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1 | i'm still not getting this | Matt 12:31 | gracefull | 93315 | ||
Hi Ray, I don't care to comment on the other thread. There seems to be doubt of the trinity, and this is a topic I don't want to address. I understand the 'delima' brookelynn seems to have encountered, having worked through that delima with the Holy Spirit I realize this is a progressive understanding. Like a puzzle... You said.. "I want you to consider that the multitudes, scribes, Pharisees, and kinsmen were not rejecting the Holy Spirit. In remembering Acts 19:2 I wonder if they had "even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." Rather, they were rejecting the spirit [sic] that they perceived was in Him." You have a good point. The person of the Holy Spirit was not truly understood until Pentecost. Even the disciples who were specifically instructed of His coming and purpose could not truly understand. However, the Pharasees and the people did understand that only one of 'spiritual authority' could cast out demons. "Matthew 9:8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men." "Matthew 8:8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." They were indeed rejecting Jesus as One with God given authority and attempted to reduce Him to the level of a demon possessed man, rather than acknowledge Him as the Holy Spirit filled Son of God. But Jesus' rebuttal clearly informs them of the magnitude of their rejection, calling evil the only One who can draw them to the Father. Jesus is the Way, but the Holy Spirit enables us to go the Way through the revealing of Truth and by the supernatural work of the new birth. The bottom line was reject the Holy Spirit, and lose all. Jesus' statement took them to the bottom line... You said... I believe that Jesus cast out demons by the spirit of God. That is, by the finger of God. Psalm 8:3,4a, "When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which Thou has ordained; What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him?" I agree! The finger of God is the Holy Spirit. In the beginning..Genesis...God the FAther spoke (the Word) 'light be' and light was. The Holy Spirit was moving.... Genesis 1 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. All the trinity was active in creation... The same Spirit infilled Jesus and empowered Him, the Word, to cast out demonic forces.... John 14 That same Spirit was sent to infill us! God bless |
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2 | i'm still not getting this | Matt 12:31 | Ray | 93373 | ||
Hi graceful, Thank you for your posts. I appreciate that you do not want to address or debate the fact of the triune God. May I assure you that I believe in the Trinity. However, I want you to consider that there also is the "spirit" of God. I quoted Acts 19:2 as it is written in the NASB and the NKJ. However, I have the Holy Spirit in the lower case in my personal copy [penciled in]. So I would say, "No, we have not even heard whether there is a holy spirit." These Pharisees in Matthew 12:24-28 knew about the angel or spirit Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons. They did not recognize the power and authority of the finger or spirit of God. They knew of the evil spirit but did not know the spirit of holiness. All that came out of their mouth was evil for they said that He had an unclean spirit. I believe that the Scriptures speak of the Spirit and the spirit, the Holy Spirit and the holy spirit, the Light and the light, the Rock and the rock, etc., etc. I do not deny the Personhood of the Holy Spirit. I simply see the gift of the holy spirit also. From the heart, Ray |
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3 | i'm still not getting this | Matt 12:31 | DAIRYLEADER5 | 93377 | ||
Gracefull, there are 4 spirits of heavan and seven spirits of God and 3 in the GodHead Bodiely, for any man to Blasfheme the Holy Ghost to to insult the very essence of God, weather people want to believe in the Trinity is up to them I can only say whats in the scripture. Look at Isa;11:2 and Zec.,6,5 and in Revelations.Its the very essence of God that is in question. | ||||||