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Bible Study The Holy Spirit Is Not A Spiritual Janitor

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The Holy Spirit Is Not A Spiritual Janitor


After God created Adam God said that it is not right that man should be alone.


Genesis 2:18 New International Version (NIV)
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”



It is clear that man and God didn't share a spiritual bond that could alleviate man's loneliness. God then created Eve from the rib of Adam to be a helper to Adam. This bond between the man and woman was to alleviate the loneliness of one and the other.


When Jesus Christ, who was God the Father's son, became man and was born to Mary, a virgin, Jesus Christ became the second Adam (hint: a sinless man). As the second Adam, Jesus Christ was also alone in this world as was Adam in the Garden of Eden. It is clear that Jesus Christ was alone in this world and could alleviate this loneliness only when he visited the Temple, for the Temple was the place where the Holy of Holies (hint: God the Father's spirit) was located. In the Garden of Eden God visited man while here on earth it was man (hint: Jesus Christ) who had to visit God.


Only after Jesus Christ's baptism, where the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus Christ, did Jesus Christ gain a helper to alleviate his loneliness. For the Holy Spirit became the helper to Jesus Christ as Eve became the helper to Adam.


While Eve led Adam into sin by offering him the forbidden fruit, that Eve had already had eaten. The Holy Spirit led Jesus Christ into the desert to confront the temptations of Satan. By the Holy Spirit leading Jesus Christ into the desert to confront Satan this act highlights the fact of what Eve should have done for Adam after her encounter with the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. Eve should have led Adam back to the Serpent to confront the Serpent's temptations together.


A marriage between a man and a women is not just a wellspring of pleasure and ease, but a way to confront all the temptations of this world. In today's increasingly wicked world it seems each person in a marriage is trying to outdo the temptations of the other instead of trying to subdue and eliminate those temptations.


Follow the example of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and confront the temptations that Satan has placed all throughout our society that are designed to get one or the other believer in Jesus Christ to act alone in indulging in the sins of this world.


The Holy Spirit is available to every person who believes in Jesus Christ to alleviate the loneliness of this world. But the Holy Spirit is also a helper, as it was with Jesus Christ, but will not force its will upon anyone. Every Christian must act resolute and live a life of righteousness with the help of the Holy Spirit and not as a person who first indulges in the temptations of the serpent and then expects the Holy Spirit to be our 'spiritual janitor' to clean it all up afterward.


God Bless
 
Spiritual janitor might be a degrading name to put on a function of the Holy Ghost. But Romans 8:13 and Philippians 1:1 shows we can't do that unless the Godhead works in us.

The Holy Spirit cleans, guides, and works through us, comforting us, and also convicting us.

Now are you saying the Holy Ghost acts as some sorta spiritual spouse?
 
Leah781 said:
Could you please give me a bible scripture that says Jesus was lonely?
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The only place I could imagine is when he cried upon the cross "Eli Eli Lamasabacthani" "My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?"

Scripture also says that he himself was tempted, so he can have compassion on us and help us.
 
ugmug said:
It is clear that Jesus Christ was alone in this world and could alleviate this loneliness only when he visited the Temple, for the Temple was the place where the Holy of Holies (hint: God the Father's spirit) was located.
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I am having a problem with this statement. I don't see Jesus portrayed as a lonely person in the bible. This statement is saying Jesus was a lonely person all of the time the only way this loneliness could ever be alleviated was when he visited God's temple. To be lonely once in awhile is a normal thing but to be in an almost constant state of loneliness is not normal. A person in a constant state of loneliness would be prone to depression. Jesus was not alone in this world he had family, friends, beloved disciples and apostles. He was not a sullen lonely at heart person, but a person who was deeply involved in the lives of those around him. He had the glorious commission to preach the good news of the kingdom, which kept him very busy interacting with people. Also he accepted many invitations to meals, banquets, and the wedding at Cana (Luke 5:29; 7:36; 14:1; John 2:1-10)


Jesus taught about the true meaning of happiness, he embodied his teachings, so therefore I believe that he was not a lonely person but a very happy and fulfilled person.
Matthew 5 Good News Translation (GNT)


5 “Happy are those who are humble;
they will receive what God has promised!
6 “Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires;
God will satisfy them fully!
7 “Happy are those who are merciful to others;
God will be merciful to them!
8 “Happy are the pure in heart;
they will see God!
9 “Happy are those who work for peace;
God will call them his children!
10 “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires;
the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!
 
Isa 53:3 - He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Jhn 8:29 - And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
 
ugmug said:
The Holy Spirit Is Not A Spiritual Janitor


After God created Adam God said that it is not right that man should be alone.


Genesis 2:18 New International Version (NIV)
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”



It is clear that man and God didn't share a spiritual bond that could alleviate man's loneliness. God then created Eve from the rib of Adam to be a helper to Adam. This bond between the man and woman was to alleviate the loneliness of one and the other.


When Jesus Christ, who was God the Father's son, became man and was born to Mary, a virgin, Jesus Christ became the second Adam (hint: a sinless man). As the second Adam, Jesus Christ was also alone in this world as was Adam in the Garden of Eden. It is clear that Jesus Christ was alone in this world and could alleviate this loneliness only when he visited the Temple, for the Temple was the place where the Holy of Holies (hint: God the Father's spirit) was located. In the Garden of Eden God visited man while here on earth it was man (hint: Jesus Christ) who had to visit God.


Only after Jesus Christ's baptism, where the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus Christ, did Jesus Christ gain a helper to alleviate his loneliness. For the Holy Spirit became the helper to Jesus Christ as Eve became the helper to Adam.


While Eve led Adam into sin by offering him the forbidden fruit, that Eve had already had eaten. The Holy Spirit led Jesus Christ into the desert to confront the temptations of Satan. By the Holy Spirit leading Jesus Christ into the desert to confront Satan this act highlights the fact of what Eve should have done for Adam after her encounter with the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. Eve should have led Adam back to the Serpent to confront the Serpent's temptations together.


A marriage between a man and a women is not just a wellspring of pleasure and ease, but a way to confront all the temptations of this world. In today's increasingly wicked world it seems each person in a marriage is trying to outdo the temptations of the other instead of trying to subdue and eliminate those temptations.


Follow the example of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and confront the temptations that Satan has placed all throughout our society that are designed to get one or the other believer in Jesus Christ to act alone in indulging in the sins of this world.


The Holy Spirit is available to every person who believes in Jesus Christ to alleviate the loneliness of this world. But the Holy Spirit is also a helper, as it was with Jesus Christ, but will not force its will upon anyone. Every Christian must act resolute and live a life of righteousness with the help of the Holy Spirit and not as a person who first indulges in the temptations of the serpent and then expects the Holy Spirit to be our 'spiritual janitor' to clean it all up afterward.


God Bless
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You missed the point...when God creates (bara) mankind He creates them male and female....however when He formed (yatzar) them He formed the male first (and alone) so until the female, "mankind" was incomplete and a need was developed in Adam to have desire toward a female like unto himself. So it was not just that he was alone (as in lonely) but alone as in not having a mate (so he could fulfill be fruitful and multiply)

I see helpmeet as being the appropriate compliment or partner which completes...now (male and female as one-echad) they are as God created for man "in His image and likeness" (echad - a unity of pluralities - one flask and one bone)
 
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