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Spirit Without Scripture? | John Calvin · Reformed Thinking

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Imagine a group of people telling you that reading your
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Bible is a sign of spiritual immaturity, right?
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Imagine them saying you have outgrown it, that you are stuck
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in the past, and while that if you were truly enlightened you
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would toss those pages aside and just listen directly to the
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voice of God in your head. It sounds incredibly arrogant,
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doesn't. It it really does.
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Welcome to Reformed thinking. We are so glad you are joining
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us today for this deep dive. We're going to examine a highly
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consequential section from John Calvins, Institutes of the
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Christian Religion. Yeah, this is a fantastic text
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to unpack. Our mission today is to look at
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Calvins rigorous defense of the written Word of God.
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Specifically, we are looking at the section where he addresses a
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group he calls the Fanatics. And these are individuals who
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abandoned Scripture. Yeah, right.
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They claim to fly over to direct extra biblical revelation, and
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in doing so they basically cast down all the principles of
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godliness. Precisely our core objective for
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you, the listener, is to clarify how Reformed theology views the
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inseparable union between the Holy Spirit and the Bible.
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That is such a vital concept. It is if you adhere to the
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Westminster Confession or if you are simply interested in the
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mechanics of how God communicates with His people.
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Understanding this unbreakable bond is absolutely critical.
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We want to equip you with the theological categories to see
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why the Holy Spirit does not operate independently of the
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written text. He works directly through it.
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So let us set the historical and theological scene here.
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Calvin is taking aim at a primary target.
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He describes them as certain giddy men who have arisen and
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forsaken Scripture. Giddy men, I love that phrase
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you. Too, they imagine they have
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found a more direct route to God.
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And Calvin, well, he does not mince words.
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He says these individuals are not just an error, but are
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carried away with frenzy. Yeah, they possess this great
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haughtiness. They exalt what they call the
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teaching office of the Spirit while simultaneously despising
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all reading of the biblical text.
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And here is the specific, specific insult they hurl at
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believers. They mock the simplicity of
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Christians who still follow what they call the dead and killing
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letter. They look down on anyone who
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opens a Bible claiming they have graduated past the need for ink
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and paper. It is a striking accusation.
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It really is a staggering claim and one that required a very
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robust response. Absolutely.
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When we look at Kelvin's immediate counter argument, we
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see a master class and theological consistency.
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He stops and asks a very simple question.
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These critics, he asks what spirit is bearing them up so
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high that they dare to despise scriptural doctrine as childish
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and mean? Because they have to claim some
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sort of spiritual authority, right?
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Right. And if these individuals claim
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that it is the Spirit of Christ inspiring them to abandon the
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Bible, Calvin points out the sheer absurdity of this
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assertion. How so?
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He argues that this kind of assurance is utterly ridiculous
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because we have to look at the historical precedent of the
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early church. The apostles of Christ and the
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first believers were illuminated by that exact same spirit.
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Oh, that is a brilliant point. Yeah, yet when we look at the
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lives and writings of the apostles, not a single one of
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them learned contempt for God's Word from the Holy Spirit.
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Instead, their writings attest that they were imbued with an
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immense reverence for the written text.
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The contrast there is snark. You have 16th century critics
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claiming the Spirit leads them away from the Bible.
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But the apostles, who possess the greatest measure of the
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Spirit, were led into a deeper submission to the Bible.
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Right, because God does not have a split personality.
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No, he does not. If he inspired the text in the
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1st century, he is not going to whisper something completely
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contradictory into your year. Today I want to spend some time
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unpacking the irony Calvin highlights here, because it sits
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at the absolute center of a Reformed Christian worldview.
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It is a massive contradiction on their part.
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Think about the theological consistency required in this
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discussion. How can the Spirit of Christ
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lead someone to despise the very doctrine Christ and his apostles
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established? It is a logical impossibility.
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Exactly. I mean absolutely.
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If the Holy Spirit is the author of Scripture, which we believe
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he is, then to claim that the Spirit is now telling you to
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ignore Scripture is to claim that God is divided against
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Himself. It would mean the spirit is
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suffering from a sort of divine schizophrenia, establishing a
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standard in the ancient world and then mocking that same
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standard centuries later. Kelvin is building a compelling
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narrative about the unchanging nature of God.
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The fanatics are operating under the assumption that spiritual
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maturity means growing out of the Bible like a child growing
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out of a set of clothes. But Calvin is saying that true
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spiritual maturity, guided by the true Spirit of Christ,
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results in a greater love, a greater reverence, and a greater
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dependence on the written Word. The Spirit does not graduate us
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past the Bible. He plunges us further into it.
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That concept of graduation is thoroughly dismantled when we
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examine the Old Testament prophecy Calvin brings to the
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table. He references Isaiah chapter 59,
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verse 21. What does that text say?
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God says, My spirit, which is in you, and the words that I have
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put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, nor from
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the mouth of your seed forever. We need to unpack the
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significance of this text. We really do.
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God does not treat the ancient folk or us as children who learn
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their ABC's through outward doctrine, only to toss the
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alphabet aside once they know how to read.
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Isaiah's prophesying about the new covenant there, yes.
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He is teaching that under the glorious reign of Christ, the
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new Church experiences complete happiness and true flourishing
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by being ruled by both the voice of God, which is the Word, and
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the Spirit. They operate together.
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Always. Calvin uses incredibly strong
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phrasing here. He says that taking what the
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Prophet joined together with an inviolable bond and tearing it
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apart is a heinous sacrilege. Heinous sacrilege that is heavy.
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It is not just a minor theological misstep, it is a
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violent act against God's established order.
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The Word and the Spirit are yoked together by divine decree,
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and no human claim to higher spiritual enlightenment can
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break that bond. Think of the Bible as the
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hardware and the Holy Spirit as the operating system.
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You can have a beautiful laptop, which is the Word, but without
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the operating system, the Spirit, it is just a
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paperweight. And if you try to run an
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operating system without hardware, you have nothing at
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all. Calvin is saying God engineered
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them to only work together. The idea of an inviolable bond
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is so crucial for you to grasp. It means this connection cannot
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be broken, violated or altered. To cement this further, Calvin
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shifts to the ultimate New Testament example.
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He looks at the Apostle Paul. In Second Corinthians chapter 12
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verse 2, Paul describes a moment where he was caught up even to
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the 3rd heaven. He was given a vision of glory
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that was so supreme, so direct, and so heavenly that he was not
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even permitted to speak of the things he heard.
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If anyone in the history of the church had a valid claim to say
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I've experienced direct revelation, I no longer need the
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written scrolls, it would have been the Apostle Paul.
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Without a doubt, he had the ultimate unmediated experience
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of the divine Presence. Yet we must look at the sheer
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weight of what Paul actually did following that experience.
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Despite having the most supreme heavenly vision imaginable, Paul
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never abandoned the Scriptures. He remained highly proficient in
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the doctrine of the Law and the Prophets.
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He constantly quoted the Old Testament in his letters.
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Furthermore, look at his instructions to Timothy.
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Timothy was a teacher of singular excellence, a man
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tasked with leading the church in Ephesus amidst all sorts of
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false teachings. In First Timothy chapter 4,
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verse 13, Paul urges Timothy to give heed to reading.
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He does not tell Timothy to wait for a trance or to seek a direct
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mystical download. He tells him to read the text.
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He tells him to study the written documents.
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And later Paul adorn scripture with the highest praise possible
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in Second Timothy chapter 3 verses 16 and 17.
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He states that all Scripture is breathed out by God and is
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useful for teaching, admonishing, and reproving in
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order that the servants of God may be made perfect.
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The goal of Scripture is the perfection, the complete
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equipping of the believer for every good work.
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If you are listening to this and wondering how it applies to you
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right now, think about the mindset it takes for modern
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individuals to claim scripture is fleeting or temporal.
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If an apostle who saw the 3rd heaven with his own eyes still
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anchored his entire ministry, his entire life and his entire
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instruction to the next generation in the written text
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of the Bible, what kind of arrogance does it take for us to
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think we can bypass it? Calvin uses the phrase devilish
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madness to describe this pretense.
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It is a madness born of the devil to think that the use of
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Scripture, which God designed to lead his children all the way to
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their final goal, is something we can outgrow.
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If Paul needed the parchment. If Timothy needed the reading,
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then you and I certainly cannot bypass the written word in our
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pursuit of God. But that raises a huge red flag,
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does it not? It absolutely does.
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If someone claims God is speaking directly to them
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outside the Bible, how on earth do you Fact Check that?
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This brings us to a critical necessity.
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We have to be testing the spirits.
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If people are claiming direct revelation, we have to look at
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the divine mark of illumination. Calvin points us to the true
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task of the Promised Spirit, referencing John chapter 16,
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verse 13. In that passage, Christ declared
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very clearly what sort of Spirit he was sending to the disciples.
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He stated that the Spirit would not speak from himself, but
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would suggest to and instill into their minds what Christ had
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already handed on through the Word.
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Calvin uses this to establish a firm a theological boundary.
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The task of the Holy Spirit is not inventing new, unheard of
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revelations. The Spirit is not in the
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business of forging a new kind of doctrine to lead us away from
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the received doctrine of the gospel.
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Rather, the specific task of the Spirit is sealing our minds with
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that very doctrine which is commended by the gospel.
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The spirit authenticates and illuminates what is already
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there in the text. I love that concept of sealing
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our minds. It is like a king putting his
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royal wax seal on a document. That is a great analogy.
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The seal does not not change the words on the page.
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It proves the words are authentic and carry the King's
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authority. This boundary is necessary
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because of the very real danger of deception.
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We must avoid Satan's disguise. Calvin references Second Peter
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chapter one verse 19, where Peter praises the zeal of those
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who are attentive to the prophetic teaching.
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Peter commends those who pay close attention to the written
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word as a lamp shining in a dark place.
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We must contrast this commendation with the severe
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warning found in Galatians chapter 1, verses 6 through 9.
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Paul says that if any spirit, or even an Angel from heaven foist
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another doctrine upon us that passes over the wisdom of God's
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Word, that spirit is guilty of vanity and lying and is
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accursed. I want to bring up the chilling
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warning from Second Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 14.
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Satan disguises himself as an Angel of light.
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The enemy does not always come with horns and a pitchfork.
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He often comes with a glowing aura, offering what feels like a
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highly spiritual, elevated insight that just so happens to
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contradict or bypass the Bible. This force is a crucial question
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for you to consider. Without a certain mark to test
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these experiences, what authority will the Spirit have
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among us? If every internal prompting,
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every dream, and every strong emotional intuition is equated
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with the voice of the Holy Spirit, we are left without an
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objective standard. We would be miserable folk,
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willingly wandering to our doom, seeking the spirit from within
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our own fallen imaginations rather than from Him.
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Now the critics, the fanatics Calvin is addressing, raise an
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objection here. They argue that it is beneath
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the dignity of the Holy Spirit to be subject to Scripture.
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They think it degrades the third person of the Trinity to confine
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his voice to an ancient book. But Calvin provides a brilliant
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logical defense to dissect this objection.
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He points out that the Spirit is the author of the Scriptures.
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Therefore, testing the Spirit by the Scriptures is not reducing
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him to bondage. It is not an insult at all.
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It simply proves that the Holy Spirit is everywhere equal,
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completely in conformity with Himself, and varies in nothing.
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That is such a vital distinction.
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When we demand that spiritual experiences line up with
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Scripture, we are not putting God in a box.
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We are honoring the very revelation God freely chose to
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give us. You're recognizing his voice
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because we know what his voice sounds like as recorded in the
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Bible. He cannot degenerate from
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himself. God does not change His mind or
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his character. The Holy Spirit stamped His own
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image upon the biblical text. Recognizing him in his own image
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is the specific test he established to prove His Majesty
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among us. This whole controversy, however,
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often hinges on one specific phrase the critics love to
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weaponize. They love to quote.
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See Corinthians chapter 3 verse 6 where Paul says the letter
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kills. They use this phrase to justify
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their disdain for reading the text, claiming that strict
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adherence to the Bible is a dead legalistic enterprise.
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We need to do some exegetical analysis here and unpack what
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Paul actually meant in that context context.
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Contextualizing Second Corinthians 3.6 is absolutely
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essential. Calvin provides historical and
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exegetical correction to the fanatics misuse of this verse.
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Paul was not writing against the concept of written scripture.
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No, he was arguing against false apostles who were commending the
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law apart from Christ. These false teachers, often
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referred to as Judaizers, were calling people away from the
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benefits of the new covenant. They were telling the Gentile
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believers that they needed to observe the external rights of
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the Mosaic Law to be truly justified.
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But in the new covenant as promised in Jeremiah chapter 31
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verse 33, God covenants to engrave His law on the inward
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parts of believers and to write it in their hearts.
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The false apostles were trying to drag the Corinthians back to
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a system of outward observance without the inward reality of
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Christ's grace. So when is the letter actually
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dead? Calvin discusses the specific
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conditions under which the law slays its readers.
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The letter kills when it is cut off from Christ's grace.
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It kills when it sounds in the ears alone, leaving the heart
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completely untouched. If you read the Bible simply as
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a rule book devoid of the grace of Jesus Christ, it will only
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condemn you because you cannot keep its demands perfectly.
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Wait, let me play devil's advocate here for a second.
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If Paul says in Second Corinthians that the letter
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kills, doesn't that directly support the critics?
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It might seem like that at a quick glance.
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It sounds like Paul is actually telling them to drop the book
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and rely on the Spirit. I know people today who say I
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don't need theology, I just need Jesus.
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As if reading the Bible carefully is somehow opposed to
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knowing Christ. But the distinction Calvin is
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making here changes everything. The physical words on the page,
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the ink and paper, without the illuminating work of the Spirit
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and the grace of Christ, bring condemnation.
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It becomes a standard you failed to meet.
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Let us look at the contrast. When does the text become the
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word of life? When the exact same text is
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branded upon human hearts by the Holy Spirit, and when it shows
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forth Christ, it becomes the Word of life.
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Calvin points to Philippians chapter 2, verse 16, holding
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fast to the Word of Life. He also references Psalm 19
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verse 7, which declares that the law of the Lord is perfect,
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converting souls and giving wisdom to little ones.
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The text itself is not the problem.
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The fallen unregenerate human heart is the problem.
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We can connect this directly to Paul calling his own Apostolic
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preaching the ministration of the Spirit in Second Corinthians
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chapter 3, verse 8. How can Pauls preaching be the
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ministration of the Spirit if the letter kills because the
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Holy Spirit and hears in his truth?
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If the Spirit is present in the truth he expresses in Scripture.
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Calvin makes a very specific point here.
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The Spirit's efficacy is shown forth only when proper reverence
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and dignity are given to the Word you.
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Cannot expect the Spirit to eliminate your mind if you are
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treating His chosen instrument with contempt.
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The mechanics of grace here are fascinating.
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The objective truth is laid out in the written text.
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The subjective reception of that truth happens when the Holy
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Spirit opens the eyes of the heart to see Christ in that
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text. Think of it like a beautiful
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landscape at midnight. The mountains and the rivers are
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all there objectively, but you cannot see them.
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You are stumbling in the dark. The letter without the Spirit is
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like that darkness. But when the sun rises, the
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landscape is illuminated. The sun does not create the
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mountains, it allows you to see what was already there.
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The spirit without the letter would be like a sun rising on an
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empty void. But the Word and the Spirit
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together bring salvation, wisdom, and conversion.
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That is a brilliant way to put it.
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The objective truth is there, but we are blind to it until the
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Spirit provides the light. Let us expand on how Calvin
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views these mechanics of grace, because this is the being heart
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of Reformed soteriology. When we say soteriology for
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anyone who hasn't brushed up on their theological dictionary
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recently, we are just talking about the mechanics of
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salvation, how God actually goes about saving a person.
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God did not bring forth His Word as a momentary display.
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He did not give us the Bible just to tide us over until the
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Spirit arrived at Pentecost, intending to abolish the text
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afterward. Calvin introduces the concept of
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the mutual bond. God sent down the exact same
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Spirit who dispensed the Word to the prophets and apostles to
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complete His work by the efficacious confirmation of that
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very Word in the hearts of believers today.
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It is a closed loop of divine grace.
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God speaks the Word, the Spirit records the Word, and then the
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Spirit illuminates the Word for the believer.
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Because of this mutual bond, we can embrace the spirit without
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any fear of deception. Why?
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Because we recognize him in his own image, the word.
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If a spiritual prompting aligns with the Bible, we can trust it
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because the Spirit and the Word are in perfect harmony.
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To illustrate this mutual bond, we should analyze the narrative
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of Christ on the road to Emmaus found in Luke chapter 24, verses
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27 and 45. After his resurrection, Jesus
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walks with two disciples who are confused, grieving and
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disheartened. They do not not recognize him at
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first. Now what does Jesus do in that
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moment? He is the resurrected Lord of
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Glory. He could have just snapped his
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fingers and downloaded a mystical feeling of peace into
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their hearts. He could have given them a
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completely new direct revelation on the spot, but he does not.
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Do that, the text says he began with Moses and all the prophets,
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and interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things
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concerning himself. He gave them a Bible study.
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Later it says he opened their minds so they could understand
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the scriptures. Here is the crucial distinction
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Calvin draws from this event. Christ did not open their minds,
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so they would cast away the scriptures and become wise of
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themselves. He did not give them direct
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revelation that superseded the Old Testament.
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He opened their minds specifically so they should know
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the scriptures. The divine elimination was given
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for the express purpose of understanding the written text.
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I love that the living word used the written word to explain the
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living word. That is such a clear reputation
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of the fanatics. Mindset.
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Illumination drives you to the text, not away from it.
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We see this exact same principle when we look at Paul's
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instruction in First Thessalonians chapter 5, verses
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19 and 20. Paul gives a direct command to
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the believers. Do not quench the spirit.
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Now, how do we quench the spirit?
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People today often assume quenching the Spirit means
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stopping spontaneous emotional outbursts in a church service,
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or maybe having too tight of a liturgy.
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But look at how Paul immediately pairs this command.
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He pairs Do not quench the Spirit directly with Do not
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despise prophecies. In the context of the early
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church prophecies referred to the declaration and exposition
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of God's Word. Paul does not loftily catch
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believers up in empty speculations without the Word.
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Rather, he intimates a heavy truth.
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The light of the Spirit goes out the exact second the Word falls
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into contempt. If you despise the faithful
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preaching and reading of the Bible, you are actively
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quenching the Holy Spirit. You are shutting off the very
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valve through which the Spirit has chosen to flow.
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This leads to Calvin's humorous yet incredibly sharp rebuke of
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his opponents. He describes these fanatics as
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being swollen with pride. He says they carelessly forsake
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the Bible and seize upon whatever they have conceived
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while snaring. I love that Calvin essentially
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calls them out for equating their weird fever dreams with
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divine revelation. You fell asleep, had a weird
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dream because you ate too much cheese, and now you think you
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are rewriting the New Testament. It is hilarious, but it is a
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devastating critique of human pride.
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When we elevate our own internal monologue over scripture, we are
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essentially claiming that our sleepy thoughts are more
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reliable than the Holy Spirit's inspired text.
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We are trusting the random firings of our brain while
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asleep more than we trust the blood bot prophetically declared
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apostolically confirmed word of God.
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It leads Calvin to summarize the proper sobriety of the true
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children of God. A Christian operating within a
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Reformed framework holds 2 realities in perfect tension.
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On the one hand, they recognize they are utterly bereft of the
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light of truth without the Spirit of God.
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We cannot understand the Bible on our own.
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We need the Spirit to open our eyes, just as Christ did for the
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disciples on the road to Emmaus. We are completely dependent on
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divine illumination. We are not rationalists who
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think we can master God by just reading a book with human
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intellect. But on the other hand, the true
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children of God are equally aware that the Word is the
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specific ordained instrument the Lord uses to dispense that
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illumination to believers. We do not look for the Spirit in
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the clouds or in our own dreams. We look for the Spirit in the
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pages of Scripture where He has promised to meet us.
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That brings us to our final synthesis for this deep dive.
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For the Reformed thinker, as articulated so masterfully by
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John Calvin, the Word and the Spirit are entirely inseparable.
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They are bound together by an inviolable bond.
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To claim the spirit while ignoring the Word is to grasp at
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an illusion. It is to follow an Angel of
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light Into Darkness. Conversely, to read the Word
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without relying on the Spirit is to hold a dead letter, an empty
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rule book that can only condemn. We need both.
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We need the objective truth of the Bible and the subjective
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illumination of the Holy Spirit. They work in tandem to bring us
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to the knowledge of Christ. If you were listening to this
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and wondering how to apply Calvins theology to your daily
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life, it starts with a massive respect for the text on your
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night stand. It is not just ink on a page, it
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is the very breath of God waiting for the Spirit to ignite
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it in your heart. As we wrap up this discussion,
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we want to leave you, the listener, with a final thought
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to Mull over. In modern spiritual
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conversations, you will often hear people express a deep
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desire to hear a fresh new voice from God outside of the Bible.
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They want a personalized word, a new revelation tailored just for
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them. But based on the rigorous logic
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Calvin has laid out, today we have to ask a difficult
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question. If the Holy Spirit is the
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Supreme author the Scriptures, and if he has chosen the Bible
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as the instrument to reveal Christ, could ignoring the Bible
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in search of a new revelation actually mean you are actively
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plugging your ears to the clearest, most authentic voice
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of the Spirit Himself? What a question to consider as
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you go about your week. If you want to hear God speak,
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read your Bible. If you want to hear Him speak
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audibly, read it out loud. We want to thank you for joining
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us today for this deep dive into the source material on Reformed
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thinking. Keep reading, keep trusting the
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Spirit and we will catch you next time.
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