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
This promise was made primarily to the Apostles and is the guarantee of
the accuracy of their report of what Jesus said; but the Holy Spirit does
a similar work with each believer who expects it of Him, and who looks to
Him to do it. The Holy Spirit brings to our mind the teachings of Christ
and of the Word just when we need them for either the necessities of our
life or of our service. Many of us could tell of occasions when we were in
great distress of soul or great questioning as to duty or great extremity
as to what to say to one whom we were trying to lead to Christ or to help,
and at that exact moment the very Scripture we needed—some passage it may
be we had not thought of for a long time and quite likely of which we had
never thought in this connection—was brought to mind. Who did it? The Holy
Spirit did it. He is ready to do it even more frequently, if we only
expect it of Him and look to Him to do it. It is our privilege every time
we sit down beside an inquirer to point him to the way of life to look up
to the Holy Spirit and say, “Just what shall I say to this inquirer? Just
what Scripture shall I use?” There is a deep significance in the fact that
in the verse immediately following this precious promise Jesus says,
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.” It is by the Spirit
bringing His words to remembrance and teaching us the truth of God that we
obtain and abide in this peace. If we will simply look to the Holy Spirit
to bring to mind Scripture just when we need it, and just the Scripture we
need, we shall indeed have Christ’s peace every moment of our lives. One
who was preparing for Christian work came to me in great distress. He said
he must give up his preparation for he could not memorize the Scriptures.
“I am thirty-two years old,” he said, “and have been in business now for
years. I have gotten out of the habit of study and I cannot memorize
anything.” The man longed to be in his Master’s service and the tears
stood in his eyes as he said it. “Don’t be discouraged,” I replied. “Take
your Lord’s promise that the Holy Spirit will bring His words to
remembrance, learn one passage of Scripture, fix it firmly in your mind,
then another and then another and look to the Holy Spirit to bring them to
your remembrance when you need them.” He went on with his preparation. He
trusted the Holy Spirit. Afterwards he took up work in a very difficult
field, a field where all sorts of error abounded. They would gather around
him on the street like bees and he would take his Bible and trust the Holy
Spirit to bring to remembrance the passages of Scripture that he needed
and He did it. His adversaries were filled with confusion, as he met them
at every point with the sure Word of God, and many of the most hardened
were won for Christ.
II. _The Holy Spirit will teach us all things._
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