This
lesson is borrowed from the booklet “Seven rules for Bible Interpretation”,
written by REV. M. L. LOWE, D.D. with supplemental material by David W. Holden.
Rule 4:
(cont.) The Bible is a Progressive Revelation
If
we keep this in mind, we will not go back to unfulfilled events (number 2 from
the previous post) and ASK for the Holy Spirit – for, when we were saved – born
from above – we were SEALED…indwelt
by the Holy Spirit…we were baptized
into His Body (that it, we were placed into the Body of Christ, the true Church)
– all in one simultaneous event! We may
also have been “filled with the Spirit”
at that same moment; but for most of us, that filling did not come until we
were conscience of our need for special spiritual strength for some immediate
task, and, seeking His aid, He imparted a special filling by which that task was accomplished for Hid glory. Just as we need daily cleansing as we become
conscience of sin in our lives, so we need special filling to be used of Him for His glory!
Today the “laying on of hands” is a symbolic gesture by which one is set
apart, or ordained, for the special service of the Lord. There is no merit in the ceremonial act of
having other believers participate by laying their hands upon the head of such an
one, praying for him. It merely “goes on
public record” that one has been called of God for special service., and this
is acknowledged by the local assembly of believers.
The important factor, however, in this
treatise, is that the Bible IS a PROGRESSIVE
REVELATION, and that the foregoing points illustrate this fact. If the reader is questioning some particular
truth, simply gather all the verses
on this theme in chronological order, and come to your understanding of the
truth regarding that subject by considering what was revealed earlier, and that
which is now applicable to the present Church Age, the Age of Grace!
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