678 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 57 - The Godhead Revealed - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 57 The Godhead Revealed - Part 2 I John 4:11 – 5:1 Okay, let’s pick right up where we left off in our last lesson and that was in I John chapter 4, and we looked at verse 12. If you can find one word that speaks of salvation through faith in the resurrection, the shed blood, the crucifixion; then I’ll admit that maybe I’ve been missing it. All right, so now then just almost the same identical language as John’s Gospel, he goes on finishing verse 12: I John 4:12b-13 "…If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Now, where in the world do we get the first real revelation of the coming of God’s Spirit into the heart of the believer? Well, John’s Gospel. We’ll just go right back to his gospel. The Father! Because the Father and the Son and the Spirit are One God, as we put it on the board. John 14:16a The Greek word if I’m not mistaken is "paraclete" – one called along side to help. John 14:16b-17a Even the Spirit of truth;…." The Holy Spirit. God the Father. God the Son is praying that He’ll send the third Person, the Holy Spirit. All right verse 17. John 14:17-20 There’s been many times that God gave Good News to mankind for them to believe. Luke 18:31a Luke 18:31b-33 Did Jesus know what was coming? There wasn’t anything hid from Him, He was God! Luke 18:34 Not a word. The Son of God, their Messiah, and that was all the Kingdom believers had to believe for salvation. All right, so now then, here in John’s Gospel we have first and foremost Jesus revealing Himself as the Son of God - and now He’s telling them that He’s going to be leaving them. The Comforter that He promised in verse 16, will be: John 14:17a "Even the Spirit (capitalized) of truth; whom the world cannot receive,…." Because the Holy Spirit is of the godly Spirit and the ungodly world has no consort with it whatsoever. All right, so the world can’t understand this working of the Holy Spirit. John 14:17b-20 19. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. John 14:21 The love of the Father. The love of the Son. The love of these Twelve men in return. All right, so the whole promise here is that God would send the Comforter, that other Person of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit is just as much eternity past as God the Father and God the Son. It’s all part of that Invisible Godhead. We’ll only see the manifestation of it in God the Son. Genesis 1:2 Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." And so you see, the Holy Spirit is already evident here at Creation. Even though God the Son spoke the Word, yet all three Persons of the Godhead are involved in Creation. All right, so now then, throughout the Old Testament there is not a lot of teaching concerning the work of the Holy Spirit, although He certainly was evident. Everything that was prompted of God was through the work of the Spirit. The prophets wrote as they were inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit came upon him. I Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16. I Corinthians 3:16 "Know ye not that ye (now remember, Paul always writes to believers. Paul never writes to the unsaved world) are the temple (or the dwelling place) of God, (see, there’s the ‘God’ part again) and that the Spirit of God dwelleth (where?) in you?" See that’s a part of our salvation experience. The moment we believe, for salvation, that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again, the Holy Spirit takes up residence within us! It’s the Holy Spirit that keeps us on a straight line. It’s the Holy Spirit Who maintains our balance in our spiritual life. "If any man defile (or abuse) the temple of God, him shall God destroy;.…" "…for the temple of God (this dwelling place, this body of the believer) is holy, which temple (Paul says) ye are." Well that’s Paul’s take on the Holy Spirit. Now let’s go back to where we were in I John chapter 4 and verse 13 again. All right, now let’s move into verse 14. I John 4:14 You see how that fits totally with all of John’s thinking? everlasting life." Now there’s not a word in John 3:16 about the cross. "…of the gospel according to the power of God; 9. Now look at the rest of the verse) which was given us in Christ Jesus (when?) before the world (or the ages) began," Now that ties right in with everything we’ve been saying all afternoon. Miracle of miracles, the eternal purposes of God to bring about a Savior, not just for Israel, for the whole human race - but it starts with Israel. All right, what’s my point? Israel is the hub of God’s wheel. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible