05_05 How Holy Spirit Teaches

Document #05_05, How the Holy Spirit Teaches, reveals the real connection between the Word of God (the Bible) and the Spirit of God (the Spirit of Prophecy – Revelation 19:10). The counsel of the True Witness, Jesus, as to our true condition at this time in history, from Revelation 3:14 to 21, encourages us to get what we need in our experiences before the great “time of trouble” that we now have learned we must face. Here you will gain the knowledge of how to be “hot” for Jesus’ kingdom, instead of “lukewarm” and not sufficient for the trial ahead.

Supplement: Another very important principle of correct Bible study is necessary to the understanding of this document. Burn this one into your mind.

“What is literal and local in the Old Testament prophecies, becomes spiritual and world-wide in the New Testament, especially in Revelation.”

Even within Revelation: example – the letters to the seven churches of Revelation chapters 2 and 3; are first of all to literal, local churches in Asia Minor, but extend to include large, sequential segments of time from the time of John the Revelator to our time in history. The final letter, to the church of Laodicea, is to the true Christians of our era.
We are “rich, and increased with goods, and say we are in need of nothing,” (secular “Christian” society) but we are in great danger from deception practiced by the “beast” power and Satan. We need zeal for Christ’s kingdom, and will surely be lost unless we repent and “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness!” Matthew 6, verse 33.

SCRIPTURE TEXT: Revelation 3:14-21 [Make sure you read this first].

TITLE: How Holy Spirit Teaches

When we all get to heaven! That wonderful hymn often resounds in my head! It makes my soul vibrate with hope. But we’re not there yet. Are we preparing ourselves to be ready for the “Loud Cry” of the Three Angel’s Messages of Rev. 14:6-13? …I am. Are you?
If so, we must face the counsel of the True Witness, Who unerringly knows our corporate condition as a people. Turn again to Rev. 3 vs. 14 to 21, which was our subject-text reading:

We are neither cold, nor hot; for the Kingdom of Jesus. We need to repent and be zealous for the Kingdom of Jesus over the kingdom of Satan.

In the context of our need, Jesus proclaims to us, paraphrased, “I stand at your door and knock. If you will let Me in, I will come in to you, and sup with you. – partake of a Covenant meal with you. To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame.”

It is by study of how Jesus overcame that my subject today developed. By the Spirit of Jesus in you, you can choose to keep His Commandments and live the victorious overcoming life!

How did Jesus overcome? Let’s see it in the record of Scripture. Matthew chapter 4 is about Jesus being directly tempted by Satan in the wilderness after His baptism. How did Jesus overcome? What was His power?…”It is Written!” …Complete faith in Bible truth is how to overcome as Jesus overcame!
Can we put the power of the Spirit and the power of the Word together? Turn to John 6:63. This principle is the secret to overcoming sin. John 6:63:
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.”

So: the true Gospel is the power to overcome sin, beginning with forgiveness of all past sin, at baptism.

Let’s go further back in the life of Jesus. As you know, Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in Mary’s mortal body. Thus, Jesus was born of a woman, of the seed of David; born into a mortal body – God the Son, in mortal flesh! The son of man and the Son of God. By Holy Spirit in Him, teaching Him, He never sinned. But, He, being in mortal flesh, had to choose to obey Holy Spirit, not His mortal, fallen nature.

Only by His overcoming the sinful, fallen, human nature in Himself, as our Saviour, was it made possible that His sacrificial death could be effective for all of His created beings.

And, glory! He has given His victory to us! His overcoming Spirit is made available to us, through the New Covenant. Turn to Hebrews, the 10th chapter, the New Covenant chapter of the Bible. Hebrews 10, beginning with verse 4:

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, “Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: (in the volume of the book it is written of me), to do thy will, O God.”
8 Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the [ceremonial] law;

9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first (Covenant), that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Continuing, in that context, after Jesus came as Messiah,
from v. 16. (16 and 17).

16 This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts [remind us what Jesus went through to save us), and in their minds will I write them [we will learn them, every one];
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

At this point He is referring to baptism and our personal making of a Covenant with Him. Our decision at baptism should be, “Lord, I don’t want to sin any sin, any more! I need Your Holy Spirit in me to help me to overcome sin!” And God’s answer, as His side of the Covenant, is, “I will be your God! I will put my laws into your heart and in your mind I will write them!”

This New Covenant was actually there in the Old Testament, recorded in the book of Ezekiel. Turn to Ezekiel 36 (read vs. 26, 27, and the last part of v. 28, through the first part of v. 29).
“I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes…You shall do them.”
John chapter 1 verse 12 says it too: paraphrased, “But as many as receive Him, He will give power to become a son of God! – even to them that believe on His name!”

Now we are ready for Rev. 3, the counsel of Jesus to us. “I counsel thee to buy of Me, gold tried in the fire.” – This is your witnessing experiences as you share the Gospel by giving Bible Studies. This is our first need. If we are not being His witnesses to a fallen world, we cannot receive the gold tried in the fire, and may be spewed out of His mouth like the tepid water of the ancient city of Laodicea! Giving Bible Studies
is how we learn what we believe; and make it our own! Giving Bible Studies is how we can become “hot!”

We need also white raiment to hide our nakedness. This is the robe of Christ’s Righteousness that He is willing to give to us. This is “the righteousness of saints” Rev. 19:8. “Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14:12. You know these things, don’t you.

Thirdly, and this is our subject, we also need, and will receive as a result of having the first two, “eye-salve to anoint our eyes, that we may see.” – This is Holy Spirit’s teaching you your end-time Message for sharing in witnessing experiences as you give Bible Studies. Let me repeat that: The eye-salve is Holy Spirit’s teaching you your end-time Message, for sharing in witnessing experiences as you give Bible Studies.

We need that preparatory experience now, in order to be ready for the Latter Rain to give us power to face the perils of the great Last Days, which will very soon burst upon us!

My purpose today is two-fold: to encourage you to go out and begin giving Bible Studies, using Bible Study Guides [which you can get at any Seventh-day Adventist church] and, to equip you with a neglected gift of Holy Spirit, so that you will know your real Message for these Last Days.
Despite the delay in Christ’s coming and the last events that will precede it, we will be among the generation that must give “the Loud Cry of the Three Angel Messages.” Do you really know them? And what they mean? Are you telling them to anyone yet?
By this Message we will “prepare the way of the Lord.”
By this Message, and how we choose to carry or not carry it, we are receiving or refusing the counsel of Jesus to us because of our Laodicean condition!

So, how does Holy Spirit teach us the truths of Scripture? – especially our Message? Let’s zero right in on this now. John chapter 14. We will now see everything connect together.
John 14, beginning at v. 15, to v. 18:
15 If you love me, keep my Commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but you [the disciples] know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.
Continuing in context, verse 26:
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.

Jesus, living day and night with His disciples for 3 1/2 years, shared with them all of the Scriptures, including what they subsequently wrote in the New Testament. His words are Spirit, remember? We saw that from John 6, verse 63: “It is the Spirit that quickens, the flesh [His human presence] profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.”

Now: Here is the key. Are you wide awake? Holy Spirit works through Bible Study to teach us all things. John 14, v. 26:
“the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things…”

Note: the key-word is the word “teach.”
See if, by now, you can tell me which Scripture the following is from. Are you ready?
“Whom shall He [Holy Spirit] teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to
understand doctrine?” Call it out will you? What text is that? No-one?
Here’s another part of it that will give it away: “…line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little.”

Yes, it’s Isaiah 28, verses 9 and 10, KJV. This is Holy Spirit’s prescription for effective Bible Study. By using this prescription, the book of Daniel was unsealed, in this Time of the End we are still living in, by a man called William Miller. Etch this text upon your mind!

Now put them together. John 14, verse 26: “He shall teach you all things,” [key word teach] and Isaiah 28, verses 9 and 10: “Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand doctrine? …line upon line, line upon line,  here a little, and there a little.”

Holy Spirit works through Bible Study done by His prescription: -“Line upon line;” – comparing Scripture with Scripture, by subject key-words, and your Concordance to the Bible. This is the basis of Seventh-day Adventist Bible Guide pamphlets.

Is it any wonder that William Miller, the man used of God to unseal Daniel’s great prophecies, was nicknamed “The Old Man and his Concordance?”

How does Holy Spirit teach? – through His prescription for true Spirit-led Bible Study, “line upon line.”

I counsel you today, if you would receive the counsel of Jesus to His Laodicean people, buy yourself a Concordance as soon as possible! Get yourself a Cruden’s Concordance to the Bible. “Cruden’s for the crude” is a way to remember its name. You can even get one in a paperback edition. The others that are available, Young’s, or Strong’s, are too heavy with usually unneeded and confusing information for the average person. You want a text finder, so that Holy Spirit can especially teach to you the following five things:
Who the beast and his image are: Who Great Babylon, mother of harlots is: Who we must worship to receive the Kingdom of Jesus, and who we must not worship: and finally, number 5, what is the Everlasting Gospel that even most of Christendom does not have, but must have, for this hour of history.

How does Holy Spirit teach? – through Bible Study, “line upon line.” Will you buy a Concordance and use it? Will you thus anoint your eyes with Holy Spirit’s eye-salve?
Will you buy from Jesus “gold tried in the fire?” – witnessing experiences as you share the Gospel by giving Bible Studies, that prepare you to “prepare the way of the Lord?”
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Shut off Satan’s “entertainment” and go out seeking people who don’t have a personal, daily relationship with Jesus!

Will you evermore-perfectly keep the 10 Commandments, and have the faith of Jesus in the Scriptures? Thus you will receive “the white robe of Christ’s righteousness,” and, by seeking to be like Jesus, develop “the righteousness of saints.”

So: again: How does Holy Spirit teach? – through Bible study according to His prescription, “line upon line.” Why do you need that information? – in order to heed the counsel of Jesus to Laodicea !!

We need prayer.
Let’s go to our knees before our Creator.

Father God; and Jesus our Saviour, we thank You both for Your counsel to us: we are Laodicean, and we need the things You counsel us to buy from You. We plead with You to help us to desire them, and pray also for zeal for Your Kingdom. We repent of our condition, and ask Holy Spirit to lead us in Bible Study of our Message, so that we may be the ones who can give the Loud Cry, when You have made us ready.
In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

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