Martin Luther says that anyone who seek God outside Jesus is the work of the devil. (Gerhard Ebeling, Luther (London: Collins, 1972), page 235.)
Likewise Christians have to seek the Holy Spirit in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we study The Holy Spirit even from the Old Testament, because the Old Testament provide some good insight to the Working of the Holy Spirit in mankind. That is to say the Holy Spirit was working even before the Pentecost in New Testament, as early as the Creation it self. At the same time we Christians come to know He is with God the Father and Son in the beginning, that He is God who is living everlasting to everlasting.
Genesis 1:2, "....the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
The Sword of the Spirit is with God even the mankind begin! And the Sword was given to man throughout the ages, according to the need of mankind, and until today the Holy Spirit is still guarding His Sword. He preserved the Word of God forever!
1 Samuel 10:6
The Spirit of the LORD will come upon you in power, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be changed into a different person.
And then in later time in the Old Testament, Joel 2:28-29, “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and their sons and their daughters shall prophesy, their old men shall dream dreams, their young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.”
The Holy Spirit is working even before the canon is completed!
These are a few critical questions we must asked ourselves in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Are CUV and other faithful translations a work from the Holy Spirit in mankind?
Does the Spirit being pour into the men and women who were reading the CUV and NIV?
Are you going to judge the out pouring of the Holy Spirit according to the Bible version a person read?
Does CUV becomes a trembling block to the our pouring of the Holy Spirit?
May the Lord forgive us.
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