"Now the Word of God says that we are to entertain this as a hope. In the New Testament when the Holy Spirit uses the word “hope” – He doesn’t use it in the sense of the word “wish for”. Hope in the New Testament is that which God has declared will be and that toward which we move with certainty".
Dr Ern Baxter - "Crisis Beginning" - ("Where Are We Going" series) - Dales Bible Week 1976 - audiotape 1.
"We are so decorous, we are so controlled, we do everything with such decency and order that there is no life, no power, no warmth and it isn't New Testament Christianity! That's why the world is outside!".
Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Quenching The Spirit (1)" - Martyn Lloyd-Jones Recording Trust CD.
"Believers can keep what is commanded only through the work of the Spirit. We can’t say, ‘I’m under grace and don’t need commands and exhortations’. The Spirit-filled life isn’t quenched by commands; it’s compatible with them. There will come a time when all that defiles – the world, the flesh and the devil – will be destroyed. Then there will be no need for exhortation. But until perfection comes we’ll need it and mustn’t fear it or view it as legalism".
Terry Virgo - "Perfection – not yet" - Terry Virgo's Blog - October 28th, 2008.
"Exhortations and appeals always follow on from declarations of truth about our new identity in Christ. We respond wholeheartedly to them because of what God has done in us by his Spirit. Evidently Paul didn’t believe that exhorting believers contradicted the reality of the Spirit in their lives or put them back under law".
Terry Virgo - "Perfection – not yet" - Terry Virgo's Blog - October 28th, 2008.
"When the Spirit comes, people speak forth God's Word. When Mary visited Elizabeth, the latter was suddenly filled with the Spirit and spoke loudly an oracle from God ... under the inspiration of the Spirit Elizabeth recognised that Mary was carrying the Lord in her womb and that Mary was the object of the Lord's special favour".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p443).
"All that God has for us is to be experienced but it will only become a reality when we mix what we hear with faith. In other words it is possible to hear a lot of things but not experience them because when we hear them - we are not combining them with faith in our hearts".
Dave Holden - "Mixing It With Faith" - Newfrontiers Europe Conference - 10th May 2008.
"Such healing and exorcisms occured because "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power" (Acts 10:38). We note again the close association of the Spirit and power, as in Luke 4:14. The effectiveness of Jesus' ministry, His miracles and healings flowed not from Himself but from the power of the Spirit".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p442).
"When human beings receive the baptism of the Spirit, a new reality will intervene. Jesus will immerse them with the Spirit so that the hearts of His people will be purified".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p439).
"The word "baptism" signifies a great immersion into the Spirit".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p431).
"The Spirit was given to Jesus to accomplish salvation not judgement".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p438).
"The descent of the Spirit then must signify Jesus' anointing for ministry. His public ministry will now commence and God clothed Him with the Spirit to empower Him to carry out His task. The Spirit descended on Him as a dove".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p437).
"Broadly speaking Jesus' relation to the Spirit can be designated as one of anointing in that the Spirit anointed Jesus for ministry".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p436).
"The coming of the Spirit is the hope of the Lord's people, for when the Spirit is sent, God's people will keep His law and reside in the land (Ezekiel 39:29)".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p431).
"The Spirit is the eschatological sign that the new age has arrived, that the new creation has become a reality".
Thomas R Schreiner - "New Testament Theology - Magnifying God in Christ" - Apollos, Nottingham (2008) - (p431).
"One of the convictions on my life is to see the restoration of New Testament Christianity to the Church. The Church has lost the supernatural - it's like a religious club trying to conscript members on the basis of it's membership and it's membership is a code of morality but God is wanting to raise up churches to be restorers and world changers and world impacters affecting society!".
Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 3" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 24th September 2006.
"The New Testament is God's love letter to you and is perfumed with His Presence".
Rob Rufus - "Invading the Impossible - Part 14" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 20th April 2008.
"The New Testament is a love letter from Jesus. The New Testament is not a prescription on how you should live; it is a description of what happens to people when the Spirit of God fills their lives.
If you try and live up to the New Testament as a prescription and not a description then you are going to be more under bondage than if you just lived under the old covenant. They only had 10 laws. But if you try and make the New Testament something you've got to live up to as a prescription you're finished, you're absolutely finished. And when the New Testament is being preached as a prescription of how we should live... - no it's not a prescription, it's a description of the result, the fruit, of not sowing to the flesh but sowing to the Spirit.
And when you walk in the Spirit and live in the Spirit you won't satisfy the desire of human effort, the flesh. You will come into rest and you will manifest the fruit of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit."
Rob Rufus - "Pharisees and Legalists" - "Grace and Glory Conference" - Hong Kong, Wednesday 24th October 2007.
