Pentecost
Leads To "All Truth"
Eternal Life is to “know God.” (John 17:3) - "The Promise of the Father" (Luke 24:49) to "Know" God." - "The Kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:20-21) - "Born Again" of Spirit (John 3:5-7) : "The flesh profits nothing." (John 6:63) - “The world did not know God through its wisdom" ( Corinthians 1:18-21) "But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit." (1 Corinthians 2:10-16) - Jesus also warned: “I never knew you” because not everyone who calls Him Lord or uses His name will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens.” ( Matthew 7:21-23)
Pentecost Leads to "All Truth"
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Eternal Life is to “know God,” and it is through the Holy Spirit that the
“deep things of God” are “revealed” to our spirit “within” us.
In defining “eternal life” Jesus in His prayer to the Father said: “And this
is eternal life, that they would know You, the only true God, and Whom You
sent, Y’shua Messiah.” (John 17:3) Jesus also warned: “I never knew you”
because “not everyone who calls Him Lord or uses His name will enter the
Kingdom of the Heavens.” (Matthew 7:21-23)
The Lord hides His wisdom from “fools” because of pride, envy and unbelief
as Jesus made known: “But after He had done so many of His signs in front of
them they were not believing in Him, so that the word of the prophet Isaiah
would be fulfilled which said, ‘Lord, who believed in our report? And was
the arm of the Lord revealed to some?’ (Isaiah 53:1) Because of this they
were not able to believe, because again Isaiah said (Isaiah. 6:9, 10), ‘He
had blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see
with their eyes nor understand with their heart nor would they turn back,
repent, and I would heal them.’” (John 12:37-40. See also Isaiah 55:8-9, 1
John 2:15-16)
“Y’shua said, ‘I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not
see would see and those who see would become blind.’ Those of the Pharisees
who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, ‘Then are we blind?’
Y’shua said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would not have sin: but now
because you are saying ‘We are seeing,’ your sin remains.’” (John 9:40-41)
"See a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for
him."
Christ and Paul made it clear that “the world did not know God through its
wisdom,” and it is through the Holy Spirit, the “Spirit of Truth,” that
“teaches” and “reveals” the “deep things of God” and “guides us into all
truth” which is “hidden from the wise.”
(Proverbs 26:12, Matthew 11:25-27, - 1 Corinthians 1:18-21, 2:10-16, - Daniel 12:10, John 14:15-25, 16:12-13)
Throughout His Ministry, Jesus announced “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is
near.” The “Kingdom of God” is “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit,” which is the “Promise of the Father.” The Father “will give you
another Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world is not able to
accept, because it does not see and does not know Him: you know Him, because
He remains beside you and will be inside you.
(Mark 1:15, Romans 14:17, Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4-5, 2:39, John 14:16-17)
Even after three years of Jesus emphasizing the Holy Spirit with His
Disciples, He told them: “I still have much to say to you, but you are not
now able to bear it: but when that One would come, the Spirit of Truth, He
will guide you in all truth.” Before and after Christ rose from the dead, He
told His followers to wait for the “Promise of the Father,” the “Baptism in
the Holy Spirit.” (John 16:12-13, Acts 1:4-5, Isaiah 44:3, John 7:37-29, 14:25-26)
Jesus and John the Baptist declared repentance is first necessary because:
“Your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden
His face from you, so He will not hear.” Paul affirmed repentance is
required: “So then, although God has overlooked a time of ignorance, now He
is ordering people everywhere to repent for everything because He
established a Day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness,
by a man Whom He appointed, when He gave assurance to all the faithful by
having raised Him out from the dead.”
(Isaiah 59:2, Matthew 3:1-17, Acts 17:30-31. See also 1 Kings 8:46 and Romans 3:23)
Likewise, on the Day of Pentecost, when “people from all the nations” were
in Jerusalem for Shavuot, they witnessed the “Promise of the Father,” the
Baptism in the Holy Spirit, evident in the Disciples. And after Peter
preached Christ to them he was asked, “What shall we do? …And Peter said to
them, “You must immediately repent, and each of you must immediately be
immersed in the name of Y’shua Messiah, for forgiveness of your sins and you
will take the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for
your children and for all those in far away places, whomever the Lord our
God will call to Himself.”
(Acts 2:1-13, 2:37-39. See also 1 John 1:8-10 and Psalm 51:1-19)
Greg Laurie has said, "You cannot be born a Christian. Jesus says 'you must
be born again." Nicodemus was told by Jesus he must be Born Again, and he
questioned Jesus “how is it possible?” Jesus said: “Most certainly I say to
you, unless someone would have been born out of water and Spirit he is not
able to enter the Kingdom of God. What has been born of the flesh is flesh,
and what has been born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be astonished that I
said to you, ‘It is necessary for you to be born from above.’”
(John 3:5-7, 15. See also John 1:12-13, Ephesians 2:8-9)
John G. Lake said: "We do not know God with our flesh, with our hands or
with our brains. We know God with our spirit." To be “taught by God” is
through the Holy Spirit Who “will teach you all things,” and “all truth,”
for the “natural man does not take the things of the Spirit of God: for they
are foolishness to him and he is not able to know, because they are
discerned spiritually.” This is a “stumbling-block” to the “lost,” and, the
Lord “shall destroy the wisdom of the wise and do away with the
understanding of the intelligent.” For it is the “spirit that quickens, the
flesh profits nothing.”
(1 Corinthians 1:20-25, 2:14, Isaiah 54:13, John 6:44-45 ,63)
The Holy Spirit not only inspired the Word of God, but reveals the Word of
God to our spirit. (2 Timothy 3:16-17, - 2 Peter 1:20, - Job 32:8-10, 38:36)
Note that Scripture also refers to our spirit as the “candle of the Lord,”
the "inner man" and "hidden man of the heart"
(Proverbs 20:27, - 1 Samuel 16:7, - Ephesians 3:15-19, - 1 Peter 3:4)
When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, He
answered them, “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation. Nor will
they say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ For remember, the Kingdom of God
is within you.” (Luke 17:20-21, John 7:37-39).
Unless and until we realize our “whole being” is “spirit and soul and body”
and not just soul and body, “we are as a “natural man” without “discernment
of the Spirit.” Our spirit is “clothed with skin and flesh and knit together
with bones and sinews.” God has granted us “life and loyal love, and
preserves our spirit.” (1 Thessalonians 5:23, Job 10:11-13)
When Elihu confronted Job and his three friends he shared: “But there is a
spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.”
When God answered Job He said: ”...Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?
Or, who has given understanding to the heart?”
(Job 32:8-9, 38:36, Genesis 2:7, John 20:22) 
Trinity: A Dogma challenge. We are “Created in His Image” because “God is
spirit, and it is necessary for those who worship Him to worship in spirit
and in truth.” The Trinity of God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirt. Our “whole
being” is “spirit, soul and body.” It is the Spirit of God, Who “teaches” and
“reveals” the “deep things of God” to our spirit “within” us, because they are
“discerned spiritually.” (John 4:24, - 1 Corinthians 2:10-16)
“For those who are flesh are thinking the things of the flesh, but those
according to the Spirit are thinking the things of the Spirit. For the
mind-set, thoughts and purposes, of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of
the Spirit is life and Peace. …For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
these are the sons of God.” (Romans 8:5-6, 14)
“By their fruit you will know them.” The “works of the flesh” and the “fruit
of the spirit” are opposed to each other, and we are to “crucify” the works
of the flesh. There are also gifts of the Spirit which “that One and very
same Spirit works all these, dividing to each one individually as He will.”
(Matthew 7:13-29, Galatians 5:16-26, - 1 Corinthians 12:1-31)
“But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood are not able to inherit the
Kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.” And “the dust
returns to the earth as it was and the spirit returns to God Who gave it.”
And “if the Spirit of the One Who raised Y’shua from the dead dwells in you,
the One Who raised Messiah from the dead will also make alive your mortal
bodies through His Spirit because He abides within you.”
(1 Corinthians 15:50, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Romans 8:11)
We are instructed not to “quench” or “grieve” the Holy Spirit, “with Whom we
are sealed for the Day of Redemption.” The magnitude of the divine role of
the Holy Spirit is emphatically stressed by the warning Jesus gives stating
“I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to mankind, but the
blasphemy of the Spirit will not be forgiven. And if someone would speak a
word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him: but whoever would
speak against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven to him either in this
age or in the one coming.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:16-19, Ephesians 4:30, Matthew 12:28-32)
John the Baptist testified seeing “the Spirit descending from heaven as a
dove and it was staying on Jesus.” John said as he baptizes in water, it is
Jesus Who baptizes in the Holy Spirit,” as He did on the Day of Pentecost.
Peter further testified “the Holy Spirit fell upon them (Gentiles) just as
upon us in the beginning.” (John 1:32-34, Acts 1:1-4, 11:15-18)
"Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?" (Acts 19:2-7) There
is difference between being born again in the Holy Spirit and receiving or
being baptized (filled) with the Holy Spirit. There is only One Way to be
filled with the Spirit, the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Consider Peter before the Day of Pentecost, when Jesus was arrested, Peter
denied Christ three times and after Pentecost: “When they saw the boldness
of Peter and John and perceived that they were illiterate and uneducated
men, they marveled. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.”
(Matthew 26:69-75, Acts 4:13)
“If someone speaks, let it be as words and admonitions of God: if someone
serves, as from strength which God supplies, so that in all things God would
be glorified through Y’shua Messiah, to Whom be the glory and the power
forever and ever, amen.” (1 Peter 4:11)
(Scriptural details and edification insights, including Baptism in the Holy
Spirit, available here.)