Waking Jonah

Pastor Andrew Arrowood from Valley Lighthouse in Van Nuys, CA discusses the “new birth” as revealed in Scripture…

[Part 7 of an 11-Part series]

Ministry: Valley Lighthouse of Van Nuys, CA
Full Podcast: 2008-06-17 – 1930 – Pastor Arrowood – The New Birth
Date: 6/17/08
Speaker: Andrew Arrowood
Notes: John 14:10-11 – “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.”; John 10:30 – “I and my Father are one.”; John 14:8-11 – “Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. “; John 14:15-20 – “If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.“; Is there any doubt that when you look at Christ you are not looking at the junior version of God, but you are looking at the God of the Old Testament robed in the flesh of humanity?… And when you receive the Spirit–the Holy Ghost–in your life, you are not receiving the third member, but rather you are receiving a portion of the very Spirit of the Old Testament–the very Spirit that made Jesus God?; John 14:25-27 – “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”; Jesus said “I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.”; The Holy Ghost is Jesus in spirit form; These three titles refer to the different roles of the one God–He is the Father in creation, Son in redemption, Holy Ghost in His body the church; 2 Corinthians 5:19 – “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”; It rings true with the Old Testament… Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD“; Isaiah 9:6 – “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”; When you receive Jesus you are receiving the God of the Old Testament… when you receive the Holy Ghost, you are receiving the Spirit that was in Christ; There are not three… there is not four… there isn’t even five… there’s only One–”Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD”

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Andrew Arrowood

Pastor Andrew Arrowood from Valley Lighthouse in Van Nuys, CA discusses the “new birth” as revealed in Scripture…

[Part 6 of an 11-Part series]

Ministry: Valley Lighthouse of Van Nuys, CA
Full Podcast: 2008-06-17 – 1930 – Pastor Arrowood – The New Birth
Date: 6/17/08
Speaker: Andrew Arrowood
Notes: What about Matthew 28:19? – “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost“; Matthew 28:19 was obeyed in Acts 2:38; The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are titles, not names; Many simply repeat the Lord’s command found in 28:19, instead of actually obeying it; Jesus didn’t say “This is how I want you to baptize them… using this formula”, He said “Go baptize them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”; They were not confused about the Godhead–they had full clarity that Jesus was the Jehovah of the Old Testament robed in flesh; They understood that there was a name that was above every name, and that name was Jesus… and that the name of Jesus was the name of the God of the Old Testament, the man that was standing in front of them, and the Spirit of the man that was going to fill them on the day of Pentecost; They understood that this was just one God, and when you evoke the name of Jesus you are evoking the name of that one God; What is the name of the Father?… John 5:43 – “I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.”; The name of the Father is Jesus; What is the name of the Son?… John 20:31 – “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”; What is the name of the Holy Ghost?… John 14:26 – “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”; The Holy Ghost is not a name, it is a title for the Spirit of God in the church today… Father is not a name, it is a title for the Creator that we understood from the very beginning… Son is not a name, it’s just a title for a role that He was playing… he was coming as the Son in redemption; This is one of the most beautiful revelations of the Bible… the message of who Jesus really is; The name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost is Jesus; The disciples never had a single conflict over baptism in the New Testament… they all did it the same way and preached it the same way–they were not confused, because they understood the oneness of God

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[Part 55 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine
Date: 5/5/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: 2 Peter 1:3 – “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue“; Peter is writing before there is even a recognized New Testament, and he is admonishing the church that the teaching of the Apostles is adequate and sufficient; The early church recognized the danger in departing from the teaching of the Apostles–there is an attempt to look backwards to the doctrine that is already living in the church, not look forward to the ongoing development of new theology; When it comes to basic doctrinal principles, it’s always a look backwards to what was originally taught; Colossians 2:6-10 – “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power“; If you only have the New Testament, and you stop right there and believe that… how in the world can you get what we get out of creeds and councils?–it’s not possible

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Rodney Shaw

[Part 45 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Quote from Edith Blumhofer, Assemblies of God Pentecostal scholar (Assemblies of God are trinitarian and do not believe that Spirit baptism is essential); If you follow the restorationist hermeneutic (understanding of Scripture) that Pentecostalism started with, oneness Pentecostals follow it more rigidly than the rest; Pentecostalism is trying to restore the apostles’ doctrine, but trinitarian Pentecostals borrowed a whole bunch of things from mainline Christianity; Oneness Pentecostals backed up and evaluated all of it through the lens of Scripture; History is not our authority for doctrine–all history does is show us the extent to which people have been faithful to Scripture; The authority rests on Scripture

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Rodney Shaw

[Part 44 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: Frank Ewart said the apostles’ practice (of baptizing in Jesus’ name) was linked to their understanding that Jesus Christ was God manifested in flesh, not just one person of God manifested in flesh; Ewart claimed that the name of Jesus Christ was invoked in baptism by the apostles in full obedience to Matthew 28:19–they knew exactly what they were doing; We only have record of people being baptized in the New Testament in the name of Jesus; On April 15th, 1914, Ewart preached his first message on Acts 2:38, declaring that repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues is New Testament salvation; He also associated the name of Jesus in baptism with the “oneness” of God; Divergence in Pentecostal history between trinitarian Pentecostals and oneness Pentecostals; Ewart and his fellow minister, Glen Cook, re-baptized each other in Jesus’ name; Standing against an established tradition–the Anabaptists got killed for doing this stuff; 300 years earlier in Europe, Frank Ewart and Glen Cook would have been killed

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Rodney Shaw

[Part 42 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]

Ministry: New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement
Date: 4/28/10
Speaker: Rodney Shaw
Topics: William Durham got the conversation going for people trying to get back to what Scripture says–back to what New Testament salvation is; The next big issue in the Pentecostal movement–”the new issue”; The entire Pentecostal movement is founded on restorationist principles; Charles Parham asked the question, “What does the Bible say about Spirit baptism?”; Processing everything through Scripture instead of history and creeds; The “new issue” leads to Jesus’ name baptism and an acknowledgment of the “oneness” of God; Christocentric worship, theology, and vocabulary; Exaltation/elevation of the name of Jesus; Before the “new issue”, there were already some who baptized invoking the name of Jesus Christ–Charles Parham, Andrew Urshan, etc.

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Rodney Shaw