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Seven Spirits of God I Fred R Spirit Of God, Man, 7 Spirits #1 Spirit of God, Spirit of Man Seven Spirits of God I Fred R. Coulter Today we’re going to study about the Spirit of the universe and He uses Christ as the of God and the spirit of man, and we will also cover Administrator to do that (Heb. 1) by the very ‘word the seven spirits of God: of His power,’ and He does it by His spiritual power and force. There is a far greater connection with • What are they? spirit, not being the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is • How do they work? separate because that is a begettal from God the Father that He puts in us, but it is spiritual power The Bible has an awful lot to say about the that God uses. We also know that Jesus told Phillip, Spirit, so this is not going to be going right down the when Phillip said, ‘show us the Father.’ What was line with what the Holy Spirit is and so forth. Let’s Jesus’ answer? ‘If you have seen Me, you have seen start out with the basic principle of why we need the the Father’—verifying that God is a person and that Spirit of God, and this also tells us what God is and God has form and being, and we’ll see this again how we approach Him, and so forth. here a little later. John 4:23 tells us an awful lot. A lot of Let’s understand something about life, about people, just to give you an example, think this way: creation, about God, all contained in these first four ‘If I feel good about it and it works for me, verses of the Gospel of John. That’s why we need to therefore, God has to accept it.’ or ‘that God does understand that the very first thing that people need accept it.’ Well, that’s not true! to do in coming to understand God is to really get John 4:23: “But the hour is coming, and now serious about it and prove the things from the Bible. is, when the true worshipers…” I want to emphasize Oh, a lot of people like to have God as a hip-pocket the true because: helper like a rabbit’s foot, or to command God to come and rescue them when they are in trouble and • there are false worshipers things like this. But that’s not what the Bible reveals. • there are false brethren God and His creation is intimately involved in it and • there are false apostles upholds and supports it by the power of His Spirit. • there are false religionists That’s how God does everything and as we will see we are far more connected in that process than we They are the majority in the world and that’s just the have ever understood. All of creation, all of way that it is, because God said that there would be humanity is far more involved in that process of few. Jesus also said that when He returns, would He God, because He’s the One Who set it in order and find faith in the earth? made it possible. “…the true worshipers shall worship the 1-John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Father in Spirit and in Truth...” (v 23). No one is Word… [before the beginning was] …was the going to fool God, no one is going to come with the Word…” This shows the preexistence of Christ. The wrong attitude, no one is going to come contrary to Word is Christ personified. He is the Word of God; the Word of God and worship God. All of those He spoke the Word of God, New Testament and Old things are vain, but what this tells us is: Testament. “…for the Father is indeed seeking those “…and the Word was with God, and the who worship Him in this manner” (v 23). Keep in Word was God” (v 1). As a matter of fact, for all of mind seeking those—the Father is seeking. How those who wonder if Jesus was God before He came does He seek? We’ll answer that question later. in the flesh, if you can’t understand it from v 1 I can’t help you. Verse 24: “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and in Truth.” I have studied in great detail every one, He says it twice! The world believes that since God nearly every one, of the refutations that Jesus was is spirit—Jer. 23 says that ‘God fills’—does He not God before He became flesh come from Jewish fill heaven and earth? They think that God is just a scholars who want to reduce Jesus to a man, a big energy source out there, that He’s not a person Prophet or a wisdom Teacher. Since the Word is Who has form and shape, and that’s what they call Christ you could also say, ‘In the beginning was the ‘transcendent’ God. Christ and Christ was with God and Christ was The Bible shows that God is a person, and God.’ Note: He is in one place, and that’s on His throne in • 1-Tim. 3:16, that He was God ‘manifested heaven above. He controls and upholds the vastness 080605 1 Spirit Of God, Man, 7 Spirits #1 in the flesh’ do it. • Philip. 2:5-9, that He ‘divested Himself’ This is what we need to understand, and and was made in the form of man today the insanity is that you cannot even get Verse 2: “He was in the beginning with God. Intelligent Design—the theory of it—into public All things came into being through Him… [so schools to be taught alongside the theory of much for evolution] …and not even one thing was evolution. They say that you cannot have faith created that came into being without Him” (vs 2-3). intermixed with science. Listen, the biggest false So, when scientists use everything that God faith in the world is belief in evolution because it has already created—if they do cloning, if they do never happened, and they call that science. in-vitro fertilization and so forth—that is only • Who is more insane? because of what God has first done—which tells The truth is, in the light of God’s Word, it is true you that men cannot do anything without Jesus insanity! Insanity is that you do not recognize and Christ whether he believes in Him or not! It’s function in reality! impossible, because God gave life to all human beings! We’re going to see this in a unique creation • Is that not true? • Isn’t that what insanity is? Yes! that is functioning through a special spirit that God has given man. We need to understand that. You may not be demon possessed or Satan- Titus 1 is really something! When we read influenced but, if you believe in evolution you this we’re going to see how much you miss when believe in an insane, impossible, incalcitrant, you don’t read the first couple of verses of the absolutely blind faith in insanity. That’s what introduction. evolution is. If some evolutionist hears this and doesn’t like it, then it’s up to you to disprove it. And Titus 1:1: “Paul, a servant of God and an I tell you what, do not go out on the top of a apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of mountain someday and shake your fist at God, God’s elect and the knowledge of the Truth that is because He will answer you, because He knows according to Godliness; in the hope of eternal life, what you do. He made us in such a way that He can which God Who cannot lie promised before the ages always know what we do. Now that’s amazing! of time” (vs 1-2). Isn’t that amazing? Isaiah 40:21—after he compared to an idol: Revelation 13:8—Christ was “…the Lamb “Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it slain from [before] the foundation of the world not been told you from the beginning? Have you not [earth].” showing that the whole plan of God was all understood from the foundations of the earth? It is planned out, all set to go. God does not do things by He Who sits above the circle of the earth…” (vs 21- happenstance; that God does not do things by 22). So, they knew it was round, they never believed evolution, God does it by design and deliberation it was flat. and He’s got a fantastic plan of which we are the key and focal point! “…and its people are like grasshoppers; it is He Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain…” We’re going to see, and we have read this (v 22). God did it: many times, but we need to emphasize things a little differently sometimes so we can understand it • through His Word because this is important. This ties directly in with • through His power John 1 • through His Spirit Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God…” The “…and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in; Who Hebrew there is ‘Elohim’—plural, the ‘I AM’—and brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of we know from John 1:1-2 that Christ and the Father the earth as vanity….
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