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
"Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb
idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that
no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and
that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there
are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are
diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all
in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to
profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to
another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by
the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another
discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another
the interpretation of tongues; but all these worketh that one and the
selfsame spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. For as
the body is one, and hath many members and all the members of that one
body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. For by one Spirit
are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one
Spirit."[A]
[Footnote A: I Cor. xii:1-13.]
_4. President Young on the Effect of the Holy Ghost Upon the Mind of
Man:_ "The Holy Ghost takes of the Father, and of the Son, and shows
it to the disciples. It shows them things past, present, and to come.
It opens the vision of the mind, unlocks the treasures of wisdom, and
they begin to understand the things of God; their minds are exalted
on high; their conceptions of God and His creations are dignified,
and "Hallelujah to God and the Lamb in the highest," is the constant
language of their hearts. They comprehend themselves and the great
object of their existence. They also comprehend the designs of the
wicked one, and the designs of those who serve him; they comprehend the
designs of the Almighty in forming the earth; and mankind upon it, and
the ultimate purpose of all His creations. It leads them to drink at
the fountain of eternal wisdom, justice, and truth; they grow in grace,
and in the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ, until they
see as they are seen and know as they are known."[A]
[Footnote A: Journal of Discourses, Vol. I, p. 241.]
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