Featured Baptism in the Spirit

He is not talking about the indwelling presence of the Spirit but of the joy of salvation provided by the Spirit within him. Sin breaks fellowship then and now with the indwelling Holy Spirit. Moreover, the Holy Spirit was given in the sense of special operations or power to administer certain leadership positions or functions.

The Spirit of God IS the seal and yes He sealed them as He does us. David believed in the eternal security of the believer (Psa. 89:28-38) and believed that the Spirit of God would never leave him in the sense of indwelling and He would be guided here by the Spirit and afterwards recieved into glory.

The same language is used for the Holy Spirit upon New Testament believers in Acts 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them:

The Spirit came upon lost kings to give them adminstrative leadership and skills as in the case of Cyrus. The departure of the Spirit from Saul had to do with his rebellion in the office of king..[/QUOTE]

 

That is not true! They were commanded to seek after such a new heart right then and there:

De 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. - NO FUTURE TENSE

Jer 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. - NO FUTURE TENSE

You obviously do not know the meaning of being "sealed." David and other Prophets teach eternal security of the saint in many places (Psa. 89:28-38; 2 Sam. 23:5) or have you never heard of the "SURE mercies of David"?

Apparently you never read hebrews 11 and the pre-Mosaic saints and their relationship with God.

The only thing ushered in was the PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION of the new Covenant and ratification by blood. There is no salvation from Genesis to Revelation under any other covenant but the "everlasting covenant" of grace. Noah "found grace" not the covenant of the law or works. Abraham was justified by grace (Rom. 4:2-4; 16) and justifying faith is always of the covenant of "grace" (Rom. 4:16).

You are simply ignorant of the truth of the covenant of grace. It is an everlasting covenant because ALL the elect were chosen "in him" before the world began and they were chosen "TO salvation THROUGH sanctification of the Spirit" - 2 Thes. 2:13. There is no other covenant of salvation - none, zilch, nada!

 

I have spelled this out in other posts. During the dedication service of every new house of God in the Old Testament there was an immersion of that house in the shikinah glory and fire from heaven to light to consume the sacrfice on the brazen altar and that fire was never to die out as long as that house continued on earth. It was the preists responsibility to keep it kindled. Hence, it was a historical one time event at the beginning of each new house of God which publicly accredited that house, ordinances, ministry, worship as acceptable to God and at that point God indwelt it as His "house."

This occurred with the Tabernacle (Ex. 40)
This occurred with the Temple of Solomon (2 Chron. 7:1-3)
This occurred with the Rebuilt Temple of Zerrubabbel
This occured with the N.T. Congregation - Acts 2:1-3.

That is not what I said. I said that "miarcles, signs and wonders" were "THE SIGNS" of the apostles, (2 Cor. 12:12) or the "power" given on the day of Pentecost to the church office of apostle to establish and confirm a permenant "witness" to Jesus Christ and His teachings - THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.

1. None but apostles performed miracles signs and wonders from Acts 2 to Acts 6

2. None but those upon whom the apostles hands were laid performed miracles signs and wonders from Acts 6 to Acts 28

3. The congregations in Rome did not receive any of these sign gifts as none are listed in Romans 12 and that is one reason why Paul wished to come to them so to impart unto them such "spiritual gifts" - Rom. 1:11

4. These signs gifts ceased when the apostles died and those upon whom they bestowed them died (Heb. 2:3-4; Mk 16:20) as a permenant "Witness" had been established and confirmed.

5. Today "miracles, signs and LYING wonders" are the signs of apostacy not of New Testament Christianity - Mt. 24:24-25; 2 Thes. 2:9-13

 

I provided Biblical evidence to prove that circumcision of the heart was actual and applied before Pentecost - not predictive but present. You have not provided any response but PERSONAL OPINION that is directly opposed to God's Word.

 

1. The verses that are not future tense descriptions of circumcision of the heart which I provided you.

2. The verses that teach the security of Old Testament believers which I provided you ("sure mercies of David" and Psalms 89; etc.) which David applies to ALL CHILDREN of the Messanic Covenant.

3. Caleb who wrote nothing, was not a Preist, was not a king but obeyed the Lord in all things all his life - progressive sanctification/walk by faith.

 

In other words you are demanding that if the technical langauge found in the New Testament is not found in the Old Testament then the doctrine is not found in the Old Testament?

Where in the Old Testament does it say that Abraham was "justified by faith"??? Does that make Paul a liar because the Old Testament does not use that precise New Testament langauge?????

Jesus tells Nicodemus that he should know about being "born again" but where in the Old Testament do we find the exact words "born again" except by Christ BEFORE Pentecost?

Progressive sanctification by practical definition is walking by faith and pleasing God by your life. Will you deny those listed in Hebrew 11 did not walk by faith and were not pleasing to God?

Do you know of any other standard that is pleasing to God than the righteousness found in the life of Christ?

You are using the same kind of theological nonsense that cults do when they deny the doctrine of the Trinity. They ask where in scripture can you find the word "Trinity" as though that is a triump and as though the doctrine is not in the New Testament.

 

Where do you get the idea that Jesus was quoting Jeremiah in John 3:3-7 and where does Jeremiah use the expression "born again" or "born of the Spirit" or "born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of Spirit is spirit"???????

He had come but the cross had not come and yet he tells Nicodemus not merely he must be born again but "except a man" is born again they can neither see or enter the kingdom of God.

 

Not only can you provide no scripture to support your theory but now you are making them up as you go! I would seriously reconsider any position that requires you to go to such extremes.