My wife Kelly got me hooked on shark week. Fascinating creatures, hey? 
Well here’s a week that’s bound to bring just as big of bite…PODCAST WEEK.
For your listening pleasure I’ve uploaded four different messages over the next four days. Most of all I hope the episodes stretch and equip you. Here’s a sneak peak of some of these featured episodes.
Feel free to spread the word about PODCAST WEEK…or else Mr. Teeth here might have to schedule a swimming date with you in the near future.
Wednesday =Freedom from Insanity- Insanity is doing life the same way (without the Spirit) and expecting different results.
Thursday = Three Questions - Is God Sovereign? Do I have Free Will? Is God Good?
Friday = Alternative to Emergent – Navigating the conversation: A brief history of the who, what, when, where, and why of the Emerging Church.
Saturday = Denver Interview – Commentary on the finer points of The Fine Line.
By the way…are you a fan of shark week too?
Good talk on the Holy Spirit in general. I agree that when e follow the spirit we do not need the law. It’s like when we love our wives (folloing the law of love) we have NO DESIRE to kill them. We do not need the law that says “thou shall not kill”. When we love our fellow man we do not want to covet or lust or steal from them. We follow the spirit and so we do not need the law that says we shall not do these things. The law is fullfilled in the spirit but it is because we do not do them out of love, rather than “thou shall not”. Of course we must be a bit careful because the law does have a place. The psalms tell us to meditate on it.
Psalm 1
[2] but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
Ps.119
1. [15] I will meditate on thy precepts,
and fix my eyes on thy ways.
Our conscience must be formed properly and this is done in part by the law. But even here the law is not a burden to meditate on, for we freely delight in meditating upon it because it shows the wisdom of God for our lives and we want to understand it so that we can be led by the spirit in truth.
One word of caution. In my posts on your predestination/free will thread below, I showed pretty conclusively that we have free will and so we are never forced by the spirit to continue in belief and following the law. Paul says pretty plainly in Galations 5 that we can fall from grace. We can be severed from Christ. We can resist the Holy Spirit (“why do you resist the Holy Spirit”. In Romans 8:38 there is a listing of things that cannot separate us from Christ. One thing that is conspicuously absent in that passage is sin. When we choose it over what the Holy Spirit is guiding us to do, we can fall from grace.
God bless
Gerald
I just read all of psalm 119. I had not read it in a while. What a beautiful psalm and I think it illustrates what I have said above about us following the law of love, yet being instructed in the ways of the Lord by his precepts, i.e. the ten commandments. Throughout the psalm their is exhortation to meditation on the law. Yet throughout the pslam there is also this expression of great love for the Lord and the desire to follow his will in the life of the psalmist. The heart of the psalmist is fixed on love of God rather than just living the command. His prayer is for the stength to follow the precepts, knowing he cannot do it on his own and needs the Lord’s help. He realizes that he even needs the Lord to understand the precepts for they are far above our worldly wisdom. This is the way that we fullfill the law of God, i.e. relying on his rather than as Kary said, our own efforts, without thought of the spirit to follow the law. Then we are under the law. I have had addictions as well, pornography for one, and as long as I relied on my own strength I could not overcome them. Kary is right on that.
these two were posted in the wrong spot. I’m going to move them.