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281 | How was Joshua born? | Josh 24:15 | Ken hepting | 92211 | ||
I hope so...I needed my confidence renewed at this point. | ||||||
282 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92202 | ||
"What happened in John 20:22? Did they recieve the Holy Spirit? - if so, what happened in Acts 2:4 ... and between? - if not, what does this verse mean?" Good question, Searcher. Hope you can stick with me and no warp anything from it's moorings. Awhile back I stated there are three manifestations of the Holy Spirit no one responded to except to read my explanation. I didn't give one. I've been waiting for this opportunity. Ezk.44.17 says this: "And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat." Keeping the above in mind lets move on. If I say the Holy Spirit is with you I trust you'd have no problem understanding that. So that's number one. Moving up to John 20.22 to the scene with Thomas when Jesus appeared to them and then "He breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost". This is when they became "Born Again". In other words the indwelling to place; the first written of anyone's 'new birth in Christ'. That's number two. Next we come to Acts 2. But before that in Acts one we read this from the Lord who said to the newly new born disciples: "And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, said He, ye have heard of me. Vs. 8 explains what that power is all about: "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Various translations interpret the "come upon you" to mean "endue with power" or 'cloth with power". This is due to the verses in Ezk. 44 I placed at the beginning of the post. Here we see the third manifestation, i.e., the "coming upon" of the Holy Ghost. God, in Ezekiel, gives His reasons for the need for everyone to have their own Pentecostal experience. The Holy Spirit in this case represents the Priestly garment. Some also liken it to the engagement ring for the bride of Christ. You make your own distinctions which I'm sure you will but the one distinction that will remain is the need for power to function in intimate cooperation with the Father in His purposes for His Church for His Son. That's what the office of priest is all about. So we see that the three manifestation are "with", "in", and "upon". Do they not still remain of importance in the lives of today's professing Christians. Now, one for you: Why did the priest of the OT tie a rope around their ankle before going into the "Holy of Holies"? |
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283 | How was Joshua born? | Josh 24:15 | Ken hepting | 92201 | ||
How am I wrong, Hank? Surely He had a mother and a father. His father's name, no doubt, was NUN. Now how do you get I don't understand that, because I made joke out of it by twisting to mean NONE? Are you all that sensitive that the most obvious needs to be explained beyond what is reasonable. Good grief! | ||||||
284 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92181 | ||
Right | ||||||
285 | Joshus had a father, but no mother? | Josh 24:15 | Ken hepting | 92180 | ||
forget it | ||||||
286 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92170 | ||
You said "Shouldn't we do the same yet you'll be hard pressed to see that atmosphere of praise and WORSHIP in most churches today must less be taught as something we should be about." You mentioned worship and I asked a questions ... interesting that you forgot. ---------------------- I didn't forget anything. Some questions aren't worth answering. Some people, too. Take a hint. ------------------------------------------ You said "private prayer life" ... if you are talking about 1 Cor 14:14-15 ... the CONTEXT is in the church - in public. If you have another passage, let me know. ----------------------------------- Perhaps if you re-read the Eptistles for the first time you'll begin to understand what Simon saw and not say it was just for the Jews at Pentecost.. You know who Simon was, right? And certainly Cornielus wasn't a Jew. Paul said he spoke with tongues more than them all. Question: Where do you think he was speaking them? From the pulpit that he was exorting to speak to be understood if there was no interpreter? Naah. When he said Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,..what do you think he was referring to? Are you prepared to warp and twist that to protect some pet doctrine of yours? I wouldn't. I'd take it at face value considering who Paul was and what his life was all about especially if it is your experience as well. |
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287 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92168 | ||
But were they not Jews? Corneilus wasn't. | ||||||
288 | Ken, The Chrurch differs from Israel? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92158 | ||
What's your point? I don't know what I'm supposed to respond to. | ||||||
289 | How was Joshua born? | Josh 24:15 | Ken hepting | 92157 | ||
Good Grief!! I was only joking! Do you really think the I could mean it without joking? HE WAS THE SON OF NONE. That's so all old it has moss on it. | ||||||
290 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92156 | ||
Good point | ||||||
291 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92155 | ||
BTW, Think a little more about Cornelius and what he was. | ||||||
292 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92140 | ||
Speak for youself, Joel, and not me. You assume too much. I've lived long enough to make the distinctions. ------------------------------------- "I don't see a lot of description of the activities of those 120 individuals prior to the events of Pentecost. My guess is that there was far less theatrics than we see on your typical TBN fare. What passes for "praise and worship" in many circles bears a lot of similarity to what one would find at your typical secular rock concerts today. Mindless and empty and sensationalistic. --------------------------------------- Point is you see nothing of what transpired in the upper room on the day of Pentscost and suppose a lot you can't support. Never mind about TBN. They'll have to answer for their lawlessness. You do know what I mean by that, of course or do you need a verse of scripture? I'm in much agreement with you but I'm not about to throw the baby out with the bath water. I know what can and cannot be supported with the word of God. That's what good Bible study will do for one. What happened at Pentecost, i.e., the supernatural, is still happening today around the world in spite of denominational "hangups". Get over it and get going in becoming a son. |
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293 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92138 | ||
Who said it was worship? Seems like you are bent on distorting what others say here. If you had understanding about tongues and interpretation and how they are different from ones private prayer life that the Lord Jesus ordained, you wouldn't be asking unlearned questions. So be more hard on yourself than others for the answers you require at their expense. |
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294 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92108 | ||
"Satan does not get interfere with my prayer, for I am focused on my God. If you pray in a tongue, your mind is unfruitful ... so how do you know (using your mind) if Satan is intruting?" You mean to the best of your ability, correct. You being 'totally focused' is untrue. You aren't capable in your humanity to do that. Too much interferes with what we'd like to do, i.e., cares of life and pressures.. Re-read Roms 7 and 8 again, for the first time. ---------------------------- At Pentecost, Peter spoke only to the Jews ... therefore, it applies to them. Their children are Jews, too. Gentile belivers are not children of Jewish belivers ... they are children of God. And who are the children of God but the promised seed of Abraham. i.e., all those in Christ? Are you not a child of God? Is that what you are saying? ----------------------------- "The "language" spoken in some churches was not copied by Satan ... but, the church copied it. I have posted this several times." ---Really? I should like to have been around when you posted it serveral times. Tell me what I missed that is, no doubt, very wrong. ------------------------------------ "Moreover, I wonder if anyone has taken the time to do a linguistic study on the "language" ... if not, is it just babbling?" Wrong again! That "babbling" you speak of has been understood by the specific hearer to whom the word OF GOD was spoken. I personally know of too many instances where this is true. Even to my myself has the word of God come that I completely understood though the speaker of that word had no understanding at all....sometimes even to whom it was meant for. So you see the one who speaks is the yielded one in obedience to the Holy Spirit's leading and prompting. It's not the speakers business to know what the word is or to whom it is meant for except as the Holy Spirit permits. So I would be REAL CAREFUL as to what I attribute to Satan. I have had my mail read to me many times. I also know from a brother who couldn't write his own name 'intellectually', who gave a prophetic utterance in an unknown tongue in a congregation of 5-600 that was received by the hearer clear across the room it was meant for as something spoken to him in German. He understood it, yet could not speak German himself. ......Unknown tongues to both. So the one who prays in the Spirit doesn't need to know what the Spirit is saying and the hearer, well he just has to "hear". Excerising yourself in the Spirit of God should take place after you have thanked Him for the priviledge, made your petitions, and then begin to worship Him in adoration/praise and thanksgiving with the mind and with tongues, 'praying in or 'with' the Spirit'. Remember your needs are already known to Him. |
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295 | Does He pray thru us, or us thru Him? | Acts | Ken hepting | 92084 | ||
"You said "all sorts of stuff totally unrelated, some of it filth? That's Satan" Well, I agree that the filth is Satan ... however, when I pray, I am open to the Holy Spirit and the Father, for they may prompt me to pray for someone. I let the person know and they weer standing in a need of prayer." But your mind is also open to the prompting and intrusion of Satan. I'm sure if you pray you are aware of that. Praying in the Spirit blocks him out. You are giving your reborn spirit complete access to the Father for the Holy Spirit to pray what really needs to be said in the prayer. And not just what YOU think the prayer should be all about. In the process of being yeilded like that to the Holy Spirit something happens in you that edifies and builds you up in your faith. A deposit of God Himself is made manifest in you for you to become more than what you were. This is the change He makes in us and that is to make us more accute to whats happening around us in our circumstances that we be made perfect in Him, having His mind as Jesus did and be sustained by it. --------------------------------- "Both Isaiah and Joel are prophecies for Israel ... lokk at the context." And? So who do you suppose would be there on the day of Pentecost but Jews? "But the promise-Acts 2.39--is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call."-------That means you and me. --------------------------- "By the way, Satan started the "language" spoken in some churches." Some churches? Sorry, but you'll have to be more specific than that. That's been unfound except maybe in his own and used by many as an excuse for unbelief held in pride. |
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296 | Searching for the truth | Acts | Ken hepting | 92014 | ||
What is the "spirit man", Joann? Is it the same as the 'spirit of man'? | ||||||
297 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 91960 | ||
Justme ... My point was we would have a hard time exercising our spiritual gifts if alone ... it is for the benifit of the body. If we pray in a another tongue, unknown to us, but known to another ... what benifit is it to our mind (1 Cor 14)? Searcher --------------------------------- Why does it have to benefit your mind? Isn't it sufficient to know the Holy Spirit is praying through you for the benefit of the Father's purpose? His business is what it is all about. If you have the mind of the Father why is your mind an issue here? That's part of what people don't understand about praying with the Spirit and in the Spirit. |
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298 | Does speaking in tongues come naturally? | Acts | Ken hepting | 91935 | ||
"If one was alone, I don't know if there was a need to use any of the gifts, since it is for the one body ... if together, we should exercise our gift(s) and not try to exercise the gifts we do not have (vv 12-31)." Can't agree, Searcher. Tongues for the church is always to be accompanied by interpretation, of should be----unless you are moved to just pray in tongues, quietly in church, which is different and no interpretation is needed. Tongues is most used in an interccessory way. If you think about, when asked to pray, you really don't how to for a given situation, but the Holy Spirit does. I know folk who pray aloud, in tongues, moved by the Holy Spirit, for hours. Many times the Lord reveals what He is going to do to that one who is obediently yeilded and stands in the gap. Many times there comes presence to wonderful to express in english. Paul experienced such a thing in 2 Corth 12.2 "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven..... and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." I realize this is not tongues speaking but lets just not dismiss the supernaturalness of the Holy Spirit out of hand in the matter of tongues speaking just because we look for an excuse not to participate in something we're told is extremism/extrabiblical. Get a better teacher, it's not. It should be normal for the Christian experience that requires power to mature unto 'sonship'. |
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299 | No wedding garment | John 15:5 | Ken hepting | 91864 | ||
Sortta makes me think of what I witness on any given Sunday morning service. Coffee in the sanctuary, people dressed like their going to the beach, no reverence for where they are. Even the 'wordship teams' dressed like hoodlums. No, I don't believe we can do our own thing and say we honor God at the same time. There should be exortation from the pulpit to be your best for Christ and never believe you going to win people over by making yourself look like the world in your mannerisms and dress code. It's true that Christ saves you like like are but He doesn't want to leave you that way. I believe that and if you profess and confess Him, people should be able to make distinctions easily. We should put into practice and display, our wedding garment at all times. |
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300 | No wedding garment | John 15:5 | Ken hepting | 91837 | ||
Yes! But care to elaborate just a little more as to what we must do, His way? Maybe make the comparison between your faith and His faith; your garment you demand to wear and His garment that must be worn. Since the whole "scene" is His, in your estimation, which one will more carry more weight with the Bridegroom when He sees you sitting at His Table? | ||||||
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