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Carefully mine the New Testament gospels and the book of Acts to understand what the Holy Spirit meant in the lives of early believers with Craig Keener. Christianity did not arise in a vacuum, but rather it appropriated, modified, and utilized the Jewish understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. By understanding the world in which Christianity emerged, we can better understand the earliest...

are expected to do the same. Both facets of the kingdom occur in conflict with Satan and his demonic realm of sin in the present age, the tension generated by the eruption of the age to come into history. In modern terms, a Spirit-empowered disciple is to be a charismatic post-tribulationist, taking seriously Jesus’ claims to a radical faith that both delivers people from the clutch of Satan’s kingdom and suffers the apocalyptic pangs that are the cost of this battle. Mark is not opposed to signs,
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