bible study opportunity - st petri
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Bible Study opportunityPastor Noel DueStarting Tuesday 23October ‐ 4 weeks7pm St Petri hall
Each evening: Dwelling in the Word; Bible teaching;
Discussion and Prayer
Review
Recap from last week:
1. Who (not It…the It box); elemental images describe the actions of the Person of the Spirit.
2. “To your advantage that I go”. The Spirit does not make up for Jesus’ absence but completes his presence.
3. From various passages we saw that the gift of the Spirit is the fulfilment of God’s promise and the specific, planned outcome of Jesus’ earthly mission
Range finding exercise and questions
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“Born again” “Pentecostal experience and theology”
“Gifts of the Spirit”Note the imagery on the slides
But the Father, Son and Spirit are not entombed in the book
Dwelling in the Word Galatians 3:23‐4:7
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Check “Homework”A “biography” of the Spirit
Main points in the biography
“Hover” Genesis 1:2 cf. Deuteronomy 32:10 (in context of
creation of Israel) [Psalm 104:29‐30
Psalm 139]
The Spirit as the great Temple Builder
The Old Testament Refrain
I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. Lev. 26:11‐13
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Temple builder:
1. Temple as divine meeting place between God and Man.
2. Adam as priest‐king to serve God in the Temple.
3. Such worship/service was to flow out of deep fellowship.
4. Creation (ruach, pneuma = wind/spirit) and garden (river).
Temple builder:
1. Deliverance from the ‘gods of Egypt’ (Ex. 12:12);
2. Though the Passover and in the Sea (Ex. 14:21, 15:8).
3. For the establishment of the tabernacle (Ex. 31:1‐5).
4. The glory cloud fills the tabernacle (Ex. 40:34‐38)
Temple builder:
1. Solomon’s temple a creation of the Spirit (e.g. 1 Kings 7:14)
2. Filled with the glory cloud (1 Kings 8:10‐11).
3. Garden/Eden symbolism: in this place and by God’s gift we enter Eden again.
Temple builder:1. Jesus as the Temple (John 2:19‐21).
2. The action of the Spirit in the incarnation of the Son (hovering, forming, filling, blessing, etc.)
3. He, and we as members of his body, are inseparable (see Acts 9:4; Eph. 5:29‐30; 1 Cor. 12:27; etc.)
4. The Spirit is building us as God’s Temple (Eph. 2:18‐22)
Temple builder:1. This all matches with Jesus’ teaching in the upper room: see John
14:3, 15‐17, 18‐20, 23 cf. John 17:20‐24.
2. The end point = Revelation 21:22‐23.
3. The Spirit invites the world to “Come” Rev. 22:17‐18.
Tables:
1. Share what is new, helpful, or an ‘ah‐ha’ moment from this overview.
2. What questions do you have?
3. Prayer
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Jesus’ Promise
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. (Jn 14:16‐17 ESV)
John 14:3, 15‐17, 18‐20, 23 cf. John 17:20‐24
HOMEWORKEvents and references to Jesus’ relationship with the Spirit