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141 | Take Him for His Word | Matt 24:2 | Ray | 150228 | ||
Hi MJH, I think that you have gotten some excellent responses from Mark and Angel. From the heart, Ray |
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142 | Take Him for His Word | Matt 24:2 | Ray | 150214 | ||
Hi MJH, Compare Ezekiel 36:26 and Acts 22:3; Ephesians 2:5 and Mark 1:244. John 2:19 John 4:29 John 6:14 Matthew 24:2 From the heart, Ray |
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143 | Filled with Holy Spirit? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150139 | ||
Hi Tim, When you say that we are not going to run out of Holy Spirit you are disagreeing with the "leak" idea suggested by some. Right? That idea doesn't hold water with me either, but then again the question is moot with me because I don't believe that we are "filled" with the Holy Spirit. From my point of view, it is not like we are going to run out of wind, or spirit either. John 3:5, Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and of *spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the *spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, "You must be born from above." 8 The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the *spirit." That is the way I see it. And what we are doing here is testing the spirits [the words] to see which are from God; and not only that but also testing to see which ones are speaking of God Himself. 1) For instance John 6:63 that I referenced earlier, should it read "It is the Spirit who gives life" or "The Spirit is the One who gives life."? From the heart, Ray |
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144 | Filled with Holy Spirit? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150109 | ||
Hi Doc, I am not putting words in anybody's mouth. What I said is that "If our interpretation is that"; in other words I am still considering the verse with everyone. In fact in looking at it in my own mind, I would change my statement to read "each one of us would be EQUAL to God." If we were bigger than God then the Spirit wouldn't have filled us completly; in other words He would be measurable short. But if our interpretation is that He gives the Spirit without measure then our body would not be able to contain Him and it would either leak or burst and be destroyed. It has been suggested by some authors and post on this forum that our body leaks and thus we need to be constantly filled again and again. Yet if there is a constant measure of filling of the Spirit, then there is no room in our body for more, there is just that continual leak. Pretty deep stuff there; it must be early morning. :) 1) Consider the one whose interpretation is that we are filled with spirit rather than the Person. Then we are to be filled with the spirit. When we are filled with the spirit we preach the gospel, we sing spiritual songs, we study the Bible and the words of God so that we can be filled anew. Rather than our body bursting, we burst out in words of praise, telling the mighty deeds of God. We then attain to the stature of the fullness of God. 1a) If we are considering a post together, then the words of God that come to your mind combined with the words of God that come to mine can be doubled or at least multiplied or combined, and even more when other people join us in spirit. 2) I disagree with your postscript concerning John 3:34. For that we should look at John 3:19-21 in the 1977 and 1995 versions of the NASB and continue the discussion from there. I have to try to go back to sleep. Good night, my friend. From the heart, Ray |
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145 | Filled with Holy Spirit? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150081 | ||
Hi Tim, Because all we need is a (s)Seed within us. John 3:34, "For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the (s)Spirit without measure." 1) If our interpretation is that God gives the Spirit without measure, then each one of us is claiming to be bigger than God; because God is not measured out then one contains all of God. 2) If our interpretation is that God gives out *spirit, words of truth and power, we can be full of these words with many more yet available in the word of God to be discovered and applied. And all these things can be given to them as the Holy Spirit wills because they are in His hand. For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God;...let's obey the Son. Let's obey this God/Man. The person who believes that the Son is Spirit has eternal life, is what the passage says to me. Don't you get that message, too? But it is received through the spirit and words given without measure. The Son is Spirit and He gives the spirit as down payment and a pledge of our inheritance as God's possession. That's the way I see it. ******* Romans 8:14, "For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of **God." John 6:63, Literally, "The Spirit is the One who makes alive; the flesh does not help at all. The words which **I speak to you spirit are and life they are." From the heart, Ray |
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146 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150038 | ||
I am still waiting for reasons to capitalize holy spirit in the passages dealing with "being filled with the spirit" or being filled with the holy spirit". From the heart, Ray |
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147 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150037 | ||
Hi Kalos, Amen to your post and quote of The Baptist Faith and Message. I worked for a Baptist Chaplain in the Army for 17 months, almost married a Baptist girl, and have attended Baptist churches often and enjoy the people. I would like to talk about two of the sentences in the expression of the faith. 1) "He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption." Ephesians 4:30 which shows that this Person can grieve. "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." My view of Ephesians 1:13 is that we are sealed in Him with the holy spirit of promise. Verse 7, "In all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of His will..." Verse 11, NKJ, "In Him also we have obtained an inheritance...Verse 13, In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed [in Him, or being sealed in Him], you were sealed with the *holy *spirit of promise, "who [NU text reads which] is given as a pledge of your inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory." So I would say that God seals us with the holy spirit of promise. The holy spirit is the down payment or pledge of our inheritance in Him. Ephesians 1:11, NKJ, "In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will." 2) "His presence in the Christian is the guarantee..." What I would point out is that the expression of faith does not say "His Presence in the Christian is the guarantee" but rather His presence. So I agree that His presence or holy spirit or pledge or down payment is the guarantee. And the guarantee does not mean that we will be full of Christ but that we are brought into the fullness of the stature of Christ. I have chemo therapy tomorrow so I must go to bed. Thank you for your ongoing contributions to the discussion. From the heart, Ray |
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148 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150031 | ||
Hi Kalos, Amen to your post quote concerning the Holy Spirit. Now let's talk about the holy spirit [sic]. Prove to me that passages about being filled with the holy spirit are talking about a Person. From the heart, Ray |
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149 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150017 | ||
Hi Mark, Spirit or Holy Spirit, no matter, we know that the words speak of Deity. Although we know the Scriptures speak of Spirit of God and Spirit of Jesus, and His (h)Holy (s)Spirit, so it is difficult to know the mingling of these words concerning God. 1) Many of the passages that speak of being filled with the holy spirit have information in them about the word of God being heard, or the gospel preached, etc. In the Acts 2 passage the people who were filled with the holy spirit were "speaking of the mighty deeds of God." Verse 11. And they, being full of this knowledge of the mighty deeds of God, were speaking in tongues as the Spirit was giving them ability to speak out. So I see them "filled with the holy spirit" and the [Holy] Spirit giving them [ability] to speak out those words. 2) We also have the rushing wind and fire which suggests the baptism of fire and the moving of the spirit where it will as in John 3. The Teacher uses words to teach; and people who are born from above believe the Scriptures, and the word which Jesus had spoken. See John 2:22. "When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this, and they believed the Scriptures, and the word which Jesus had spoken." 3) The closest I can come right now to a basic definition of what I mean when I say "[holy] spirit' is expressed in John 3:34 in my interpretation of it. John 3:34, "For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the *spirit without measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand." All things, are the words of God, and holy spirit to my mind. From the heart, Ray |
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150 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150003 | ||
Hi Hank, I wanted to start writing to you at 5:30 before writing to Mark but changed my mind. I was concerned because you are putting words in my mouth that I did not speak. I have never spoken of man's spirit or "man's holy spirit". I have spoken of the Giver and the gift, the Word and the word, the Spirit and the spirit, the Rock and the rock, etc. but not in speaking of man's spirit. I would encourage you to get involved in looking at the occurances of being "filled with the holy spirit". Show me and straighten me out on where the Person is spoken of in those passages. However, we all have to keep our lives in balance and keep our priorities straight. :) I have a Detroit Tiger game that starts at 8:00. From the heart, Ray |
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151 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150001 | ||
Hi Mark, I have been working on the post below for you. I think however, that we can look together at the Scriptures that the JW's have introduced in the post from Kalos. From the heart, Ray |
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152 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 150000 | ||
Hi Mark, I know that you are worried that I look like a Jehovah's Witness spy that has been hiding in the ranks of the forum; what with my believe in a 'holy spirit'. Let me put your fears at rest; I am not a Jehovah's Witness. However, I do interpret a lower case holy spirit in the occurances speaking of being filled with [the] holy spirit. You need to find verses for me where the Person of the Holy Spirit is found in the passages of being filled with holy spirit. And I am talking of 'filled with' not His "coming upon them." I also believe that His Spirit indwells us; the Scripture "Christ in us the hope of glory" is well known by us. I just don't believe that we are "filled with the Holy Spirit". 1) When His (Spirit) indwells us then we are walking together with the (Lord). Romans 8:11, "But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His (Spirit) who indwells you." Ephesisans 4:17, "This I say therefore, and affirm together with the (Lord), that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,..." *********** Romans 8:11, "for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body you will live." Ephesians 4:18, "being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;" ****** Romans 8:16, "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of (God)." Ephesians 4:30, "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of (God), by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." *********** 2) These are verses that show my understanding of the Person and the existence of a spirit that we have received. I believe that the Holy Spirit is a Person of the trinity. And I say it this way; that God is the Giver and the gift is holy spirit. I do not say that the Holy Spirit is not a Gift, just as the Son was the Gift of God although it isn't worded that way. But I am encouraging a consideration of the "holy spirit" as a gift. 3) You have asked for Scriptures that speak of the 'holy spirit', but we will talk of those when you get back with me with verses that talk of the Person in connection with being "filled with the holy spirit." From the heart, Ray |
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153 | How do christian give up the ghost? | Luke 23:46 | Ray | 149961 | ||
Hi cpowell, The word "ghost" in the King James is translated "spirit" in the New King James. (Also Holy Ghost, KJ, and Holy Spirit, NKJ). For Luke 23:46 the NKJ and the NASB chose to translate it "And having said this, He breathed His last." The literal translation would be "And saying this, He breathed out the spirit." or "And after He said these things, He expired." So the Greek word "pneuma" is wind, spirit, breath. You ask how a Christian should breathe his last. I would hope that we would do as Christ did and commit our spirit into the Father's hand, looking at the righteousness of Jesus for us. Luke 23:47, "So when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous Man!"" It would be great for us to hear a "Well done, thou good and faithful servant". It would be good for us to know when we breathe our last, that people could look at us and see that we lived our lives as sons of God. 1) I think also that the word of God, and the words of God, (the spirit of God) should fill us and we should give out those words in witness to others; all through our lives. From the heart, Ray |
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154 | The Specific Sins of Sodom | Ezek 16:49 | Ray | 149958 | ||
New readers see #93670. | ||||||
155 | A fresh mental and spiritual attitude? | Eph 4:23 | Ray | 149920 | ||
Reference: #149919 Does Ephesians 4:23 relate to Romans 8:15 and receiving a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Daddy, Father"? |
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156 | wjhat are the qualifications being | John 3:16 | Ray | 149919 | ||
Hi Mark, Perhaps I can use Ephesians 4 in trying to show you what I mean; for I am not looking at the holy spirit as the work (finished product, us), but rather I am seeing the holy spirit as the means by which the work is done. I am looking at the holy spirit as the written words of God, the gospel, the power of God for salvation. God uses the words spoken, and He gives the spirit without measure. Acts 1:5 says "for John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the (h)Holy (s)Spirit not many days from now." I would say that we are washed by the word and baptized with holy spirit. I would say that we are to be filled with the holy spirit given to us by God in the Scriptures. For Acts 1:4 I would go with the NASB; that they waited for what the Father had promised. The NKJ chose to interpret it as the Holy Spirit so they capitalized "Promise". But I would have you consider Acts 1:2 also to look at the means by which they were chosen. I would have you consider Acts 1:16 in contrast to Acts 4:25, NKJ. However, any more conversation should be moved to another verse, another thread, I believe. Let's go to Ephesians 4, maybe verse 23. From the heart, Ray |
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157 | "My God". "My God". Why? | Bible general Archive 2 | Ray | 149877 | ||
Hi Aixen7z4, When people talk about the Lord they should say "my Lord" or "my God". Jesus on the cross said "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me", but He was the only One who is good and requires capitalization. Consider Psalm 22. The NKJ and the NASB differ in their interpretation of the Psalm. The NKJ considers it as totally prophetic and sees Jesus rather than David in the Psalm. The NKJ reads, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" The NASB in contrast, looks at it as a Psalm of David and reads, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Personally, I go with the NASB here for the Psalm. Psalm 22:9, "Yet Thou/ art He who didst bring me forth from the womb; Thou didst make me trust when upon my mother's breats. 10 Upon (Thee) I was cast from birth; Thou hast been my God from my mother's womb." Luke 11:27, "And it came about while He said these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice, and said to Him/, "Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breast at which You nursed." 28 But (He) said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and observe it." 29 And as the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah."" ******** Psalm 22:10, "Upon (Thee) I was cast from birth; **Thou hast been my *God from my mother's womb." Deuteronomy 10:21, "(He) is your praise and **He is your *God, who has done these great and awesome things for you which your eyes have seen." The stars, slashes and parentheses are mine for comparisons. From the heart, Ray |
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158 | wjhat are the qualifications being | John 3:16 | Ray | 149853 | ||
Hi WOS, Even though the Hebrew of Romans 10:18 was written in all capitals, I believe that the "their voice" and "their words" are not talking about God. They either refer to the sound of the heavens declaring the glory of God (see Psalm 19:1-4) or is talking about the preacher in Romans 10:14 and 15 who bring glad tiding of good things. So I agree with you in that "the Spirit works in us in more ways than the written word. And I agree that the written word will not supplant the oral teachings of Christ and the Apostles, especially as we have them in the New Testament. Yet, with that said, the bottom line is that the people of God know the One who is speaking. Isaiah 52:6, "Therefore My/ people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the (One) who is speaking, 'Here I am.'" 7 How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"" Isaiah 50:3, NASB, 1997, "I/ clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering." 4 The Lord God has given (Me) the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. 5 The Lord God has opened My ear; And I was not disobedient Nor did I turn back." The slashes and parentheses are mine for comparisons. From the heart, Ray |
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159 | Why additional fiilings? | John 3:16 | Ray | 149837 | ||
Hi Mark, I don't know what God has chosen to capitalize, in doing the things [the nouns and pronouns] the way He has, but this is what I hear Him saying. Ephesians 5:18, "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with spirit." Acts 4:31, "And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together wa shaken, and they were all filled with holy spirit, and began to speak the word [sic] of God with boldness." There is power in the word. This is being born from above. John 3:7, "Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born from above'. 8 The wind [spirit] blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the spirit." Yet we know that Jesus knows and understands these things. And He will declare all things to us. Both He and the Holy Spirit will declare all these things to us and bring them to our remembrance. John 16:4, "But these things I have spoken to you, that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you." 1) John 6:63, "...the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life." John 16:1, "These things I have spoken to you, that you may be kept from stumbling." John 16:12, "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now." John 16:18, "...We do not know what He is talking about." Contrast John 16:23, "In that day you will ask Me no question..." From the heart, Ray |
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160 | wjhat are the qualifications being | John 3:16 | Ray | 149805 | ||
Hi WOS, I find these reference Scriptures to be excellent companion verses. Romans 9:1,NASB, "I am telling the truth in **Christ, I am not lying, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy/Spirit,..." 1 Corinthians 4:4, NASB, "For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted, but the **one [NKJ, He, i.e. the One] who examines me is the Lord./ Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts;..." From the heart, Ray |
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