I love how old/new covenant/temple connections all come together once those old rituals are explained. And it really brings the rest of Old Testament to life as well.
Thank you for your essay well researched. I wonder if another symbol could help explain something. It is said that the holy spirit comes before after and during baptism. This could be true. Some having thought they were saved but lacked the holy spirit this is in the new testament. They then received the holy spirit from Peter I think. By laying on the hands. I have seen some cry for God get baptized then leave. Sometimes this is witnessed in the large Billy Graham type tent meetings. So, Noah let out a raven. It didn't come back. Was it for the yummy decaying flesh that ravens eat. Perhaps, but the lord wanted us to know that a dove was let out and came back there was nothing for it to land. In the new testament the dove is a symbol of the holy ghost. Could it be that when there is still decaying flesh, an un submitted will some unresolved repentance, that the holy spirit cannot land, cannot rest in us until this resolution is completed. Im not suggesting any great work. But notice Jesus says that if you bring your offering and then remember a brother has a charge against you. What is a charge? It would be not an offense. But, rather, you have a debt to him, you have wronged him, that's a charge. It is a crime that you have done to your brother. This is freshly, you thinking you can be right with God without settlement with your brother. No the holy spirit cannot lay on you nor God except your gift until this has been settled. Sorrow is for your salvation not the on who has the charge against you. So I think that there are times we must do something not as a work, but as evidence of a clean hear that the holy spirit can no rest on a pure body, that was cleansed by Christ's work on the cross.
Thank you for the comment. Yes, we will do and perform many things as a result of a heart born anew. But we do not contribute to the work of atonement by Christ, right?
If, to your point, we see some advantages to being baptized, or want to gain fame by the gift of the holy spirit like Simon trying to pay for it, then yes, your analogy to the rotten flesh is accurate. That is a selfish view, and will have no divine approval or salvation.
I love how old/new covenant/temple connections all come together once those old rituals are explained. And it really brings the rest of Old Testament to life as well.
“Great and marvelous are your deeds,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations. (Revelation 15:3, NIV)
Thank you for your essay well researched. I wonder if another symbol could help explain something. It is said that the holy spirit comes before after and during baptism. This could be true. Some having thought they were saved but lacked the holy spirit this is in the new testament. They then received the holy spirit from Peter I think. By laying on the hands. I have seen some cry for God get baptized then leave. Sometimes this is witnessed in the large Billy Graham type tent meetings. So, Noah let out a raven. It didn't come back. Was it for the yummy decaying flesh that ravens eat. Perhaps, but the lord wanted us to know that a dove was let out and came back there was nothing for it to land. In the new testament the dove is a symbol of the holy ghost. Could it be that when there is still decaying flesh, an un submitted will some unresolved repentance, that the holy spirit cannot land, cannot rest in us until this resolution is completed. Im not suggesting any great work. But notice Jesus says that if you bring your offering and then remember a brother has a charge against you. What is a charge? It would be not an offense. But, rather, you have a debt to him, you have wronged him, that's a charge. It is a crime that you have done to your brother. This is freshly, you thinking you can be right with God without settlement with your brother. No the holy spirit cannot lay on you nor God except your gift until this has been settled. Sorrow is for your salvation not the on who has the charge against you. So I think that there are times we must do something not as a work, but as evidence of a clean hear that the holy spirit can no rest on a pure body, that was cleansed by Christ's work on the cross.
Thank you for the comment. Yes, we will do and perform many things as a result of a heart born anew. But we do not contribute to the work of atonement by Christ, right?
If, to your point, we see some advantages to being baptized, or want to gain fame by the gift of the holy spirit like Simon trying to pay for it, then yes, your analogy to the rotten flesh is accurate. That is a selfish view, and will have no divine approval or salvation.