To go directly to Amazon’s Kindle download of my new book, click on the following link.

https://amzn.to/35JpSd2.

This does not require you to buy the book, but it does give you an opportunity to read a free preview.

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Today’s email from the Pentecostal Publishing House offers further information about my newest book, The Holy Spirit: A Commentary. It also features a video of my interview with Kaleb Saucer, Director of Sales and Marketing for the UPCI Division of Publications.

To view the interview, click on the link below. After clicking, you may need to log in to a Google email account.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwJXxrvvDQcqddDHVbJdxSPBbbd

The interview will also be offered as a seminar during this week’s general conference of the UPCI. It can be viewed on Friday during the 9:00 – 11:50 a.m. time slot. The seminar is titled “The Holy Spirit Interview with Kaleb Saucer and Daniel Segraves.”

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Proverbs 9:7 (NKJV) — 7 “He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.

When there is no point in reproof or rebuke. It does no good to correct a scoffer or to rebuke a deliberately wicked person. Prudence, caution, and tact are needed in dealing with this kind of person. Such a scoffer or wicked person, when corrected or rebuked, will often resort to finding supposed inconsistencies and sins in the person who is correcting and rebuking him. Jesus addressed this situation in Matthew 7:6.

Matthew 7:6 (NKJV) — 6 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

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Proverbs 9:3–6 (NKJV) — 3 She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city, 4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, 5 “Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed. 6 Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.

Wisdom’s invitation. Wisdom, both directly and through the delegated efforts of others (such as evangelists, pastors, teachers, witnesses), invites and actually urges people to come to her banquet. (See Matthew 22:2-4.) With such an invitation, there is no need for anyone to stay “simple” or to continue to lack understanding. But those who would gain wisdom must “turn in.” They must make the turn. (See Isaiah 55:1-3; John 6:51-63; I Corinthians 1:24, 30).

Only those who have wisdom really live. Anything else is a living death. It is mere existence. To live spiritually, a person must forsake something, namely spiritual foolishness. It is not merely a matter of forsaking, however. There is no place for inactivity or stagnation. After forsaking, we must go. We must pursue wisdom. Understanding is a way of life.

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Today’s email from the Pentecostal Publishing House announces new books, including my The Holy Spirit: A Commentary. If you click on the link below, it will take you to pentecostalpublishing.com, where you can read a free preview.

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https://pentecostalpublishing.com/collections/books/products/the-holy-spirit

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Proverbs 9:2 (NKJV) — 2 She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also furnished her table.

Wisdom’s banquet. Wisdom has a satisfying and attractive banquet prepared for all who will come and dine.

Psalm 23:5 (NKJV) — 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.

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Proverbs 9:1 (NKJV) — 1 Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;

The two houses. Both folly and wisdom are pictured as having a house. Folly has a house to which she seduces her victims through sensual promises. Wisdom has a house to which she invites pupils for instruction. The house of wisdom has seven pillars. The number seven symbolizes divine fullness, perfection, and completeness. It comes from a Hebrew word meaning “to be complete, to be full, to be satisfied, to have enough.” By contrast, the house of folly is incomplete, imperfect, unsatisfying.

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Proverbs 8:36 (NKJV) — 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”

Why some love death. Those who reject wisdom hurt only themselves. It is impossible to be neutral in this area. Those who hate wisdom actually love death, because a lack of spiritual wisdom surely leads to destruction.

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I am very happy to announce that my newest book, The Holy Spirit: A Commentary is now available as a Kindle download at amazon.com and also as an Apple Book.

I began work on this project in the fall of 2018, and it is a joy to see it completed. The book has forty-four chapters, seven appendices, and thirty pages of notes in a total of 314 pages.

The book is also available in hardcover at pentecostalpublishing.com.

 

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