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We continue examining the work of the Holy Spirit during the church age. We take a look at what it means to “walk by the Spirit” and then examine closely what the baptism by means of the Holy Spirit means. Access the lesson notes at https://interlocked.online/s/42-The-Holy-Spirit-Directs-the-Church.pdf Access the supplementary notes at https://interlocked.online/s/Walk-by-the-Spirit.pdf And access...

God the Father and God the Son sent God the Holy Spirit to the earth to indwell and direct believers. This was the beginning of the body of Christ, the church age. But how does the Holy Spirit direct the church? Before we begin to look what the Holy Spirit does in the church age, it’s very helpful to observe the Holy Spirit’s work throughout history. And so we begin by observing how the Holy Spiri...

We conclude this lesson by examining very carefully what happened on Pentecost morning and Peter’s speech. He used Old Testament passages to describe how there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit and how that was proof that the resurrected Christ had ascended to heaven and was now seated at the right hand of the Father. And together, they had now sent the Holy Spirit to indwell believers. This wa...

Jesus postponed restarting the Kingdom of God because the Jews as a nation rejected Him. Instead, He announced that He would introduce an interim period that would include the church age. Before going to the cross, He told His disciples that when He went back to the Father in heaven, He and the Father would send the Holy Spirit whose job would be to remind and teach the disciples of all that they...

We conclude this lesson by examining closely what Jesus said about the interim period, this era of time where He delays the return of the Kingdom of God due to Israel’s rejection of Him. Jesus describes what to expect and He introduces something unexpected: the church age. We will see briefly how the church age begins, how it ends and how the interim period closes with the Tribulation of Israel an...

We’ve studied the birth, life, death and resurrection of Christ. We learnt why it was necessary for Jesus to be born as a man, live a perfectly sinless life, die as the perfect substitute for mankind’s sin and then be raised to life with a resurrection body. Jesus accomplished most of what He came to do. However, there was one task that He didn’t complete at His first coming: He didn’t restart the...

We conclude our exploration of the word “saved” and “salvation” by examining the role that “work” has in the believer’s life. If God justifies us once for all time, what is the purpose of works? Scripture describes how God had planned for the body of Christ to work as part of our sanctification journey and to forward the work of building and strengthening the body of Christ as well as making new d...

We continue our exploration of the word “saved” and “salvation” by examining a third aspect: glorification, which is to be “saved from the presence of sin”. We will observe what the Bible describes about this third aspect of salvation, how it will happen in the future when Christ returns for church-age believers. God will glorify believers with resurrection bodies; He will glorify nature so that i...

We conclude the first part of this two-part lesson by looking closely at how the Bible also uses the word “saved” and “salvation” to refer to sanctification, the process of driving out the influence of sin in our lives and growing our loyalty and obedience to God. We need to be aware of the context of passages that talk about sanctification and not confuse it with justification. Access the lesson...

In reading the Bible, some think that whenever they see the words “save” and “salvation”, it always means “saved from eternal death”. This isn’t true. In this lesson, we will look closely at how the Bible uses the word “saved”. And we will see that there are three separated but related aspects of salvation: justification (saved from the penalty of sin), sanctification (saved from the power of sin)...

We complete Lesson 37: The First Resurrection. We discuss what happened after Jesus’ resurrection, the implications on the world and what it means for believers. We also examine what Jesus accomplished with His resurrection, how His resurrection body proved that God’s promised Eternal State is real, and how with His resurrection body, Jesus will fulfil mankind’s job of responsible dominion. We als...

We finish Lesson 36 at 55:00 where we discuss how Jesus calls to all people. We also examine the feasts that God put into Israel’s calendar and how they are prophetic signs of the Messiah’s work for Israel. Then we continue with Lesson 37: The First Resurrection. We first examine what the Old Testament says about the resurrection. Then we examine Jesus’ interacting with His disciples in His resurr...

We continue with Lesson 36, discussing two other important questions: (i) How can God be so cruel to “send people to hell”? and (ii) The Bible talks about “election”. Does this mean God alone decides who gets saved and who does not? We will examine the Scripture passages that talk about these issues and we will also examine again, the character of Yahweh and ask, “Are these ideas consistent with t...

We conclude Lesson 35 at 22:07. Then we continue with Lesson 36: Who Did Christ Die For? In this lesson, we explore five common questions regarding who benefits from Christ’s death and the impact of Christ’s death and resurrection on the universe. Often, believers consider the cross of Christ as only a personal matter between them and God but the Bible describes that the universe was impacted, inc...

We continue with Lesson 35, looking at why blood or death was necessary for restitution. We examine Scripture to see how mankind’s rebellion needs to be accounted for by eternal death. Because God is all-righteous, He requires rebellion to be dealt with, and at the same time, being all-loving, God does not want to see man separated from Him for eternity. And so the solution was the cross. Beginnin...

We continue with Lesson 34, looking at the life of Christ. We examine Scripture to see how Christ lived as a human, fully obedient to God. He cultivated a close relationship with the Father through prayer, applying Scripture and living under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. He modelled for us how to live as an obedient believer, using the resources all believers have access to. Then we finish the...

We begin this lesson by examining Old Testament Scriptures describing the plurality within Yahweh. Though Scripture says there is only one Creator-God, He is not a solitary God. Scripture reveals that there are three divine Persons within the single God. Then we focus on the second Person of God—God the Son. We examine Old Testament passages describing how He was active beginning at Creation and h...

We finish up Lesson 33 by discussing the significance of Christ’s virgin birth. Why did Christ need to be born in this manner? We’ll see that the answer lies in how Christ as a human had to be born without sin. We also explore why there are differences in the two genealogies of Christ as recorded in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and we look back into the Old Testament to understand the signific...

We finish up Lesson 32 with the discussion: Is it true that people do not have any natural knowledge of God and are therefore ignorant about Him? Then at 1:02:02, Lesson 33 begins. We start by observing in Scripture how the Jews were expecting Yahweh Himself to reign as king over the earth and how they also expected God to send a perfect human leader to reign. The question was: how would this two...

What was the state of the world when Jesus arrived on the earth? What was happening with the Jews at that time? In this lesson, we look at what the Roman Empire was like before examine why the Scriptures say Jesus first went to the Jewish people. How did the leaders and religious leaders react to Him? How did the people react to Him? And how did His first disciples react to Him? We will examine wh...

Now that we’ve done the survey of key Old Testament events and drawn out the significant truths from them, we arrange them in a biblical framework. This forms the foundation of our worldview. We can now practise using the biblical framework to analyse and think through life situations that confront us. The class will work through several situations, helping each other gain God’s perspective on eac...

We finish up our examination of the Hebrew Scriptures regarding what the Jews were expecting about the coming Kingdom. Though Yahweh wasn’t actively speaking to them through more prophets at this point in history, He had left them with Scripture that contained information about the future so they could have long-range hope and endure their tough situation. The Jews during this period provide a mod...

We had examined the Hebrew Scriptures regarding the covenants with Israel and the Messiah, to see what the Jews were expecting from God at the close of the Old Testament. Now we take a look at what the Scriptures say about how God will use the future tribulation period of the Jewish people to bring them to national faith in Him. And we will also examine what the prophets said about the conditions...

We continue examining the Hebrew Scriptures to see what the Jews were expecting from God at the close of the Old Testament. We examine Yahweh’s promises to the Jewish people about the New Covenant, which He announced and promised but did not yet sign at the close of the Old Testament. We look closely at the package of promises: the Jews regathered into the land God had given them, changed hearts n...

We conclude Lesson 28 at 1:05:00, which includes a discussion on how we got the Bible. Then we move on to Lesson 29: The Jewish Expectation Part 1. At the end of the Old Testament, the Jews had experienced about 1,500 years of history with Yahweh. They had gone through times of great prosperity and peace as well as times of tremendous suffering and war. But what was on their minds? In the next two...