SNT 0969 Zealous for His House
Zealous for His House June 10, 1979 SNT 969 (Act 2:3); Joh 2:13-16 Joh 2:15-17; Psa 69:9 Zealous for His House Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille Sunday Night Teaching – 0969 Take your Bibles tonight, please, and go to the Gospel of John. I've a very simple little message for you tonight that I think will bless you as I think most of the messages are simple that are taught from the greatness of the Word from this location. There’s a record in the Gospel of John that changed many things in my life, and I thought tonight I’d share that with you. Again, my background, my life is just like a lot of peoples. Like yours. You can’t go beyond what you’re taught. And we have pictures in our mind, things we have seen that have been pictured to us. We had a major discussion this week, this past week that had . . . It centered around the symbol of the holy spirit. Because we just finished Pentecost, and here I’ve been teaching this for years and I thought everybody understood it. And then Mrs. Wierwille came to see me for breakfast one morning, and we got to talking about it and she didn’t understand it. And I thought, oh my God, I live with that woman, you know. {laughter} And I teach this to every class, you know, how in Acts 2 the, “tongues… as of fire, and it sat upon each [one] of them.” [1] And then when we got to talking about it, she had just never seen that, the greatness of the tongues of fire. And I got to thinking, well, my goodness we’re so conditioned by pictures. You see, every time you see Pentecost, it’s the flame going up. But in the Word of God, it’s the flame coming down. That fire, “like as of fire . . .” it says in Acts, “sat upon each of them.” Right? How many ‘each’ were there? {twelve} Twelve. So it’s the splitting. It’s the cloven tongues like as of fire. It came down this way. It didn’t go up that way, it came down this way and it split out into 12 – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. All the front row. There it is, coming down, splitting out. “Cloven tong
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Tweet Topic: speaking in tongues, Pentecost, sacrifice, lp , logospedia,podbean Format: audio, doc, pdf Publication Date: 06-10-1979 Pages: 5 Victor Paul Wierwille was a Bible scholar and teacher for over four decades. By means of Dr. Wierwille's dynamic teaching of the accuracy and integrity of God's Word, foundational class and advanced class graduates of Power for Abundant Living have learned that the one great requirement for every student of the Bible is to rightly divide the Word of Truth. Thus, his presentation of the Word of God was designed for students who desire the in-depth-accuracy of God’s Word. In his many years of research, Dr. Wierwille studied with such men as Karl Barth, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, Bishop K.C. Pillai, and George M. Lamsa. His formal training included Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from Mission House (Lakeland) College and Seminary