The Glorious Disturbance - Understanding And Receiving The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit

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2.Ibid., 76. He says the Greek word morphe [form) occurs only here and in Mark 16:12 where Jesus (in resurrected body) was "manifested in another form" unto two ofthe disciples. 3.John Rea, The Holy Spirit in the Bible: All the Major Passages About the Spirit {Lake Mary, Fla.: Creation House, 1990), 136. 4. "Son ofMan" was a favorite expressionofJesus for describing Himself; it veiled His divine glory by emphasizingHis humanity and relationship to the human race.The termoccurs 32 times inMatthew, 15 times in Mark, 26 times in Luke and 12 times in John. All (but two) occasions are spoken by Jesus Himself The first three gospels do not record that Jesus referred to Himselfas "the Son ofGod." There were also episodes that showed Jesus to be the divine Son ofGod.Some examples: forgiving sin,transfiguration, three-time affirmation ofthe Father'svoice,descriptions ofHisSecondComing,the great "1 AM" statements (such as whenHe calledPeter to walk on water or when the guards came to take Him in Gethsemane and they fell back as He declared Himselfto be "1 AM"), declarations of"Truth" and ''Amen," upgraded interpretation ofScripture, tasting death for all and recognition by demons. 5.Kaari Ward, ed.,jesus andHis Times (Pleasantville, N.Y: Reader's DigestAssociation,Inc., 1990), 31. "By the first century A.D., about a million Jews were living in Egypt.They were concentrated in Alexandria but were also found in smaller communities throughout E gy pt," 30. 6. "In secular Gk. tekton means a craftsman or builder in wood, srone or metal .. . [the word) appears only in the identification ofJesus by the people ofNazareth as 'the carpenter' (Mk. 6:3), 'the carpenter's son' (Matt.13:55).Though 'carpenter' is the common rendering here, tekton could equally mean 'mason' or 'smith' {as indeed some ofthe Fathers took it); or it could mean that Joseph and Jesus were builders, so that both carpentry and masonry would have been among their skills." J.I. Packer, "Tekton, "in The New International Dictionary ofNew Testament Theology, vol. 1, ed. Colin Brown (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975), 279. 7.Alfred Edersheim, The Lift and Times ofJesus the Messiah, vol.1 {Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1950), 227. 8. I. Howard Marshall, "The Gospel ofLuke: A Commentary on the GreekText," in New Inter national Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), 126. 9. Ward,Jesus, 123. 10. W Phillip Keller, Rabboni . .. which is to say, Master (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H.Revell Co., 1977), 72-73. 11. J.W Shepard, The Christ ofthe Gospels (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1939), 53. 12.Alfred Plummer, "The GospelAccording to St. Luke," in The International Critical Commentary (1896; reprint, Edinburgh: T &T. Clark, 1951), 76. 13. A.T. Robertson, WordPictures in the New Testament: Luke, vol.2 {Nashville: Broadman Press, 1930), 33. 14. J. W Doeve, quoted by Walter L. Liefeld, The Expositor's Bible Commentary, vol.8 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984), 852. 15.Plummer, "St. Luke," 77. 16. Raymond E. Brown, The Birth ofthe Messiah: A Commentary on the InfancyNarratives in the Gospels ofMatthew andLuke (New York: Doubleday, 1993), 490. 17.Shepard, Christ, 55. 18. Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 2:9-11, 14-17; 10:5-7; 1Timothy 3:16. 19. NLT: "was shown to be righteous"; CEV: "the Spirit proved that He ( Jesus) pleased God"; MES SAGE: "proved right by the invisible Spirit." 20.Brown, Birth, 495.He suggests: "The growth in favor may be related to the obedience that Jesus, the Son ofGod, shows his parents at Nazareth.The son who is obedient and keeps the commandments is assured in Prov 3:1-14: 'You will find favor . . . . in the sight ofGod and men."' 21. Fulton J. Sheen, Lift ofChrist(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958), 49.