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Is the Holy Spirit's "coming upon" a person in the OT similar to the "indwelling" of the NT?

Is the Spirits "coming upon" a person similar to New Testament truth?

The New Testament doesnt speak of the Spirits coming on believers. The Authorized Version translates three different Old Testament words to express that the Spirit "came upon" individuals. One of the words means simply that the Spirit was with individuals: Baalam (Numbers 24:2);" TARGET="_blank">Numbers 24:2); Othniel (Judges 3:10);" TARGET="_blank">Judges 3:10); Jephthah (Judges 11:29);" TARGET="_blank">Judges 11:29); Azariah (2 Chronicles 15:1);" TARGET="_blank">2 Chronicles 15:1); Jahaziel (2 Chronicles 20:14);" TARGET="_blank">2 Chronicles 20:14); Sauls messengers (1 Samuel 19:20)." TARGET="_blank">1 Samuel 19:20). In the case of Gideon (Judges 6:34)," TARGET="_blank">Judges 6:34), Amasai (1 Chronicles 12:18)," TARGET="_blank">1 Chronicles 12:18), and Zechariah (2 Chronicles 24:20)," TARGET="_blank">2 Chronicles 24:20), the Spirit "clothed Himself" with these individuals. The third word means "rushed" on them and is translated "came mightily," as with Samson (Judges 14:6, 19; 15:14)," TARGET="_blank">Judges 14:6, 19; 15:14), Saul (1 Samuel 10:6, 10; 11:6)," TARGET="_blank">1 Samuel 10:6, 10; 11:6), and David (1 Samuel 16:13)." TARGET="_blank">1 Samuel 16:13). The fact that the Spirit "came upon" at least two unbelievers, Baalam and Saul, is instructive.

Although several Old Testament believers are noted as "filled with the Spirit" (Ezekiel, Ezekiel 11:5" TARGET="_blank">Ezekiel 11:5 and Bezaleel, Exodus 31:3; 35:31)" TARGET="_blank">Exodus 31:3; 35:31) or as one "in whom is the Spirit" (Joseph, Genesis 41:38" TARGET="_blank">Genesis 41:38 and Joshua, Numbers 27:18;" TARGET="_blank">Numbers 27:18; Deuteronomy 34:9)," TARGET="_blank">Deuteronomy 34:9), the Spirits permanent residence in believers (John 14:17)" TARGET="_blank">John 14:17) is uniquely a New Testament truth. Because He resides within us, He takes control and enables us, filling us from within. The Old Testament views Him as coming from outside individuals - even unbelievers - to use them for His purpose.

D. Oliver
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How can I raise an honest child?

What can a parent do to cultivate honesty in a child?

The first Principle in the development of any moral virtue is the example of the parent. Manoah's wife must be a Nazarite if she is to have a Nazarite son (Judges 13)." TARGET="_blank">Judges 13). Be honest in all your dealings, even with your children.

Praising good role models, especially within the assembly, is vital. Hold up their virtues, especially if it has cost them. Take every opportunity to teach from the Word of God the value of honesty and morals. "Sharpen by repetition" is the expression of Deuteronomy 6:6-9." TARGET="_blank">Deuteronomy 6:6-9. Do not sermonize. The Word of God is to control the home, mold our behavior, and be the theme of our family discussions.

Look for opportunities. Use current events to help children appreciate the long range effects of sin and the effects of any behavior being universalized. When evil seems to triumph, have the child consider what would happen if everyone behaved in this manner. Prayer, patience and discipline are vital. Praise honesty but don't "reward" it with material gifts.

A. Higgins

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Is it possible for a brother whose home is in disorder to be an elder?

Is it possible for a brother whose home is in disorder to be an elder?

No. "If a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God" (1 Timothy 3:5)" TARGET="_blank">1 Timothy 3:5)? The answer appears to be straightforward, but applying this requires spiritual wisdom. Maturing children bear responsibility for their own choices. Their wrong choices may or may not reflect the failure of their father to properly lead, care for, give attention to, or protect (meanings of "rule") them. Spiritual believers will seek help from God to graciously decide this without favoritism, self-interest, or bias.

The case of a brother separated from his wife and family may be clearer. Without putting an unfair burden on a brother in this heart-rending and difficult situation, the Bible teaches that his leadership both as husband and father places on him the responsibility for right relationships with his wife and children. Despite severe difficulties, this responsibility cannot be ignored. As in every circumstance of a Christian’s life, we regard our burdens as part of our Father’s "child-training" (Hebrews 12:4-11)." TARGET="_blank">Hebrews 12:4-11). For a brother to give up his responsibility in such a case will limit what his Father plans to accomplish in his spiritual development. The possibility exists that spiritually wise men who are close to the situation may sense that the grace of God has worked in this brother to a sufficiently remarkable degree and that he is qualified to be an overseer, but they must not make this decision lightly or hastily or out of pity or because of the likeable personality of the separated brother.

D. Oliver
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Does the Bible say a virgin would have a child or simply a young maid?

Is there any good ground for the change, advocated by some, of the word “virgin” In Isaiah 7:14" TARGET="_blank">Isaiah 7:14 to “young married woman” or “young woman of marriageable age”?

I believe “virgin” can be shown to be the true rendering, along several lines of proof. It is significant that those who propose this change are mostly of Modernist tendencies. Such men deny the miraculous in general, and would gladly get rid of the Virgin Birth of our Lord, and create a discrepancy between Matthew 1:23" TARGET="_blank">Matthew 1:23 and our verse. Gesenius, the well-known author of the Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, a man with a strong Modernistic bias, says, “The true meaning of ‘almãh, (“virgin” in Isaiah 1:14)" TARGET="_blank">Isaiah 1:14) is a girl of marriageable age, with no special reference to her unspotted virginity, which is expressed,” he affirms, “by another word, bethulãh”; but that moral purity is surely taken for granted, unless definite proof is alleged to the contrary. He adds, “almãh is used of a youthful spouse recently married”; but the only place he quotes to prove this is the verse in question, Isaiah7:14," TARGET="_blank">Isaiah7:14, where he wants to rule out the other meaning, and thus begs the question. He also quotes Canticles - Song of Solomon 6:8" TARGET="_blank">Song of Solomon 6:8 to prove his point, but as virgins (‘almöth) are distinguished there from wives and concubines, we may ask what they do stand for, if not for unmarried girls of unspotted character? Gesenius admits, moreover, that his word bethülah” is sometimes clearly used of a woman newly married, e.g., in Joel 1:8." TARGET="_blank">Joel 1:8. If that word had been used in Isaiah 7:14" TARGET="_blank">Isaiah 7:14 he might still have found a loop-hole, and have quoted Joel to show that even was not conclusive. God, however, has raised up to oppose Gesenius a man of equal scholarship, namely, Dr. S. P. Tregelles, of humble evangelical faith, and also of European reputation as a Hebraist. He translated Gesenius’ Lexicon from the German, and has added notes in brackets to neutralise, where necessary, the bias of the Lexicon. The following note by Dr. Tregelles occurs under “‘almãh”: “Gesenius’ object in view in seeking to undermine the opinion, which would assign the signification of virgin to this word, is clearly to raise a discrepancy between Isaiah 7:14" TARGET="_blank">Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23." TARGET="_blank">Matthew 1:23. Nothing which has been stated (i.e. by Gesenius earlier in the article) does, however, really give us any ground for assigning another meaning. . . . ‘Almãh in the Punic language signifies virgin.
The absolute authority of the New Testament is, however, quite sufficient to settle the question to a Christian.” We may refer here to the words of Matthew 1:23" TARGET="_blank">Matthew 1:23: “Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is by interpretation, God with us.” The Evangelist uses the ordinary Greek word, “parthenos,” for “virgin,” used too in Luke 1:27," TARGET="_blank">Luke 1:27, of the Virgin Mary. The Greek Version, the Septuagint, does sometimes translate the word “‘almãh” otherwise than by “parthenos,” but here in Isaiah 1:14," TARGET="_blank">Isaiah 1:14, where as Tregelles points out “it must to their minds have occasioned a difficulty,” they translate by the same word that we have in the Gospels. We may suppose these learned Jews—the translators of their own Scriptures—knew at least as much of Hebrew and Greek as Modernist scholars. Matthew does not appear to have quoted from the LXX, so is an independent witness. We do not, however, in any case, need even the authority of God-fearing scholars. This is a question in which “a wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err.” Let us look at the other occurrences of the word, “‘almãh,” in the Old Testament. It is used in Genesis 24:43" TARGET="_blank">Genesis 24:43 of Rebecca—the prospective wife of Isaac. The other word, “bethülãh,l occurs in verse 16, as we might say “virgin” or “maid” indiscriminately. Miriam, in Exodus 2:8," TARGET="_blank">Exodus 2:8, is called an “ ‘almãh,” and she was clearly not a young married woman, but a maiden. This suits, too, in Proverbs 30:19." TARGET="_blank">Proverbs 30:19. Canticles 1:3 seems to demand the sense of virgins, as also chap. 6. 8, as we have seen. Psalm 68:25" TARGET="_blank">Psalm 68:25 we may take as neutral; we cannot affirm the damsels to be.yirgins, though they might have been. Then there is another consideration. The name to be given to the child—”Emmanuel,” “God with us”—goes a long way to justify the translation of “virgin” by our Translators and Revisers, as such a birth demanded extraordinary concomitant circumstances. The context, too, favours the same conclusion. Jehovah had offered Ahaz any sign he might choose to ask—”in the depth or in the height” above, that is anything comparable with the drying up of the Red Sea or the Jordan, or on the other hand, with Joshua’s long day. When Ahaz refused, the prophet replied, “The Lord Himself shall give you a sign. “Behold a* (literally “the”) virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel.” Clearly God’s sign would be something extraordinarily arresting. How else would the Eternal Son of God enter into manhood except in the womb of a Virgin? The birth of a son to a young married woman, far from being an arresting sign, would not be a sign at all, but the most
natural of events.

* Heb.—”the Virgin,” that is the Virgin of prophecy, predestined one day to be the Virgin of history. When people talk of the Virgin to-day, they refer to the Mother of our Lord, and this expression is undoubtedly better.

W.H.

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Does Hebrews teach that salvation can be lost if a believer sins?

Some passages in Hebrews seem to indicate that believers can fall away. Please explain these passages.

Three passages typically raise this issue in the "warning passages" in Hebrews: 3:14 (with verse 6); 6:4-6; 10:26-27.

   1. "For we are made ("have become," Young's Literal Translation) partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end" (3:14). This is logically the same as saying that those who had not become partakers of Christ would not remain faithful to Him. What had happened in the past determined their future. Those who had been saved would demonstrate their salvation, by continuing steadfastly. Those Hebrews who at first claimed to accept Jesus as Messiah, but turned away from Him, were not actually partakers with Christ; they had never been saved.
   2. "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;" (6:4-6). Their involvement with the Spirit, the Word of God, and the miracles of the Messianic age ("powers of the world to come") links them with those who say, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works" (Matthew 7:22)" TARGET="_blank">Matthew 7:22)? The Lord's answer, "I never knew you" (verse 23), shows they were never saved. Sadly, although enlightened, these Hebrews also were never saved, but fell away, never to be brought to the place of repentance they once claimed.
   3. "For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation..." (10:26, 27). These are the "enlightened," having clear understanding of the truth about Christ. Turning from Him and returning to Judaism was sinning "willfully." Since Christ offered the "one sacrifice for sins" (verse 12), they were without a sacrifice for sins. In light of the prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem (Daniel 9:26;" TARGET="_blank">Daniel 9:26; Matthew 22:7; 24:2)," TARGET="_blank">Matthew 22:7; 24:2), to return to Judaism meant facing the fiery indignation which took place in 70 A.D. What tragedy awaited in those who thus spurned Christ, despised the privileges into which the blood of the new covenant brought them, and insulted the Spirit of grace!

Throughout the "warning passages," it is valuable to note the use of "we" for all the Hebrews who claimed a relationship with Christ, "you" for those whose fruits showed they were genuine believers, and "they" for the individuals who turned away, thus showing that they were never saved.

D. Oliver

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When someone dies, where does his spirit go?

Man is composed of spirit, soul, and body. When he dies where does the spirit go?

The spirit and the soul must not be confused, nor yet divided. They together form the spiritual part of man. When a believer falls asleep he only does so as regards his body. The spiritual part of him, with which the personality is really connected, goes at once to be with Christ (see a 2 Corinthians 5: 8)." TARGET="_blank">2 Corinthians 5: 8). “Absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” This, of course, cannot refer to the resurrection state, as then no believer will be absent from the body. Paul describes dying as departing to be with Christ which is far better (Philippians 1:23)." TARGET="_blank">Philippians 1:23). It is a most serious denial of God’s truth to describe the condition of the believer who dies, as that of sleep, except as regards his body.

W.H.

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What is the role of an elder in a local assembly?

What is the role of an elder in a local assembly?

Peter gives three responsibilities: "Feed the flock . . . taking the oversight . . . being ensamples" (1 Peter 5:1-3)." TARGET="_blank">1 Peter 5:1-3).

"Feeding" the flock translates the verb, to shepherd or tend. The Lord distinguishes between feeding and tending sheep in His post-resurrection interview with Peter (John 20:15-18)." TARGET="_blank">John 20:15-18). He gave Peter the responsibility of feeding His lambs (v 15) and His sheep (v 17). Using a different word, He also entrusted to Peter the shepherding of those sheep (v 16). Judging from Psalm 23," TARGET="_blank">Psalm 23, shepherding means providing for every (spiritual) need (v 1). The shepherd provides rest for the sheep in the "green pastures" of God’s Word (v 2, 1 Timothy 5:17" TARGET="_blank">1 Timothy 5:17b, 1 Thessalonians 5:13" TARGET="_blank">1 Thessalonians 5:13b). He refreshes (Psalm 23:2" TARGET="_blank">Psalm 23:2b, Philemon 1:7)" TARGET="_blank">Philemon 1:7) them "by still waters." He restores and leads them in right ways (Psa 23:3), reassures them by his presence (v 4), and fosters fellowship ("a table," v 5), a refuge from their enemies. He honors each one with respect (v 5b with Luke 7:46)" TARGET="_blank">Luke 7:46) and the abundance of his care causes God’s people to rejoice (Psa 23:5c).

"Taking the oversight" means he "diligently looks" (same word in Hebrews 12:15)" TARGET="_blank">Hebrews 12:15) at the sheep to know their condition (Pro 27:23" TARGET="_blank">Pro 27:23a), and he watches for enemies that will destroy the flock (Acts 20:29)." TARGET="_blank">Acts 20:29).

"Being examples" (ESV) bears a similar thought as the word "rule" (1 Timothy 5:17," TARGET="_blank">1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Th 5:12,)," TARGET="_blank">1 Th 5:12,), which means to be "set before" or leading so as to protect and care for others. So the elder is responsible to lead by example. His worthy walk will draw others to follow him and be guarded by righteousness (Proverbs 10:2" TARGET="_blank">Proverbs 10:2b).

The elder, then, is to feed, heed, and lead the flock.

D. Oliver
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What is a good way to talk to a friend about spiritual matters?

In what ways can I witness more effectively?

PERSONAL TESTIMONY: A good testimony is essential, before even opening your mouth: "Having your conversation (manner of life) honest ... that ... they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God..." (1 Peter 2:12)." TARGET="_blank">1 Peter 2:12). Your words will only have the weight your life has built into them. Honesty, integrity, consistency, and compassion are important characteristics to build into relationships with others. While "just living" as a silent witness is not enough, it is the background to effective witnessing.

KNOWLEDGE: Know what you are talking about, and talk about what you know. A young convert can be effective by staying simple, telling what the Lord has done for him. To be more effective, learn more of God's word (2 Timothy 2:15)." TARGET="_blank">2 Timothy 2:15). The Scriptures make a person .wise unto salvation."

WISDOM: It takes God to open the ear to receive the gospel. Don't turn someone off before you even have the opportunity to tell them the work of Christ. Since salvation is God's work, leave room for the Spirit to do His work. "He that winneth souls is wise" (Proverbs 11:30)." TARGET="_blank">Proverbs 11:30). Witnessing is not saving; in your zeal, don't go beyond what God has called us to do. "Salvation is of the Lord" (Jonah 2:9)." TARGET="_blank">Jonah 2:9).

Jon Procopio

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