Episode 120: The Holy Spirit Makes us Holy

JOEL 2 GENERATION PODCAST

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; 18 even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

EXPLOSION OF REVELATION!!!

Questions – What did you get? Tongues of fire? Do you want MORE?

A.W. TOZER Quote - "Whatever else the Holy Spirit does in your life, minimally He makes us holy"

A NEW ASPECT of the Day of PENTECOST

1. A REVERSAL of the Genesis 6 perversion – Holy Spirit comes

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 flood

Two Views about WHO the “Sons of God” were:

1. Angels – Who? 2nd Temple Judaism, the Apostles, Early Church (till 5th century)
2. Humans – Who? (called the “Sethite View”) - 1st suggested by Julius Africanus (3rd Century), Augustine (popularized in the 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 6:1-4

1. The Apostle Peter (2 Peter 2:4-5)
2. 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.

1. Clement of Rome (1st century, the Apostle Peter’s Disciple)
2. Justin Martyr (2nd century)
3. Irenaeus (2nd century)
4. Clement of Alexandria (late 2nd/early 3rd century)
5. Tertullian (late 2nd/early 3rd century – gave us the word “Trinity”)
6. Ambrose (4th century)
7. Lactantius (4th century, tutor of Emperor Constantine)

C. Well-known Evangelicals who affirm w/ the Early Church that the Sons of God were angels.

1. A.W. Pink – Reformed theologian
2. Donald Grey Barnhouse – Presbyterian theologian, pastor
3. Henry Morris – author of The Genesis Flood, founder of CRI (Creation Research Institute)
4. Merril F. Unger – Dallas Theological Seminary professor, theologian
5. Arnold Fruchtenbaum – Messianic leader, Dallas Theological Seminary-trained
6. Hal Lindsey – author of “The Late Great Planet Earth
7. John MacArthur
8. Pastor Chuck Smith – Calvary Chapel
9. Dr. Michael Heiser – OT scholar, Ancient Near East language scholar
10. Chuck Missler – Bible teacher

2 Peter 2:4-5 - 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into tartarus (the abyss) and committed them to chainsof gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Jude 1:6-24

6 And the angels who did not stay/keep in their proper domain, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” 10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” 19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
But some outraged both the constitution of their nature and the oversight entrusted to them. ...These angels fell into impure love of virgins and were subjugated by the flesh. ...Those who are called giants were begotten from these lovers of virgins. Athenagoras (AD175)

Angels sinned and revolted from God. Justin Martyr (AD160)

The angels transgressed this appointment and were captivated by love of women. And they begat children [nephilim/giants], who are those who are called demons. Justin Martyr (AD160)

The angels who had obtained the superior rank, having sunk into pleasures, told to the women the secrets that had come to their knowledge. In contrast, the rest of the angels concealed them, or rather, reserved them for the coming of the Lord. Clement of Alexandria (AD195)

Those angels who invented them [jewelry, etc.] are assigned under condemnation to the penalty of death. They are the same angels who rushed from heaven on the daughters of men. ...If it is true, they laid bare the operations of metallurgy, divulged the natural properties of herbs, promulgated the powers of enchantments, and traced out every curiosity, even to the interpreta­tion of the stars. They conferred appropriately—and as it were, peculiarly—upon women that instrumental means of womanly ostentation: the radiances of jewels,...the dyes of orchil with which wools are dyed, and that black powder itself with which the eyelids and eyelashes are made prominent. Tertullian (AD 198)

If it is on account of the angels—those whom we read of as having fallen from God and from heaven because of lusting after females—we can presume that such angels yearned after bodies that were already defiled and were relics of human lust. Tertullian (AD207)

Extent of corruption?

• Watchers “taught” mankind things – “secrets of heaven” (see Tertullian below)

• Lust/perversion –taken to a new level

• Technology – misused

• Quote: “We were sinners because of the Fall of Adam, but the Fallen Watchers taught mankind to be even better sinners” – Heiser

• Gen 6:1-4 PRECEDES the Flood

• Watchers judged – imprisoned in the abyss (tartarus)

Acts 2:37-38 - “Brothers, what shall we do?” 38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:40 - “Save yourselves from this perverse generation.”

1) crooked, curved 2a) perverse, wicked

Matthew 5:20 - For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

I Peter 1:16 – For it is written, “Be holy even as I am holy”

Ephesian 5:3 - But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people

I Corinthians 6:9-20 (3 out of 9 in the list!)

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So, glorify God in your body.