{"id":407,"date":"2015-04-21T17:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=407"},"modified":"2017-02-13T01:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T01:37:54","slug":"the-work-of-the-holy-spirit-today-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"The Work of the Holy Spirit Today Part I B – Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book of Acts records the birth of the New Testament church. \u00a0<\/strong>It is a history of the church’s beginning. \u00a0The book of Acts is also a book of transition. \u00a0It\u00a0records the transition from the Old Testament to the New Testament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some aspects of the Holy Spirit’s work changed during this transitional period. \u00a0During the Old Testament period He came upon individuals to enable them to perform certain God ordained tasks and then He departed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the New Testament the Holy Spirit would now indwell individual believers, sealing their salvation and making them a habitation of God through the Spirit until the day of redemption.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because the Book of Acts is a book of history and transition, it is not necessarily a standard for church ministry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me illustrate. \u00a0When planning a trip one prepares the vehicle by changing the oil and filters, purchasing new tires if required, checking belts for wear, the battery for life and all the fluid levels, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When departing on the trip and arriving at the first stop sign, one does not repeat the changing of the oil, filters, and tires or the checking of the belts, fluids, battery, etc. \u00a0It is not necessary to repeat these procedures every time one stops the vehicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the aspects of the Holy Spirit’s ministry which were recorded during the birth of the church were no longer necessary once the New Testament church was established.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ came teaching, preaching and healing to prove to the Old Testament Jew that He is the promised Messiah. \u00a0The New Testament Apostles continued that ministry, enabled by the Holy Spirit, until the New Testament church was established.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once the church was established the sign gifts (to Israel) of and by the Holy Spirit ceased. \u00a0Attempts in the contemporary church to imitate or re-create these gifts today causes confusion in the body of believers and overshadows the practical every day working of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer as set forth elsewhere in the Scriptures.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book of Acts records the birth of the New Testament church. \u00a0It is a history of the church’s beginning. \u00a0The book of Acts is also a book of transition. \u00a0It\u00a0records the transition from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Some aspects of the Holy Spirit’s work changed during this transitional period. \u00a0During the … Continue reading The Work of the Holy Spirit Today Part I B – Background<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}