ch 2 God Revisits His People - The Spirit as the Renewed Presence of God

Questions to answer before reading the Blog.

1. How did Jesus fulfill His promise to come and dwell again among His People again?...……………………………………………………………….

2. What do bereaved husbands or wives miss most about their departed loved one?...……

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3. Because God is a Relational Being and we are made in His Image; what does He want with us?  …………………………………………………………..

4. What did Jesus promise before He went back to heaven?...…………………………..

5. Where and when did this happen and how?...………………………………………………………………

6.  What does it mean that the Prophetic Word would be renewed? Read Joel 2:28-30; 1 Thess 5: 19-20; 1 Cor 11:4-5; 1 Tim 4:14

Ch2. God Revisits His People  --  The Spirit as the renewed Presence of God.

1. The Outpouring of the Spirit meant for Paul that God had fulfilled His promise to DWELL once again in and among His people.

2. Nothing take the place of "the presence "of a loved one who has departed. Ask Heather Fiecher whose husband has ust passed away.

3. God has made us in this way - in His personal image as relational beings.

4. The coming of  Holy Spirit to the Ephesian Christians Ephesians1:13 whom also you, hearing the Word of Truth, the gospel of our salvation, in whom also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14  who is the earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. 

Acts19: 1-7. Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" 

Compare Galations 3:14so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

So this is what Paul understood as the Outpouringg of the Spirit at Pentecost and the Book of Acts.

Compare Joel 2:28 And it shall be afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.
Joe 2:29  And also I will pour out My Spirit on the slaves and on the slave women in those days.
Joe 2:30  And I will show wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke. 

1Th 5:19  Do not quench the Spirit.
1Th 5:20  Do not despise prophesying.
1Co 11:4  Every man praying or prophesying his head covered dishonors his Head.
1Co 11:5  But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for that is even the same as if she were shaved.
1. Cor 12 :1- ……… 1Co 14:39  So then, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in languages.
1Co 14:40  Let all things be done decently and in order.