Episode 117: Holy Spirit Produces HOLINESS

HOLY SPIRIT PRODUCES HOLINESS POWER - Acts 1:8 - 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Act 2:1-4 - When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. REVELATION - Acts 2:17-18 -“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. EXPLOSION OF REVELATION!!!  A.W. TOZER Quote - Holiness A NEW ASPECT of the Day of PENTECOST 1.     A REVERSAL of the Genesis 6 perversion – Holy Spirit comes2.     A REVERSAL of the Tower of Babel event / Languages confused vs. Language uniting 2ND ANGELIC FALL - Fall of the Sons of God/Watchers (Gen 6:1-8) – more corruption 6:1-8 - 1 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. 5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. When? Genesis 6 BEFORE the floodTwo Views about WHO the “Sons of God” were:1.    Angels – Who? 2nd Temple Judaism, the Apostles, Early Church2.    Humans – Who? (called the “Sethite View”) - 1st suggested by Julius Africanus (3rd Century), Augustine (5th century)It really wasn’t until the 5th century that the so-called “Sethite View” (i.e. that the ’sons of God’ were humans and not angels) was INVENTED.The evidence from history is insurmountable that the Sethite view is wrong.  That the Sethite interpretation was a late innovation and not the Apostolic understanding (or the historic Jewish one).A. New Testament writers who refer to these angels in Genesis 6:1-4The Apostle Peter (2 Peter 2:4-5) Jude (Jude 1:6)B. Early Church leaders who affirm that the Sons of God were in fact angels and whose offspring were the Nephilim/giants.  Clement of Rome (1st century, the Apostle Peter’s Disciple)Justin Martyr (2nd century)Irenaeus (2nd century)Clement of Alexandria (late 2nd/early 3rd century)Tertullian (late 2nd/early 3rd century – gave us the word “Trinity”)Ambrose (4th century)Lactantius (4th century, tutor of Emperor Constantine)C. Well-known Evangelicals who affirm w/ the Early Church that the Sons of God were angels. A.W. Pink – Reformed theologian Donald Grey Barnhouse – Presbyterian theologian, pastorHenry Morris – author of The Genesis Flood, founder of CRI (Creation Research Institute)Merril F. Unger – Dallas Theological Seminary professor, theologianArnold Fruchtenbaum – Messianic leader, Dallas Theologi(continued)