Episode 122: The Holy Spirit Makes us HOLY - A Message to history's MOST DEFILED Generation!

JOEL 2 GENERATION PODCAST

THE HOLY SPIRIT MAKES US HOLY – A MESSAGE TO HISTORY’S MOST DEFILED GENERATION

James 1:26-27 – If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. 27 – Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

PURPOSE OF PENTECOST?

1. 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.”

2. REVELATION - Acts 2:17-18 -17 “‘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.

3. HOLINESS - Acts 2:37-38, 40 - “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…“Save yourselves from this perverse/wicked generation.”

GOAL = A NEW VISION for Holiness and the Holy Spirit’s work in our lives

A.W. Tozer – Holy Spirit makes us holy

Name? Power Spirit?? NO – The HOLY SPIRIT

Porn Stats

1978 vs. 1985 – 5% vs. 55% Viewed hardcore porn video / 2022??

John Bevere – 2/3 of men IN CHURCH are watching porn regularly
1/3 of women

50% of the pastors

POWERLESS – Kryptonite – Defiled Church

Billy Graham – “If we lose THIS BATTLE, we lose the battle of the Christian life”

20th Century = Explosion of Perversion – the occult (sex magick), film, video, the internet, (technology), abortion, homosexuality, human trafficking, pedophilia, freedom=bondage

Matthew 27:37 - 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Sinfulness Stage 1 - Genesis 3 – Fall of Adam/Eve (Satan)

Sinfulness Stage 2 - Genesis 6 – Fall of the Watchers – effect?? Many

EFFECTS - Sexual perversion/lust/gross immorality/homosexuality/beastiality/abortion

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

Genesis 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.

Two Views about WHO the “Sons of God” were:
1. Angels – Who? 2nd Temple Judaism, the Apostles, Early Church

2. Humans – Who? (called the “Sethite View”) - 1st suggested by Julius Africanus (3rd Century), Augustine (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 - 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into tartarus (the abyss) and committed/delivered them to chains of 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;
2. The Apostle Jude (Jesus’ brother) - Jude 1:6-7 - 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.
   

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) - 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. (AD160)
3. Athenagoras (2nd century) 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. (AD175)
4. Irenaeus (2nd century)
5. Clement of Alexandria - 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. (late 2nd/early 3rd century)
6. Tertullian - 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. (late 2nd/early 3rd cent. – gave us the word “Trinity”)
7. Ambrose (4th century)
8. Lactantius (4th century, tutor of Emperor Constantine)

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

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

I Corinthians 6:9-13, 18-20 (3 out of 9 in the list!)

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteouswill 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…. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sina 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.
WHAT SHALL WE NOW DO? (Acts 2:37)

1. AGREE w/ God’s assessment = Defiled
Matthew 24:9-13 - 9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 12 And because lawlessness (wickedness/iniquity) will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Sin will be rampant everywhere/multiplication of wickedness/abundance of evil
2. SIN = SLAVERY (John 8:34 – everyone who sins…) – Message of FREEDOM!!
3. Reject False Grace teaching (Titus 2:11-12 – Grace teaches us to turn from ungodliness and sinful pleasures/worldly lusts)
Titus 2:11-12, 14 – “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 – TEACHING US TO RENOUNCE UNGODLINESS and WORLDLY PASSIONS (immoral desires/lusts), and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age...14 – who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people…”
4. REPENT - Acts 2:38, 40 – REPENT, SAVE YOURSELVES from perverse generation
5. Get rid of whatever is needed / No Moderation (“Porn on Tuesdays”)
Matthew 5:30 – “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.”
6. Confess – James 5:16 – To each other, MAY be healed
7. FLEE - 1 Cor 6:18 (Tolerate?)
8. Believe holiness is possible (1 Pet 1:16 – “Be holy…”)
I Peter 1:15-16 – “but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 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
9. Get the Holy Spirit working more in your life (“eagerly pursue…”) for HOLINESS