The Reformers placed tremendous stress on the gifts of the Spirit to the whole body of Christ. Jesus’ Teaching on the Ministry of the Holy Spirit. And I dare say that most Christians today can really only take milk. In this topic, which we have chosen for tonight, we have the most important ingredient for the answer to the question, “How can I understand the Bible?” For many years, as most of you know, I’ve been associated with Dallas Theological Seminary and graduates of Dallas Theological Seminary often have it said of them, “What ever else you may say about a graduate of that seminary, you can say this, they do know their Bibles.”. And so, consequently, we discussed the regenerating ministry of the Holy Spirit first. What can he learn? That’s the meaning of that expression, “bear.” I would think, from this, that that means that our Lord understands that they cannot do anything if they do not have the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, the second thing that John speaks of here is the Spirit of God, verse 20 and verse 27. Well, it begins, “There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” And do you remember how it concludes? It’s impossible to guide if you don’t get any cooperation. He dwells in him, not as a separate Being in one part of his nature, but as his very life. And what did he do? Summary To reconcile why the Holy Spirit was sent, we must study the Scriptures to understand His purpose. If you’re seeking the best Teacher in the world, look no further! They won’t make certain mistakes that a Christian might make. To really truly interpret the word, there must be the human application of interpretation of the text, but there has to be from the divine standpoint, the illumination of the Holy Spirit if we are to understand the word of God. In John 16:15 Jesus says, "All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and … There are, perhaps, some methods that we can learn that will be some help to us but ultimately, to study the Bible and to get something out of it is the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of a believer. He talked about his master. We need to be clear about three basic truths concerning the Holy Spirit, all of which are emphasised by the apostle John in this letter: The Holy Spirit is a Person. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Why is that? Now, there’s another thing about a babe. But, if I keep coming up with something unique and different from everybody else, well then watch out. I’ve gone overtime but this is a very important topic, the teaching of the Holy Spirit. All things that the Father hath are mine; therefore, said I that he shall take of mine and shall show it unto you.”. Pastor Fred L. Bates . Now, let’s turn over to 1 Corinthians, chapter 3, where we have some of these things explained to us. “Another” means one of the same caliber, the same … He doesn’t know anything about it. And I’m only going to point to a couple of things in 1 John, chapter 2. And those sounds bounce off of the material within the cave, and they fly by those sounds. We’re not upset when they have to wear diapers, are we? The Holy Spirit brings to remembrance the words of Christ. Not only was He sent to us to impart knowledge and facts, lessons from Scripture, and theological truths, but He also teaches us how to live our Christian lives with divinely artistic skill. John Calvin himself has rightly been described as “the theologian of the Holy Spirit” (B.B. Let’s bow in prayer. He will guide you. It is really the baptizing ministry of Jesus Christ. Yet Reformed Christians always have been given a “bad press” for their views on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The five senses are insufficient. Now, I want you to notice that this carnal man is a Christian. Now, we expect them to be messes. We pointed out it was really Jesus Christ who did it, but he did it by means of the Spirit. And we discussed his baptizing ministry, and that is the ministry of the Spirit by which he places us in the body of Christ, the church. I can only speak for myself, I’ve studied the Bible now pretty diligently for thirty years, and I do not feel that I know everything in the Bible. It is the same for us; the Holy Spirit knows exactly where we should go and … All that a believer is called to be or to do, the Holy Spirit … Now, I didn’t mean to confuse you by that, but the Bible does contain syllogisms; fortunately, not so much of them. And he will show you things to come. Well, Paul says “For ye are yet carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions.” Well, I can’t give you anything but milk. If we rely on the Holy Spirit alone, then we fall into fanaticism and speculation. Well, that is a person who has been born but who has not grown. “He shall glorify me.” If you wanted one little handy formula by which you could test all teaching of the Bible, and test it as to its scriptural essence, what should it do? The revelation and clarification of the truth is a major discourse of teaching. He is the anointing. So, we are regenerated, we are baptized, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. That’s the way that last clause should be rendered in my opinion. The kind of teaching that makes me say, “My goodness, that movement that that man has identified with is surely a great movement.” That teaching is not purely scriptural. In other words, it is the teaching that glorifies Christ that is in its essence the teaching of the Holy Spirit. Wives? It is the thing by which we test everything in the claims of men and the claims of movements. Listen to S. Lewis Johnson on Christian internet radio station, Expositor.FM. And so, in a sense, this statement of our Lord is a pre-authentication of the remainder of the New Testament. That is comparable to a retarded child in the physical life. If we are listening, the Holy Spirit is teaching us constantly. After the healing of the demoniac, it was accompanied by the great harvest. John 14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. We think a great deal of wisdom, but we think most of God’s wisdom and less of man’s wisdom. The work of the Spirit is presented by John in chap. Amen. There is another thing about this text that we should not pass by without noticing, and that is that our Lord indicates from this that the things that he taught the disciples were not a complete revelation of the mind of God. Our job is to stay connected to Jesus. I am thankful that I don’t need to beg for it or work to earn this work of the Holy Spirit. What truth was future from the time of the Upper Room Discourse? Paul said: ...give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. You need more than that. He is our Instructor, and we are the apprentices. So, “He shall glorify me.” Now, that’s the prophetical passage in which Jesus tells us that a teacher is promised who will guide us “within all truth.”. Paul goes on to say, “For,” verse 2 “I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.” [After a time has passed] “For ye are still carnal; [but he uses a different word. It is God's desire for every believer to grow in Grace and Knowledge of His Son Jesus Christ, and to become a mature believer. Warfield). In the Bible, the word “spirit” is translated from the Hebrew word ruʹach and the Greek word pneuʹma.Most often, those words refer to God’s active force, or holy spirit. And I am persuaded, myself, that the reason that most of us don’t get anything out of the Bible is not because we have not been taught the right methodology. Most people have been led to believe that self-doubt, self-condemnation, feelings of unworthiness, and conviction for individual sins are the work of the Holy Spirit. Ministry means divine assignment. If we go to the Bible only, then we have a book that is a dead letter. even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now, I’m sure the Corinthians would say, “But, Paul, we don’t understand everything.” Man doesn’t understand everything. We don’t belong to the Lord. But the very next verse says, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.”, So, these things that he is talking about are things that are ours, through the Spirit. They do not see. Now, I know that because in chapter 2, verse 6, it says: “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect.” They are mature. He needs to feed on the milk so that he may become strong and be able to take the meat. And so, consequently, we discussed the regenerating ministry of the Holy Spirit first. (Micah 3:8; Luke 1: 35) God sends out his spirit by projecting his energy to any place to accomplish his will. They might overlook the historical background of a passage. They might even, for example, not notice such a simple thing as the subject or object of a sentence; or its modifiers. John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. What’s the milk of the word? You need to be born again. If everybody is going around talking about the spiritual gifts and everybody is seeking the spiritual gifts and everybody is glorifying the Holy Spirit, then you can say there’s something missing in that teaching. He’s the unnamed servant of God. Well, I’m inclined to believe that is a great chapter on the Holy Spirit because any chapter that glorifies Jesus Christ is a chapter in which the Holy Spirit finds a great deal of delight. The following are 10 ways the Holy Spirit works in the lives of believers. Course Text: 1 Corinthians 12:7-10 So, the senses are insufficient. And Paul tells us there are four kinds of men. 8 Functions of the Holy Spirit as Taught by Jesus. He says “He shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you.” What is the essence of the teaching of the Holy Spirit? Because of the Holy Spirit, we can have peace knowing that we have faithfully presented God’s Word and it is up to the Spirit of Truth to convince people of it. He, first of all, describes God’s wisdom in verses 6 through 12. He’s a baby. This person needs restoration. It’s my diagram. How do you internalize and put into practice the things that the Holy Spirit has taught you through personal study or life experience. But, he would guide us within the sphere of the whole of the truth. The Holy Spirit is called the Holy Spirit. He says, “I have many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.” The many things that Jesus has to say unto them are things that are found for us in the remainder of the New Testament. He also covers the ministries of the Holy Spirit and how they relate to teaching. To understand the Bible, we engage in the human work of interpretation; watching the grammar, the history, the culture and other things. He will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. The carnal, willful man, who can only take milk and not the meat, needs to confess his sin in order to be restored and then feed on the milk in order that he may understand the meat. See who the Holy Spirit is. Now, by using that as an illustration, who can know the things of God? The reason for that is they do not have the Holy Spirit. If you are born again, you have the Holy Spirit — His whole teaching centres in Christ. So these are the ministries of the Holy Spirit to believers, and we are tonight to discuss the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit. And when I look around and listen to the interpretations and the expressions about the Bible that I hear from others, I’m convinced that they don’t know everything about it either. We will, then, discuss his ministry of gifting us with spiritual gifts. He may feed on the meat of the word. He’s seeking to bring to men the words of God, interpreting to men who possess the spirit, spiritual truths. And Rebekah was attracted to Isaac by the work of the unnamed servant who glorified his master’s son. The Teaching Ministry of the Holy Spirit “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? That involves a defined process, but also we must depend on the Holy Spirit in every aspect of teaching: Bible study, development of the lesson plan, and management of learning experiences. Now, that is the force of the Greek preposition ein, which is, I think, genuine at this point. By the way, one book that will help you more than almost anything else at this point is a Bible dictionary. That is, I am interested in what the Christian church has thought about the Bible down through the years. But, if I should say to him, “Now, Golden, I would like for you to guide me in the auditorium?” Then, of course, I would expect to be here and he would be guiding me around within this auditorium. “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. If you’re a Christian, but a babe, feed on the milk of the word. And that, of course, is interpretation by reference to parallel passages. But even when teachers do their best, the only way for us to be ultimately blessed by the Word is through the inner teaching of the Holy Spirit. That is, all of the things of the word of God are potentially his. Well, he uttered it in the Upper Room Discourse, did he not? Howbeit when the spirit of truth is come; he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. But, before we do, let me remind you that we are studying that aspect of the Spirit’s ministry, which has to do with believers. That ministry is the ministry of the Spirit by which he imparts to us spiritual life. And since they do not have the Holy Spirit, they cannot understand them and since they do not have the Holy Spirit they cannot carry out those things. This section elucidates the scriptural teaching on the Holy Spirit’s role as a teacher, with special attention given to the numerous titles used in reference to the Spirit. 7. This is a word that means, it’s related to the word “flesh” but it means “dominated by the disposition of the flesh.] If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.” In other words, that which they have heard from the beginning is the word of God, that abides in them then they shall abide in the Son and in the Father. He’s a babe. So implicit in this is a recognition of the fact that there must be a cooperation on the part of each one of us as the Spirit teaches us. To be guided into something is, ordinarily, not an experience that is momentary or instantaneous. Receive our monthly newsletter with news and teaching from Andrew, via E-Mail. It may be easy to forget the Holy Spirit is even there because we don’t see him. This is the Holy Spirit's especial line of teaching with the believer, as with the unbeliever, Jesus Christ. That is his ministry by which he comes to permanently indwell us and to consummate and realize in our experience, forever, the union that takes place when we believe and at which time we are baptized into the body. Have you ever been to Carlsbad Caverns? Then there must be rhetorical interpretation. In other words, if you cannot find in the Bible justification for a Christian experience or an experience, then you should doubt that it is a Christian experience. If you’re a Christian, and you have been drifting in sin, indifference, you need to confess your sin and be restored to fellowship and health and begin to feed on the word. Now, that cooperation, of course, is ultimately the work of God too. There are many things that may help us. So he will “show you things to come.” That, I say, is an authentication, a pre-authentication, of what we have in the remainder of the New Testament. For he says, … (Matthew 22:43). Well, I think, this we can say immediately that the word guide suggests that our knowledge of the truth is a gradual appropriation of the truth. That is, that we should understand all the truth. Thus, in the context of John 14:26, we see that the word didasko means the Holy Spirit has taken on the role of a Teacher, just as Jesus was a Teacher to the disciples. We should seek to systematize the things that we have learned from the word. Now, to understand the Bible, to understand the word of God, it is necessary for us to not only be subject to the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit, but we have to engage in interpretation. It is not understood through the human senses. Well, he says in Romans 8:9, he says “He that hath not the Spirit of Christ” is what? “Which things also we speak.”. As the Holy Spirit leads us, we grow and start to bear fruit! From one point of view or the other, He is always bringing us to Jesus Christ. and it’s good for you to read every book that you can read. That’s what Jesus stressed as He continued teaching His disciples about the ministry of the Holy Spirit. As a matter of fact, I have put a diagram here, which is, partially, I guess I should really take the blame for it. He can only be understood by finite, sinful man through divine revelation. The man who is dominated by his flesh. What’s the remedy of the carnal, weak man, the babe in Christ? So, he says, in verse 14, as he speaks about the perception of God’s wisdom, he will now talk to us about types of men. It is discussing them. We must invite the Holy Spirit into the entire teaching/learning context. That is the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit. ”And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. And those questions of the deity of Jesus Christ were settled at the Councils of Nicea, and the Council of Chalcedon. Believers, who are indwelt with the Holy Spirit, are also sealed with the Holy Spirit. John, chapter 16, verses 12 through 15. “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.”. So we are beginning now with the ministry of the Lord in the view of his absence. The Holy Spirit arrives onto the world scene at Pentecost, with His ministry of transformation and as applicator of the redemptive work of Christ. Now, that may seem strange to us because we have often people saying to us, “well, what we need to do is go back to the Gospels.” This is a common statement by liberal theologians who do not like the theology of the Apostle Paul. That is the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit. God is infinite. That kind of teacher is, ordinarily, one that is over-mastered by pride in his own egotism. In other words, he’s not trying to impress men with words of man’s wisdom. The carnal, weak man needs his milk so that he may grow. More ways to receive this teaching: Now, the apostle of love, John, warns of antichrists and outlines safeguards against error in 1 John, 2:18 through 27. Zuck divides his book into five sections and covers nearly every conceivable topic as it relates to the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit: What’s the milk of the word? By the way, that Greek word there in most of the manuscripts is a word that means “fleshen.” That is, great stress on the material of the flesh. And remember, when the servant finally came to Bethuel and he saw Rebekah and he was invited in and he sat down in order to have fellowship with them. When he, “the spirit of truth is come; he will guide you into all truth.” He is referring about to this present age; when he the spirit of truth is come, for, remember, he came on the Day of Pentecost. John, chapter 16, verses 12 through 15. But even when teachers do their best, the only way for us to be ultimately blessed by the Word is through the inner teaching of the Holy Spirit. We don’t go around talking about our two months old child. You don’t know what I’m thinking about you right now. The Role of the Holy Spirit in Teaching the Bible. Let’s move on now to Roman II – The historical passage; the teacher received. And further, he is unable to put into his test tube god. He can understand the words of Scripture. THE TEACHING WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN BELIEVERS. He will give us prophetical truth; he will show you things to come. You can put your hand before your face and you cannot see anything. 2016, Teaching Them to Obey in Love, compiled into 2016, Great Commission Mission, compiled from 2 books. Well, almost everyone reads this, unfortunately, from the standpoint of 1971, or whatever their particular place in time may be. There are three great passages on the Spirit’s teaching ministry, and we shall consider them in something of a logical order. Now, he explains the teaching in verses 14 and 15. You know, the best illustration of this is natural life. 8 Functions of the Holy Spirit as Taught by Jesus. This explains how we come to know the truth. Now, that’s the work of the Holy Spirit today; that’s precisely what he does. It is seeking to arrive at what is the mind of the Holy Spirit on the topics. 6 Verlyn D. Verbrugge, NIV Theological Dictionary of New Testament Words: Abridged Edition, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2000), p. Jesus told His disciples that when the Holy Spirit came, He would teach them, and today the Holy Spirit has been sent to teach you. The Greek preposition in some of the manuscripts is the preposition “eis” which means into. Let’s look at verse 20: “But ye have an unction from the Holy One.” Who is the Holy One? We are more likely to forgive our friends. They are weak. even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now, there are two sides to the understanding of the Bible. You’re not able to bear meat. That is the objective test of truth. We must know something about the background of the Bible, its history, its culture. Well, there are two reasons for it. Discipleship is the goal of the teaching ministry of the church. And so, he has entered into an experience of it. I do not expect that we shall ever, as long as we are living in this age, I do not think we shall ever have need to go back and revise the decisions of the Councils at Nicea and Chalcedon. 6: The Normal World. Now, after this brief introduction, I want you to turn with me to the first part of our study, which is the prophetical passage, the teacher and the teaching promised. THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH. A doctrine is all the teachings which relate to a particular subject. But even when teachers do their best, the only way for us to be ultimately blessed by the Word is through the inner teaching of the Holy Spirit. “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him:” Now, that does not mean that he cannot understand the words of Scripture. Well, my wife hardly sees anything. But those bats can fly in and out among those stalactites and stalagmites and never strike a one of them, because bats are equipped with a natural sonar. Let me just read these verses quickly. Now, the Bible is on a wavelength that the ears of the natural man cannot hear. The Teaching Ministry of the Holy Spirit “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit : for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. So if you ever come to me and I hope you get the attitude and idea that no one should come to you and ask you to have some experience which cannot be attested by the word of God. I admit that I’ve leaned on my own understanding on too many occasions, but starting today, I sincerely dedicate myself as a pupil and apprentice to the Spirit of God. When a person is sickly? Remember, in the Old Testament, when Abraham sought to get a bride for Isaac, his son. That’s why natural life is as it is. Well, he needs to be born again. Jesus knew I needed divine instruction, and that is one reason why He prayed for the Father to send the Holy Spirit into the world. In previous teaching, we studied who is the Holy Spirit. Now, there are two safeguards against error. The Holy Spirit. We must learn to distinguish in character history from prophecy and apocalypse from poetry. Like the tour guides discussed in the example above, the Holy Spirit … In His name. And he will show you things to come.”. Can a baby eat meat? The Spirit did not come to convict us of the things we do wrong or the mistakes we make; He came to convict us of unbelief in Jesus. What they need is the milk of the word of God. He shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you. Golden, would you guide me ‘into’ the auditorium?” Well, then he would bring me through the door and I would come ‘into’ the auditorium and I would be here. That’s the third class of man. Ever sat down to look at a Cowboys’ game with your husband? 8. Our Lord is in the Upper Room Discourse, instructing his Disciples in the light of his absence in the present age. Well, the truth that is encompassed in our books of the Acts — as a matter of fact, the remainder of the life and ministry of our Lord, as found in the latter chapters of the gospels, plus the Book of Acts, plus the epistles, plus the Revelation. And I don’t know about you, but I think that the testimony of most Christians is that they have not learned everything that they could learn about God’s word. “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”. When we say the “personality” of the Holy Spirit, we mean that the Holy Spirit is a person, not an impersonal object. As we read in Zechariah, “It is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord that things are accomplished.” That means that we can never do anything for God in the power of the human flesh; that the things that please God are the things that are done in the power of the Holy Spirit. (It even had a fireplace. Now, that is what we read throughout the Bible and we should not be surprised that our Lord should say the same thing. April 13, 2016 Issue. 2. You must understand a little bit about what’s going on to really understand it when you see it. If you’re seeking more understanding of the Holy Spirit’s role and how to walk in His power, we invite you to Immerse: Ministering in the Power of the Holy Spirit, July 28-August 4, 2018 in Kansas City. Now, there are two ways in which he guides us: of course he guides us individually. Effective teaching ministry is dependent on the Holy Spirit. Verses 14 and 15 in Jesus Christ, remember, in fact, that we should be subject what..., at this point, the spiritual man is a fundamental part of Spirit. The fireplace, just to try it out. sinful man through revelation... ‘ unction ’ a confusion of the Spirit is even there because we don ’ t like to that. Why do we not all have the power to carry them out. also highlights the of... 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