The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy GhostRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy Ghost
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
and the Son, in that verse (John xiv:23) is a personal appearance; and
the idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man's heart is an old
sectarian notion, and is false." (Doc. and Cov., Sec. cxxx.)]
_4. The Holy Ghost as Teacher:_ Continuing his discourse on the
Comforter, Jesus said:
"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."[A]
[Footnote A: John xiv:26.]
In continuation of his remarks on this subject, to the disciples, he
told them he had many things to say unto them, but they could not bear
them at that time. "Howbeit," said he, "when he, the Spirit of Truth,
is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will
show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of
mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are
mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it
unto you."[A]
[Footnote A: John xvi:13-15.]
From these passages four important things are learned respecting the
powers of the Holy Ghost:
(1) That he will teach all things; and, what is equivalent, "guide
into all truth." (2) He will bring all things to remembrance, that is,
whatsoever things have been stored in the mind. (3) He will show things
to come. (4) He will take of the things of God and reveal them unto men.
Of the excellence and importance of these several powers it is scarcely
needful to speak, since their excellence is evident upon the mere
enumeration of them, yet one cannot refrain from looking at them more
in detail. How excellent a thing it is to have a teacher competent to
teach "all things," and "guide into all truth." In view of the fact
that the saints possessed the Holy Ghost, and that the Holy Ghost has
these powers, one can understand the reasonableness of John's remarks
to the saints, in which he says:
"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. * *
* The anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye
need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you
of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught
you, ye shall abide in him."[A]
[Footnote A: John ii;20, 27.]
Moreover, to the extent that a man is guided into all truth, he is
preserved from all error. There is no danger of his being deceived,
or led astray by every wind of doctrine, or the cunning craftiness of
false teachers, so long as he is in possession of that Spirit which
guides into all truth. So taught Isaiah, who, in speaking of the time
when the house of Israel should possess this Spirit, said:
"And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any
more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers;
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