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[00:00:38] Speaker B: All right, so we are going to finish finish a thought that we almost finished last week, but had a slide or two left. I wanted to hit on this week to finish that thought up. We're talking about the Spirit dwelling with us. And I really wanted to hit this passage, this set of passages, to kind of finish up that thought.
And we'll start in the Hebrews chapter 6 passage, so Hebrews 6, 4, 8.
For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit and have tasted the goodness of, of the Word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt for land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God, but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
There's a lot in this I want to focus especially on this idea of, this idea that we're tasting the heavenly gift. It's kind of the part of this I really want to focus on.
So this goes into what we were talking about last week, how we are already starting to experience the blessings of this age to come that, that the Jews have been looking forward to for so long.
That has already started and we're already experiencing the blessings of that we haven't experienced the full blessings of it. There's more to come, but we're starting to taste it.
I wanted to also look at passage in Isaiah 25, 6, 8, if somebody wouldn't mind reading that.
[00:02:48] Speaker C: On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples, a feast of rich food, a feast of well aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever.
And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces. And the reproach of all his people, he will take away from all the earth. For the Lord has spoken.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: So this is a prophecy looking forward to the blessings of eternity.
And one of the ways that's described is as a feast. So God is having a feast for us. So this is playing off that same idea here.
And the idea here is we're already starting to experience that feast. We're getting a taste of that.
We haven't enjoyed the main course yet, but we could say right now we're enjoying the appetizer.
So we're enjoying the beginnings of that.
But knowing that the main course is coming, we're already starting to enjoy the blessings of it.
So we're already seated at the table, but yet we still look forward to something more to come. And kind of talked about this last time, this idea that we live in two ages because we kind of have one foot in the age to come, which Christ has already initiated. But yet the previous age or the current age is still winding down. So we kind of have a foot still in that right now. We experience this battle, it's an internal battle that we're fighting good and evil.
The pull within us is trying to pull us in one direction or the other.
But the important thing this is pointing out is though salvation is ours and it's ours because of Christ, and it's ours as a gift, how we live matters.
And this is kind of pointed out in this part, in the seven, eight verses, seven and eight part. So whether we're producing fruit matters or whether we're producing thorns and thistles matters. And the Spirit is helping us to produce fruit. So the Spirit in us, that's one of the things that he's doing, is he's strengthening us and helping us to live according to God's will. He's working on our hearts to change us and strengthen. Strengthen us and help us to live the way God desires. And when that happens, we produce fruit.
And those fruits are talked about in the Galatians 5, 22 passage, what those things are, but we should be producing fruit is the main point.
Alright, so I want to move then to the Ephesians passage. Ephesians 1, 13, 14 says in him, you also when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory. So it's the idea here of the Spirit being a seal and a guarantee. So the seal is the idea of somebody putting their seal on you, their mark on you. They're identifying you as.
They're identifying their ownership of you as being one of theirs. That's the idea of the Holy Spirit. His sealed us.
God has placed his seal upon us. So he's marked us as one of His.
And he does that mentions here by the Holy Spirit.
But he also says that the Spirit is a guarantee of our inheritance.
So it's a couple things that means first, it's a down payment. It's the idea of a down payment. Or like if you buy a property, you put earnest money down.
Kind of the same idea here. So we've already received a down payment on the blessings that we're looking forward to. And that's kind of what I was going back to in the previous passage. We're already starting to taste the heavenly gift. We're already receiving a down payment on what's coming. And the Holy Spirit, the fact that the Holy Spirit is dwelling in us is a down payment on that. God's ultimate promise is that he wants to live with us. And the fact that he's given us the Holy Spirit right now to dwell in us is a down payment on that ultimate purpose.
But the other side, I guarantee is the idea that God is going to keep his promise to save us and bring us to salvation.
Let's go ahead and read the other verse too. It talks about the same idea and then we'll come back to that.
The second Corinthians 1:21 22 passage says, and it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us. And we'll come back and talk about anointed here in a bit, but has anointed us and who has also put his seal on us and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. So the same idea presented here of the Spirit being a guarantee or a promise that God is going to fulfill.
God is going to fulfill his promise. And that promise is that eternal life. And it's eternal life where we get to live with him forever.
That's what we're looking forward to.
And God is guaranteeing that he's going to fulfill that.
So I like to think of analogies and Kind of make up metaphors, so we'll see how this one goes.
So think of it like you're on a journey across a lake and you're trying to get to the other shore. So you're in a boat and you are rowing across the shore, and the eternal life that we're seeking is on the other shore.
So this idea of the Spirit dwelling with us being a guarantee is the idea that the spirit is in the boat with us and he's going to make sure that we reach the other shore.
You know, we may at times struggle, we may at times not feel like he's there with us and may not feel like he's there helping us.
And I would suggest when that happens, we may be rowing in the wrong direction.
The spirit is rowing in one direction, and if we're not rowing in the right direction, we may not feel like he's there with us.
We may just be thrashing around while he's rowing, trying to get us to the other side. We may be thrashing around at times, but as long as he's there in the boat with us, we're going to get to the other side.
So what we need to try to do is one, row in sync with him, row in the direction he's rowing, get in sync with him, but at the same time realize that he's there to guarantee we're going to make it.
Now, I say that that's not the idea of once we have salvation, we can never lose it. I mean, the Hebrews passage clearly talks about that we can lose salvation.
And in my analogy, we can kick the spirit out of our boat.
And if we do that, we're not going to make it to the side.
So we can do that. Going back to the feast analogy, if we're already at the table enjoying the appetizer, we can get up from the table and walk away.
And we won't enjoy the main course of the meal. So we can lose it.
But if we stay faithful, we are guaranteed that we're going to, that we're going to achieve salvation.
People sometimes wonder, can we be sure? Can we be sure of our salvation? Absolutely, we can.
It doesn't mean we can't lose it. It doesn't mean we can't turn our back on God.
And when we do that, we lose our salvation. We can do that, but as long as we stay faithful, God has promised that he's going to complete the work that he started in us and he's going to help us to get to the other side.
All Right. I'll pause and see if you got thoughts.
I think Devin, Hebrews talks about apostasy and the difference between backsliding, falling away. You can backslide and possibly still come back to repentance, but once you've fallen away, then it's probably too late. They use the analogy of the land for the same.
[00:11:35] Speaker D: For the same.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: Thought provoking.
Yeah. And there's clearly a lot of different thoughts on trying to interpret this passage, on what does it mean.
But to me it's clear that there's a point where you've fallen away to a point of no return. That's the way I interpret this passage.
And then when that happens, we're not producing fruit.
That's the, that's the evidence of that in our life. If we're not producing any fruit, that would be a demonstration that we're no longer following Christ.
Like you said, we can struggle, we can backslide. That's kind of the thrashing around with our rowing.
We may not always be in sync with the Spirit and the way he's leading us. It doesn't mean that he's still not going to get us to the side as long as we are trying to follow him and trying to stay faithful. There's a difference between, I don't want you out of the boat, I don't even want to get to the other side. There's a difference in that versus struggling and not always doing the right thing. Those are very different things.
Yeah. Other thoughts? Good thought.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: I think one of the things in the Hebrew scripture, in verse six, it says, in crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. It's the fact that you're now, you know, you're now damaging the church, you're now damaging God's will. You're not just making a mistake, you're out there actively putting Christ in contempt to the world.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: This is also how I interpret the.
We've kind of talked about it a couple times, but the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, this is how I interpret that.
You know, people have some questions about exactly what was meant there.
And to me it's denying the work of the Spirit.
The Spirit is there to ensure that we achieve salvation.
He's there with us to help us. And if we deny that work, we don't want him part of that and we decide to go our own way, that's blaspheming his work. That's the way. At least that's the way I interpret that.
And when that happens, there's no salvation for us.
Yeah, good thoughts. Other thoughts? Yes.
[00:13:52] Speaker D: Adding to your comment about blaspheming the Holy Spirit, I think I'm in the right verse.
But if you look who Jesus was telling that they were blaspheming the Holy Spirit, I think it was the scribes, Pharisees and chief priests.
But they, they had just seen, obviously physically, in person, the power of God. And they then said, no, that's not the way it is now. That puts it to me. For me, that puts it in a little better context than just saying, I'm not feeling real good today. I don't feel like a Christian today. It's, it's actually, you have seen it up close.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: It's fighting against and denying the work and the power of God. Yes.
[00:14:44] Speaker D: I think they even went further than denying. They attributed the power of the Holy
[00:14:48] Speaker B: Spirit to the devil, to Beelzebub. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they did.
Yeah, I would agree. Yeah.
So to kind of sum all that up then, when we're talking about the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, I think this is where we ought to be focusing our minds and is our minds ought to be flooded with God's longtime promise that he wants to live with us and dwell with us and that he is now fulfilling that through the Holy Spirit.
We should be thinking about the tabernacle and the temple and Christ coming and dwelling with us and now through the Holy Spirit and then looking forward to a time when we get to dwell with God face to face. All those things are kind of wrapped up in this idea of the Spirit dwelling with us.
So to me, that's the priority kind of how we ought to be thinking about that.
We also ought to be thinking of it in terms of assurance. So the fact that the Holy Spirit is with us is an assurance of our salvation and it's a promise that he's going to complete it.
And then it's also, I would say, third, about empowerment. So when the Spirit is dwelling with us, he is active in empowering us, strengthening us to do his will.
And we're going to talk a little bit more about that kind of in some future classes in a week or two. We're going to definitely dive into that a little bit more about how he empowers us.
But those are kind of the things that we ought to be thinking about when we think about the Spirit dwelling with us.
Alright, so remaining remaining topics for the quarter. Kind of want to give you a picture. I had to regroup just a little bit. I'M a couple weeks behind, so regroup just a little bit on what we're covering. So I want to talk about this idea of the Holy Spirit anointing.
And then we're going to go into the Holy Spirit as a, as a teacher and specifically how he reveals God's Word to us.
Then we're going to talk about gifts of the Holy Spirit.
And then with that kind of dive into what is the Spirit doing for Christians today, what has he done and what is he still doing for Christians. Then we'll kind of get into that Q and A and then a summary. So that's kind of where we're going. I think we got five weeks left. That should pretty much align with the five weeks we got left.
Alright, so this idea of the Holy Spirit as anointer.
So anointing. In Scripture, the idea of anointing, the word literally means to pour or to wipe or smear oil on.
That's what that word means.
We see it several times throughout Scripture. We see it when it's talking about prophets. So prophets were anointed.
I have some scripture references.
We won't necessarily look those up, but they're there for your reference.
But prophets were an example of people that were anointed.
Priests were also anointed.
We see that in Exodus 28:41.
We also see kings were anointed.
And I have a reference there to when Saul was anointed and also when David was anointed. This is what those verses are referring to.
We also see the tabernacle being anointed.
I think we looked at that verse a couple weeks ago where they actually took oil and poured it out of the tabernacle.
So what's this idea of anointing and why did they do that?
What was that about? What was the point?
So the main purpose is the five things I have there. One is this idea of consecration.
So consecration is basically sanctification. It's the idea of setting something apart for a special purpose.
So it's not just for common use anymore. This thing is special and it's to be used for a special purpose. That's the idea of consecrating.
So these individuals that were consecrated were set aside for a special purpose and given a special job or role.
And also the tabernacle was consecrated. It was meant to be had a special role in the life of Israel.
The other thing, it's divine selection. So it's God selecting you for something.
Those two ideas kind of go together. They're very similar, but it's the Fact that God is choosing you or choosing something for a purpose. So this idea of divine selection, the other thing is empowerment. So with this often came empowerment or enablement to achieve the thing that you've been selected to do. So God selected you for a purpose, for a task, but you also received power to accomplish that task that he's chosen you for. It was also associated with healing and restoration.
Both physical and spiritual healing were kind of wrapped up, wrapped up in that, in that. And then finally it was just a blessing and blessing and joy. So it was a giving of blessing to whoever was being anointed and providing them joy. So those are the main ideas behind anointing.
So I wanted to kind of think about it for a second. How often is anointing talked about in the Bible? Can you think of. We talked about a few of those, but can you think of cases in Scripture where people were anointed?
So as I was kind of thinking about it, I think the idea at least is in the Scriptures, a whole lot more than we might realize.
So I wanted to look at some words that talk about anointing.
So if we look at the Hebrew words, most of these are the root is. And I'll probably not say any of these, right? But the root is a form of masha. So masha is literally the oil, the oil that was used in anointing. And I've got the words over there and kind of what they mean, and then how they're typically translated in our English and then how many times it's used in Scripture. So we have these variations of masha. So the mashak was the oil. And the Messiah, which the word we're very familiar with, is really just one who has been anointed.
So the word is literally one who has had oil smeared on him.
That's the literal meaning of that word.
And then you have some other words as well. So then when you get into the New Testament, into the Greek, you have Alepho, but then you have these words that are all the root word of krio.
So krio is the equivalent of masha in Hebrew. So krio is the Greek root, and it's to rub or smear with oil.
It's usually translated anoint, but then you have these other derivations of it. But the big one is this word christos.
So the word we use for Christ, this is translated in English as Christ.
So before this was his name, this was just a word to them. It was a word in their language. I think it's good from time to time Just to remind ourselves that the word Christ was just a word that had a specific meaning. And specifically, it's somebody who's been anointed or somebody who's had oil rubbed on them.
So when they spoke of Jesus the Christ, they would have had that meaning in their head.
I think we've kind of lost that meaning. Maybe over time when we just say Christ, we just think of it as his proper name.
But when they said Christ, it would have had a very specific meaning.
It would have meant someone who's anointed.
So if you count all that up, if you count all the references to Christ, I mean, that's like 850 times that this idea of anointing is talked about.
So Jesus was anointed. So I want to look at some of those verses that talk about Jesus being anointed.
We'll start in Luke 4, 16, 19.
And I think I heard somebody mention Jesus being anointed. They may have been whispering it, but I did hear somebody mention that Luke 4:16, 19 says, he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. As was his custom. He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day. And he stood up to read.
And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
So we see that Jesus was anointed.
And it says he was anointed. It was the Spirit of the Lord that anointed him. The Spirit of the Lord was on him. And the Spirit of the Lord is what anointed him.
And we can see the similar things from the Old Testament view of anointing that was happening to Jesus. And we'll come back and hit on that. But Acts 10:38 also kind of. It's picking up in the middle of a sentence, but it says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power.
He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
So again, the idea of Jesus being anointed, in this case, God anointing Jesus with the Holy Spirit.
And then the Hebrews 1, 8, 9 passage says, but of the Son, he says, your throne, O God, is forever and ever the scepter of uprightness. Is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved rather righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.
Alright, so I wanted to look a little more into this idea of Jesus as being anointed.
Okay, so before we do that, I forgot I had this. So we see not only is Jesus anointed, but we see the Spirit as the oil. Okay, that's a key point I wanted to make before we move on.
So the oil, this oil that was used throughout the Old Testament, this thing that they used to anointing all along it was a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
It was just like we talked about how water was a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Now we see oil as being a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
We see breath.
So there's a lot of symbology used to describe the Spirit, spirit, breath and water and oil being especially used.
All right, so how does the Spirit anoint Jesus? And we'll look up some of these passages.
So Jesus was anointed not with literal oil, but with the Holy Spirit directly by the Holy Spirit that the oil represented all along.
So we talked about kind of the things that anointing represented. And we see those things happening for Jesus as well.
So consecrated being set apart for a purpose, for a special purpose.
We see that happening at his baptism. And of course, it was at his baptism that the Spirit descended on him.
I think also as wilderness testing, we could say the Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tested. I think that was part of his consecration as well.
And then a similar idea is his idea of being selected. And again, I think his baptism was showing that God was selecting him. It was really the beginning of his ministry. And we see the Holy Spirit coming upon him in that moment and selecting him for that.
Then we see that confirmed by the voice from heaven, the Holy Spirit also empowered Jesus, which is kind of interesting to think about. Let's look at some of those.
If I can get maybe somebody to read Matthew 12:28.
But if I cast out demons by
[00:26:58] Speaker D: the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: Yeah, and this is part of that context. Somebody mentioned earlier about how he was doing these wonderful works. In this case, he was casting out demons.
So kind of talk about the whole context here just a little bit.
Jesus was performing these incredible signs, one of which was casting out demons. But he was being challenged by those who did not believe his message.
It's interesting that they didn't challenge the authenticity of his signs.
They didn't say, well, these are really just tricks. You're not really doing these signs, they're just tricks.
Healing somebody that was lame and healing somebody that was blind and casting out demons and, and the other things that he did, they weren't questioned even by the people that opposed him. They recognized that something was happening that they couldn't explain.
I think that's very different from the kind of miracle workers you see today that claim to be doing miracles.
They're just not authentic. I mean, there's trickery, right? But nobody was saying that about the things that Jesus was doing, doing that what he was doing was trickery. Even the people that didn't agree with him. But what they did claim is, well, you're doing it by the power of the devil of Beelzebub.
Of course he answers that.
And part of his answer is, it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons.
So it's kind of an interesting question. Could Jesus have, and I think somebody actually asked this question earlier the quarter. But could Jesus have worked the miracles if he didn't have the spirit? That's an interesting question.
I would say. I'm not 100% sure, but I know that he didn't.
He did perform his miracles by the power of the spirit. I think that much is clear.
I feel like he limited his power as a human and so that the power that he exhibited in the, especially the miracles and signs he was doing by the power of the Spirit.
All right, thoughts. I may have opened up a can of worms on that, but thoughts on that.
All right. If somebody would read Luke 4:14, then
[00:29:20] Speaker D: Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee and news of him went out through all the surrounding regions.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: Alright, so this is Jesus right after his temptation in the wilderness. It says, it said the Spirit led him into the wilderness. I believe the Spirit was sustaining him in the wilderness as well. And then following that led him into his ministry. So this was really Jesus beginning his ministry. And it says he was doing that, empowered by the Spirit. So as he began to work in his ministry, all the things that he did, the teaching, the signs and everything else, he was doing that through the power of the Spirit.
Then if somebody would read the Hebrews 9, 14 passage, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
[00:30:06] Speaker D: eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
[00:30:14] Speaker B: Alright, so this is talking about Jesus offering himself.
So he's talking about going to the cross, offering self as a sacrifice.
But it says that he did that through the Spirit. He offered himself. I think the Spirit was strengthening him as he was doing that work and as he was going to the cross. I believe that's the meaning of this passage, is that the Spirit was providing strength to him to enable him to do this difficult task that he was given.
All right. So the Spirit also provided healing and restoration.
Romans 8:11.
It was the Spirit of God that gave life to Jesus, that resurrected him from the dead. Which makes sense because the main characteristic of the Spirit is he's the life giver.
That's his purpose.
That is what he does.
So the fact that at Jesus death, the Spirit is the one that resurrected, that gave Jesus life again makes sense. But it's also important to say, well, if he did that for Christ, he's also going to do that for us as well and gives us hope. There's other passages as well.
We won't look at all these for time, but also wanted to mention the. The Luke 10:21 passage talking about the Spirit giving blessing and joy to Christ.
Somebody would read that in that hour.
[00:31:54] Speaker D: Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for. So it seemed good in your sight.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And the key part of that is he's rejoicing in the Spirit. I just thought that was really interesting, that passage talking about Jesus rejoicing in the Spirit. But I think it's the idea of the Spirit providing blessing and providing joy, which is part of that theme of what the Spirit does in anointing.
All right, Thoughts on any of that? Maybe not particularly related to any of these things, but just a general idea that, at least for me, didn't pay attention. When I'm reading the Scriptures about what the Spirit is doing, we think of it as God doing it, but we don't.
You don't necessarily think of how.
And in a lot of instances, it's through the Spirit.
Yeah, it's kind of amazing, isn't it?
That's definitely. As I prepared for this class. It's definitely one of the things that really just jumped out to me is how much the Spirit is doing in Scripture and throughout Scripture.
It's easy to overlook. Like you said, it's passage you may have read a hundred times, and then you read it one more time with a little different perspective or a little bit of thought in your mind. You're like, oh, I didn't even notice. That before.
Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
The Spirit is, throughout Scripture, actively at work.
And yet sometimes we think, what's God?
And we've got to remember the Spirit is God. So when the Spirit's doing something, that is God doing something.
And whether it's the Spirit or whether it's the Father, whether it's the Son, probably isn't as important as we make it out to be. Sometimes it's all God doing things and it's all God working to save, working to redeem.
Yeah, I think that's a great point.
Alright, so just as the Spirit anointed Christ, the Spirit anoints all Christians.
There's a lot we could say about that, a lot of verses on here. And we've got about five minutes to do that. So we'll go through that.
Go through some of that here.
I wanted to look at the first John. We'll start with the first John 2:20, 27 passage.
And I know I have a lot on this chart, but there's a lot we'll cover over here.
First John 2:20, 20:27 says, but you have been anointed by the Holy One and you all have knowledge. I write to you not because you do not know the truth, but because you knew it.
And because no lie is of the truth.
Sorry, because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ, this is the Antichrist. He who denies the Father and the Son.
No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you.
If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will be able to.
Then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us. Eternal life.
I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you receive from him abides in you. And you have no need that anyone should teach you.
But as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie, just as it has been taught you abide in Him.
Alright, a lot in there. We won't try to cover all of it.
But the point is this idea of anointing, and that word anointing is one of those words we looked at earlier. It's the word chrisma, one of those derivations of that.
And the idea is again the oil, the oil being the Spirit. So. So our Anointing that comes from the spirit.
In verse 27 he said that our anointing and the word anointing is literally oil.
We translate it anointing, but the word is literally oil.
So we could read it as oil.
But the oil that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. So he's talking about the Spirit. When he's talking about the oil, he's talking about the Spirit, the One that anointed us, but also the One that abides in us and dwells in us.
So that's the idea presented here in this passage in First John.
I also want to look at the Second Corinthians passage.
Second Corinthians 1:21 22 says, it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us and who has also put his seal on us and given us His Spirit in our hearts is a guarantee. So again, the same idea of God anointing us. And we talked earlier about the seal and the guarantee, but this same idea of the Spirit being the one that does that.
There's also some passages that talk about, we talked about prophets and priests and kings being anointed, and Jesus was prophet, priest and king. He was the fulfillment of all those things.
But there's also scriptures that talk about us being prophets and priests and kings as well.
And in particular 1 Peter 2, and we'll look at probably just verse 9 for time here.
First Peter 2, 9 says, but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood. So royal being that idea of king and priesthood, obviously the priests, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness.
So we're royal, we're priests, and we're also been given the job of proclaiming. So the idea of prophesying, prophesying, telling.
So we have all three of those responsibilities, not in the same way that Christ is those, but in the way that we're supposed to model ourselves after Him. We've also been given those tasks.
That's part of what it means to be anointed by the Spirit, is that we have those responsibilities as we follow Christ.
Alright, we got enough time I think maybe to hit a couple of these.
So the Spirit, the things that the Spirit does and anointing he does for us as well.
Let's look at, let's maybe look at this one. If somebody will read 1st Corinthians 12, 4, 7.
Alright, so this is the idea of the Spirit empowering us or giving us gifts. And we're going to talk about that in a couple of weeks, I think is when we get to that. But we're going to definitely dive into that kind of getting off of this verse.
All right. So we're going to have to end it there. We're out of time, but we will pick up next week. Thank you.
