874 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 73 - Holy Spirit (Pneuma Hagion) - 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 73 HOLY SPIRIT (PNEUMA HAGION) - 2 Psalms 51:11 and Luke 24:49 We're going to get back on our study of the incarnate Christ for at least this program. Let’s continue on here in Philippians chapter 2. For those of you joining us out in television, again we just appreciate the fact that you feel like you’re part of the class. We're just like a Sunday school class. That's the best way I can put it. I'm not here to preach, and I'm not here to holler at you. We're just going to see what the Book says, and I think we're making a dent. All right, let's come back and continue on a little further in Philippians chapter two. We ended up how that Christ died the death even the death of the cross—now verse 9. Philippians 2:9a “Wherefore…” Now, whenever you see that word wherefore, what is that supposed to do to you? It should send you back a little ways to the verses that we just covered. And what's it talking about? His becoming flesh, His death on the cross—and since all that has been accomplished, now God also has highly exalted Him. Now think for a moment. What two positions are we now looking at? What did I tell you He came as? The lowest point on the social scale, a bond slave. Where is He ending up? The highest possible place in all of God's operations, highly exalted. That's what the cross accomplished. But you know what? That's us! We’re nothing but hell-bound sinners, and by simply appropriating by faith all of this, we, too, are now seated in the heavenlies. Not here on earth—we're just strangers passing through and always equate all of this. In fact, let's go back to Romans chapter 8 for a minute. I think we may have looked at it in the last taping, but it never hurts to repeat these things. Romans chapter 8 and drop in at verse fourteen, because I'm afraid too many believers are just sort of floating along. You know you’re saved, you know you’re not going to Hell, but do you really appreciate your position as a member of the Body of Christ? Do you really appreciate that one day we're going to be there? In fact, I just shared with someone on the phone last night. I said, “You know, we all talk rather glibly, and we hope the Lord is coming soon.” My, I get phone calls and letter after letter, and I think we are all pretty much agreed that nothing better could happen to us than for the Lord to blow the trumpet, and we're out of here. And we talk about it rather glibly. But do you ever really stop and just think about it? What if five minutes from now that trumpet should sound? And it's coming. It's getting closer all the time. They can scorn it all they want. The more they scorn it, the closer it gets, because that's what Scripture says. So just stop and think about some of these things and how that it's reality. This isn't pie in the sky or wishful thinking. It's going to happen! Whenever I say it's going to happen, a verse comes to mind every time. We used it last taping. That's why I've been trying to ignore it today, but I just can't. It's in Galatians. What does it say? Galatians 4:4a “But when the fullness of the time was come, (What's the next part?) God sent forth His Son,…” Now, from the time the prophets stopped writing and dealing with Israel, which was Malachi, how long was it before the angel appeared to Mary and John the Baptist? How long? Four hundred years of total silence. Israel had never experienced that kind of silence in her history. So what do you suppose a lot of them began to think? It's not going to happen. God has forgotten all about us. But, beloved, it did. When the fullness of time was come, God moved and Christ appeared. It's the same way today. Oh, you know it's been nineteen hundred and some years now, and a lot of people have almost given up and think that this is never going to happen. Don't you believe it, because it is! I don't know when. It may be a long time, yet. I can't see how it can, but it could be. God is timeless. But I'll tell you, beloved, one day it's going to happen. God's going to move. All right, now where was I? Romans 8:14 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, (We'll look at some of these verses when we get into the Holy Spirit aspect later this afternoon.) they are the sons of God.” See, that's a present tense verb. Not that you hope to be, not that you might be, but you are here and now. Children of God is a better word here than sons of God. Verse 15: Romans 8:15a “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;…” That's the joy of being a true believer. We don't have to fear God. I had a letter yesterday where a girl grew up with a mentality that all God was waiting for was for her to think something wrong, say something wrong, and do something wrong so He could zap her. That was her thinking of God. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible