The Work of the Holy Spirit.... Why the disconnect
praise_yeshua > 08-02-2016, 12:42 PM
There are lots of people that want to focus on the "Work of the Holy Spirit"... and its not just the Charismatics. I wrote my High School "Thesis" on Jonathan Edwards. I've studied such men for most of my adult life.
All of them have the same failing. Don't get me wrong. I have plenty myself.....
They all ignore the "Work of the Spirit" in producing the Christian Canon of the Bible. They want to talk about the Person of the Holy Spirit "cutting" someone when God has given the "Word of God" to do such things.
Read these words......
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Read it again......
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The Gospel we preach. The Gospel... God gave to humanity is what does the "cutting". Its already "alive" and "powerful". It bridges the Heavenly to the earthly. It is the "Work of the Spirit".
Why the disconnect?