03-03-2025 part 1: Exploring the Holy Spirit's Essential Role in Christian Salvation
The salient focus of this podcast episode revolves around elucidating the pivotal role of the Holy Spirit in the process of salvation. Dr. David Spoon articulates how the Holy Spirit is integral to both the regeneration and renewal of believers, emphasizing that salvation is not attained through human merit, but rather through divine mercy and grace. This discourse unravels the complexities of theological concepts such as the washing of regeneration and the continual renewal by the Holy Spirit, underscoring the necessity of the Holy Spirit in the believer's journey. Furthermore, Dr. Spoon underscores that true salvation encompasses the active participation of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, thereby inviting listeners to reflect on the profound implications of this triune involvement in their spiritual lives. Ultimately, this exploration seeks to deepen our understanding of how the Holy Spirit not only initiates but also sustains our salvation and relationship with God.
In this enlightening episode, I embark on a profound exploration of the themes of faith, mercy, and communal support through prayer. I articulate the vital significance of having a community of believers who engage in prayerful advocacy for one another. This concept is beautifully illustrated by the narrative of Christ's crucifixion, wherein His initial utterance from the cross underscores the theme of mercy—an invitation for listeners to reflect on their own practice of forgiveness. Furthermore, I delve into theological discussions surrounding the book of Titus, emphasizing the essential role of the Holy Spirit in the process of regeneration and renewal. This segment encourages listeners to contemplate the multifaceted nature of salvation as a divine gift, rather than a human achievement. The episode culminates in an interactive segment that fosters community engagement through trivia and personal stories, allowing the audience to actively participate in the ongoing dialogue of faith.
Takeaways:
- Dr. David Spoon elucidates the integral role of the Holy Spirit in the multifaceted process of salvation.
- The concept of salvation is posited as a gift from God, involving the cooperative engagement of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- Through the washing of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, individuals are spiritually reborn, embodying the transformational nature of faith.
- Spoon emphasizes that salvation is not achieved through human righteousness, but rather through divine mercy and grace bestowed by Jesus Christ.
- The renewal process, facilitated by the Holy Spirit, is essential for maintaining a vibrant relationship with God post-salvation.
- Listeners are encouraged to acknowledge the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit in their spiritual lives and to seek continual renewal through prayer and faith.
Transcript
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Speaker A:We are in Titus, we are in chapter three.
Speaker A:We pretty much put an end to it in chapter five simply by talking about the simplicity that we are not saved by works of righteousness that we have done, but according to his mercy.
Speaker A:Now, I know people want to think that they deserve it and nobody you know, when you get a paycheck, you work for that paycheck.
Speaker A:But in salvation, that is an amount that you cannot attain to no matter how many works you accomplish.
Speaker A:And in case you're wondering, I just thought I'd drop this little statistical truth.
Speaker A:Between your words, your actions and your thoughts, you probably sin about 15 to 20 times a day.
Speaker A:Something contrary to the Lord.
Speaker A:I just want to point out that over an 80 year period, considering accountability, might start at the age of 12 or 13, you've pretty much sinned 292,000 times.
Speaker A:Don't tell me you have 292,000 good works.
Speaker A:It's just stupid.
Speaker A:But what we do have is according to the mercy that is in Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:How much mercy is in there?
Speaker A:Pastor Norris at the church Noel and I went to yesterday, did such a great job talking about what Jesus.
Speaker A:This series is what Jesus said on the cross.
Speaker A:And he made an excellent point.
Speaker A:He just simply said the first thing Jesus said was, father, forgive them.
Speaker A:They know not what they do.
Speaker A:Wow, that's the mercy.
Speaker A:Through the crucifixion, through the beating.
Speaker A:Beaten down so bad he couldn't even carry his own cross.
Speaker A:The first words uttered from the cross, father forgive.
Speaker A:That's mercy, folks.
Speaker A:That is mercy.
Speaker A:Some people have a hard time receiving mercy.
Speaker A:You know that, right?
Speaker A:You're thinking, well, what do you mean?
Speaker A:Well, It's Hebrews, chapter 4, verse 16.
Speaker A:We come with confidence to the throne of grace, to receive mercy and to find grace in our time of need again.
Speaker A:I know that Eric likes this story.
Speaker A:It's one of my favorite stories.
Speaker A:The pastor teaching about how he had this dream, and it was honey was being poured out from the heavens and landing on people.
Speaker A:And some people were looking at the honey, and they were looking at it, and it was so good.
Speaker A:Oh, it's good.
Speaker A:And other people were looking at it, trying to figure it out.
Speaker A:And then there's another group.
Speaker A:People are like, ooh, what is it?
Speaker A:What is it?
Speaker A:And when the pastor pursued the Lord, the Lord told him, that's my mercy.
Speaker A:Some people love it, some people try to analyze it, some people reject it, but that mercy saves us.
Speaker A:And then the next part of the verse says this, which is somehow we miss through the washing of regeneration and the renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:You know, that's the rest of verse five.
Speaker A:Uh oh, sounds like Dave might go off on a little theological tangent.
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Speaker A:Here it is.
Speaker A:It's not by works of righteousness we have done.
Speaker A:What do we know about our works of righteousness?
Speaker A:There is filthy rags before the eyes of God.
Speaker A:What do we know about the mercy?
Speaker A:Even on the cross, Jesus extends mercy to us.
Speaker A:He's a better savior than you are a sinner, right?
Speaker A:This happens through the washing of regeneration.
Speaker A:What is the washing of regeneration?
Speaker A:What does that mean?
Speaker A:To regenerate.
Speaker A:I'll help you out.
Speaker A:Are you born again?
Speaker A:That's regeneration, being born again.
Speaker A:Hey, how is it that you're born again?
Speaker A:Do you just put on different clothes or.
Speaker A:Or is it by the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus made the entire discussion of John chapter three about that it is through the born again by the spirit of God that you are simply washed of the regeneration.
Speaker A:You've been regenerated, made new, a new being through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:Isn't that cool?
Speaker A:That's totally cool.
Speaker A:Why is that important?
Speaker A:I need you to understand this because it's important.
Speaker A:Because the Holy Spirit's not a power force.
Speaker A:People are like, the Holy Spirit's just the energy.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker A:Because in Acts, chapter five, it says that Ananias and Sapphira lied to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:And the last time I looked, I couldn't look at my electricity in my house and go, man, you're looking smooth today.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You can't lie to energy, but you can lie to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:The Holy Spirit is a being, a personage.
Speaker A:And so it says, not by works as righteousness that we have done, but according to his mercy, through the washing of regeneration.
Speaker A:Without that washing of regeneration, you know what happens?
Speaker A:You never get to go.
Speaker A:Yes, Lord.
Speaker A:It's what reanimates you.
Speaker A:That's why they do the Frankenstein movies, for crying out loud.
Speaker A:The reanimation.
Speaker A:But it's taken place for us in the realm of the Spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:Then it says this.
Speaker A:You're not done yet.
Speaker A:The washing of regeneration and the renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:What's renewal?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Every year do you renew your tags on your car?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's renewal.
Speaker A:So not only do we get born again, and that's through the Holy Spirit poured upon us.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:By the righteous work of Jesus Christ, the mercy of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:Then alongside of that, we go through the renewal process.
Speaker A:Which is why Ephesians 5:18 says, Be filled with the Spirit.
Speaker A:The Holy Spirit's poured out on you at salvation.
Speaker A:Zero question there.
Speaker A:Cause you don't get part, you get all of God.
Speaker A:But we also need to maintain a fellowship with the Holy Spirit, a filling with the Holy Spirit, a renewal of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:And that's what the renewal by the Holy Spirit means.
Speaker A:What does all that have to do with any of this?
Speaker A:It's this simple.
Speaker A:Our salvation deeply involves, at every level, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, from start to the middle to the end.
Speaker A:Because salvation is a gift from God Almighty.
Speaker A:So we should be thank you, Father, thank you, Son, and thank you, Holy Spirit, who are all involved in our salvation every step of the way.
Speaker A:Get it?
Speaker A:That's what we're talking about when we're talking about washing of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:Verse 6.
Speaker A:He poured out his Spirit on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Speaker A:It all comes through Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:It all comes through the plan of the Father, through the Son, and by the Spirit.
Speaker A:Boy, if we could just figure that out, we would do so much better.
Speaker A:But then we get to fully understand why we're not supposed to grieve the Holy Spirit, not just quench the quench.
Speaker A:Well, that's different.
Speaker A:Don't quench and don't grieve.
Speaker A:Ephesians 4:30 on the grieving.
Speaker A:First Thessalonians 5:19 on the quenching.
Speaker A:What's quenching?
Speaker A:Cut it off.
Speaker A:What's grieving to make sad?
Speaker A:Not a power force.
Speaker A:It's a being.
Speaker A:This is how God manifests himself to us so we can get a handle.
Speaker A:He's operating on us in things we do not know, in ways we do not know, all so that we can know Him.
Speaker A:It's amazing.
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Speaker A:Who, with his 318 servants of his family, defeated the captors of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Speaker A:Who, with 318 of his servants, defeated the captors of Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Speaker A:Who, with 318 of his servants, defeated the captors of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Speaker A:The people that robbed them?
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Speaker A:It's pretty simple.
Speaker A:Who, with 318 of his servants, defeated the captors of Sodom and Gomorrah?
Speaker A:A big hint here would be they rescued all the people, including lot.
Speaker A:Genesis 14, 14, 15.
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Speaker A:Just to be honest about the effectiveness of the washing of regeneration, your rebirth into the kingdom of God, and the renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:Both of these activities by the Holy Spirit are part of the functionality.
Speaker A:And what I love is that people don't realize that you need God's help just to say, yes.
Speaker A:Oh, I know we make that decision and it's part of it, but if God didn't pull you towards him, it would never happen.
Speaker A:And then people are like, well, what about free will?
Speaker A:And what about predestination?
Speaker A:And what about this?
Speaker A:And what about this?
Speaker A:It's again, it's like peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker A:You need both to make the sandwich.
Speaker A:And people don't recognize that you have free will as far as you're concerned.
Speaker A:But because the Lord is omniscient, he knows every decision that's going to be made.
Speaker A:You can't take that from Him.
Speaker A:And so the idea behind this is to understand that you are still responsible for your decisions.
Speaker A:It's just that God knows your decisions, but you still make them.
Speaker A:So watch that.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:It's both sides.
Speaker A:That's why in Timothy it says this.
Speaker A:It says this, the Lord knows those that are His.
Speaker A:And this is the same verse.
Speaker A:And let everybody who calls on the name of the Lord.
Speaker A:In other words, we have a requirement to call on the name of the Lord, but He knows everybody.
Speaker A:That's His.
Speaker A:And that's in one verse.
Speaker A:That shows you it's two sides of the coin, heads and tail, so to speak.
Speaker A:And since he's the heads, we'll say his part's the head and our part's the tail.
Speaker A:We'll just say that that's just a nicer thing to say.
Speaker A:All right, and then that next part of the verse, he says this in verse six, it says, he poured out his spirit on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Speaker A:We get from God all that we need through Jesus, and what Jesus promised us is his help after his ascension.
Speaker A:If you not read Acts chapter one, you ought to, because it makes it a big, abundantly clear.
Speaker A:Now I have a minute and a half left.
Speaker A:Is that something we want to try?
Speaker A:I think that could be a tough answer to the trivia question.
Speaker A:Wait and see what Jacob says.
Speaker A:I don't know if we can pull that off yet.
Speaker A:So here's what we're going to do.
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Speaker A:See, this is me stalling on the radio.
Speaker A:People try and make things up.
Speaker A:No, I'm stalling.
Speaker A:This is what I'm doing.
Speaker A:So bottom line is I haven't read his signal yet and we're only 45 seconds away.
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Speaker A:Here's your question.
Speaker A:Straightforward.
Speaker A:Who rescued who?
Speaker A:Was it Abram?
Speaker A:Abram is the correct answer.
Speaker A:Not Abraham.
Speaker A:Abram.
Speaker A:Abram.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:I always do that, though.
Speaker A:I call him Abraham because I'm so used to it.
Speaker A:But this whole first section of what we do today, it's all Abram until his name is changed and then it's Abraham.
Speaker A:That is correct, Amundo.
Speaker A:But you are correct on the trivia question, sir, and you are brilliant by doing it.
Speaker A:Thank you very much.
Speaker A:Thank you, brother.
Speaker A:Love you and the Lord love you too, brother.
Speaker A:You have a great day.
Speaker A:Have a great show.
Speaker A:God bless.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Excellent job by Shel.
Speaker A:Yay.
Speaker A:All right, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker A:We're gonna take a break and then come back.
Speaker A:You're listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on Kaam 770, the truth station here in Texas.
Speaker A:Short break.
Speaker A:Don't go anywhere.
Speaker A:Like any person searching for answers, I too have wondered about him.
Speaker A:He has a weird sense of humor.
Speaker A:If people are seeking wisdom and insight from the great teachers around the world, would they go to David?
Speaker A:No, I don't think so.
Speaker A:Those big ears really don't help.
Speaker A:Will people enjoy his perspective on culture, politics, food, sports, and local and national news?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:He's just a client.
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Speaker A:Bibles are very cool looking.
Speaker A:You can have them electronically.
Speaker A:You can have them in your phone, you can have them in your computer.
Speaker A:There's tons of apps.
Speaker A:There's also cool looking book bibles.
Speaker A:I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there.
Speaker A:It's great.
Speaker A:Here's the bottom line.
Speaker A:All that's fancy and fantastic and useless if you don't read it and believe it and process it.
Speaker A:For those that are trying to figure out, first of all, well, why is it that the Bible is its own unique enemy?
Speaker A:What's the deal in that?
Speaker A:Well, the same breath that went into creating Adam, which was creating creation of man, that same breath went into the bible.
Speaker A:And so 2 Timothy 3:16 says, all scripture is God breathed.
Speaker A:That's the breath of God.
Speaker A:And the breath of God that went into Adam is the breath of God that goes into the book.
Speaker A:Which is why this is a unique book.
Speaker A:And then people get really upset and they go, well, hold on now, hold on now, Dave.
Speaker A:The problem there is that there's just so many people that have been a part of writing the Bible.
Speaker A:In fact, there's about 40 authors spanning about 3,000 years in all different types of positions in life.
Speaker A:But here's the great thing about Christian faith.
Speaker A:If you believe that God created the universe, you're going to step out on that big ledge and go, well, if he created the universe, he can probably write a book.
Speaker A:Well, the amazing part about the book itself is not just the self proclamations of the book, but you get into the prophecies and it's an amazing, amazing element that every single prophecy has been fulfilled.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:And yet there are some to come and we will see those fulfilled.
Speaker A:But while you're engaging in the Word of God, here's something you need to be aware of that Christians do not recognize, that that word where it says for the word of God is alive is zone in the Greek.
Speaker A:If we were doing a Greek word, that'd be zone.
Speaker A:And that word means alive to live.
Speaker A:Jesus used that word in Revelation 1:18 when he says, behold, I am alive, life and I live forevermore, same word, and the Word of God is alive.
Speaker A:And you think this is just a book.
Speaker A:It is just a book, except for when you're reading the Word of God and the Holy Spirit connects you to the Word of God, it becomes something altogether different.
