Published: January 4, 2026 | Speaker: Mark Freitag | Series: The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit 2 - Part 1 | Scripture: Luke 1:67-69; 2 Corinthians 3; 1 Peter 1:8-12
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I didn't uh look it up to see exactly when there was the last time that I was uh in Sunday school. I did find some notes from December 24 uh sorry 23. Um, so it's probably been
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that long, two years, um, since, uh, we've done Sunday school together. Um, I'm still in, uh, the topic of the Holy Spirit.
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And in the last uh session um we spent quite a bit of time in fact uh the majority of the time in the Old Testament looking at the uh the reality of uh the Holy Spirit
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active from the very beginning of Genesis 1:1 Genesis 1:1 uh active in the lives of people who uh worked on the temple, people who were uh
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leaders and prophets like Moses, David uh and then uh into the prophets but uh not a lot uh in the in the prophets and
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that's where I want to begin this session uh this whatever we call it quadmester trimester whatever this is um and I want to look
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at one of uh as one of the authors uh that I was reading uh just use the word eminent. the eminent gift and work of
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the Holy Spirit being uh that gift of
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but specifically and this is uh kind of something contemplated over uh the last I guess couple of years um as I anticipated coming back to Sunday school
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was um particularly as it relates to the preparation uh for the new covenant, for the new testament, for the coming of Christ. And
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I guess in a sense you could say that that all of that, all of the prophecy is preparatory to that. But there is um two aspects of that. Um there is the and I
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think Tim mentioned it last uh last week the the idea of the foretelling
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um or for signifying and I guess that's where I want to go um with with this this word
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as it relates to Christ as it relates to the the Messiah uh the Christ and his sufferings. So sufferings. So essentially the foretelling is telling
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things that are to come. pretty simple. But one of the other missions of the Holy Spirit I think in this foretelling and I
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guess it could be a subset or uh to me uh co-equal to this in in that for signifying it's to Um,
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but people would understand that he's declaring the mind of God in these things. Um, and he's he's doing that um partly in um
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we talk about types and and shadows um representations of of Christ and his work. uh helping us understand what these things are as as symbols or um
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again the word uh representations of of Christ uh and yes and of his sufferings uh as as
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showing his uh sacrifice to come. Um, and I hadn't really thought of it this way, but as I was um
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I I think the word would be plotting through uh John Owen on the Holy Spirit. Um, and it seemed obscure to me at first, but as I went back into Isaiah,
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um, it um, it it makes a lot of sense.
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one of the things that he listed as a purpose of the Holy Spirit, purpose given to the the men, the prophets themselves was to
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proclaim the joy to come, the the coming of the Messiah, uh the glad tidings to the church. And we'll have a opportunity to try to delve
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into this when um we look at and I don't think we'll we'll get there today at all. Um but when we come to first and second Peter where he talks about the
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prophets and their duty but also their their longing. We we've seen that in the sermon series uh chapter one of of first Peter. um how they they earnestly looked
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into these things that they were prophesying and yet God revealed to them that it it wasn't for their time but for us. The writer to the Hebrews uh says
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very something very very similar that it that it was for for us we would be the completion of what they were prophesying. And so, but in spite of
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that, there there was not to be um okay, this is all for them, but a joy that would come to us, but a joy also for
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them. Um Isaiah 33 was the one that um Owen pointed out. Um and in there there there is the woes there. There are
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things where where God is saying to uh through Isaiah to the people, now I will arise, says the Lord. Now I will be exalted. Now I will be lifted up. And
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and he echoes that in a in a sense later in Isaiah 33 said where God says, "You who are far away hear what I've done and
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you who are near acknowledge my might." that there there's there's a calling in Isaiah particularly uh at least the ones that came to my mind Isaiah 42 behold
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you know that that word where it's like come see this my servant whom I uphold my chosen one in whom my soul delights I have put my spirit upon him he will
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bring forth justice to the nations the the idea is is to
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Not only us now looking looking back, we can do this, but even for the the prophets and the ones who heard their proclamations,
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they they were to contemplate. They were um I don't know. I I the the phrase that comes to my mind um is uh as I read about Mary in the New
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Testament, particularly in Luke, where where she where she she took these things and pondered them in her heart. There it was more than just a a passing thing, but there was a
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a contemplation um an internalization, I guess, of of these things. contemplating God in the flesh, the the Emanuel, God
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with us. Um a as king among his people. Um there and so the prophets
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I believe I believe by faith and we see that in Hebrews 11 by faith they did this. they proclaimed, but they also contemplated. They also,
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again, Peter points this out, earnestly sought these things. Um, Peter says they they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. Again, I'm getting ahead of
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myself, but you know, kind of studying that um for on two planes, for Peter, but also for here. What does that mean? How their interaction with the Holy
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Spirit? And yet a larger purpose than simply saying simply saying woe to you unbelief. You know, your un unbelievers and your your hardness of
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heart, your stiff necked people. There is in here a a drive to get people to wake up, understand
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what's coming. Um, and then and then of course Jesus in his uh confrontation
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with the the Jews where they were they were telling him, you know, who do you think you are? You're you're talking about Abraham. Um,
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and u you're we we are children of Abraham. Who who are you? And he says to them, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day."
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And he saw it and was glad. Uh these the you know the the the glad tidings of great joy.
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Yeah. Which shall be to all the people. Um, you know,
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the prophets were to see that and communicate that. Um, and
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Luke writes this in chapter 10 of of Jesus. Turning to his disciples, Jesus said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see. For I say to you that many prophets and kings
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wished to see the things which you see and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear and did not hear them." They were there. They were being
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proclaimed. The tidings were going out. But as he says, many prophets and kings of those days wished to see because they
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were believing, were believing, but they didn't see them. They wanted to see. And again, as Peter tells us, they're were waiting for us for the fulfillment
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of those things. So we, you know, we have a responsibility, I think, to as we look at the prophets to see these things as
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well and to contemplate what that what that meant at that time, but also how it helps us understand God's mind in designating these things
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for us to see.
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Perhaps somebody will invent or an eraser that actually erases.
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and I'm going to use this word pretty loosely, the God's method, because I'm I'm I'm sure I haven't nailed it all. Um
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we're we're headed to where is the Holy Spirit's role in all of this? but through the Holy Spirit through the prophets in that gift and I do believe
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it's the it's the gift and work of the Holy Spirit in the prophets there there is the promise of the foundation
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prophecy looking ahead to the preparation of the new covenant is as early as that. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed.
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He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel. Speaking of Christ, the seed, the seed of woman.
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Um, just for me to confirm from Genesis 3 to 1 Corinthians 3, for no man can lay a foundation other than that which has
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been laid, which is Jesus Christ. Um, the we see the fulfillment. We see the glad tidings fulfilled in Christ.
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Paul just helping us see that yeah, the foundation went back all the way to here and we realize
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that when we uh as New Testament
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the verse, but um that's the the chapter that talks about um particularly for those who would proclaim the word uh is it wood hay and stubble or is it gold and silver and
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precious things and do we build on a foundation Paul says I didn't build on any other foundation except Christ and yet that foundation is being laid
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from the very beginning I think again through the proclamation of the Holy Spirit then carrying that through with the prophets.
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Paul in Romans 15. For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises to the fathers and for the Gentiles to
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glorify God for his mercy. Um just simply saying Christ has become
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Christ is here. Christ has sacrificed himself. It's just it's confirming what was given to the prophets to proclaim, to contemplate, and to make known.
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well, we we we know that there are prophecies of his birth, but in general, his person, who he would be, but we can't
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But in again in the re revelations of of Christ by the Holy Spirit, I I think
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this um how how how these result in this. Um and I again um studying this uh just
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thinking about the role of the Holy Spirit here. Um and I will admit that um you know the hard part harder part to to me to come
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is uh the Holy Spirit in the physical life, the incarnation of of Christ. Um, and
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uh, that's where I've spent most most of my study, but I and I was going to start there, but I think we need to back up and see how the Holy Spirit is bringing
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this these revelations through the through the prophets. Um and again truly uh I don't think it's a misnomer uh to call it a gift uh the gift of
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the prophecy and and the work of the the Holy Spirit in in that uh in the prophecies. Any uh questions, comments at this point where we where we are
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each man's talks about the spirit of God dwells in us. Yeah. Yeah. 1 Corinthians 3, including the spirit and the work of of the
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again, um I kind of have a tendency to want to jump [clears throat] and uh jump to first Peter, but uh few more things I want to lay as a
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foundation uh before we do that. Um,
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is that too many to see over? Do I need to do my little um paper towel trick? All right.
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the gift the gift of prophecy. Um, as far as I can tell, and maybe some of you can think, um, as much as we see in the Old Testament of the stiff necked people, the hardness
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of heart, um, I don't think there was ever a time when the prophets, the prophets were silent.
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uh except for the 400 years what it was Malachi um that there wasn't an interruption in
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the time of the prophets when they were proclaiming Christ proclaiming Christ um and then continued all the way through until or even through John the
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Baptist. Um Baptist. Um but John the Baptist um is significant. Um I've been particularly studying as I said uh in Luke uh this year
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and uh just and still in first chapter but um just kind of
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I guess the word that I that I came up with was with was in John the Baptist
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I I don't know, maybe this is the wrong phrase, but the that John caused people to make a fresh discovery of of the Old Testament
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uh prophecies of the Messiah. um when he said so definitively, "Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin
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of the world," there there is this um God preparing him through the spirit. Let me let me just read what his father
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Zach uh Zachcharias says in Luke Luke 1. And you child will be called the prophet of the most high. For you will go on
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before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give the people the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our
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God, with which the sun rise from on high will visit us to shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of
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peace. I mean it it's almost as if Zachcharias is is looking at what is it Isaiah 11 or 8 or nine you know those who who live in the darkness on them
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light will shine and here he's saying but you child young man you you will be the one who helps people make a fresh discovery you
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will be the one who reminds them as he says of uh the knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins, uh, by the tender mercy of the Lord. Um, and I
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I haven't looked this up yet, but I was I was struck by the I guess it's one of those things uh just never noticed this, but he he calls him the sunrise
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uh from on high will visit us. And I, you know, I think of what is it Malachi 4, the the son of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. But here
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he calls him the sunrise. S U N. Um, and I hadn't seen that before. So, I want I'm kind of eager to go and what does the Greek say on that one? The one that
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would shine upon those who sit in darkness. Um, he's he's re igniting, if you will, the the flame of the prophets, the the the zeal,
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the the joy, the contemplation of the glad tidings. glad tidings. Question, comment. years ago somebody challenged we sang a song of
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yeah and here here he uses the word sun the sunrise um at least That's in the New American Standard. Um, so yeah, I I mean, and then Luke Luke 7, this is what
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Jesus says of of John. This is the one about whom it is written, "Behold, I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you. I say to
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you, among those born of women, there is no one greater than John. Yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. Um it's some call John the
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Baptist the the the greatest of the prophets. Um prophets. Um he's in that line. He's he is that messenger. He is that herald of the the
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good tidings. And uh you know what we'll have to explore is the Holy Spirit's role in not just Mary but Elizabeth,
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Zachcharias having a son. But in Luke, all three, Zachcharias, Elizabeth, and John, it says of them, they were filled
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with the Holy Spirit. Um and and yet Zachcharias of course is uh
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he's held to account for for his sin of unbelief by going you know the God made him mute until the time when uh John was
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born and finally opened his mouth again so he could tell the truth that his name will be John, not Zachcharias
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Jr. Um, paraphrasing. Uh, but that's his family said there's there's nobody by that name in your lineage. Uh, there's
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nobody who ha has that name that you're connected to. Um, and he said, "No, his name will be John." Um, and yet
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they were filled with the Holy Spirit um in their in their giving birth and bringing up this child who would be the messenger. Um,
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and I guess this this should have been in a different place, but um, we want to do some more exploration here as we move along. But um
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yeah, I I need to come up with more succinct titles here, but
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As I look back on a few uh passages in the Old Testament where we see the work of the Holy Spirit in prophecy, we we we do see
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things like this. Uh I had another word. Yeah. Okay,
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when the Holy Spirit and and these are some of the things that we talked about uh last time um somebody like uh in in Exodus 35, Bez bezel, one of the craftsmen, uh it just says, "And he was
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filled with the spirit of God. He had wisdom in his understanding, in his knowledge, and in even in his craftsmanship. It says there's there's kind of this
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wisdom and peace. This um it's a I don't know what's the word, sanguin kind of of thing. Uh the Holy Spirit using him mightily to to build uh the p pieces of
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the tabernacle and things. Um, you look at uh Nehemiah's expression um as as he's
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doing the work to rebuild the walls and try to direct the people and he's he's really comes constantly before the Lord. Um he he does take this time to um to
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thank God. He he says, "You gave your good spirit to instruct them. your mana you did not withhold from their mouth and you gave them water for their thirst. And e even as he's working with
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some stubborn people and kind of you know come come on do this is the the work that I think the Lord would have us do he does take this time your your good spirit it was instructing them giving
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them wisdom you you provided for their physical needs um there there is this expression of the spirit that we we see
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in this way um Isaiah 11. Uh again, one that um is quoted quite often at Christmas time,
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this this shoot from the stem of Jesse. He says, "The spirit of L of the Lord will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge
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and the fear of the Lord." Um there there there's all of this uh in in how the spirit operates,
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but don't forget that some of the spirit's work is
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foretelling trouble, destruction. trouble, destruction. Um and again, I did three words and I can only remember two.
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that I was going to write down. Um, and there's plenty and and there are again I I want to I want to make this clear because there are many who say, "Well,
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this this is the Old Testament. God is God is angry. God is going to destroy people. God's going to judge everybody." And yes, and we need to see that. But
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don't miss this too. Yes. I just wanted
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as in trouble or that those who were still righteous flee righteous flee as again a source of salvation for those who continue to listen in the to the
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spirit. Yeah. I mean, that's, you know, I was reading from Isaiah 33 and it's a good question and I I think it's the latter that in the at least in this section I
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think I can see what you were saying is um he's he's talking about um
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the destroyers, those who were were treacherous and all of these things. And yet in the midst of that, Isaiah praying things like, "Be gracious to us. We've
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waited for you, but uh you you have been our strength every morning, our salvation in times of distress." So there's in the midst of that even one
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prophecy of the destroyers would be destroyed, the treacherous would be stopped. He's again he's calling them see me. Um your eyes will see the king
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in his beauty. they will behold a four distant land. There's that kind of language where he's saying to the true believers, you you will see this there there will be trouble and there will be
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destruction around you and judgment on others, but you you see me. You and again, I see the echoes in Hebrews, you
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know, keeping our eyes on on Christ. Keep keep looking up here, not not down where these things are. So did I I mean did I answer your question?
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Does that help some? That's that's how I see it that we see this combination even in one chapter. Um, and I I guess the the ones that I wrote
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down here are quote here. Um, they they show us that even even the prophets
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um and and maybe this is this is what we're seeing here is true fear of of the Lord. Uh, but they themselves trembled. um physically and I I think perhaps
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rattle their cages some spiritually.
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No, this this is you know if I do this the spirit comes to many with meekness, peace, wisdom, granting them
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granting them and he comes declaring Yeah. I'm I'm saying these are the expressions of the Holy Spirit
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causes trouble. causes trouble. No, he's declaring its coming.
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Well, okay. Uh, okay. I'm specifically thinking again the the words first, but um yeah, I mean he's he is going to
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cause things to happen that will bring destruction and judgment. Speaking of the nature of the teaching, yeah, I I guess that's what I'm I'm
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trying to get at here is when we read, you know, he's declaring these things are coming. Um, but what what struck me looking at some
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of these things is how the prophet was the almost visceral reaction of the
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prophet in the things that they were prophesying. Let me let me read from Daniel 7. Um he says after this I kept looking in the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrifying
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and extremely strong and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet and it was different from all the beasts that were before it and it had 10
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horns and so forth and so on. And then later in the chapter we read this. As for me, Daniel, my
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spirit was distressed within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me. At this point, the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly
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alarming me, and my face grew pale, but I kept the matter to myself. Even the prophet felt the the weight of these
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things that he was prophesying. Um, Erin's gonna help me pronounce Habach. How do you say Habach?
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How do I say it? Yeah. Where's I don't know which salavo the accent is on. Actually, not sure on that one. Okay. Okay. Sorry. I didn't mean to uh pick on
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you, but I I know that you pronounce things differently than I have pronounced them for [clears throat] so many decades. That one we can just have fun with. Okay. All right. Habach 3, um the uh the
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prophet exclaiming, "You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You struck the head of the house of the evil to lay him open from thigh to neck. You pierced
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with his own spears the head of his throngs. They stormed in to scatter us. Their exaltation was like those who devour the oppressed in secret. You
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trampled on the sea with your horses, on the surge of many waters. I heard in my inward parts trembled. At the sound my lips quivered. Decay enters my bones.
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And in my place I tremble because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, for the people who arise, who will invade us. The prophet
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just I mean like Daniel just again a reaction a reaction Daniel even says my spirit was
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distressed. Here he says his inner being was trembling. was trembling. Um Isaiah same same thing. Uh, as the
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windstorms and the negative sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land. A harsh vision has been shown to me. The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer
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still destroys. Go up, Elim uh that is Persia, lay siege, media. I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.
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For this reason, my loins are full of anguish. Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear. So terrified I
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cannot see. My mind reels. Horror over overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. The this is
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this is heavy stuff. This is there they they know what they're doing. There there is as I said the joy of proclamation and they the expressions
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of the Holy Spirit to some are wisdom. They are a gentleness. They are a a comfort but they know that they're proclaiming
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something bad something really you know that this is God Almighty speaking through them. through them. um a a declaration and again as as Peter
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will tell us the Holy Spirit working through these men um and uh they feel it
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it's not a I was trying to remember what I was reading um from Warfield or somebody like that you know trying to tell us you know don't
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get it in your head we I think some people have the idea that the the prophet was a secretary taking dictation. I think that was the word that that Warfield used is it it's not
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dictation where it's their whole being is involved because this the spirit is working. The spirit is moving. Yes. I think a good example is Jeremiah
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who know weeping prophet and yet he was so faithful in his judgment against Israel that we call such pronouncements
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Jeremiah yeah yeah yeah yeah he illustrates one prophet yeah both aspects yeah Jeremiah the the weeping the weeping prophet and and again his his
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whole being uh you you read through there and again uh we still use that word even centuries later the Jeremiah it's uh when we we we uh see those kinds
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of proclamations. Yes. People who want to say that
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Yeah. Blows my mind that people don't Yeah. Well, and as we've already seen uh in his preaching, he always takes them back to the the promises
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given to the fathers, Abraham, uh going going back um to their their proclamations. So, it's it's not as if um and again um we'll we'll get into
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that. Um the Holy Spirit in Christ as he walked this earth. Uh you know that again to me it's kind of a mind-blowing
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thing. someone who is 100% man, 100% God, but he did not sever the connection between what he was doing and the prophecies
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that came before. Um he he acknowledged that um and then of course he lived it um living proof of those things. So
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yeah, thank you. Um was there another hand or another comment? The other missing piece to me I just I just want to follow the teachings of Jesus is what the apostles tell us about our sharing
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seems the square in the circle of speaking of judgment even speaking it in the hearing of the people of God and also yet speaking the joy to come etc. I mean the
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prophets seem to be in many places indicating what I think the apostles clarify later that that these people who would maybe die in the in the judgments
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that were to come upon the nation, but who themselves were of faith were sharing in the sufferings of of the one who was to come. They suffered not for their own
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wrongdoing, but rather in faith that that God would raise them. Yeah. Yeah. I think Hebrews 11 helps us see that um that there was uh I can't
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remember exactly where it says but you know they they they saw it and greeted it from afar but it was still by faith and and and it was the grace again you
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know what I'm I'm about to put here Um,
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if I can squeeze this in, you know, the the immediate effect of the Holy Spirit in this prophecy. Um, as as you know, we we know more from John 14 and 16, you know, who the Holy Spirit
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is and the mission in the in the new covenant, but but he hasn't changed. and and there's still that power in him
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maybe maybe in makes itself manifest as as we saw in the Old Testament in in different ways that we hadn't really contemplated
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before. Um but he's still the the effect of the Holy Spirit, his work, his ministry as as well as the forthelling
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and all of that there there is an immediate effect. There is there is a power here. Um and you know I
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went back you know Micah 6 uh one that we sing sometimes the he he has has he told you oh man what is good and what
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does the Lord require of you but to do justice to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God. Well how did God tell those people? through the prophets,
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through the work of the Holy Spirit working through those those men. That's how they knew those things. God's justice, God's kindness, God's walking
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in humility. Um, and then of course the the one that has helps us so much to know that what I just said was true is second Timothy 3.
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All scripture is inspired by God and profitable and and the inspiration of God as God breathed the the breath of God, the the Holy Spirit and profitable
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for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training and righteousness so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. Um, the Holy Spirit is involved in
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in all of this as an immediate effect of of the prophecy preparation for the new covenant to come. Um,
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and then I'll I'll end with this. Um, and this uh I guess leads us into where we're headed uh with first and second
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Peter next week. uh Lord willing, even though the prophets did not physically see the Christ in uh his incarnation,
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they and they didn't see that promise in the flesh. They knew that the promise would be
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fulfilled. the writer to the Hebrews uh Hebrews 11 at the end of um what many call the hall of fame of faith. It says, "And all these having gained approval through their
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faith did not receive what was promised because God had provided something better for us so that apart from us they would not be made perfect." there there
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was there's this I don't know I want to call it mystical connection between us and the prophets and and they
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again it's hard to not bring Peter alongside the the Hebrew writer to the Hebrews here but um they longed to see
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what we see they they they greeted it they they had faith they they knew knew the promises would be fulfilled, but it was not for them to
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see it physically. And yet they were faithful by the by the effect of the Holy Spirit to to write, proclaim, and and uh
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for our our everlasting benefit recorded the words of these prophets so that we can read and we can have those tidings
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of great joy on both sides of the cross. We can hear and see what they saw and then we can now greet it in greet our
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our Christ through the the power of the Holy Spirit in us. Let us pray. Father, thank you for the words of the scriptures. Thank you for the the old
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and the new covenant. Thank you for your plan, your method to proclaim to us the the seed of woman and then the privilege of seeing that through the scriptures
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being proclaimed, being proclaimed, looked at from afar, believed on, and then come to fulfillment. Thank you for those that you set apart to to be your
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messengers, to be faithful to your plan and to your your revelation. And thank you that you did not leave us uh empty-handed and and
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manufacturing who you are, but you have revealed yourself. You have revealed your mind to us that we may walk in a way in a manner that is truly pleasing
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to you. We thank you and we praise you and bless you in Christ's name.