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So mu Spirit. And now we t mission of the Hol office: 1. He first of a ing presence. He reveals God's truth, making it a reality in the inmost being. He is intrusted to bring holiness to man. He testifies of Christ. He glorifies Christ. Of all the utterances of Jesus, none perplexed the disciples more than this: " Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.

Whe was at a material men. Through the this distance is a nearer now than w feet. How it must have staggered them! For three years He had gone in and out among them. They had listened to the music of words. They had gazed at the wonder of His deeds. Their dearest hopes were centered in' Him. But He declares His departure will be their gain.

It was an external presence and communion. Furthermore, His presence was localized, limited, and individualized. When He had taught His principles, when He had ordained and commissioned His disciples, and had offered Himself once for all, His bodily mission was fulfilled. And His. Thus our orpha desolation, no loneli personal presence of to the Holy Spirit, presence.

Read it: "The work of the great. It is from this s come to the worker for Comforter, as the pers soul. Wh Nov. The Holy Spirit session of the life. Through the ages past the Holy Spirit had been with men, but from Pentecost forward God's purpose was that He "shall be in you. The world receives Him not because it sees Him not. The world's devotion is to the visible, the material. But the Christian is to realize the personal occupancy and indwelling of God the Spirit.

The first and second persons of the Godhead now hold their residence on earth throu Q'h the third. He is the abiding representative.

The presence of the one involves the presence of the others. Thus we are made aware of Christ's presence. To know the Father we must know the Son Matt. So the Son reveals the Father, and the Spirit reveals the Son. For this, Jesus lived and died.. For want of this, the life of the disciple is honeycombed with failure, while the true Christian life is just Jesus living out His life in us.

We are to be charged with the sense of His presence. Henceforth He is the one, great, living reali ty, filling the whole horizon. The Son of man came into the world to unite the very life of God with the human life of man. When He completed His work by His obedience, death, and resurrection, He was exalted to His throne, that the Holy Spirit which had dwelt in Him might come as this all-prevailing sovereign presence, and the disciple becomes the participant of His very life.

Thus the life of the Creator penetrates the life of the creatures. Thus we find what the Holy Spirit is doing in us. And we never There was a gui who was said nev carried in his brea fine cord attached t as to the path to in the air, and th at the cord as it tr of home. So it led i and people called hi larly, the Holy Sp able and willing to so. The Holy Spiri the great fact of Teacher. Transformation of character is the testimony to the world of an indwelling Christ.

The Spirit of God produces a new life in the soul, bringing the thoughts and desires into obedience to the will of Christ; and the inward man is renewed in the image of God. H The Comforter i His work is to define a dwells in the heart as He becomes the Comf peace in the truth, but found in falsehood. Now He also does this for us,- He will guide us "into all truth. And He. It not the truth - the faithf great Searcher of hear characters of all. Chris t is Him-: self the truth John 6 , and none but the Spirit of truth can guide us to a realization of the chara cter and work, the suffering and death, of Christ.

When the Spirit of truth floods and illuminates the heart, the Bible becomes a new book. What light is to the marin er's compass at night, just that the Holy Spirit is to the word. The Prom Church. But he fo cente r of autho rity doctrine and admin i That "Jesu s is Lo of all Chris tian d grows out of it, bu Jesus is the Lord, 1 Cor. This basis of all our latte "Chri st, His char and circum ferenc e of al which the jewels of d found the complete sy White, in the Review a.

In this connection, it is most significant that Joel's prophecy of the promised early and latter rain gives as the marg inal readin g for He will send H forme r rain" Joel 2: 23 that " a teach er of righteousness. Even in Old Testa ment times the proph et wrote, " Thou gavest also Thy good Spirit to instru ct them. The seat of divine autho rity on earth is the Holy Spirit. Cardi nal Newman entered the Roman Church because he sought for ultimate autho rity, and he found a species of rest in the purpo rted autho rity of the Catholic.

The dis tantis m, without Prote stanti sm, is th true vicar or succ To depend qn organ dom of men, is to the divine, and in principle. There have been three great movements out of and away from the papacy,- the Reformation of the sixteenth century, headed by Luther; the evangelical revival led by Wesley and his associates; and this last-day message and movement.

Luther's Reformation was necessary, for in the early centuries the Holy Spirit was dethroned and Constantine was made the patron of the church. Through materialistic concepts they lost sight of justification by faith because they lost their loyalty to the Holy Spirit.

So they lost the application of the death. The evangelical revival was necessary because the church of the Reformation had lost its vision of sanctification, and Wesley was raised up to promote holiness. It was hidden because the church failed to heed the Holy Spirit.

He is so called, not because holier than the other persons of the Godhead, but because one of His special functions is to cultivate holiness in man. The fox-hunting parsons so common in the eighteenth century, cared little for God or for the salvation of souls. But Wesley and the Holy Club of Oxford brought forth again the truth of sanctification of human lives for service. This twentieth ce vent movement, was of God to complete reformations of the repudiation of all t by the papacy and r estantism on the on toration of the Hol sovereign place in b the other hand.

It this that brings the which we have been power of which still inevitable logic of th How we need to meet the situation! IV So much for the Holy Spirit's work with the believers. We turn now to His work with the unregenerate world. John 14 deals primarily with the Holy Spirit in the private life and preparation of the disciple. John 16 sets forth His work in connection with the worker's public labor and witnessing. In the first He is in the believer, and by tha,t indwelling there is union with Christ.

But the Holy Spirit also strives with the worldling as the Spirit of conviction. The coming of the Holy Spirit brings a new sense of sin to the soul.

Think back to the upper room, as the disciples were about to partake of the emblem of the body to be and the blood outpoured, yet quarreling over premier positions. This would have been absolutely impo'ssible if they had had a true. Ther in the lives of Ch on the basis of a sin involved. Strife malice, evil thinkin one another - these appalling lack of t to the epistles of Pe of John after Pent Holy Spirit had ma and the utter loath blackness of sin.

The outlook of t ness, judgment - t future. They are i Holy Spirit takes t and places them in t persons are involved So here is the hear and the problem of eousness always pr righteousness. And indispensable as we p and the first angel's stand without excuse timony of God agains We are baffled, b our utter inability to s. We cannot do it, for that is the Spirit's work. God calls every man to repentance, yet man cannot even repent unless the Holy Spirit works upon his heart.

H None are so vile, none have fallen so low, as to be beyond the working of this power. In all who will. He possesses no power by which this change can be effected. The leaven - something wholly from without - must be put into the meal before the desired change can be wrought in it.

So the grace of God must be received by the sinner before he can be fitted for the kingdom of glory. All the culture and education which the world can give, will fail of making a degraded child of sin a child of heaven.

The renewing energy must come from God. The change can be made only by the Holy Spirit. All who would be saved, high or low, rich or poor, must submit to the working of this power. But notice how,- when He is to come to you, He will convict the world! As, Spiritfilled, we go out into all the world in this hour of the judgment to plead with men, the Spirit will go with us, witnessing to the message, convincing of sin as the reprover, and revealing righteousness only in Christ.

He convicts not. Th the law. It involves other transgressions, sies. Thus the thr prophet, priest, and threefold conviction Conscience brings while the Holy Spiri hope. The same win into restless heaps, q calm. Not conscien minated by the Holy the world's need.

No hand of the Father h eousness for us. H offenses," He "was r tification" Rom. The Holy Spirit's work is to convict men of the terrible sin of rejecting Christ -" of sin, because they believe not on Me.

See also John 3: That is the issue, and it involves all else. The one supreme responsibility of the sinner is the personal rejection of the all-sufficient life and death of Jesus. God has caused man's eternal salvation to hinge on faith in Jesus Christ. This unbelief is the mother of all sin. The problem of all human destiny is the attainment unto the righteousness of God, for without this no man can stand in the presence of God.

Christ was made H sin for us," that" we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. This is the issue in salvation, and not merely the question of our outward moral life. And this must be the heart of our message as we lift up the standard and vindicate the downtrodden law of God in this rebellious generation. How we need the power of the Holy Spirit to give authority to the presentation of the awful truths of final judgment, the inevitable day of wrath impending, and the triumph of righteousness to empower the message of the remnant church!

Men go about to H establish their own righteousness" rather than come. And to the all-sufficient is veiled, it is veil whom the god of t minds of the unbeli gospel of the glory of God, 'should not 4 : 3, 4, A. Thank God for come as. No c the work of Christ of sin, so no repent Lord Jesus Christ, a no balm for the tr liverance from the and Guide - Just orp in a hostile world! But, oh, Jesus us than that! Thr done His best for our best to Him. Titian, the great painter, met a young soldier with a gift of art that seemed promising.

He urged him to give up his military life and devote his talents to painting. This he did, and labored long upon an ambitious painting. But he came to a point where he felt that his genius had failed. In despair, he threw down his brush. Titian found him weeping in despair. The master artist didn't ask the reason, but going into the studio, realized, as he looked at the painting, that the lad had reached his limit.

So Titian took up the brush, andremained at work until he finished the picture. The next day the young man came to the studio resolved to tell Titian he would try art no more. But as he entered, there on the easel stood the finished picture.

That wherein he had failed he saw that a master hand had made up. He knew instinctively that his master had completed it. With tears of appreciation he said to himself: "I cannot abandon my art. I must continue for Titian's sake. He has done so much for me,. I must forget myself and live for him; for now his fame is my fame. He has done his best for me; I will do my best for him.

Use me in time's last hour, Maste r divine ; Fit me for service , Lord, Thy love to tell. So it rightfu lly belongs with these studie s on the Holy Spiri t. U THEN opened He might understand the Thus it is written, and t and to rise from the d pentance and remission His name among all na And ye are witnesses o send the promise of My in the city of Jerusalem from on high.

And Bethany, and He lifted And it came to pass, parted from them, and they worshiped Him, a great joy: and were co and blessing God. Wben they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And He said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitudes came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And they were all and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by. The Script the prophet Joel: And it days, saith God, I will all flesh: and your so prophesy, and your you your old men shall drea and on My handmaidens of My Spirit; and they s " And it shall come call on the name of the L " This Jesus hath are witnesses.

Therefor God exalted, and havin promise of the Holy Gh which ye now see and h "Therefore let all suredly, that God hath ye have crucified, both they heard this, they we said unto Peter and to and brethren, what sha unto them, Repent, and the name of Jesus Christ ye shall receive the gift promise is unto you, an that are afar off, even shall call.

THE COMIN Jesus w about Him through tian church, He d venerable schools exclusive circle of t send to Greece, the culture, for His dis Rome, the home of tary prowess, to fi trod the shining sho humble men whose admit the Lord o finally be willing t might be everythin Holy Spirit could w sophistry, or selfish Yet to bring the mind and heart was during Christ's phys was it accomplishe years they listened They heard from the gospel.

They siah's mission. T of the old, while new. Their love a intense. They had They knew the r fact. Yet they w appointed work. In handing ov the apostles after H and He was ready there were three th. If all that men needed was a Teacher, and lessons of divine wisdom, then the disciples should have been of all men best qualified to carry out the great commission to evangelize all nations immediately upon Christ's ascension. Yet with all their priceless privileges they were wholly unqualified, as the strife for supremacy, the forsaking, the denial, and the despair so clearly indicate.

They were wholly unfitted for their designated task until they had received the great equipment promised. Jesus gave them life, but not power; truth, but not the efficacy of truth when with them on earth. For a little time the cross extinguished their hope. They had followed Him whom they' loved. Then they sa w the detested Romans scourge that blessed back and pierce those holy hands and feet.

They were utterly overcome as they saw Him expire on the cross. How sincere was their sad sigh, "We hoped that it was He who should redeem Israel. They did not see that His death meant life to them. They did not understand that apparent defeat was the way to victory, and that darkness was the price of light. Even after the resurrection they asked, "Wilt Thou at this time restore again. Therefore th all nations, " bapti of the Father and Spirit, through wh plied.

We hav belated now. Jesus them to tarry in Jer dowed with power fr in the Review and H " The preaching without the continu Spirit. This is the truth. Only when t heart by the Spirit, transform the Iife. They were to teach the observance of all things.

But this could be done only through the ministry of the divine Teacher, Remembrancer, and Guide foretold in John 26 and Yet when Christ ascended, He left the disciples in utter impotence amid the deadly enmity of the world. The one thing needful was power from on high, the power of the promised Holy Spirit. And the one thing they were told to do was to wait for the coming of the promised Spirit.

How tragically hopeless everything would have been without the power. Thus we read Christ's last command: "Behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. The words were uttered by none other than the same Lord who had just said, " Go ye! And He was talking to the preachers, teachers, pastors, evangelists, whom He had called and commissioned. If divine power does not combine with human effort, I would not give a straw for all that the greatest man could do.

The Holy Spirit is wanting in our work. White, in the Review and Herald, Feb. The same insp the narrative of. The Lord is not in a hurry, though men may be. God sent Moses into the desert for forty years to fit him for his task, when he was already forty years of age, and the children of Israel were smarting under the lash of the taskmaster and waiting for a deliverer. As in the exodus movement, so in the advent movement, God will fit His leaders and ministers before He delivers His people from spiritual Egypt.

He sent Paul into Arabia for three years, after the vision of his Lord, preparing him for the first world-mission movement, and the ancient world was waiting in darkness. Is less demanded in the last world-mission move,:,,' ment? Jesus spent thirty years preparatory for three and a half years' work. If our sinless Lord did not enter upon His public ministry until He was specifically anointed by the Holy Spirit, how dare sinful, fallible men attempt to win souls without being filled with the Spirit?

How dare we rush in to work where Jesus, apostles, and prophets feared to tread? Pierson has " Acts" should be Holy Spirit. The discip choosing of the t selections personal others. But Jesu had told the apos until" the promise to wait, to tarry. The Co A minister is n God unless called Spirit. And there is a as well as of perso.. He gave some, and some. But they selected certain names, and proceeded to cast lots upon them before the Lord, and Matthias was declared elected.

God does not forsake, even though man is disobedient. He is so long-suffering. But evidently Matthias was never the Holy Spirit's real choice. Jesus had gone, the divine Administrator had not yet come, and a valid election was impossible. The disciples should have waited; but they proceeded with the appointment. Two years later Saul of Tarsus was the one called of God. In the foundations of the New Jerusalem, in which are engraved the names of the twelve apostles, the name of Paul will undoubtedly appear as the twelfth.

It is no more possible to rightly appoint an officer of the church than to preach a sermon, save by the Spirit of God. Too often there is a show of hands instead of a prayerful waiting for the direction of the Holy Spirit, a substitution of the voice of human choice instead of the voice of the Spirit. But a show of hands is of little value unless they are stretched out toward Him who holdeth the stars of the churches in His hand.

Unless the Paraclete chooses and uses and blesses, all is in vain. If there were less diplomacy and more prayer, less manipUlating and more pleading, the Holy Spirit would have greater opportunity to indicate His will. For the church or a committee to take it upon itself to fill offices according to its own preference and will, is nothing short of an affront to the Holy Spirit.

The Jerusalem council was a type of all true councils, and of the decisions we read: "It seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things.

This was true read in the Acts of 2 ; sent forth 9 ; sustained 28 ; and forbade 1 12 the thought is it the diversities of gi pointed by "one a See verses It is to be observed that the Holy Spirit's choice is first.

Pentecost was the Installation Day of the Holy Spirit as the divine administrator of the church. The Holy Spirit is the true and only vicar of Christ on earth. And the entire administration of the church is committed to Him until Christ returns in glory at the second advent. From the day of Pentecost onward He has occupied an entirely new position. But He can fully work only through men who have given Him full possession of their lives, and over whom He is able to exercise absolute control.

How hard it easy to think we a on the Holy Spirit we go to work for an unction from Go running before one without unction. One is forced to case of thousands t and direct command together too few hav equipment for Chris suaded that this is confess it has been m until we are "endu through us in five dued, than we can d true love begins at begins at our person " Legal religion will may perform all the ou be as destitute of the qu Spirit as the hills of Gil rain.

If It is our privilege to take God at His word. As Jesus was about to leave His disciples, to ascend into heaven, He commissioned them to bear the gospel message to all nations, tongues, and peoples. He told them to tarry in Jerusalem till they were endued with power from on high.

This was essential to their success. The holy unction must come upon the servants of God. Although Christ had given the promise to His disciples that they should receive the Holy Spirit, this did not remove the necessity of prayer.

They prayed all the more earnestly; they continued in prayer with one accord. Those who are now engaged in the solemn work of preparing a people for the coming of the Lord, should also continue in prayer.

The early disciples were of one accord. They had no speculations, no curious theory to advance as to how the promised blessing was to come. They were one in faith and spirit.

They were agreed. Our temptation is to perpetual activity, to the exclusion of time im? We contend that we are tardy with our task. Men are dying, and we face the last crisis; so we worK on frenziedly, much like the toiling disciples who labored all night and caught nothing. But in the early gray of the dawn, a few minutes in the direct presence and under the specific.

And notice that t at Jerusalem, with i crowded streets - th fied their Lord only a still hostile in its hat that had spurned and over which Christ ha Jerusalem, which stonest them that.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. It was the last place in the world they would ever think of. It proves God can bless people anywhere. If they had gone into the quiet country, the mountains of Judea, or the shores of Galilee, out of touch with the crying needs of humanity, they would have been tempted selfishly to remain there, as Peter suggested at the transfiguration, forgetful of a world's desperate need.

Now we come to the marvelous words of Acts 1: 8: "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Jesus had redirected their thoughts into a new channel moving from Himself as center, and with the new concept of the Holy Spirit as the administrator or divine executive of the.

Godhead in the new d were lifted from the e spiritual. It was a w before them, and Pen on that basis. Their include the world. Dur when the vision was Holy Spirit has never Now for forty years been living in the ti On March 29, 18 passed over the vas remarkable thicknes The wind broke it cakes of ice to form entrance to Niagara had piled up a wall s of Lake Erie was bl passed over the fall and history records Niagara.

But unde sun the ice barrier power of Niagara f God for the returnin. Coming from the Greek word dunamis, from which we derive dynamic, dynamite, dynamo, it is most vital and suggestive. Only by this dunamis can the adamant walls of indifference, sin, formalism, and selfishness be blasted through. Only by this dunamis can come the power that will speed up the wheels of this divinely appointed machinery of the advent movement.

Only through this dunamis are the human wires that are designed to carry the heavenly current, "alive. Think now of three phases: The power needed; the nature of the power available; the purpose for which it is bestowed.

And that is the power we nee4,heavenly power, not human, natural, or earthly. Power from outside achieve what we ca Those apostles neede spiritual power to l standing the fleshly in the flesh. Power serve acceptably, a needed the power of Tremendous forces Persecution awaited t ing they had forsak needed intellectual p norance and inabilit mission and their tas in service to accom they were to aim.

The root idea of and women carryin power of the Holy service. It is indi power, incomparable personal power, and power is measured b the Holy Spirit is H that power. Christ Spirit as an influenc or mercy. The Hol desires to live in us,. It is not given to us, but to Him. As we receive Him, we are empowered both to will and to work. But we cannot have the power without having the Holy Spirit Himself. He is the dispenser and the agent. He comes, not for me to use, but as an all-powerful Person who desires to use me.

The final choice rests with me as to whether I shall limit the power of H the Holy One. Originally God put power in the hands of man, but he lost it through the fall.

God cannot now intrust us with it. But He has put "all power" in Christ, who administers it through the Holy Spirit. And He bestows it on us in Him. N or is the power given merely for the asking. There are conditions to be met. We have something to do before we are ready to relater. But the ceive it. This will be laws of power are fixed laws. In the spiritual realm, as in the physical, whenever you obey the law of power, the power is pledged to operate.

Think now of the nature of the power available. It is not intellectual force, as manifested in mighty eloquence. There were greater orators and more learned men in the audience at Pentecost than was Peter. A man may move his fellows by his eloquence and persuasiveness. The hig falls short of the lo power.

To electrify to bring them truly Jesus is quite anoth the. But thi appeal to the emoti fusion here. Tears inherently holier th program. Even th 7. It is not mere abstract truth as such, but the power of the Holy Spirit witnessing to the truth, that produces spiritual results.

Often these expedients of the flesh are a hindrance to the effectual working of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit-filled soul winner is frequently. Not until all confidence in enticing speech has been put away, can God use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

Often it is the plainest speech uttered by the humblest instruments that is most markedly used. Rhetoricians can never teach us the secret of the Holy Spirit's power.

Immersion in the divine word, and utter abandonment into the hands of God, to be subject solely to His will and swayed by His Spirit, is the one true pathway to spiritual power.

Paul learned this lesson. In his masterful oration at Athens he met log-ic with logic and philosophy with philosophy. But he left no church -there, and there is no epistle to the Athenians. But there are two addressed to the Corinthian church. Coming to them, Paul said, " I deter-. This is the. Next think of power is bestowed. T attorney must give is simpler. It is seen, heard, or exp speak that we do have seen. Dead men in the rigging, dead men at the helm, dead men in the bunks, drifting in silence across the dismal sea.

There is many a formal church with a dead man in the pUlpit and dead souls in the pews, so far as the vibrant life of the Holy Spirit is concerned. And the finger from heaven writes, "Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. What then is the nature of this power, and how does it operate? The power of the Holy Spirit convicts of sin. It makes the hearers see themselves as God sees them. It sends people home, not admiring the preacher, but agitated, troubled, often vowing never to hear him again.

Yet they know in their souls that he is right and they are wrong. It is the power of conviction which says to the heart, " Thou art the man. The personal power of God arraigns the sinner before the bar of justice, and wrongs are righted and confessions made. Then the power of the Holy Spirit lifts up Christ and makes Him real to the hearers.

Some sermons leave a vivid impression of truth. Others leave an imperishable consciousness of.