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Holy Spirit | David Wade | Week 10 · Madison Church of Christ Bible Studies

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  Speaker A: Hey, thanks so much for listening to this message. My name is Jason and I'm one of the ministers here at the Madison Church of Christ. It's our hope and prayer that the teaching you hear today will bless your life and draw you closer to God. If you're ever in the Madison area, we'd love for you to stop by and study the Bible with us on Sundays at 5pm or Wednesdays at 7pm if you have questions about the Bible or want to know more about the Madison Church, you can find us online@madisonchurch.org be sure to subscribe to this podcast as well as our Sermons podcast. Madison Church of Christ Sermons. Thanks again for stopping by. I hope this study is a blessing to you.
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  Speaker B: So tonight, kind of continuing discussing different themes and aspects or characteristics of the Spirit. And the one, the one I want to focus on tonight is the Spirit as a teacher. And we'll be in the Bible a lot tonight, a lot of Scripture tonight. So hopefully have your Bibles and, and we'll do a lot of reading and discuss some of those. But we'll spend a lot of time in Scripture tonight, kind of before we do that, just kind of thinking about God's Word and why we even need it, kind of thinking of different aspects of it. One of the things that he does in Scripture is he reveals himself. It's how, how we know him. It's how we get to know Him. It's how we know who he is, his characteristics, and we see how he's acted throughout history. I think about Romans 1, I think it's verse 20, Romans 1, passage about how we can look in nature and see attributes of God. And that's true. He does reveal himself through nature, through the creation. And we can, we can look at creation and we can learn things about God, but it doesn't mean it's not sufficient. It tells us something, but it doesn't tell us everything. So we really need him to reveal Himself to us. So he does that in Scripture. So we're certainly thankful to have that. The other thing is we find the answer to the big questions of life. Just like what is life? What is the meaning of life? Where did we come from? How did we get here? How did the world get here? Life and death. Is there life after death? All those kinds of things that philosophers try to find the answers to and philosophy doesn't. I mean, philosophy's good, actually, kind of, I'll admit I actually enjoyed a little bit, but it doesn't really answer the questions. Just being honest, it doesn't answer the questions, the big important questions of life. I think those are revealed to us in Scripture and that's how we really know the answer to those big questions that we have. The other thing it does, Scripture, is it reveals God's will for how we should live our life. It's not just a guidebook, but there's certainly God's guide to us on how to live. I'm a big believer that following God's Word is the best way to live. It's not just that he arbitrarily has said, I want you to live this way. He knows that it's the best way for us. And I'm a big believer in that. And I think we discover that through His Word. But it does kind of beg the question. I'll just say, I believe that living according to God's will brings us the most happiness. It brings us the most joy ultimately. But it does kind of beg the question. A couple of questions. Couldn't we just figure out what's going to make us happy and live that way? And is, is that okay? And I would say no, because we're too foolish to know what's good for us. We need God's Word. We end up going down. If we were to try to live our life that way, we end up going down a wrong path that would be destructive to ourselves. We need God's Word to guide us and tell us the best way to live. The other question is, if it really is the best way to live, then why do people. Why do people suffer? Why isn't everyone that's following God's will always happy and joyful? And the reality is we still live in a fallen world and we have to deal with not only our sin, but the sins of others and just the world in its fallen state. But we look forward to a time when sin is eliminated and, and we can live that full life, full of joy. But then finally, other thing that he does in His Word is he reveals the gospel, the good news of how he plans to redeem us and how we can enjoy and participate in that. So all those things really come through revelation. And the Spirit has, throughout history has had the primary role in. In that in revealing God's Word. Like I said, we're going to be looking at a lot of scripture tonight. We'll start in 2 Peter, 2 Peter 1, 1621. For we do not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. But we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was born to him by the majestic glory. This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. We ourselves heard this voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. So what's Peter talking about here? What? Yeah, I heard whispers of it. The transfiguration. Yeah, so he's referring to that time with Jesus on the mountain when he saw Jesus transfigured. So he's saying, I was an eyewitness of this. I saw this firsthand. Picking up in verse 19. And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Knowing this, first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. So he's saying, essentially, look, I was an eyewitness to Jesus. I saw firsthand the things that he did and said. But it's kind of interesting in verse 19 that he says that we have a prophetic word more fully confirmed. To me, the implication is it's more fully confirmed than even being an eyewitness. The Scriptures that we have are a fuller story, a more complete story, even beyond just being an eyewitness. So we shouldn't underestimate the value of Scripture and the value of what's revealed by the Holy Spirit through Scripture. He describes it as. He says that we should pay attention to it as a lamp shining in a dark place. It enlightens us, illuminates us. Until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Morning star is the star that you see before the sun rises. There's a bright star in the sky that appears before the sunrise. It's actually Venus, but that was the morning star. And it's. It's an indication of something coming, is really what morning star is. Jesus is described as the morning star in the Book of Revelation. He's the one that ushered in this new age that we've kind of been talking about a little bit. So he's the one that brings that in. So he's basically saying we need to rely on the Scripture to enlighten us until the morning star appears, basically until Jesus returns. And at that point, we'll be fully enlightened. But until that time, we have the Scriptures to guide us, to show Us the way to light the path, so to speak. It's also interesting, he says scripture doesn't come from someone's own interpretation. They're not making this up, I think is what he's trying to say. But it comes from the Holy Spirit. And he's talking about not only the apostles writing, but he's really talking about all of scripture. From the beginning of time, when scriptures were written, it was provided by the Holy Spirit. The prophets didn't speak on their own accord. They spoke through the power of the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit really is the author of. Author of the Word. All right, I'll kind of pause and see thoughts and comments.
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  Speaker C: I was just going to. I mean, it speaks of this idea of the prophetic word more fully confirmed. Speaking of the prophets of Old Testament, what we call Old Testament scripture, that the things that Jesus did, his death, his resurrection, all those things were fulfilling scripture. When you read through the Gospels, all the gospel writers, especially Matthew and John, are always saying this happened in order to fulfill scripture. It's fulfilling one prophecy after another. And that's what's powerful to me about Acts. When Paul, Apollos and others are going into the synagogue, they're pointing to scripture.
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  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: Trying to prove Jesus is the Messiah.
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  Speaker D: He fulfilled this, this, this, this, this.
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  Speaker B: Yeah.
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  Speaker C: And a lot of them were like, oh, wow. Yeah, Jesus is the Messiah.
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  Speaker B: Yeah. To me, to me, to me that's one of the most powerful things about the scripture is seeing Jesus fulfillment of the prophecies. To me, that's just amazing. I don't understand non faith when you look at that. It's not possible by circumstance that he would fulfill all those prophecies. But yeah, that's amazing to me. Another passage that has a similar idea is in second Timothy, second Timothy 3, 14, 17, it says, but as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness that the man of God may be complete equipped for every good work. It's kind of interesting. All scripture is breathed out. And we talked earlier in the quarter about how the word for the Spirit is breath. So I think it's to me a clear reference to the Spirit. You can almost, if you were to turn this into a ver, you could say it was spirited, but it's the Same idea God breathed is implying that it comes from the breath of God or the spirit of God. Again, the same word. I also want to look at this idea of it's profitable for teaching and kind of going back to analogy we used earlier about how we're trying to walk. We're trying to walk a path of righteousness. And God's word helps us to walk that path. And one of the things that it does is it teaches us one, it teaches us what that path is. There's plenty of ways and opportunities to get lost, but God's word shows us the right path. And then the idea of reproof is when we deviate off that path, it points that out. So when we step off the path that we should be on, it highlights that to us, but then it also corrects. And the idea of correcting is it's showing us how to get back on the path. And then the idea of training is the idea of being able to stay on the path. So I think all those things kind of play into that analogy that we talked about earlier. Kind of taking that a bit farther, we might think of trying to walk that path. If we're walking through an area that we're unfamiliar with, we might have a guide book or a map that shows us the way. We can think of the scripture like that. It's that book that's showing us the correct way. Like I said, there's plenty of ways to deviate, to get lost, to stumble, to wonder. But if we follow that guidebook, it will show us the right path, that path of righteousness that leads to life. But I would also say not only do we have the book, we also have the one that wrote the book with us. And that's the idea of the Spirit dwelling with us. So he's not only pointing us, showing us the scriptures, but he's there with us to make sure one that we understand and to help change our heart. And it's really a heart thing, but to change our hearts so that we have a better understanding of that path that we should be walking. Alright. Also wanted to look at 1 John 2:26 27. So first John 2:26 27 says, I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you, but the anointing that you receive from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in Him. So a little bit A few verses earlier in this, he was talking about an Antichrist. So if someone wants to explain that, feel free to. Who wants to explain the Antichrist, Brandon? Someone who's against Christ.
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  Speaker C: That's all I got.
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  Speaker B: That's a great answer. That's basically it. I mean, that's basically it. It's someone who's against Christ. So John is speaking out against, basically against false teachers who were teaching things that were against Christ. You can kind of piece some of this together throughout multiple things throughout the book of first John that he's talking about. And we hit on this, I think in a previous class a little bit. And they always did it, stuff the
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  Speaker E: sheep and wolves clothing.
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  Speaker B: They didn't just come out and say, oh yeah, we are against Christ. They made you believe they were one of you and did it absolutely deceptively. Yes, yes, definitely. So they didn't say we don't believe in Christ. They just taught incorrect things about Christ. That's what he really meant.
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  Speaker D: Right?
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  Speaker B: They taught incorrect things about him and who he was specifically. It's really an early form of Gnosticism. And the idea of Gnostics is they felt that they had some secret knowledge that was beyond what the regular everyday Christians had. And it was really kind of a mixing of Platonism into Christianity. And the idea was that the material world was evil and the non material world was good. So the physical world was bad, non physical world good. So it was this. The idea of the Spirit was good, body bad. And that's not. And there's some scriptures that might kind of make us think that, but that is not what those scriptures mean. But when they took their ideas kind of to their end, they actually denied that Jesus actually physically lived in his body. So they said he was an apparition. He looked like he had a body, but he didn't really, because a body is evil. There's no way he could have had a body. So this is kind of what they were teaching. So it was a denial of his humanity. It's kind of interesting that in 1st John 4:2 he says he came in the flesh. And in 1 John 1:1 he talks about that. I knew him personally, I saw him, I heard him and actually touched him. But one of the things they also taught is since the body doesn't really matter, it's the Spirit that matters. What you do with your body doesn't really matter. So you can sin however you want with it. That was another false teaching. So anyway, John's trying to combat these. So that's kind of the context of these verses. So these people are teaching this. They're trying to deceive them, but he's reminding them that you already know the gospel. You already have the gospel and you've already received it. Don't deviate from that. Don't deviate from the truth. We mentioned last week, but I'll just mention it again. This word in verse 27, the anointing. But the anointing that you received, that word is actually oil. And we talked about how the oil is a symbol of the Spirit. So he's really talking about the fact that you've already received the Spirit and that Spirit abides in you, and that's an indication that you already know the truth of the gospel. You wouldn't have the Spirit if you didn't know the truth of the gospel. So that Spirit is already in you. And you don't need anyone to teach you, to teach you a different gospel or some secret knowledge beyond what you heard just from the gospel. All right. A lot in there. A lot of kind of deep stuff. Thoughts on any of that? Yes.
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  Speaker D: Not sure this is about the Spirit, but when Paul wrote to the Galatians, they had the same problem in the sense that they were. Somebody was teaching them a different gospel, which added circumcision and keeping the law to the Old Testament. Paul made the same argument to them. You know, you receive the gospel, there isn't another one. Somebody comes along and teaches you something new and different that's wrong, and that's what John's doing here. Different wrong thing.
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  Speaker B: Yeah. So it's important that we, for one, have a good understanding of what the Gospel is, that we're in the Word, that we can recognize errors when they come. I mean, these were two different errors. One was trying to bring in Greek philosophy in this case, and then the other was trying to bring back in Jewish religion in that case. So we ought to be able to recognize when things are being taught that aren't. But we need to be in the Word in order to do that. Right. Also, let's look at 1 Corinthians 2, 1:16. And I took out a few verses where I have the dots. So I won't read every verse just for just for sake of time. But starting in verse one, it says, and I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God which God decreed before the ages for our glory. These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the Spirit of that person which is in. Which is in him. So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, but we have the mind of Christ. Alright, a lot in there. I won't necessarily try to cover everything. But here Paul in this case is also attacking basically false ideas, but he's rejecting wisdom of this age, the wisdom of the world, the world around him. And he's saying that we have. And he kind of uses the same term that John uses, a secret knowledge. In this case, this is a secret knowledge that comes from God, that comes from the Spirit. So we don't rely on wisdom of the world, but we rely on wisdom that comes from God, comes from the Spirit. He kind of points out that the kind of uses a little bit of a play on words. But our Spirit is what really knows us. Our inner person is what really knows us, knows our thoughts. Therefore the Spirit of God really knows the thoughts of God and is able to reveal the wisdom of God to us. I think somebody that was one of the questions I think got asked earlier in the quarter that somebody sent me is kind of what does that mean, how the Spirit searches the depths of God. It's really just the idea that the Spirit knows the thoughts of God and reveals those to us. All right, thoughts, thoughts on that.
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  Speaker E: Verse 7 talks about a mystery. Is that Christ that the Old Testament did not explicitly call the Messiah.
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  Speaker B: Is that what Verse seven. Let me find verse seven. We impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God which God decreed before the ages. So mine calls it a secret and hidden wisdom mystery. I think same idea. The idea there is that God didn't reveal everything at once. A lot of how he was going to save the world was kept hidden even from the angels. Yeah. Even from the angels, they desired to look into it. So a lot of God's plan wasn't fully revealed. It has now been revealed by the coming of Christ. And I think through the Spirit, no eye is seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. So it's really the fact that God chose to reveal not only his will, but his plan over time. He didn't give Adam the book, the completed book. Right. He revealed things over time, and things were hidden for time until the right time for him to reveal those things elsewhere. Paul, I think in Ephesians, Paul also uses the same word when he talks about the mystery. And in that case, the mystery he was referring to is the bringing in of the Gentiles and the Jews together into one community. And that was the mystery in that case. But the idea is that not everything was revealed at once or previously. Those things are now revealed to us through basically through the completed word.
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  Speaker C: I was just going to mention also in this, you know, the mystery that Paul's talking about through all of this is Christ crucified.
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  Speaker B: Yes.
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  Speaker C: I mean, this is it. It's like nobody. That's foolishness to the Greeks, this is the only block to the Jews. It's the wisdom of God that. And it's compelling to me that even we talk about mystery, something's hidden. But Jesus is telling the disciples over and over again, I'm going to go to Jerusalem, I'm going to be handed over to evil men. They're going to flog me, they're going to crucify me. And the third day, I'm going to be raised back to life. And it just. It didn't land on.
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  Speaker B: And even. Yeah, even when he spoke plainly. Spoke plainly, they still didn't. Yeah.
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  Speaker C: And so it's fascinating that on Sunday when the women show up, the guys are like, what are you guys talking about?
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  Speaker B: Well, it's also interesting. Right before they preached the sermon at Pentecost, or actually right before Jesus ascension, just days before they preached the sermon, they asked Jesus, well, is this when you're going to restore the kingdom to Israel? And he says, just wait for the Holy Spirit to come and he will reveal everything to you. They still didn't get it. But ultimately it kind of goes back to where we started. In order for us to really have knowledge and understanding, it needs to be revealed to us by God. We can't come to it on our own. We're not smart enough, we're not wise enough. We can't figure it out. It needs to be revealed to us. Good comments. I may fly over this chart. It's kind of everything we just said, but summarized in a chart. So we may just fly over that one. Alright, so I want to kind of dive into this idea of the Gospel being revealed by the Spirit through the apostles and their role in that. I want to look at First John 14, 25, 26. We may not read all these, but I have some summaries of what these verses are saying. But I do want to read for sure, John 14, 25, 26. So this is Jesus talking to his apostles in his final days and he's telling them about the Spirit that is coming. So verse 26 it says, but the Helper, the. The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. So a promise first off to the apostles that the Holy Spirit was going to come. Jesus was trying to prepare them for his departure, but he's telling them that he's not going to leave them alone. He's going to send a helper. And he talks about some other things that the helper will do. But here specifically, he talks about how he's going to teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I've said to you. First, I think it's important that we understand that these words were spoken to the apostles. I think sometimes when we read Scripture, we read it as if everything was written directly to us and we need to be a little careful there and understand the context of what's happening here. So this is Jesus speaking to the apostles. I don't think this is a promise to us that he's going to reveal, at least not in the same way. Right. The way he reveals to us is through the teaching of the apostles and through the Word, not directly through the Spirit. He's not revealing new truth to us through the Spirit. That's not what the Spirit does for us today, but it is what the Spirit was doing for the apostles. And they in turn taught, wrote it down, shared that message.
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  Speaker D: The context here is the Last Supper. I think from chapter 14 till his death, just the apostles are.
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  Speaker B: And then John 16, which is part of that same context there. John 16, 13, 14 says, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak of his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. Therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. So a very similar idea of the Spirit's role in teaching the apostles the truth so that they could go and teach the world. It's also kind of interesting that he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak. And also that he will glorify me. For he will take what is mine and declare it to you. The Spirit's emphasis is really never on himself in his teachings. He's always pointing to Christ. He's revealing the words of God from God, but he's really emphasizing Christ. That's the Gospel. The gospel message is Christ. And that is the message that the Spirit Spirit gives to us. I think we ought to be a little wary when we see messages that focus back on the Spirit. And we spent a whole quarter talking about the Spirit. I think the Spirit is an incredibly important topic to talk about. But we ought to also realize that the emphasis of his mission, of his work is to point to Christ. Christ is our Savior. And the Spirit points us. Points us to Christ as our Savior. All right, we kind of already mentioned that Acts 1:8 verse. This was right before Jesus Ascension that we already mentioned. We'll look at the Acts 2:4 verse. This is when they were together in the upper room, the apostles. And it says, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. So this is that moment when they received the Spirit that was promised. Right after this is when they delivered that gospel message at Pentecost and the Lord's Church began. This was that moment we mentioned the tongues here. And I'm hoping we'll get to that at the end of class. If not, we'll get to it at the beginning of the next class. But I do want to dive into tongues a little bit. We'll kind of come back to that. Alright, so I kind of have the other couple of verses summarized up here. We may just move on. But again, the idea is that the Spirit was working through the apostles to reveal the Gospel. There's also authenticating signs. I want to hit on that a little bit as well. Some verses that speak to that. The Mark 16 passage, we'll start with that one. So we'll start in Mark 16:15. It says, and he said to them, go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. But whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe in My name. They will cast out demons. They will speak in new tongues. They will pick up serpents with their hands. If they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them. They will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover. So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and set down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs. So with the giving of this Gospel, there were signs that were being performed by the apostles and then others that had a purpose of authenticating this message. This was a new, this was a revolutionary message. This was a major moment in the flow of history. This is an incredibly important moment. And these signs were accompanying the message to basically authenticate the message that was being preached and told. Some of the other verses kind of talk about this same idea. Hebrews 2, 3, 4. It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. So not only is the Holy Spirit teaching and delivering the message through the apostles, but he was also delivering signs and wonders and miracles and gifts that were accompanying that message to authenticate the validity of that message they were showing it was from God. All right, there's a couple of verses that kind of talk about the idea of the revelation from God being complete. We'll look at the Hebrews 1 and 2 passage quickly. It says, long ago, at many times, in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. But in these last days he has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. The idea is there was this long period of time of revealing, revealing through prophets. But he's now revealed the mystery, right? The mystery has now been uncovered. It's now been revealed. And that was done through His Son. But there's an implication here that this is kind of the final revelation. It doesn't flat out say it, but there's an implication here, I think that that's the final revelation, that we now have the final message and that came through Christ. And of course that means the follow on activities of the apostles fleshing that out and preaching that message, that gospel message and delivering that message. I think all that's encapsulated in that idea. But also The First Corinthians 13, 8, 12. Passage I want to look at it says, love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So he talks about prophecies, tongues, knowledge passing away, being temporary things. So this is part of a larger discussion that Paul has with the Corinthians about spiritual gifts, and we're going to hit that a lot more next week. So this is part of a bigger discussion. But they were overemphasizing these gifts and these signs that they had in Paul, saying, look, all these things are temporary. They're going to serve their purpose, but then they're going to go away. Love is really what you ought to be focusing on. That's the thing that's going to persist. It says, we know in part and we prophesy in part. I believe that to be saying that once this message is fully, there's a purpose behind these signs, and that's to reveal the Gospel. But when that's fully revealed, there's really no more need for these signs that you have. All right, I don't really want to start the next topic. We got about a minute. Yes.
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  Speaker E: I hope you address a question. I don't think I missed it through the previous one lessons, but especially a few slides back and this one that the Spirit seems to teach, to guide, to direct. These prophecies are going to be done away with, and then that which is perfect has come. Then all the others will be done away with. The spiritual gifts, as I take it, Address either in the next lessons or maybe in the summary that you're going to do. How is the Bible scripture? Maybe not ink and pulp. How is scripture not some or most or even all of the Holy Spirit today?
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  Speaker B: Yeah. So let me hit this chart a little bit. A couple verses that we've talked about God's promise to write his law on their hearts. And then that's repeated in Ezekiel. I'm going to give you a new heart. I'm going to put my spirit in you and cause you to walk in my statutes. So the role of the Spirit is one to reveal the word to us, but it's also then to indwell us so that we keep that word. So he's assisting us by the spirit that lives within us. He's assisting us to help him to actually follow it. He's not revealing new truth to us. That's not what he's doing. This is kind of this note here at the bottom. If we go back to the kind of analogy of we have the spirit as our guide, we have the guidebook, it has the map and it shows us the way, but we also have the author. We also have the spirit himself with us. That's helping us to understand it, but also to internalize it. And it's really a heart thing to change our heart so that we're actually following it. He's not saying, oh, there's something in the book that I didn't tell you about yet. I've got some new knowledge for you. That's not what the Spirit's doing. He's not giving us new knowledge that's not in the scriptures, but he's helping us to understand it and to follow it. That's his role as he lives in our life today. That's what I believe. Kind of out of time. So we'll kind of leave it there. We'll pick up that next week.