATION 43:22 AFTER THE RESURRECTION. THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST WAS 43:26 AN ETERNAL SACRIFICE THAT JESUS MADE, IN THAT HE TOOK ON A HUMAN 43:31 FORM. NOW, HE'S ALL-KNOWING. HE'S ALL-POWERFUL. 43:34 HE'S WITH US THROUGH GOD THE SPIRIT, BECAUSE HE SAID, 'IF 43:36 YOU'VE SEEN ME YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER.' AND IT'S ALSO TRUE THAT 43:39 IF YOU SEE THE SPIRIT, YOU HAVE THE SON. 43:43 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? SO THE SPIRIT CAN BE WITH ALL OF 43:45 YOU ALWAYS WHEREVER YOU ARE, BUT I'M NOW AT THE RIGHT 43:49 HAND OF THE FATHER. DOESN'T THE BIBLE SEEM TO PLACE 43:51 JESUS AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS? IT SAYS HE'S IN THE HOLY PLACE, 43:55 HE'S IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE - 'I'M COMING AGAIN.' 43:58 IF HE'S ALREADY HERE, WHY DOES HE NEED TO COME? 44:00 YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? HE'S GOT A BODY NOW. 44:03 HE'S GOT A PLACE. SO, AGAIN, WE'RE ON 44:05 HOLY GROUND HERE. SO I'M SAYING THESE THINGS BY 44:07 PERMISSION, NOT BY COMMANDMENT, BUT THIS IS MY UNDERSTANDING. 44:11 IT MAKES YOU SHUDDER WHEN YOU THINK - TEACHING, YOU HAVE 44:16 GREATER ACCOUNTABILITY - WHEN YOU START TEACHING ABOUT GOD, 44:19 BOY YOU BETTER TREMBLE BECAUSE IT'S SACRED BUSINESS. 44:25 ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON HERE. WHAT WAS THE LAST VERSE I READ? 44:30 >>TITUS. >>TITUS. 44:31 LET'S GO TO ROMANS 8:2 - THANK YOU, DEAR - ROMANS 8:2, "FOR THE 44:34 LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS HAS MADE ME FREE 44:38 FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH." THERE'S A SPIRIT OF LIFE IN 44:41 JESUS CHRIST COMES THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 44:43 ISAIAH 6:8 THROUGH 10, "ALSO I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD, 44:48 SAYING: 'WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US?' 44:51 YOU NOTICE HE SAYS, 'WHO WILL I SEND?' 44:53 AND THEN SAID, 'WHO WILL GO FOR US?' 44:55 GOD SAID, 'LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR...' YOU KNOW ANOTHER PLACE 44:58 WHERE GOD SAYS 'US'? IN GENESIS 11, THE TOWER OF BABEL. 45:06 THE MAN HAS BECOME LIKE US TO KNOW GOOD AND EVIL IN THE GARDEN 45:10 OF EDEN, AND SAID, IN GENESIS 11 WHEN THEY'RE MAKING THE TOWER, 45:15 GOD SAYS 'US' AGAIN IN THAT VERSE. ISAIAH 8, 'I HEARD THE 45:19 VOICE OF THE LORD, SAYING:" - OR ISAIAH 6:8 - "'WHO SHALL GO FOR 45:23 US?'" HE SAID, "'HERE AM I! SEND ME.' AND HE SAID, 'GO, 45:26 AND TELL THIS PEOPLE: 'KEEP ON HEARING, BUT DO NOT UNDERSTAND; 45:31 KEEP ON SEEING, BUT DO NOT PERCEIVE. 45:32 MAKE THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE DULL, AND THEIR EARS HEAVY, AND 45:36 SHUT THEIR EYES; LEST THEY SEE WITH THEIR EYES, AND HEAR WITH 45:38 THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, AND RETURN AND BE 45:40 HEALED.'" NOW PETER, QUOTING ISAIAH SAYS IN ACTS 28:25, "SO 45:46 WHEN THEY DID NOT AGREE AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY DEPARTED AFTER 45:49 PAUL HAD SAID ONE WORD: 'THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE RIGHTLY 45:52 THROUGH ISAIAH THE PROPHET TO OUR FATHERS, SAYING, 'GO TO THIS 45:55 PEOPLE AND SAY: 'HEARING YOU WILL HEAR, AND SHALL NOT 45:57 UNDERSTAND; AND SEEING YOU WILL SEE, AND NOT PERCEIVE;''" NOW, 46:00 DO YOU CATCH WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? 46:03 IN ISAIAH, THE LORD SAID. PAUL, REFERRING TO WHEN THE LORD 46:08 SPOKE IN ISAIAH SAID, 'THE HOLY SPIRIT' SPOKE. HE'S SAYING IT 46:12 WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT - ISAIAH SAYS IT WAS GOD - JEHOVAH. 46:16 IT'S BECAUSE GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE BOTH GOD, OKAY? 46:21 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? ALRIGHT, I'VE GOT MORE VERSES. 46:24 LET'S LOOK, JUST IN TYING THIS OFF NOW, I WANT TO LOOK AT A 46:28 NUMBER OF VERSES WHERE YOU CAN FIND EVIDENCE FOR THE FATHER, 46:33 SON, AND SPIRIT IN ONE VERSE - THAT THEY'RE ALL THERE. 46:36 I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT GENESIS - GOD SAID, 'LET US', BUT WE'RE 46:39 GOING TO LOOK AT A NUMBER. NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR 46:41 ME IN A MOMENT JOHN 14:26 - THAT'S APPROPRIATE, 46:45 JOHN'LL READ JOHN. ALRIGHT, 1 PETER 1:2, "ELECT 46:48 ACCORDING TO THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER, IN 46:52 SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT, FOR OBEDIENCE AND SPRINKLING 46:56 OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST:" THERE YOU'VE GOT IT: GOD THE 46:58 FATHER - SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT - "...THE BLOOD OF JESUS 47:02 CHRIST: GRACE BE TO YOU AND PEACE BE MULTIPLIED." 47:05 MATTER OF FACT, YOU WILL FIND IN THE INTRODUCTIONS THAT PAUL 47:10 MAKES TO HIS LETTERS, THERE'S ALMOST ALWAYS A REFERENCE TO THE 47:13 FATHER AND SON AND FREQUENTLY FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT. 47:16 ALL ARE INVOKED IN THE INTRODUCTION AND SOMETIMES THE 47:19 CONCLUSION OF THESE LETTERS. 2 CORINTHIANS 13:14 - I THINK THIS 47:25 IS OUR MEMORY VERSE - "THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND 47:28 THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BE 47:31 WITH YOU ALL." IT'S A BLESSING THAT'S BEEN PRONOUNCED. 47:33 THAT'S A GOOD BENEDICTION THAT YOU COULD USE. 47:36 MATTHEW 3:16 AND 17, "WHEN HE HAD BEEN BAPTIZED, JESUS CAME UP 47:41 IMMEDIATELY FROM THE WATER;" - WE REFERRED TO THIS - "...THE 47:43 HEAVENS WERE OPENED TO HIM, AND HE SAW THE SPIRIT OF GOD 47:47 DESCENDING LIKE A DOVE...AND SUDDENLY A VOICE CAME FROM 47:50 HEAVEN, SAYING, 'THIS IS MY BELOVED SON,'" - YOU'VE GOT THE 47:52 FATHER, SON, AND THE SPIRIT. MATTHEW 12:28, "BUT IF I CAST 47:57 OUT DEMONS BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, SURELY THE KINGDOM OF 48:00 GOD HAS COME UPON YOU." YOU'VE GOT 'I' - JESUS - SPIRIT 48:04 OF GOD - KINGDOM OF GOD - GOD THE FATHER IN ONE VERSE. 48:08 I ALREADY READ TO YOU MATTHEW 28:19, 'GO AND TEACH - MAKE 48:12 DISCIPLES - BAPTIZING IN THE NAME OF THE' - WHAT? 48:16 FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. 48:18 YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONE CHURCH - ONENESS PENTECOSTALS - THEY SAY 48:20 YOU SHOULD ONLY BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, BECAUSE 48:23 IT IS TRUE, IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, PETER SAID, 'BAPTIZE IN THE NAME 48:27 OF THE LORD, BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF JESUS' - THEY USE IT 48:30 INTERCHANGEABLY SO WE TRY TO COVER ALL THE BASES HERE AT 48:34 GRANITE BAY; WE BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, HIS SON 48:37 JESUS CHRIST, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. BY THE WAY, IF - THE 48:44 EMPHASIS AT BAPTISM IS NEVER MADE ON THE EXACT UTTERANCE, 48:48 IT'S BEING BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS WHAT 48:51 IT IS. ALRIGHT, READ FOR US, PLEASE JOHN 14:26. 48:55 >>JOHN 14:26, "BUT THE HELPER, THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER 49:00 WILL SEND IN MY NAME, HE WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS, AND BRING 49:04 TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE ALL THINGS THAT I SAID TO YOU." 49:07 >>THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN, THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE FATHER, MY NAME 49:12 - BEING JESUS - THE FATHER, THE SON, AND SPIRIT IN THAT VERSE. 49:15 JOHN 15:26, "BUT WHEN THE HELPER COMES, WHOM I SHALL SEND TO YOU 49:20 FROM THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHOM PROCEEDS FROM THE 49:23 FATHER, HE" - NOT 'IT' - "HE WILL TESTIFY OF ME." THERE YOU 49:27 HAVE THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE SPIRIT IN THAT VERSE. 49:31 ACTS 1:4, "AND BEING ASSEMBLED TOGETHER WITH THEM, HE COMMANDED 49:36 THEM NOT TO DEPART FROM JERUSALEM, BUT TO WAIT FOR THE 49:38 PROMISE OF THE FATHER, 'WHICH,' HE SAID, 'YOU HAVE HEARD FROM 49:41 ME; FOR TRULY JOHN BAPTIZED WITH WATER, BUT YOU SHALL BE BAPTIZED 49:45 NOT MANY DAYS FROM NOW WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.'" 49:49 AND SO YOU'VE GOT JESUS, THE FATHER, THE HOLY SPIRIT - IN 49:52 THAT VERSE. ACTS 2, VERSE 33, "THEREFORE BEING EXALTED TO THE 49:58 RIGHT HAND OF GOD, AND HAVING RECEIVED FROM 50:00 THE FATHER THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE POURED OUT THIS 50:04 WHICH YOU NOW SEE AND HEAR." GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BEING 50:09 POURED OUT OF CHRIST THE PROMISE OF THE FATHER. 50:12 ACTS 10:38, "...GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY 50:17 SPIRIT AND WITH POWER, WHO WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD" - THERE YOU 50:20 HAVE GOD ANOINTED JESUS - HOLY SPIRIT - FATHER, SON, HOLY 50:25 SPIRIT. THIS IS NOT ALL OF THEM. I THINK, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 50:27 THERE'S LIKE 27 DIFFERENT VERSES WHERE YOU FIND THE FATHER, SON, 50:30 AND HOLY SPIRIT ALL MENTIONED IN ONE VERSE. 50:32 AND SO, THIS IS NOT A TRUTH THAT CAME QUICKLY TO MANY CHRISTIANS, 50:38 BUT WHEN YOU DO SOME CAREFUL STUDY, YOU'VE GOT - AND YOU KNOW 50:42 WHAT? IF YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A 50:44 MISTAKE - IF YOU'RE GOING TO UNDER-RESPECT SOMEBODY OR 50:50 OVER-RESPECT SOMEBODY, WHICH SHOULD YOU DO? 50:54 >>OVER. >>OVER-RESPECT. 50:56 I'D RATHER BE GUILTY OF GIVING TOO MUCH CREDIT TO SOMEBODY THAN 51:00 NOT THE CREDIT THAT THEY DESERVE. 51:02 AND BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH SAID ABOUT THE POWER OF THE 51:07 SPIRIT AND THE DIVINE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT AND THE INDEPENDENT - 51:11 THINK ABOUT WHAT AN INDIVIDUAL DOES - WHEN YOU SAY 'HE' YOU'RE 51:15 TALKING ABOUT A PERSON. PEOPLE CAN BE HURT. 51:18 DO YOU KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN BE HURT? 51:21 PEOPLE SPEAK - THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS. 51:23 THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDES - THE BIBLE SAYS THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN 51:25 BE GRIEVED, RIGHT? >>YES. 51:28 >>YOU DON'T GRIEVE AN IT - THAT MEANS IT'S GOT FEELINGS - IT'S - 51:32 YEP, DID IT RIGHT THERE - THE HOLY SPIRIT, HE HAS FEELINGS. 51:36 CAN YOU FIND AN EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE OF SOMEONE PRAYING TO THE 51:38 HOLY SPIRIT? >>DAVID? 51:43 >>DAVID SAID, 'TAKE NOT YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME.' I DON'T 51:46 THINK HE WAS PRAYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. 51:48 USUALLY WE PRAY IN THE SPIRIT TO GOD IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 51:53 I JUST MENTION THAT BECAUSE, IF YOU GO TO A CHARISMATIC - HOW 51:56 MANY OF YOU HAVE VISITED A CHARISMATIC CHURCH - PENTECOSTAL 51:58 CHURCH - SPEAKING IN TONGUES CHURCH? 52:01 YOU'LL OFTEN HEAR THEM PRAYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT YOU 52:04 DON'T REALLY SEE THAT IN THE BIBLE. 52:06 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ALWAYS WANTING TO JUST DEFLECT ANY 52:09 ATTENTION TO THE FATHER AND THE SON. 52:13 AND HIS OFFICE IS TO EXALT - BRING TO REMEMBRANCE - BUT HE 52:17 DOES HAVE A UNIQUE CHARACTER. YOU KNOW ANOTHER REASON I THINK 52:21 WE STRUGGLE IS JUST THE TERMS FATHER, SON, SPIRIT - WE TRY TO 52:25 EQUATE THOSE WITH THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER-SONS THAT WE HAVE - 52:31 FAMILY TIES - AND WE THINK - QUICK STORY - I WAS PREACHING 52:36 IN WACO, TEXAS - WHEN YOU HEAR WACO, TEXAS, WHAT DO YOU THINK? 52:40 SORRY TO OUR FRIENDS IN WACO - LOVELY PEOPLE IN WACO - AND 52:45 DAVID KORESH CAME TO THE CHURCH - HE DIDN'T COME IN, BUT HE AND 52:48 HIS PEOPLE BECAME THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS BECAUSE THEY WERE 52:51 SABBATH KEEPERS. THEY CAME TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THE 52:53 ADVENTISTS AND THEY CAME AFTER THE SERVICE. AND I REMEMBER - I 52:56 STILL REMEMBER I PREACHED ON DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN AND 52:59 SOME OF THEM CAME IN AND LISTENED. AND AT THE DOOR THEY 53:01 WERE HANDING OUT LITERATURE THAT SAID, 'GOD THE FATHER HAD SEXUAL 53:06 RELATIONS WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND JESUS WAS THE PRODUCT.' SO 53:09 THEY WERE MAKING THE HOLY SPIRIT OUT TO BE THE MOTHER - A WOMAN - 53:12 AND GIVING THEM LIKE BIOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES AND - THAT'S 53:15 SACRILEGIOUS. YOU CAN'T DO THAT WITH GOD. 53:17 THESE ARE TERMS THAT GOD JUST USES TO HELP US UNDERSTAND HIS 53:19 LOVE FOR US IN WAYS THAT WE CAN COMPREHEND. 53:23 ALRIGHT, JUST A FEW MORE QUOTES AND WE'LL BE OUT OF TIME HERE. 53:27 GALATIANS - WELL, LET'S GO TO GALATIANS 4:6 "AND BECAUSE YOU 53:31 ARE THE SONS, GOD HAS SENT FORTH THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON INTO YOUR 53:35 HEARTS, CRYING OUT, 'ABBA, FATHER!'" AGAIN, FATHER, SON, 53:39 SPIRIT RIGHT THERE. EPHESIANS 1:17, "THAT THE GOD 53:42 OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF GLORY, MAY GIVE TO YOU 53:45 THE SPIRIT" - GOD THE FATHER, SON, SPIRIT RIGHT THERE. 53:49 HEBREWS 9:14, "HOW MUCH MORE SHALL THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WHO 53:52 THROUGH THE ETERNAL SPIRIT OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO 53:55 GOD," - CHRIST, THE SPIRIT, GOD - RIGHT THERE - YOU SEEING IT? 53:58 I'M GIVING YOU ALL THESE DIFFERENT VERSES. 54:00 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE - THIS IS FROM THE BOOK EVANGELISM 615 - 54:05 THIS IS A GOOD QUOTE - NOW - IF YOU MISS EVERYTHING ELSE, THIS 54:08 IS REALLY CLEAR - "THERE ARE THREE LIVING PERSONS OF THE 54:12 HEAVENLY TRIO. IN THE NAMES OF THESE THREE 54:16 GREAT POWERS: THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, THOSE 54:20 WHO RECEIVE CHRIST BY HEAVENLY FAITH ARE BAPTIZED. 54:24 THESE POWERS WILL COOPERATE WITH THE OBEDIENT SUBJECTS OF HEAVEN 54:27 IN THEIR EFFORTS TO LIVE THE NEW LIFE." 54:29 THREE LIVING PERSONS - ARE THEY DISTINCT PERSONS? 54:34 ELLEN WHITE DEFINITELY THOUGHT SO. 54:37 AND LET ME GIVE YOU - LET ME SEE HERE - ONE MORE VERSE AND THIS 54:41 IS IN OUR LAST SECTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS DIVINITY - 1 54:44 PETER 1:2, "ELECT ACCORDING TO THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE 54:48 FATHER, IN SANCTIFICATION OF THE SPIRIT, FOR OBEDIENCE AND 54:51 SPRINKLING OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST: GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE 54:54 BE MULTIPLIED." I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS 54:57 THAT ARE WATCHING, WE DO HAVE A FREE BOOK. 54:59 IT'S CALLED THE TRINITY AND IT TALKS, OF COURSE, ABOUT THE 55:02 NATURE OF THE SPIRIT AND HIS BEING A UNIQUE PERSON AND ASK 55:05 FOR OFFER #166. AND THE PHONE NUMBER, IF YOU 55:08 WANT TO CALL IN, IS 866-788-3966 - WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE, 55:15 JUST PROMISE TO READ IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEBODY - THAT'S 55:17 ACTUALLY 866-STUDY-MORE. GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, AND 55:20 WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING STUDYING THIS LESSON ON THE HOLY 55:24 SPIRIT WITH YOU IN THE NEAR FUTURE. (MUSIC) 55:38 >>HELLO FRIENDS, WE'RE HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES 55:40 OVERLOOKING THE TAAL VOLCANO AND LAKE, WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST 55:44 INTERESTING PIECES OF GEOGRAPHY IN THE WHOLE WORLD. 55:47 FOR ONE THING, THIS GREAT CALDARA WAS ONCE THE BIGGEST 55:51 VOLCANO IN THE WORLD, AND NOW IT HOLDS A LAKE THAT HOLDS ANOTHER 55:55 VOLCANO THAT HAS ANOTHER LITTLE LAKE IN IT THAT HAS ANOTHER 55:59 LITTLE ISLAND IN IT. THIS VOLCANO HAS ERUPTED SIX 56:03 TIMES, IN A MAJOR WAY, SINCE THE 1500S AND, EVEN IN 1911, THERE 56:08 WAS AN ERUPTION WHERE OVER 1300 PEOPLE DIED - KILLED BY THE 56:12 SMOKE AND THE ASH THAT COVERED THE COMMUNITY. THERE WERE 56:16 TSUNAMIS THAT CAME FROM THE LAKE AND DESTROYED THE VILLAGES THAT 56:19 SURROUNDED THE BORDERS OF THE LAKE. IN FACT, THIS IS ONE OF 56:22 THE MOST CAREFULLY MONITORED SEISMIC PLACES IN THE 56:25 PHILIPPINES. THIS VOLCANO IS BEING WATCHED ALL THE TIME AND 56:29 THEY'VE NOTICED, AS OF 2006, THAT IT APPEARS THAT THE WATER 56:33 TEMPERATURES ARE GOING UP. THERE'S INCREASED SEISMIC 56:36 ACTIVITY. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY KNOW THAT 56:39 THIS VOLCANO IS A TICKING TIME BOMB PREPARED TO BLOW. 56:43 AND IT'S VERY INTERESTING, BECAUSE THIS PLACE IS A PLACE OF 56:45 GREAT SEISMIC ACTIVITY, BUT IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT 56:49 VULCANOLOGISTS KNOW THIS IS GOING TO BLOW AGAIN SOMEDAY, IT 56:52 IS A POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION. 56:54 THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THE REAL ESTATE, THEY'RE BUILDING LIKE 56:56 MAD, AND SIT ON THE EDGE OF DISASTER. 56:59 IT MAKES US THINK ABOUT HOW GOD HAS GIVEN US SO MANY WARNINGS IN 57:03 HIS WORD THAT THE WORLD IS GOING TO END, THAT JESUS IS GOING TO 57:06 COME, THAT THE HEAVENS WILL DISSOLVE WITH A GREAT NOISE AND 57:09 THE ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, SEEING THEN THAT 57:12 ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE 57:15 SHOULD WE BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS. 57:19 FRIENDS, ARE YOU BECOMING DISTRACTED WITH THE TRANQUIL 57:21 VIEWS OF THE WORLD OR ARE YOU PREPARING FOR THE NEXT WORLD? 57:26 ARE YOU GETTING READY FOR THE BIG BANG? 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