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Holy Spirit in 1 and 2 Thessalonians

Jonathan Jenkins February 4, 2026

We have seen in previous essays how the spread of the prophetic powers into new fields of preaching was integral to the spread of the church. The Spirit’s powers were essential in Jerusalem, Samaria, with Cornelius, and to defend the work of Paul’s first missionary journey. Is it reasonable to think that the same emphasis about the work of the Holy Spirit would be missing from the first epistle written to one of the first apostolically planted churches among the Gentiles in Europe?

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Marriage is Golden

God’s greatest and most cherished creation of the universe is not found in the unimaginable and immeasurable expanse of space. It does not soar in the freedom of the sky or wander in the protected passages deep in the seas. It is proclaimed and glorified in the love of home and family. Its power is experienced in the most intricately crafted piece of God’s creation: Marriage.

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Jonathan Jenkins February 17, 2022

Deconstructing the Church

For a generation, we have tried to make our services as polished as possible. There are very few large churches of Christ with ugly preachers. Smooth and dynamic has been the fashion for a long time. It is phony, plastic, imitation, and we know it. “Throw it out. Get small. Home churches are the answer.”

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Jonathan Jenkins December 20, 2021

What is the Mystery of God?

Overcoming this prejudice was the first major hurdle for Christianity. The prophets proclaimed the universal nature of the body of Jesus. All nations would come to be a part of this body (Isaiah 2:2-4). The Gentiles who were not God’s people would be His people in this church (Amos 9:11-12, Acts 15:16-18). Until this was accomplished, the church would not fulfill God’s eternal purpose to unite all things under the authority of Jesus.

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Jonathan Jenkins January 16, 2026

Additional “Spirit” Verses from Isaiah to Malachi

Several verses from Isaiah – Malachi, which deserve some comment, were not included in the main body of Essay #2. These verses were excluded from the primary text because there exists in them some ambiguity about whether the “spirit” in the verse is actually the Holy Spirit, the Spirit’s function in the text may not involve man, or some similar consideration.

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Jonathan Jenkins January 14, 2026

Additional “Spirit” Verses in the Gospel Accounts

The first two references to the Holy Spirit in the New Testament point to His work in the creation of the body of Jesus. His work in these verses is clearly a direct expression of the divine power and is in line with what is seen in the rest of the gospel accounts.

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Jonathan Jenkins January 15, 2026

The Resistible Grace of the Holy Spirit

Within their theology, Calvinists have a perfectly consistent mechanism to address the problem of people who cannot receive the things of the Spirit. They simply assert that the Spirit overrides the depravity of the human condition and forces salvation upon them. Centuries ago, John Calvin “solved” this problem the only way possible. In time, our preachers will also come to the same conclusion. From where they stand now, without turning back, Calvin’s conclusion is inescapable.

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Jonathan Jenkins January 27, 2022

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This is a personal ministry of Eric Owens and Jonathan Jenkins. We started our web streaming efforts in about 2002. DBS has been through several phases for the years. When 2020 turned upside down on all of us, Eric and Jonathan thought that an ongoing series lessons focused on connecting God’s people to Him and each other would be encouraging in hard time. For 4 years we ran the nightly CONNECT online gospel meeting featuring over 200 gospel preachers. Most of those lessons are preserved in the video library on our site. We continue our 20 year history of livestreamed Bible studies today.

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