Episode 122: The Holy Spirit Makes us HOLY - A Message to history's MOST DEFILED Generation!

THE HOLY SPIRIT MAKES US HOLY – A MESSAGE TO HISTORY’S
MOST DEFILED GENERATION


 


James 1:26-27 – If anyone thinks he is religious and does
not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s
religion is worthless. 27 – Religion that is pure and undefiled
before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in
their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the
world. 


 


PURPOSE OF PENTECOST?


 


1.     POWER - Acts
1:8 - 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.”


 


2.     REVELATION - Acts
2:17-18 -17 “‘And in the last days it
shall be, God declares,
 that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy,
 and your young men shall see visions, and your old men
shall dream dreams; 18 even on my male servants
and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and
they shall prophesy.


 


3.     HOLINESS - Acts
2:37-38, 40 - “Brothers, what shall we do?”
38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit…“Save yourselves from this perverse/wicked
generation.”


 


GOAL = A NEW VISION for Holiness and the Holy Spirit’s work in
our lives


 


A.W. Tozer – Holy Spirit makes us holy


 


Name? Power Spirit?? NO – The HOLY SPIRIT


 


Porn Stats


 


1978 vs. 1985 – 5% vs. 55% Viewed hardcore porn video / 2022??


 


John Bevere – 2/3 of men IN CHURCH are watching porn
regularly 
1/3 of women


50% of the pastors


 


POWERLESS – Kryptonite – Defiled Church


 


Billy Graham – “If we lose THIS BATTLE, we lose the battle of the
Christian life”


 


20th Century = Explosion of Perversion – the
occult (sex magick), film, video, the internet, (technology),
abortion, homosexuality, human trafficking, pedophilia,
freedom=bondage


 


Matthew 27:37 - 37 For as were
the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.


 


Sinfulness Stage 1 - Genesis 3 – Fall of Adam/Eve
(Satan)


 


Sinfulness Stage 2 - Genesis 6 – Fall of the Watchers –
effect?? Many


EFFECTS - Sexual perversion/lust/gross
immorality/homosexuality/beastiality/abortion


 


•       Quote: “We were sinners because of
the Fall of Adam, but the Fallen Watchers taught mankind to be
even better sinners” – Heiser


 


Genesis 6:1-8 - 1 When man
began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born
to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the
daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives
any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit
shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall
be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth
in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in
to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These
were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the
Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved
him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will
blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man
and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I
am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah
found favor in the eyes of the Lord.



Two Views about WHO the “Sons of God” were:



1.     Angels – Who? 2nd Temple Judaism, the
Apostles, Early Church


2.    Humans – Who? (called the “Sethite View”) - 1st
suggested by Julius Africanus (3rd Century), Augustine (5th
century)



It really wasn’t until the 5th century that the so-called
“Sethite View” (i.e. that the ’sons of God’ were humans and not
angels) was INVENTED.



The evidence from history is insurmountable that the Sethite view
is wrong.  That the Sethite interpretation was a late
innovation and not the Apostolic understanding (or the historic
Jewish one).



A. New Testament writers who refer to these angels in Genesis
6:1-4
The Apostle Peter - 2 Peter 2:4-5 - 4 For if
God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into
tartarus (the abyss) and committed/delivered them to chains of
gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 5
if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald
of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon
the world of the ungodly; The Apostle Jude (Jesus’ brother) -
Jude 1:6-7 - 6 And the angels who
did not stay/keep in their proper domain, but left their proper
dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until
the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and
Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which
likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued
unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of
eternal fire.


B. Early Church leaders who affirm that the Sons of God were in
fact angels and whose offspring were the Nephilim/giants.  
Clement of Rome (1st century, the Apostle Peter’s Disciple)
Justin Martyr (2nd century) - The angels transgressed this
appointment and were captivated by love of women.
And they begat children [nephilim/giants], who are those who are
called demons. (AD160)     Athenagoras (2nd century)
But some outraged both the constitution of their nature and the
oversight entrusted to them. ...These angels fell into
impure love of virgins and were subjugated by the flesh.
...Those who are called giants were begotten from these lovers of
virgins. (AD175) Irenaeus (2nd century) Clement of Alexandria - The
angels who had obtained the superior rank, having sunk into
pleasures, told to the women the secrets that had come to their
knowledge. In contrast, the rest of the angels concealed
them, or rather, reserved them for the coming of the Lord. (late
2nd/early 3rd century) Tertullian - If it is on account of the
angels—those whom we read of as having fallen from God and from
heaven because of lusting after females—we can
presume that such angels yearned after bodies that were already
defiled and were relics of human lust.  (late 2nd/early 3rd
cent. – gave us the word “Trinity”) Ambrose (4th century)
Lactantius (4th century, tutor of Emperor Constantine)

C. Well-known Evangelicals who affirm w/ the Early Church that
the Sons of God were angelic beings. 
A.W. Pink – Reformed theologian  Donald Grey Barnhouse –
Presbyterian theologian, pastor Henry Morris – author of The
Genesis Flood, founder of CRI (Creation Research Institute) Merril
F. Unger – Dallas Theological Seminary professor, theologian Arnold
Fruchtenbaum – Messianic leader, Dallas Theological
Seminary-trained Hal Lindsey – author of “The Late Great Planet
Earth John MacArthur Pastor Chuck Smith – Calvary Chapel Dr.
Michael Heiser – OT scholar, Ancient Near East language scholar
Chuck Missler – Bible teacher

I Corinthians 6:9-13, 18-20 (3 out of 9 in the
list!)


9 Or do you not know that the unrighteouswill
not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the
sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who
practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the
greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit
the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of
you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our
God. 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not
all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I
will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is
meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will
destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual
immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body….
 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every
other sina person commits is outside the body, but the sexually
immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or
do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. So, glorify
God in your body.



 WHAT SHALL WE NOW DO? (Acts
2:37)


1.     AGREE w/ God’s assessment = Defiled



Matthew 24:9-13 - 9 “Then they
will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you
will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then many will fall away and betray one
another and hate one another. 11 And many false
prophets will arise and lead many astray. 12 And
because lawlessness (wickedness/iniquity) will be increased, the
love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who
endures to the end will be saved. 


 


Sin will be rampant everywhere/multiplication of
wickedness/abundance of evil



2.     SIN = SLAVERY (John 8:34 – everyone who
sins…) – Message of FREEDOM!!



3.     Reject False Grace teaching (Titus 2:11-12
– Grace teaches us to turn from ungodliness and sinful
pleasures/worldly lusts) 



Titus 2:11-12, 14 – “For the grace of God has
appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 – TEACHING US TO
RENOUNCE UNGODLINESS and WORLDLY PASSIONS (immoral
desires/lusts), and to live self-controlled, upright and godly
lives in the present age...14 – who gave himself for us to redeem
us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a
people…”



4.     REPENT - Acts 2:38, 40 – REPENT, SAVE
YOURSELVES from perverse generation



5.     Get rid of whatever is needed / No
Moderation (“Porn on Tuesdays”)



Matthew 5:30 – “And if your right hand causes
you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that
you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into
hell.”



6.     Confess – James 5:16 – To each other, MAY
be healed



7.     FLEE - 1 Cor 6:18 (Tolerate?)



8.     Believe holiness is possible (1 Pet 1:16 –
“Be holy…”)



I Peter 1:15-16 – “but as He who called you is
holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 For it is written,
“Be holy even as I am holy”


 


Ephesian 5:3 - But among you there must not be
even a hint of sexual 


immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because
these are improper for God's holy people



9.     Get the Holy Spirit working more in your
life (“eagerly pursue…”) for HOLINESS