Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work — John Shaqi
Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and WorkMoody, Dwight Lyman
Religion
Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Baptism in the Holy Spirit; Christian life; Holy Spirit
They haven't taught "all things." They have left out some of the
things that Christ has commanded us to teach, because they didn't
correspond with man's reason. Now we have to take the Word of God just
as it is; and if we are going to take it, we have no authority to take
out just what we like, what we think is appropriate, and let dark
reason be our guide.
It is the work of the Spirit to impress the heart and seal the
preached word. His office is to take of the things of Christ and
reveal them unto us.
Some people have got an idea that this is the only dispensation of the
Holy Ghost; that He didn't work until Christ was glorified. But Simeon
felt the Holy Ghost when he went into the temple. In 2d Peter, i. 21,
we read: "Holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
We find the same Spirit in Genesis as is seen in Revelation. The same
Spirit that guided the hand that wrote Exodus inspired also the
epistles, and we find the same Spirit speaking from one end of the
Bible to the other. So holy men in all ages have spoken as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.
HIS PERSONALITY.
I was a Christian a long time before I found out that the Holy Ghost
was a person. Now this is something a great many don't seem to
understand, but if you will just take up the Bible and see what Christ
had to say about the Holy Spirit, you will find that He always spoke
of Him as a person--never spoke of Him as an influence. Some people
have an idea that the Holy Spirit is an attribute of God, just like
mercy--just an influence coming from God. But we find in the
fourteenth chapter of John, sixteenth verse, these words: "And I will
pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter that He may
abide with you forever." That _He_ may abide with you forever. And,
again, in the same chapter, seventeenth verse: "Even the Spirit of
Truth, whom the world can not receive, because it seeth Him not,
neither knoweth Him; but ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you and
shall be in you." Again, in the twenty-sixth verse of the same
chapter: "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."
Observe the pronouns "He" and "Him." I want to call attention to this
fact that whenever Christ spoke of the Holy Ghost He spoke of Him as a
person, not a mere influence; and if we want to honor the Holy Ghost,
let us bear in mind that He is one of the Trinity, a personality of
the Godhead.
THE RESERVOIR OF LOVE.
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