Michigan Camp Meeting 2018: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Be Filled with the Spirit

Daniel Scarone

Be Filled with the Spirit - Part 1

Be Filled with the Spirit - Part 2

Be Filled with the Spirit - Part 3

Be Filled with the Spirit - Part 4

Father in Heaven, thank you for this new day, for the blessing of rest, for your protection.

Lead us and guide us to understand the powerful message of Be Filled with Spirit.

Be with us that in this moment are sick or in hospital, like the mother of our beloved friend here, and help us to intercede each other in prayer always.

Okay, the topic that we were probably finishing today.

It is connection and I'm going maybe before moving out from here, I will give you the text here because we are going to be finished with this.

Taking count this text coming in Colossians chapter 3.

Chapter 3 Colossians chapter 3 verses 16 through 18 And we are going to work with that in some part of our presentation today.

In our relationship with the main topic that is Efficiency Chapter 5.

Efficiency Chapter and let's put 18 through 21.

We're going to be working lately, but you have it ready because it's important in the process of interpretation.

1 point that the methods of the study of the Bible that I already gave, How many of you didn't have that?

This is an official document of the BRI and is called like the document boat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1986.

I'm not going to repeat that because I already mentioned in the first presentation regarding this.

However, we are going to be finishing that, but 1 of strong recommendations in the document is that when we study the Bible, we compare text with text.

We need to compare Bible with Bible, Scripture with Scripture.

And you are going to see something here that is going to alert you because sometimes I've been telling that we are under the influence of the charismatic or Pentecostal movement.

But when you go here to our text, you are going to see something quite clear coming from the Bible.

And we are going to be reading from 18 on and the Bible says here, be not drunk with wine wherein is success, but be filled with the Spirit.

So this is a contrast, and we already covered that.

Maybe 1 day ago, we were showing that this series of contrasts start in chapter 4.

And there is about, what, maybe 10, 12 contrasts that you are going to see in the Bible, and it's finishing here.

So here, here is the essence of the entire epistle because here it is when the Apostle Paul says, and be filled of the Spirit.

And we are going to talk about today about the Spirit.

Yesterday we were talking about Trinity and we were exploring in yesterday's presentation in yesterday's presentation about how the triadic forms appear in the Bible.

I use this expression, triadic, to refer when the Bible speaks about Father, Son, and Spirit.

Sometimes use holy spirit, sometimes use spirit, but the name of the holy spirit is holy spirit for 1 reason.

And it's important that you know that the word spirit is neuma in the Bible.

But remember something regarding that, that when we refer to the Holy Spirit, the Bible sometimes uses Holy Spirit to distinguish stronger than anything else about the mind of the human beings, that also is Numa, and also about to distinguish those of the evil spirits.

So all of them are pneuma, and by the way is air in Greek, and that is the word for, in English, pneumatics, and wind in Greek, and whatever.

But it's important that you have in mind about that.

But my point now is to compare how the teachings coming from the Apostle Paul here, it is biblically supported in the Bible.

Let me share with you that when the Bible says here, don't be drunk with wine, where is wherein is excess, but be filled of the Holy Spirit, you are going to find out that the basic for that is very biblical in background.

And yesterday I did a mention, but go to the book of Luke chapter 1 verse 15.

And today I'm not going to have PowerPoint presentation because you are going to do exercise reading the Bible, and it's my idea to finish today the presentation of this seminar and tomorrow in the morning I'm going to shift into the topic of the hermeneutics today in the afternoon and tomorrow in the morning.

Hermeneutics is not going to finish but it's a very long run to finish a menutic.

If you have Luke 1 15, the Bible says, for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord.

And because he shall drink neither wine nor a strong drink.

So here you have a substantial, very good interrelations in the New Testament background regarding what the Apostle Paul is advising to the Ephesians.

Don't be drunk with wine, wherein success, but be filled with the Holy Spirit.

So when if you want to be filled of the Holy Spirit in charge, and if you have someone in the church that is maybe inclined to drink, remember to recommend those things here.

So the other thing that we mentioned is that in the times of the New Testament and probably in the practice of the temple rituals of Diana of the Ephesians or Artemis that was the divinity, the goddess of the Ephesians, there were some kind of inductive kind of hard drink beverage, alcoholic thing.

And that's the reason why Paul is recommending that especially to the Ephesians.

And remember something, he mentioned very clearly about the temple without mentioning that.

It's in the contrast that we already saw.

And sometimes this is a very good, and I will say tactful, advice coming from the Apostle in relationship with them.

Because sometimes we say people don't do this, and we don't give reason.

The Apostle Paul is approaching to the topic very kindly in a pastor way about this advice.

The other text that I want to share this morning, I already did it, but is going to be refreshed in your mind, is the book of Acts chapter 2.

And in verse 4, the Bible says that all of them in the upper room, they were all filled with a holy spirit and they began to speak in another languages as the spirit gave them utterances.

And that was my problem in Tuesday because everybody here is interested in speaking in tongues and I don't have in my presentation the topic.

So we were we were diverting the entire presentation about speaking in tongues, but it's not on tape.

So my recommendation is if you are interested, go to Willing and Reaching Pentecostals in pages 40 to 60, and you are going to find out my personal view regarding this topic that, of course, is centered in Acts 2, because here is a language in the book of Acts.

It's not a gibberish of glossolalic kind of influence like probably appears in 1 Corinthians 14.

1 Corinthians 14 is the moment in which a gift of the Lord began to be so complex and problematic that it's beginning to be a trouble for the church.

However, in the book of Acts, it's a blessing for the church, and there were, as a result, many conversions.

Some people might think that under the relation of a spirit, be filled off is a kind of content that like we are the containers.

But let me say that the relation spirit content versus we container, we don't need to put that in that way because some people call the Holy Spirit a divine aflatus.

That is 1 of the expressions that 1 of the pioneers of the church used and that is Uriah Smith.

But let me tell you that the Bible is strong regarding that the Holy Spirit is a person, not a thing, not a gas, not air.

The first big evidence in the context here is Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30.

Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 and the Bible says and grieve not, lupete, me lupete is the word in Greek.

Don't do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

In Spanish says, no contristeis al Espirito.

Can feel, can have, you know, perceptions like a person.

Let's go for a moment out of the book of Ephesians and let's go to the book of Acts.

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