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In The Fullness of the SpiritAn essential teaching of the Word of God is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. This lesson from Pastor Landis Fisher is the basic foundation for a larger study on the subject that he is planning to teach in a soon coming series. Listen in today to this foundational study with a receptive heart and mind so that the Holy Spirit can become even more real to you as you walk in love with the Master! Grab a cup of joe and listen to this thought provoking teaching he has called: In the Fullness of the Spirit. |
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| Old Testament Scripture Reading: Numbers 11:24 – 27 (KJV) |
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| Num 11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
Num 11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
Num 11:26 But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
Num 11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
Num 11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
Num 11:29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD’S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them! |
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| New Testament Scripture Reading: John 16:17 – 27 (KJV) |
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| John 16:17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
John 16:18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
John 16:19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
John 16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John 16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
John 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
John 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
John 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.
John 16:26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
John 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. |
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| Transforming Power Statements:
1) The Holy Spirit is God, the third person of the Godhead, Who therefore, is equal to the Father and the Son as well, Who also, since the fall of Adam, has been distant from man due to the sin of Adam thus holding a requirement of redemption and reconciliation which was provided by Christ Jesus, {God the Son} at the bequest of God the Father, Whose very essence is LOVE!
2) God the Holy Spirit has a purpose of revealing Christ to the believer, and also is the indwelling teacher who is responsible for scriptural revelation, conviction for sin and righteousness, comfort through all of the variations of life in the fallen world, internal witness of salvation, producer of the fruit of the Spirit, author of scripture, distributor of gifts to the body of Christ, personal guide along the course of everyday life of those executing God’s will and ministries, the intercessor making up the shortcomings of our prayer life, He is the anointing which we who believe have from the Holy One.
3) The giving of the Holy Spirit in His fullness, is the reason Jesus instructed His disciples that it was expedient for them that He go away so that the Holy Spirit may come to indwell and fill them in a way that had been desired even from the days of Moses, when the seventy, Eldad & Medad had externally been anointed with the same Spirit that was on Moses, and was later prophesied by Joel the prophet and experienced in the upper room on the day of Pentecost when the Church was born.
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