and the Spirit’s words; not my words, bring life to sinners who are dead in their trespasses and sins. Jesus stood firmly in the historic heritage of prophetic preaching as the ultimate fulfillment and incarnation of all that the prophets in the Old Testament stood for as the mouthpieces of God. The Old Testament is replete with examples of the Spirit empowering God’s prophets for proclamation. Numbers 11:25 mentions that the Spirit “rested” on the seventy elders and they “prophesied.” In Numbers
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