Episode 120: The Holy Spirit Makes us Holy

 HOLY SPIRIT PRODUCES HOLINESS


 


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.”


 


Act 2:1-4 - When the day of Pentecost arrived,
they were all together in one place. 2 And
suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing
wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to
them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.


 


REVELATION - Acts 2:17-18 -“‘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.


 


EXPLOSION OF REVELATION!!! 


 


Questions – What did you get? Tongues of fire? Do you want MORE?





A.W. TOZER Quote - "Whatever else the Holy Spirit does in your
life, minimally He makes us holy"


 


A NEW ASPECT of the Day of PENTECOST 


1.     A REVERSAL of the Genesis 6 perversion –
Holy Spirit comes


 


2ND ANGELIC FALL - Fall of the Sons of
God/Watchers (Gen 6:1-8) – more corruption


 


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.


 


When? Genesis 6 BEFORE the flood


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


1.    Angels – Who? 2nd Temple Judaism, the Apostles,
Early Church (till 5th century)



2.    Humans – Who? (called the “Sethite View”) - 1st
suggested by Julius Africanus (3rd Century), Augustine
(popularized in the 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)  Jude (Jude 1:6)

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) Irenaeus (2nd century) Clement of
Alexandria (late 2nd/early 3rd century) Tertullian (late 2nd/early
3rd century – 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 angels. 
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 

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 them to chainsof 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;


 


Jude 1:6-24


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.



8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying
on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and
blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when the
archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about
the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous
judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” 10
But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and
they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals,
understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For
they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the
sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.
12 These are hidden reefs at your love feasts,
as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding
themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless
trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame;
wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been
reserved forever.



14 It was also about these that Enoch, the
seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes
with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to
execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all
their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an
ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners
have spoken against him.” 16 These are
grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they
are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain
advantage.



17 But you must remember, beloved, the
predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
18 They said to you, “In the last time there
will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly
people, devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you,
beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and
praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves
in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have
mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by
snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear,
hating even the garment stained by the flesh.



24 Now to him who is able to keep you from
stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his
glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our
Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty,
dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever.
Amen.



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. Athenagoras (AD175)


 


Angels sinned and revolted from God.  Justin Martyr (AD160)


 


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. Justin
Martyr (AD160)    


 


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.  Clement of Alexandria (AD195)  


 


Those angels who invented them [jewelry, etc.] are assigned under
condemnation to the penalty of death. They are the same
angels who rushed from heaven on the daughters of men.
...If it is true, they laid bare the operations of
metallurgy, divulged the natural properties of herbs, promulgated
the powers of enchantments, and traced out every curiosity, even
to the interpreta­tion of the stars. They conferred
appropriately—and as it were, peculiarly—upon women that
instrumental means of womanly ostentation: the radiances of
jewels,...the dyes of orchil with which wools are dyed, and that
black powder itself with which the eyelids and eyelashes are made
prominent.  Tertullian (AD 198)


 


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.  Tertullian (AD207)         
                 
  


 


Extent of corruption?


•       Watchers “taught” mankind things –
“secrets of heaven” (see Tertullian below)


•       Lust/perversion –taken to a new level


•       Technology – misused 


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


•       Gen 6:1-4 PRECEDES the Flood


•       Watchers judged – imprisoned in the
abyss (tartarus)


 


Acts 2:37-38 - “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.


 


Acts 2:40 - “Save yourselves from this perverse
generation.”


 


1)    crooked, curved 2a) perverse, wicked


 


Matthew 5:20 - For I tell you, unless your
righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will
never enter the kingdom of heaven.


 


I Peter 1:16 – 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


 


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


9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will
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.
14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise
us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your
bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of
Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a
prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The
two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is
joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin
a 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.