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    Great Spiritual Movements
    Great Spiritual Movements
    Great Spiritual Movements
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    Great Spiritual Movements

    By Brian Johnston

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    In this short book, Brian Johnston explores two aspects of great spiritual movements:

    1. The unseen movement of the Holy Spirit in the creation, the incarnation, the inspiration (of Scripture), mission (the gospel) and the foundation (of churches of God).

    2. The movement of God to deal with the pride of Satan, which started before creation and will end with the Devil being thrown into the Lake of Fire, along with his angels and unbelievers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateAug 24, 2018
    ISBN9781386304401
    Great Spiritual Movements
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    Brian Johnston

    Born and educated in Scotland, Brian worked as a government scientist until God called him into full-time Christian ministry on behalf of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info). His voice has been heard on Search For Truth radio broadcasts for over 30 years (visit www.searchfortruth.podbean.com) during which time he has been an itinerant Bible teacher throughout the UK and Canada. His evangelical and missionary work outside the UK is primarily in Belgium and The Philippines. He is married to Rosemary, with a son and daughter.

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      Great Spiritual Movements - Brian Johnston

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Great Spiritual Movements

      CHAPTER ONE: THE SPIRIT MOVING OVER THE WATERS (GENESIS 1:1,2)

      CHAPTER TWO: GOD’S SPIRIT MOVED THE BIBLE AUTHORS (2 PETER 1:21)

      CHAPTER THREE: THE SPIRIT MOVED THE CHILD IN THE WOMB (LUKE 1:35)

      CHAPTER FOUR: THE SPIRIT MOVED IN OUR HEARTS (2 THESSALONIANS 2:13)

      CHAPTER FIVE: THE SPIRIT'S MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIANS TOWARDS UNITY (EPHESIANS 4:3)

      CHAPTER SIX: PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL

      CHAPTER SEVEN: A KING INFLUENCED BY SATAN

      CHAPTER EIGHT: COMING RIGHT DOWN TO EARTH

      CHAPTER NINE: THE ENDLESS END

      Further Reading: 8 Amazing Privileges of God's People: A Bible Study of Romans 9:4-5

      Also By Brian Johnston

      About the Author

      About the Publisher

      Search for Truth, a radio Bible ministry of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info), hosted by John Martin and Brian Johnston, is available via i-Tunes podcast or at www.searchfortruth.podbean.org

      Search for Truth, a radio Bible ministry of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info), hosted by John Martin and Brian Johnston, is available via i-Tunes podcast or at www.searchfortruth.podbean.org

      Great Spiritual Movements

      Brian Johnston

      Copyright © 2018 HAYES PRESS. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, without the written permission of Hayes Press.

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      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible® (NASB®), Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission (www.Lockman.org).  Scriptures marked ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) Copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved.  Scriptures marked NIV are from the New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.  Scriptures marked RV are from the Revised Version (Public Domain).

      PART ONE: GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS

      CHAPTER ONE: THE SPIRIT MOVING OVER THE WATERS (GENESIS 1:1,2)

      Famously, in its opening lines, the Bible declares:

      In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, Let there be light; and there was light (Genesis 1:1-3).

      We often hear about a President’s first 100 days. That’s thought to be enough time for an early assessment to be made on his performance thus far. If so, what of the first 10 words of the Bible? Are they not sufficient to settle quite categorically, and for all time, a biblical Christian’s worldview, at least with respect to origins: "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth?"

      The Apostle Peter, writing much later in the New Testament (2 Peter 3:1-7), in a more sceptical time, presented a ‘back to Genesis’ appeal. He referred to mockers in the last days. He then laid bare the basic problem with their wrong view of the world. They misguidedly believed the present was the same as the past, continuing without change. They would, doubtless, have just as readily maintained that the present was the key to the past. By adopting this perspective, modern sceptics rule out the possibility of any kind of supernatural intervention, simply because they don’t see any supernatural intervention occurring now. So, they reason it also didn’t happen in the past.

      As the Apostle Paul would say in a different but related context, they are wilfully rejecting divine involvement – and they are doing this by rewriting history. Informed by Genesis, and under the Spirit’s control, the Apostle Peter affirms what the book of Genesis says - that the Earth was formed out of water and by water through which it was also destroyed, a reference first to creation and then to the great flood of Noah’s time.

      If his opponents were to have locked horns with him, they might have complained Peter was taking altogether too plain a reading of the text of early Genesis. But should it be read in any other way? Bear in mind that it doesn’t contain any of the distinguishing features of Hebrew poetry. The late Oxford Professor, James Barr, had this to say on the meaning of Genesis:

      ‘... probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: (1) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience; (2) the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story; and (3) Noah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.’  [James Barr, Oriel Professor of the interpretation of the Holy Scripture, Oxford University, England, in a letter to David C.C.

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