(6) The Spirit and the Lord Jesus
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The Spirit’s Role in Creation - Order from Chaos
The Spirit’s Role in Creation - Order from Chaos
The Spirit’s Role in the Old Covenant
The Spirit Unveils the Face of God
The Spirit Unveils the Face of God
The Spirit is working to reveal the face of God that we might find security and grace in the Lord. Throughout the Old Testament there are revelations of the face of the Father as the Spirit does in the Old Testament the kinds of things a father does for his children.
The Spirit and his relationship with the Lord Jesus
The Spirit and his relationship with the Lord Jesus
How the Father works through the life of the Lord Jesus in the companionship of the Holy Spirit. In the gospels there are four points in the 33 years of his ministry that this is especially seen. His birth and infancy, his inauguration to public ministry, during this public ministry and his work, his passion, his resurrection, his ascension.
The infancy and childhood of Jesus
The infancy and childhood of Jesus
(https://hymnary.org/text/jesus_i_my_cross_have_taken_all_to_le)
Jesus, I my cross have taken
All to leave and follow Thee
Destitute, despised, forsaken
Thou from hence my all shall be
Perish every fond ambition
All Ive sought or hoped or known
Yet how rich is my condition!
God and heaven are still my own
Let the world despise and leave me
They have left my Savior, too
Human hearts and looks deceive me
Thou art not, like them, untrue
O while Thou dost smile upon me
God of wisdom, love, and might
Foes may hate and friends disown me
Show Thy face and all is bright
Man may trouble and distress me
Twill but drive me to Thy breast
Life with trials hard may press me
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest
Oh, tis not in grief to harm me
While Thy love is left to me
Oh, twere not in joy to charm me
Were that joy unmixed with Thee
Go, then, earthly fame and treasure
Come disaster, scorn and pain
In Thy service, pain is pleasure
With Thy favor, loss is gain
I have called Thee Abba Father
I have stayed my heart on Thee
Storms may howl, and clouds may gather
All must work for good to me
Soul, then know thy full salvation
Rise oer sin and fear and care
Joy to find in every station
Something still to do or bear
Think what Spirit dwells within thee
Think what Fathers smiles are thine
Think that Jesus died to win thee
Child of heaven, canst thou repine
Haste thee on from grace to glory
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer
Heavens eternal days before thee
Gods own hand shall guide us there
Soon shall close thy earthly mission
Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days
Hope shall change to glad fruition
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise
Hallelujah
The Spirit who made Jesus prophet, priest and king empowers you to speak as God’s prophet, to enter into God’s presence and to live as a living sacrifice and as Paul says in Romans, to reign in life by Christ Jesus. Not what does this teach me about me, but what does this teach me about Jesus and the Holy Spirit? It teaches me more about the Spirit.
John 14:7 - you know him for he dwells with you and in you.
Passages in the NT that underline for us that the Holy Spirit who equipped Jesus was with him and empowered him throughout the course of his work. Luke 4:14 - returned in the power of the Spirit.
Jesus preaches in the synagogue 4:16 and unrolls the scroll and reads form Is 61 - the Spirit of the Lord. Fulfilled in your hearing. The sermon that created the shortest first ministry. Waiting for the Spirit filled and empowered messiah to come. I am he.
The passage that Jesus fulfilled during his ministry. In the power of the Spirit, he healed, he forgave, he gave assurance, he brought restoration, he came like the new man, the second Adam. He comes to those who are broken and bruised by the Fall, the blind, the deaf, the lame. In the words of Warfield, he turns on the light temporarily and partially, revealing what will happen fully at the end of the age. He delivers those who are oppressed, possessed by demons. Setting them free from the bondage created by Satan since the Fall. There are few references to demons in the Bible. Most of them are found in one small land in the course of three years. There was a legion of demons in Legion. Because Jesus was there, demons were there. There is demonic activity in the holy land during the period of Jesus’ public ministry. Their last chance to destroy the messiah. Their master is defeated and so they join against Jesus. Luke 11:20, he has done these things in the power of the Holy Spirit. If it is by the finger of God, another way of speaking of the Holy Spirit. If it’s by the finger of God that I cast out demons then the kingdom of God has come. Here is the King empowered by the Holy Spirit and defeating all of his enemies. What he does in his ministry he does as the second man and the last Adam. Not by transferring powers from his divine person to his human nature. That would have made him not true man but some kind of mixture of God and man. By his perfect dependence on the Spirit his Father had given him so that he could be empowered to be our Savior. This is another reason to love the Spirit. The Spirit has empowered Jesus to set us free.
Luke 10:21 - Jesus has sent out the disciples, a larger group than the apostles, and they are thrilled by what they have done. Even the demons are subject to us in your name. Satan fell from heaven. You have power over the enemy. But rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Power gifts are not necessarily signs of saving grace. In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit. I thank you Father that you have hidden… Suddenly Jesus brings us into a different order of being. He has heard of the power of the Spirit in the disciples. He rejoices. The relationship hidden under the gospels suddenly bursts forth. We don’t need to explain ourselves to the closest of friends. The Spirit has been present since the moment of his conception. He’s marvelling at what the Holy Spirit is doing. He thanks the Father for this. A moment when Jesus is in communion with the Spirit experiencing joy and in communion with the Father. The Father has worked through the Spirit to bring people to faith in the Lord Jesus. This gives Jesus joy and thankfulness. Ferguson calls this a moment of moments within the gospels.(5 - 15:16)
Luke 12:10 - Jesus will say that it’s one thing to speak against the Son of Man but to speak against or blaspheme the Spirit will not be forgiven. That resistance to the ministry of the Spirit that refuses to recognize that the power of the kingdom of God has been released in the Lord Jesus. We are to yield to and to trust in the Lord Jesus. Jesus has thanked the Father for the Spirit is doing. He is rejoicing in what the Spirit is doing. When one resists the Holy Spirit one is resisting God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and refusing to allow the Lord Jesus joy. The simple difference between being a believer and not a believer. We have as believers a longing that our lives should bring joy to the Lord. To refuse joy to the Lord Jesus is a heinous sin since bringing joy to the Lord Jesus is what the heavenly Father most wants. Hebrews 12, for the joy set before him Jesus endured the cross and despised the shame. God has exalted him and given him a name above every other name, every knee should bow and tongue confess. The Father’s desire is that Jesus should have inexpressible joy and to resist the Spirit who seeks to bring that joy to Jesus by bringing us in faith and in humility to Jesus is to commit that blaspheme against the Spirit that will never be forgiven. In Luke 2:52 Jesus grew in favor with God and man. As greater temptations, greater challenges came his way, as Jesus in the power of the Spirit overcame these challenges he grew more and more and more in favor with his heavenly Father. The Spirit was saying I am going to enable Jesus in his humanity, so to fulfill all obedience and all faith that the Father will be able to say, Lord Jesus you are growing in favor with me. The love that a young married couple has for each other is a shadow of the love they will have years later. We love the other with all our hearts but as we get to know them we have more and more reason to love them even more. Jesus himself says that the Father’s love for him and favor for him as the Holy Spirit sustained him in his obedience was never greater than at that point when the Father’s smile was turned away from his Son. John - the reason my Father loves me is because I lay down my life for the sheep. This is the point where, if said humanly, with a breaking heart the heavenly Father would say, “If ever I loved thee, my Jesus tis now.” This is what the Holy Spirit is promoting, not just that Jesus should be able to accomplish our salvation but that the relationship that has existed since before all eternity among the Father, the Son and the Spirit, would be the “unbearable ecstasy in mutual devotion in love. That it should actually be manifested in the lord Jesus so that in him we see the wonder of the relationship between the Father and the Son because of the power of the Holy Spirit. And we begin to see the intimacy of the Lord Jesus with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit’s intimacy with the Lord Jesus that fill us with awe and wonder when we remember that this is the Holy Spirit that the Lord Jesus has given to us. His meekness, his grace, the way that he loves (1 Cor 13), the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5) is really a description of the Lord Jesus because the Spirit who was there at the very beginning of the incarnation of Jesus and who sustained him through infancy and childhood and anointed him for ministry and sustained him every moment. Watching over him while he slept and when he woke allowed him to be in conscious communion with the Father because Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit and he went about doing good because by the Spirit Jesus is good. In the Chronicles of Narnia, is Aslan safe, no, but he is good, he’s very good. That’s the fruit of the Spirit in the Lord Jesus. And that’s why we love the Spirit. May we be able to say that by the Spirit our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus.
The Spirit in the Life of Jesus as Sustainer
The Spirit in the Life of Jesus as Sustainer
The fourth point in Jesus’ ministry. Sustaining him. The Spirit was present at his conception, his baptism, his temptations and ministry and at the end of his life and ministry. Hebrews 9:14 - the blood of animals symbolically represented the forgiveness of sins, “that Christ through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God”. He was sustained by the Holy Spirit. The relationship of the Father and Son in Psalm 22:1, forsaken, the Spirit was sustaining Him. The mystery of Jesus, even as he was under the judgment of God as our sin bearer, he was being sustained by the Spirit. What is true of his crucifixion and sacrifice on the cross is also true of his resurrection. Romans 1:4, Jesus was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead. Paul is saying that Spirit was also involved in the resurrection of Jesus in addition to the Father. The Spirit sustained Jesus in his weakness but now in his resurrection the Spirit engages him in extraordinary transforming power and he is raised from among the dead. In his ascension something happens, Acts 1:8, Jesus says that they will receive power. A cloud takes him out of their sight. This cloud is the glory cloud of God, in the Exodus, in the transfiguration, that symbolizes the presence of God’s Holy Spirit. The Spirit who has been Jesus’ constant companion is now “the chariot driver” taking Jesus home to Glory. Psalm 24, who is the King of glory? And the answer is given by the Host of Heaven as Jesus ascends in the Elijah like majesty. The Spirit is saying, “open up the gates and let the King of Glory come in.”
Jesus is conceived by the power of the Spirit, he is sustained by the power of the Spirit, he is succoured on the cross by the Spirit, he is vindicated by the power, he is taken home in glory by the power.
Paul reflects on the inner significance of all of these aspects of the relationship between the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit. In 1 Cor 15:42-49 Paul speaks of the nature of the resurrection body. Sown perishable, raised imperishable, sown in dishonor, raised in glory (from the resurrection of Jesus). Sown in dishonor, died under the curse of God on the cross of Calvary. Sown in dishonor, raised in glory, Sown in weakness, raised in power. Sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body. Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living being, the last Adam became a life giving Spirit so as the man of the dust (Adam) and as is the man of heaven (Jesus). We bore the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 2 Cor 3:16-18 - When one turns to the Lord the veil is removed. The whole Bible has been pointing to Jesus. With unveiled face we behold the glory of the Lord. This comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. Paul is saying that throughout the course of his life Jesus has been the companion of the Spirit and the Spirit the companion of Jesus. There was complete harmony, so much so that Jesus that when Jesus sends the Spirit it is like sending Himself.
God has embedded in his created order hints of this harmony. How long until we understand why these people married each other? Married people look like each other. Owners look like their dogs. There’s no need to explain, they both think the same. If it’s true for us, imagine the intimacy between the Spirit and the Savior. And this harmony has been eternal. Father, will you give them the Spirit that you gave to me? At Pentecost Jesus sends his own Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of Christ. John 14:17 - you know you for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you. More than resurrection, I will come through my own Holy Spirit who will dwell in your life. He will be with you forever.
The ministry of the Spirit in the life of Jesus. How many Holy Spirits are there? One. We have the Spirit, Jesus was filled with the Spirit. The Spirit who comes is one and the same Spirit that came in the womb of Mary and was with Jesus and is with Jesus. As believers, we are all indwelt with the same Holy Spirit. We must never treat another believer in an ungodly way.
We don’t focus our attention on us but on what the Holy Spirit means to the Lord Jesus.