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When the Holy Spirit Speaks To Women, Introduction

Hello and welcome to the Women's Weekly Bible Challenge! I'm Lisa Ann Spencer.

First of all, I encourage you to grab your Bible, not your phone.  The Bible is a sword and it is meant to be wielded as a weapon.  You cannot learn to use a sword only by watching videos or seeing pictures, that is until you take it in your own hands and begin using it.

Today’s topic is a continuation of a series that I began several months ago.  Here is the link to the Old Testament study called When God Speaks to Women.  You can find the sequel When Jesus Speaks toWomen here.  From here I am moving through Scripture into the book of Acts and the epistles of the Apostles to search for every occurrence of When the Holy Spirit Speaks To Women.

WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS TO WOMEN

Somehow this phrase is easily misunderstood.  It has a mystical, ethereal quality to it that may seem difficult to define.  However, we do not base our understanding on how things seem, but rather by what the word of God has to say about it.

So let’s be perfectly clear: We have the COMPLETE word of God and we do not need anything in addition to it for us to be established in the faith.

God exists in three Persons:

  • God the Father
  • God the Son
  • God the Holy Ghost, or Holy Sprit

All three are ONE!  They speak the same thing; they never contradict one another.  However, there is a distinction made in Scripture between them.  For example, in the Old Testament we have the title God, and the word LORD written in all capital letters to indicate Jehovah the Creator, who we now know as Jesus Christ, the Son.  The Holy Spirit also spoke in the Old Testament through the prophets.  Let’s consider a few verses of Scripture.

Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

📔 NOTE: Hebrews is a letter to the Hebrews, not to the Gentiles.  

We understand that God spoke to Israel in times past through the prophets; He also spoke directly to men when He appeared as the angel of the LORD, and He also communicated through dreams and visions.  

Jesus, God the Son, arrived on the scene in the flesh about 2,000 years ago and spoke to Israel.

📔 NOTE: In Jesus’s earthly ministry, He came to minister to ISRAEL. Romans 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:These promises included the promised King, land, and to be a great nation that would rule all nations on earth.

THE BOOK OF ACTS – THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

After His earthly  ministry was completed, Jesus returned to heaven and is presently seated at the right hand of God the Father.  We are told that Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, and we are told that God sent the Holy Spirit to Israel to speak to them in order to teach them.

John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

The Bible makes a distinction as to who is doing the speaking and teaching.

The Holy Spirit was poured out on ISRAEL, on the day of Pentecost.  The apostles spoke by the Holy Spirit and told Israel if they repented of killing their Messiah, God would send Jesus back to set up the kingdom that had been long prophesied.  However, due to their continued rejection of the risen Messiah as king, their kingdom was postponed.

The next big event was the salvation of Saul of Tarsus, who became the Apostle Paul, saved to take the grace of God to the Gentiles, the UNCIRCUMCISION, to the entire world.

Early Acts began with the Holy Spirit using Peter to speak to the nation of Israel, then it transitions to the Holy Spirit using Paul to speak to the Gentiles.

This study will focus on the Holy Spirit speaking to women through the apostles and prophets as recorded in the book of Acts and the epistles of the Apostles.

WHAT THE HOLY SPEAKING TO WOMEN IS NOT

"God spoke to me…"

"God said to me…"

"God told me…"

NO! He did not!

There is absolutely no need for a woman, or a man, to receive a special revelation from God today because we have a complete Bible.

Every person who has trusted in the gospel of the grace of God (by trusting in Jesus’s work on the cross, on His shed His blood when He bore the wrath of God to pay the penalty for the sins of the whole world), those persons are saved and are on equal footing in the Body of Christ in the sight of God.

God does not speak to one person above another; He speaks to us all in the completed word of God.

The Apostle Paul states plainly that he fulfilled, or completed, the word of God!

Colossians 1:25 whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

Paul’s second letter to Timothy was the LAST letter of the Bible ever written, which is why Paul says,

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

  • All scripture is given – We now have the complete word of God after Paul finished writing.
  • It is all we need for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness.
  • It is all we need to be PERFECT!

We do not need a person who claims that God has spoken to them extra-biblical words that we cannot know unless they tell us.  We have all we need in the completed Bible.  This is the only way God speaks to us today!

BEWARE!

2 Peter 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

It is God who tells us what His word means.  The inspiration of the Holy Spirit spoke and wrote and preserved scripture for all of us.  It is all we need.

BELIEVE THE BIBLE!

BELIEVE THE KING JAMES BIBLE!  It has no errors, no omissions, no additions, and it is dipensationally correct!

We’ll pick up our study next week in the Book of Acts.  Your CHALLENGE this week is to read through Acts and note every mention of a woman, women, daughters, etc.  Then note who is speaking to them and why.  We will learn so much from this study, and I hope you’ll join me as we try to understand When the Holy SpiritSpeaks to Women Part 1.

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