Revisiting Holy Spirit Language

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Revisiting Holy Spirit LanguageWhat Happened at
Pentecost?
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• -The difficulty of pre-understandings-conforming
  the text to a system.
• -The difficulty of progressive revelation (must
  all terminology be standard?).
• -The difficulty of the discipline of
  Hermeneutics.

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I. The key terms.

• A. Indwelling-the standard dispensational view
  is that this begins at regeneration and continues
  throughout the life of the believer. (Rom. 89
  1 Cor. 316)

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I. The key terms.

• B. Sealing-the standard dispensational view is
  that the HS begins this ministry at regeneration
  so as to continue the believer in the Spirit
  throughout the believers life. (2 Cor. 122
  Eph. 113 430).

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I. The key terms.

• C. Baptism-Various views prevail here
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• 1. 2nd blessing view (charismatic).
• 2. begins at New Birth when the Spirit unites
  us into one body. (1 Cor. 1213)The baptizing
  work of the Spirit is the one work of the Spirit
  which is not found in any other dispensation.
  (Ryrie)

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I. The key terms.

• D. Filling-the standard dispensational view is
  that this is something that can (and should)
  occur frequently (Do not grieve the HS-Eph.
  430but be filled with the Spirit-Eph. 518).
• Many of the Pentecostal persuasion see Baptism
  Filling as the same thing.

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I. The key terms.

• E. Other key terms
• Receiving- (this is the only term that occurs
  in all the anointing accounts in Acts-238 815,
  17 1047 1117 158 192).
• Anointing
• Outpouring
• Falling upon
• Coming upon
• Giving

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• A. New truths on old constructs
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• 1. Jesus Baptism as a royal anointing as in Ps.
  27 for enabling him to rule successfully.
• 2. Jesus introduction of Himself as King. Lk.
  41, 14 especially 16ff. The Nazareth
  presentation is tied to Is. 611-2a and the
  Servant Songs in general. The Messiah has come
  to proclaim a Jubilee which includes the Gentiles
  in the blessings of the great eschatological day.

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• 3. Pentecost as
• a. Feast of FirstfruitsHS in NT context.
• b. Inauguration of the New Covenant as in Ex.
  19-20 where similar events occur.
• Thus, perhaps Lukes intent is to show that
  Pentecost begins Gods fulfillment of His
  promises to Israel and includes (as in Luke 4)
  the Gentiles by inaugurating the New Era (New
  Covenant).

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• Arguments for Acts 2 as a filling rather than
  the beginning of the indwelling ministry.
• 1. When the HS comes in ch. 2 Luke says they
  were filled rather than baptized.
• 2. Luke doesnt use baptism to refer to the
  HS actions in Acts 2, 4, 8, 10 and 19 indeed,
  ch. 1 is the only place he uses it w/the HS.

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• 3. In the Gospels, Baptism and the HS are
  juxtaposed only in Jesus water baptism when the
  HS descended on Him.
• 4. Baptism in 1 Cor. 1213 suggests the term may
  simply only mean immersed into one body and may
  have not to do with the view that it is the
  baptism of the Spirit.
• (Indeed, the phrase Baptism of the Spirit does
  not occur in the NT. In the large majority of
  cases the noun form appears as the Baptism of
  John or of repentance).

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• 5. The HS moments in Acts may all be
  understood as task oriented and are in harmony
  w/the filling view of ch. 2.
• 6. Since the filling word in 24 is identical to
  431 and the people who are filled in both
  chapters are the same, along with similar
  paranormal accompaniments, it cant be indwelling
  since there can be only one indwelling.
• (note that the two key roots pleroo and plimpemi
  are rated as nearly identical synonyms by Louw
  and Nida, p. 598)

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• C. Arguments from Johns gospel.
• 1. Uneven distribution of the Spirit (2nd half
  of John)
• 2. 1st key statement 739 But this He spoke
  of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him
  were to receive, for the Spirit was not yet
  given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• 3. 2nd key statement 1417 that is, the
  Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
  because it does not behold Him or know Him, but
  you know Him because He abides with you and will
  be in you.
• abides is present tense suggests the Spirit
  is indwelling them.
• will be in you logically suggests 2022 when
  Jesus breathed on them the HS.

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• 4. 3rd key statement 2022 He breathed on
  them, and said Receive the HS. There are at
  least 10 different explanations for what this
  breathing on means.
• Since they already had the Spirit abiding in
  them this breathing represents the fulfillment
  of the Spirit promises in John. This means that
  all of the Johannine promises of what the
  Paraclete would do for them (apostles) are now
  fulfilled through this special empowering.

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II. Pentecost another perspective.

• Thus
• 1. Pentecost is the coming of the Spirit to
  empower all who are present for the task of
  building the Kingdom (the emerging church).
• 2. All believers have always been indwelled
  (although the terminology of this is not fixed)
  by the HS at regeneration.
• 3. All believers need fillings of the Spirit
  for the task of serving Christ in the various
  commands given by Christ and His Apostles.