Does The Holy Spirit Speak DIRECTLY To People Today?

Thanks guys. I'm grateful for the teaching you all do. I think Scott needs a louder microphone though. 😂

Before I listen. Only through the word.

This is my favorite program on GBN.

I have a question. Do you think the people who spoke in tongues in the 1st century understood what they were saying? They did not speak those languages, so I was just curious if they understood what they were speaking. Perhaps not, since Paul said there needed to be someone to interpret (1 Corinthians 14:27-28) when one spoke in tongues. Paul also said in verse 22 of the same chapter that the gift of tongues was a sign for unbelievers, not for believers. Yet the people today who claim to speak in tongues do so to impress those who believe.

We are guided by the Holy Spirit today! God's word the Bible.

I'm just a theology student that was baptized in the Chruch of Christ...I love the CoC but I would love to have friendly discussion or debate about this topic with you...Every preacher/member runs and hides when I bring it up...The Church of Christ is not only in error on this...it is potently a heretical doctrine threatening salvation...I like Aaron and agree on most points but You say you want to teach people save souls and you think my salvation is in jeopardy than please have a public discussion with me about your take on the Holy Spirit..I say this in love

Can you post the link of the lesson on the reincarnated Christ? I can’t find it in the campfire stories. Please

what are your thoughts on Billy Graham?

I agree in needing to study and be studied in topics I am preaching or teaching, but there are frequently scriptures that come to my recollection that were not in my thoughts while studying that enhance and improve the lesson. Would this not fall under the concept of the Spirit bringing to recollection the things we have been taught from the word of God (the Bible)?

Do you guys have a video lesson on the preincarnate Christ? I have never heard a lesson on this topic.

Another verse to use is 2 Peter 1:3

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: God has given us all thing that pertain to life & godliness. No need for the Holy Spirit to speak to us. We have all that God wants us to have in His Inspired Written Word.

I really love the show and keep up the good work. Can you tell me where I can get my hands on one of those Authentic Christian hats ?

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I disagree. In another of your podcasts you mention how Jesus wants a personal relationship with people. How then, does he not still speak to people to them? What would be personal about that? I get your point that in Biblical times God spoke to people, however, I feel that wherever there is love, that is God speaking. And we're still in fact living in Biblical times.

Perhaps I missed it or perhaps you do not believe in dual revelation which is from the book of nature and from the book of scripture. It appears that you primarily focus on the book of scripture and totally ignore the book of nature and that is definitely one way God spoke to us in the old new and current testament in 2022.

I have never claimed to have any of the miraculous gifts I read about in the New Testament. However there is a major timeline problem in regards to the 27 books of the New testament being brought together under one binding. The earliest canons of the New testament we're somewhere between 200 and 400 AD. The last of the apostles probably died before 100 AD. Most if not all of those who still had miraculous gifts were not apostles probably died out before 150 -160 AD. So all those people living at that time were without confirmation via miraculous gifts. And even when the Canon of scripture was completed the amount of copies available were very limited because the printing press had never been invented yet until the late 1400s. So the populations of approximately 1,000 years had no confirmation of God's word because they never had a copy of it for reference sake.

Here is my response to this. In 1 Corinthians 6 the apostle Paul says in verse 19-20 "Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s." So following the logic of the spiritual gifts died after the Apostles died, how then does this verse work? So did the Holy Spirit not fill the people of the Corinthian church also? If they filled the people of the Corinthian church, would not have they also had passed the Holy Spirit to others as well if it was just passed from man?

Paul quite literally states, "Whom you have received from God". So clearly man did not give the Holy Spirit, but God did. Hebrews 13:8 states that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. If God is 3 in 1, then the Holy Spirit is also God. Jesus also said that he was God in John 8:58 "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am". The Holy Spirit is also God. Peter confirms this in Acts 5:4.

So if Jesus and the Holy Spirit are God, that means that they don't change and can't lie. God gave the Apostles the Holy Spirit, and God gave those in Corinth the Holy Spirit. And if God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then how can the Holy Spirit not be inside of believers today?

This was explained so well. Great job!

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enjoy you lessons so much! Thanks for all you do.

I must have missed it. I was waiting for you guys to mention prophets as a way God spoke to us... You forgot to mention the two most known times when Jesus appeared. Both times was to Abraham... when they were announcing Sarah's impending motherhood and also when Sodom and Gomorrah was about to be destroyed.

Ok, I just heard it.

Thank you guys for the work you do in spreading the Truth and opening up the eyes of those who diligently seek Christ.

Excellent lesson brothers. Thank you for making it clear and plain how the Holy Spirit works in our lives today.🙏

Aaron, does the CoC that you belong to (or the CoC at large) have any written doctrines concerning the Holy Spirit and His indwelling? If so, is there a book 📕 you could recommend (other than the Bible) that condenses those beliefs and addresses those many passages that apply not to only the apostles, but to “rank and file Christians” like myself? I have heard that the CoC does not believe in the promised Holy Spirit that was prophesied of in the Book of Joel in the OT and which Jesus confirmed in the NT. Is that true about the CoC? I am curious how you guys reconcile all those passages. ✝️🙏🏼📖

You guys are such a gift! Sound Bible at last. Just shared this with a woman at church. More people need to find your content. Much love from the Santa Cruz Church of Christ. (California)😊