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Our Goal: Living By the Spirit in ‘23
Review:
Week 1: Changing Our Perspective of Christ
Week 2: Seeing the Glory of God
Tonight: The Well Women’s Bible Study will be talking about How the Spirit Leads Us to Pray
Wednesday Bible Studies are focusing on the Spirit of God being active in our daily lives.
Being Led By the Spirit
The example of Christ:
Going back to a scripture we read last week:
1) We must stop compartmentalizing the Spirit.
'Spiritual' according to Oxford Dictionaries:
“Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.”
In this definition, spiritual is seen as the opposite of material or physical.
It is a segment of life that sometimes needs more attention.
If everything out there is just stuff, just something you can touch, then maybe it's just quite empty.
Everything is Spiritual
Paul’s sermon at Mars Hill:
God hates it when we confine Him to a box.
The Spirit mentions this separatist doctrine three times in Revelation chapter 2:
Word Meanings
The word, Nicolaitans, means to be victorious over the people, that is, to conquer the people or laity.
It is a combination of two Greeks words: nikos, to conquer and laos, the people or laity.
Strong's # 3534 nikos (nee'-kos); from 3529; a conquest (concretely), i.e. (by implication) triumph: KJV — victory.
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Strong's # 2992 laos (lah-os'); apparently a primary word; a people (in general; thus differing from 1218, which denotes one's own populace): KJV — people.
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It is instructive that "the doctrine of Balaam" is mentioned with "the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes."
Balaam is a Hebrew word having a meaning similar to the Greek word, Nicolaitanes.
Balaam means to "destroy the people."
It is a combination of two Hebrew words: bala, to destroy and am, a people.
Strong's # 1104 bala` (baw-lah'); a primitive root; to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy: KJV — cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
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Strong's # 5971 `am (am); from 6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock: KJV — folk, men, nation, people.
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The similarity of the Greek word, Nicolaitan, to the Hebrew word, Balaam, is noted in A.R. Fausset, The Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia.
Michaelis explains Nicolas (conqueror of the people) is the Gr. for the Heb.
Balaam (destroyer of the people, bela'am)
The doctrine of the Nicolaitans and Balaam is a doctrine of compartmentalization.
Is is two-fold:
First, it compartmentalizes people.
What began with the deeds of the Nicolaitanes during the period of the Ephesian Church soon developed into a doctrine during the period of the Pergamos church.
Afterwards, Thyatira arose and gave full expression to the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, an evil that the Lord Jesus Christ hates.
It is men dividing and seeking lordship over the assembly of God.
Some take care of “Spiritual” things, some take care of “earthly” things according to this false teaching.
We are all His ministers.
Second, this false doctrine compartmentalized life.
In the very long treatise on heresies, a treatise of 252 pages of small type, Irenaeus wrote very little on the Nicolaitanes.
His meager discussion of the Nicolaitanes is as follows,
The Nicolaitanes are the followers of that Nicolas who was one of the seven first ordained to the diaconate by the apostles.
They lead lives of unrestrained indulgence.
The character of these men is very plainly pointed out in the Apocalypse of John, [when they are represented] as teaching that it is a matter of indifference to practise adultery, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
Wherefore the Word has also spoken of them thus: "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate."
William Kelly wrote the following,
The essence of Nicolaitanism seems to have been the abuse of grace to the disregard of Christian or even moral practice.
... When persons maintain that unholiness may be tolerated because no man is free from sin, it is Antinomianism; and I believe it to be the very principle of the Nicolaitans.
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Hamilton Smith held the same view as William Kelly,
This, again, opened the door to Nicolaitanism, which apparently was the Antinomian doctrine that held the practical life of godliness to be of little account, seeing the believer is justified by faith.
This was turning the grace of God into lasciviousness.
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Recount story of Balaam:
He couldn’t curse Israel, so he taught them to gratify the flesh.
If it feels good, do it.
And thus, they cursed themselves.
Because Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, they separated body and spirit, believing that we could never be free from sin in our body so it was OK to live by any and every desire of the flesh.
The Spirit of Christ in us raises the standard rather than abolishing it.
The Spirit of God want to be in every part of your life!
2) You are led where you are fed.
In other words, what you are feeding is what will be leading.
Amen!
We feed the Spirit through:
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