The Person and Work of The Holy SpiritTorrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer)
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The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer)
Holy Spirit
to this holy and Christlike woman the entire control of the place, she
would go. And as sinful and selfish and imperfect as we may be, the
infinitely Holy Spirit is ready to come and take His dwelling in our heart
if we will surrender to Him the absolute control of our lives, and allow
Him to bring everything in thought and fancy and feeling and purpose and
imagination and action into conformity with His will. The infinitely Holy
Spirit is ready to come into our churches, however imperfect and worldly
they may be now, if we are willing to put the absolute control of
everything in His hands. But let us never forget that He is _the Holy_
Spirit, and when we pray for Him let us pray for Him as such.
XI. _The Holy Spirit of Promise._
The Holy Spirit is called _the Holy Spirit of promise_ in Eph. i. 13, R.
V., “In whom ye also, having heard the Word of truth, the Gospel of your
salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with _the Holy
Spirit of promise_.” We have here the same name as that given above with
the added thought that this Holy Spirit is the great promise of the Father
and of the Son. The Holy Spirit is God’s great all-inclusive promise for
the present dispensation; the one thing for which Jesus bade the disciples
wait after His ascension before they undertook His work was “the promise
of the Father,” that is the Holy Spirit (Acts i. 4, 5). The great promise
of the Father until the coming of Christ was the coming atoning Saviour
and King, but when Jesus came and died His atoning death upon the cross of
Calvary and arose and ascended to the right hand of the Father, then the
second great promise of the Father was the Holy Spirit to take the place
of our absent Lord. (See also Acts ii. 33.)
XII. _The Spirit of Holiness._
The Holy Spirit is called _the Spirit of holiness_ in Rom. i. 4, “And
declared to be the Son of God with power, according to _the Spirit of
holiness_, by the resurrection from the dead.” At the first glance it may
seem as if there were no essential difference between the two names the
Holy Spirit and the Spirit of holiness. But there is a marked difference.
The name of the Holy Spirit, as already said, emphasizes the essential
moral character of the Spirit as holy, but the name of _the Spirit of
holiness_ brings out the thought that the Holy Spirit is not merely holy
in Himself but He imparts holiness to others. The perfect holiness which
He Himself possesses He imparts to those who receive Him (cf. 1 Pet. i.
2).
XIII. _The Spirit of Judgment._
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