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Pentecost - a day prophesied about.
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
(acts 2:16)
3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
29 And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”
New Testament:
Jhhn speaking of coming of Spirit
16 John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
not yet given:
Luke 3:16-17
39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
4 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Now all these statements seem to carry the implication that the Holy Spirit had not yet come, that the Holy Spirit would come, that the Holy Spirit was about to come and that the great day at last arrived when He did come.
more and more urgent...
Activity of the Holy Spirit BEFORE.
creating
2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
30 When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.
sustaining
7 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass.
27 These all look to you, to give them their food in due season. 28 When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. 29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. 30 When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.
common grace
“general blessings for mankind”
9 This was the true light, which gives light to everyone entering the world.
Light from Christ.
1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
Entire world is under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
“public opinion / common wisdom”
general consensus of opinion about morality… sense of right and wrong. Sense of Humanity. (where does that come from?)
Without the sustaining influence of the Spirit mankind would have long ago died off in Sin. God speaks of his patience.
Entropy...
CULTURE
arts and science, literature, architecture, sculpture, painting , music… yada yada. Leads us to live better lives...
Shakespeare? Michelangelo?
Great Doctrines of the Bible, Volume 2: God the Holy Spirit Chapter 3: Creation and Common Grace
You see, what is wrong with culture is not the thing itself, it is rather that people give their worship, their praise and their adoration to those men and women who have produced the works rather than to the God who enabled them to do it.
We shall be reminded later of how our Lord Himself tells us that God sends His rain upon the evil and the good and causes His sun to rise on the just and the unjust—it is the same thing. The God who sends rain and sunshine and gives crops to the evil farmer as well as to the Christian farmer, dispenses artistic and scientific gifts in exactly the same way, indiscriminately, to bad and good, saved and unsaved. It is a work of the Holy Spirit.
5 I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, 6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. 7 I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
He controls everything… not author of evil but of the consequences that follow certain actions.
In other words, it is the Holy Spirit who sees to it that certain actions lead to certain painful and evil consequences.
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How can the world go on existing at all in sin?
4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
It does not exhaust the meaning of those words, but it does, at any rate, mean that a time was coming when instead of keeping men and women alive, in spite of their sin, God would stop and the flood would come and they would all be destroyed.
51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
God does RESTRAIN
44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Lystra
Acts
15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. 16 In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. 17 Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
10 For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.