Following the Spirit
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Overflowing = Experiencing grace - GRACE - unconditional love / acceptance even when you have faced eternal judgement for your rejection of it
Parable of the Sower
Big Idea: Trust in the Spirit’s revelation of the Word in order to experience grace.
Big Idea: Trust in the Spirit’s revelation of the Word in order to experience grace.
6 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. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 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. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
1. The Spirit imparts to us the mind of Christ through His revelation of God in the Word.
1. The Spirit imparts to us the mind of Christ through His revelation of God in the Word.
Mind of Christ
1 Corinthians - motivation the return of Christ - guidance - revelation - power comes from obedience to that revelation
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
2. The Spirit inspired the Word.
2. The Spirit inspired the Word.
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
21 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.
“This is made up by religious authorities to keep their power.”
Gleason Archer in A Survey of Old Testament Introduction (Chicago: Moody Press, 1994) states: “Even though the two copies of Isaiah discovered in Qumran Cave 1 near the Dead Sea in 1947 were a thousand years earlier than the oldest dated manuscript previously known (AD [sic] 980), they proved to be word for word identical with our standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of the text. The five percent of variation consisted chiefly of obvious slips of the pen and variations in spelling.”
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
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“The people of pre-modern times were too incredulous.”
Credibility - The Apocalyptic Jesus - too simplified - We can figure everything out.
34 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
ex. “Jews rule the world.”
3. The Word is authoritative for the church.
3. The Word is authoritative for the church.
Canonicity - Editors of Scripture - Everything should follow a prescribed path.
Which books have authority over me? Why is this important for Christianity?
Power - From trust and obedience of the Word -
Authority - Without authority, you don’t know God loves you. You don’t know the mind of Christ. You can’t know God. Without authority, God can’t say anything to you that you disagree with.
Experiences…Interpreted
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Who has authority in your life? Youtube, Parents, Churches, the Word
Pastor with a dream from his wife
People who weaponize the Word
16 For we did 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. 17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” 18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. 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, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 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.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Why do you say “Lord, Lord” and not do the things that I say?
You will not experience grace if you cant believe that God loves you in spite of your guilt and shame. That doesn’t come from experience but from experience interpreted by the Word.
What are your questions about how we’ve received the Bible? What would help answer them? (a class/ a book/ resources? You don’t need to answer all of their questions if you don’t know answers. Pass it back to Dave.)
How have you seen the Holy Spirit helping you see the glory of Christ from His Word?
When do you find it difficult to believe what God says about you rather than what you think about yourself?
How does the authority of the Word help you in this regard?
How can you let the authority of the Word have further influence over your perceptions of yourself, others, your situation? (Reading, memorizing, meditating)
What does meditation in the Word look like for you? Can you improve your meditation of the Word?