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Revisiting Holy Spirit Language…What Happened at Pentecost?

Revisiting Holy Spirit Language…What Happened at Pentecost?. -The difficulty of ‘pre-understandings’-conforming the text to a system. -The difficulty of ‘progressive revelation’ (must all terminology be standard?). -The difficulty of the discipline of Hermeneutics. I. The key terms.

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Revisiting Holy Spirit Language…What Happened at Pentecost?

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  1. Revisiting Holy Spirit Language…What Happened at Pentecost?

  2. -The difficulty of ‘pre-understandings’-conforming the text to a system. • -The difficulty of ‘progressive revelation’ (must all terminology be standard?). • -The difficulty of the discipline of Hermeneutics.

  3. I. The key terms. A. Indwelling-the standard dispensational view is that this begins at regeneration and continues throughout the life of the believer. (Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 3:16)

  4. I. The key terms. B. Sealing-the standard dispensational view is that the HS begins this ministry at regeneration so as to continue the believer in the Spirit throughout the believer’s life. (2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:13; 4:30).

  5. I. The key terms. C. Baptism-Various views prevail here: 1. 2nd blessing view (charismatic). 2. begins at New Birth when the Spirit unites us into one body. (1 Cor. 12:13)…”The baptizing work of the Spirit is the one work of the Spirit which is not found in any other dispensation.” (Ryrie)

  6. I. The key terms. D. Filling-the standard dispensational view is that this is something that can (and should) occur frequently (Do not grieve the HS-Eph. 4:30…but be filled with the Spirit-Eph. 5:18). Many of the Pentecostal persuasion see Baptism & Filling as the same thing.

  7. I. The key terms. E. Other key terms: Receiving- (“this is the only term that occurs in all the anointing accounts in Acts-2:38; 8:15, 17; 10:47; 11:17; 15:8: 19:2)”. Anointing Outpouring Falling upon Coming upon Giving

  8. II. Pentecost: another perspective. A. New truths on old constructs: 1. Jesus’ Baptism as a royal anointing as in Ps. 2:7 for enabling him to rule successfully. 2. Jesus’ introduction of Himself as King. Lk. 4:1, 14 & especially 16ff. The Nazareth presentation is tied to Is. 61:1-2a and the Servant Songs in general. The Messiah has come to proclaim a Jubilee which includes the Gentiles in the blessings of the great eschatological day.

  9. II. Pentecost: another perspective. 3. Pentecost as: a. Feast of Firstfruits=HS in NT context. b. Inauguration of the New Covenant as in Ex. 19-20 where similar events occur. Thus, perhaps Luke’s intent is to show that Pentecost begins God’s fulfillment of His promises to Israel and includes (as in Luke 4) the Gentiles by inaugurating the New Era (New Covenant).

  10. II. Pentecost: another perspective. • Arguments for Acts 2 as a ‘filling’ rather than the beginning of the indwelling ministry. 1. When the HS comes in ch. 2 Luke says they were filled rather than baptized. 2. Luke doesn’t use ‘baptism’ to refer to the HS actions in Acts 2, 4, 8, 10 and 19; indeed, ch. 1 is the only place he uses it w/the HS.

  11. II. Pentecost: another perspective. 3. In the Gospels, Baptism and the HS are juxtaposed only in Jesus’ water baptism when the HS descended on Him. 4. Baptism in 1 Cor. 12:13 suggests the term may simply only mean ‘immersed into one body’ and may have not to do with the view that it is the baptism of the Spirit. (Indeed, the phrase “Baptism of the Spirit” does not occur in the NT. In the large majority of cases the noun form appears as the ‘Baptism of John’ or ‘of repentance’).

  12. II. Pentecost: another perspective. 5. The HS ‘moments’ in Acts may all be understood as ‘task oriented’ and are in harmony w/the filling view of ch. 2. 6. Since the filling word in 2:4 is identical to 4:31 and the people who are ‘filled’ in both chapters are the same, along with similar paranormal accompaniments, it can’t be indwelling since there can be only one indwelling. (note that the two key roots pleroo and plimpemi are rated as nearly identical synonyms by Louw and Nida, p. 598)

  13. II. Pentecost: another perspective. C. Arguments from John’s gospel. 1. Uneven distribution of the Spirit (2nd half of John) 2. 1st key statement: 7:39 “But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive, for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”

  14. II. Pentecost: another perspective. 3. 2nd key statement: 14:17 “…that is, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.” ‘abides’ is present tense & suggests the Spirit is ‘indwelling them’. ‘will be in’ you logically suggests 20:22 when Jesus ‘breathed on them’ the HS.

  15. II. Pentecost: another perspective. 4. 3rd key statement: 20:22 “He breathed on them, and said ‘Receive the HS’.” There are at least 10 different explanations for what this breathing on means. Since they already had the Spirit ‘abiding in them’ this breathing represents the fulfillment of the Spirit promises in John. This means that all of the Johannine promises of what the Paraclete would do for them (apostles) are now fulfilled through this special empowering.

  16. II. Pentecost: another perspective. • Thus: 1. Pentecost is the coming of the Spirit to empower all who are present for the task of building the Kingdom (the emerging church). 2. All believers have always been ‘indwelled’ (although the terminology of this is not fixed) by the HS at regeneration. 3. All believers need fillings of the Spirit for the task of serving Christ in the various commands given by Christ and His Apostles.

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