1 00:00:00,590 --> 00:00:04,820 I'd like to lay a foundation for our 2 00:00:04,820 --> 00:00:11,820 meditation in the word of God by pointing 3 00:00:11,820 --> 00:00:13,720 you to several passages. 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:20,340 Firstly in the letter to the Galatians, the 5 00:00:20,340 --> 00:00:31,159 letter to the Galatians chapter 3 at 6 00:00:31,159 --> 00:00:39,570 verse 13, Christ redeemed us from the curse 7 00:00:39,570 --> 00:00:44,810 of the law, having become a curse for 8 00:00:44,810 --> 00:00:51,110 us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone 9 00:00:51,110 --> 00:00:56,050 that hangeth on a tree, that upon the 10 00:00:56,050 --> 00:01:01,670 Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in 11 00:01:01,670 --> 00:01:08,290 Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise 12 00:01:08,290 --> 00:01:13,430 of the Spirit through faith. 13 00:01:15,910 --> 00:01:23,490 Let's abbreviate that statement, Christ redeemed us from 14 00:01:23,490 --> 00:01:30,250 the curse of the law, that upon the 15 00:01:30,250 --> 00:01:35,930 Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in 16 00:01:35,930 --> 00:01:42,870 Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise 17 00:01:42,870 --> 00:01:46,690 of the Spirit through faith. 18 00:01:47,690 --> 00:01:55,440 Verse 26, For ye are all sons of 19 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:04,110 God through faith in Christ Jesus, chapter 4 20 00:02:05,740 --> 00:02:11,890 at verse 5, that he might redeem them 21 00:02:11,890 --> 00:02:16,690 that were under the law, that we might 22 00:02:16,690 --> 00:02:21,270 receive the adoption of sons. 23 00:02:22,470 --> 00:02:27,110 And because ye are sons, God sent forth 24 00:02:27,110 --> 00:02:31,050 the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, 25 00:02:31,850 --> 00:02:39,190 crying, Abba, Father, so that thou art no 26 00:02:39,190 --> 00:02:45,750 longer a bond servant but a son, and 27 00:02:45,750 --> 00:02:52,190 if a son, then an heir through God. 28 00:02:54,320 --> 00:03:00,540 The first letter of John, first letter of 29 00:03:00,540 --> 00:03:10,080 John and chapter 3, Behold what manner of 30 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,840 love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that 31 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:20,980 we should be called children of God, and 32 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:22,940 such we are. 33 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,200 For this cause the world knoweth us not, 34 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:31,680 because it knew him not. 35 00:03:32,860 --> 00:03:39,000 Beloved, now are we children of God, and 36 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,220 it is not yet made manifest what we 37 00:03:42,220 --> 00:03:42,880 shall be. 38 00:03:43,820 --> 00:03:47,740 We know that if he shall be manifested, 39 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,760 we shall be like him, for we shall 40 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:57,880 see him even as he is. 41 00:03:59,950 --> 00:04:05,460 Then the letter to the Romans, chapter 8, 42 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:19,130 verse 16, The Spirit himself beareth witness with 43 00:04:19,130 --> 00:04:26,550 our spirit that we are children of God. 44 00:04:27,590 --> 00:04:33,790 21, Creation itself also shall be delivered from 45 00:04:33,790 --> 00:04:39,670 the bondage of corruption into the liberty of 46 00:04:39,670 --> 00:04:44,550 the glory of the children of God. 47 00:04:45,330 --> 00:04:54,120 Chapter 9, verse 8, It is not the 48 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,860 children of the flesh that are children of 49 00:04:58,860 --> 00:05:04,300 God, but the children of the promise are 50 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:06,640 reckoned for a seed. 51 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,500 For this is a word of promise, according 52 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:17,920 to this season will I come, and Sarah 53 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,100 shall have a son. 54 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:30,320 Sometimes helpful right at the outset to state 55 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,720 precisely what it is we are going to 56 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:40,500 think about, talk about, and be occupied with. 57 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:52,590 Not because it is fitting to the season, 58 00:05:55,210 --> 00:05:58,370 but I believe because the Lord has so 59 00:05:58,370 --> 00:06:04,870 led, we are going to be occupied with 60 00:06:04,870 --> 00:06:14,970 the great crisis of Pentecost, and 61 00:06:14,970 --> 00:06:22,130 the immense significance of the Holy Spirit. 62 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:36,480 It would be difficult to overemphasize the importance 63 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,180 of the Holy Spirit. 64 00:06:42,460 --> 00:06:47,880 We have heard so much, perhaps we know 65 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:56,860 so much, that the mention of this matter 66 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:03,660 may fail to stir us as it ought 67 00:07:03,660 --> 00:07:09,580 to on every fresh remembrance. 68 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,080 What we need perhaps as much as anything 69 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:25,800 is a sense of the freshness of everything 70 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,400 with which we are so familiar. 71 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:37,680 That particular and peculiar joy that comes with 72 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:43,520 a sense of freshness in old and familiar 73 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:44,720 scenes. 74 00:07:46,910 --> 00:07:52,090 I expect many of you know what I 75 00:07:52,090 --> 00:07:57,750 mean when I say that we may be 76 00:07:57,750 --> 00:08:07,050 very familiar with certain scenes, certain places, certain 77 00:08:07,050 --> 00:08:07,870 associations. 78 00:08:09,430 --> 00:08:14,510 We may have been familiar with them perhaps 79 00:08:14,510 --> 00:08:18,390 all our lives, or for many years. 80 00:08:19,850 --> 00:08:23,530 And then we take someone who has never 81 00:08:23,530 --> 00:08:24,810 before seen them. 82 00:08:27,390 --> 00:08:33,720 We take a friend, and as we point 83 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,659 out this and that, describe this and that, 84 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:46,980 tell the story of this and that, and 85 00:08:46,980 --> 00:08:53,140 we see the freshness of appreciation in the 86 00:08:53,140 --> 00:08:53,540 friend. 87 00:08:54,980 --> 00:08:58,940 How the old thing becomes new to us. 88 00:09:01,130 --> 00:09:03,370 And yes, we begin to see things that 89 00:09:03,370 --> 00:09:07,190 we've never seen before as we point them 90 00:09:07,190 --> 00:09:12,830 out, and under the inspiration of their enjoyment 91 00:09:12,830 --> 00:09:14,930 of something quite new. 92 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:18,220 That is true isn't it? 93 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,740 Some of us have been overground so many, 94 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:25,620 many times. 95 00:09:27,260 --> 00:09:29,620 And then we have taken someone who has 96 00:09:29,620 --> 00:09:30,680 never gone that way. 97 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:37,220 And in their enjoyment and pleasure, or almost 98 00:09:37,220 --> 00:09:45,100 ecstasy, we've been surprised, perhaps a little ashamed, 99 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,540 that we never saw it quite like that. 100 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:54,640 Or that it had lost its real attraction 101 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:55,460 for us. 102 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,880 And yet, it's something quite old. 103 00:10:00,460 --> 00:10:04,320 Don't you feel, dear friends, that something like 104 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,660 that, that we need to recover in relation 105 00:10:08,660 --> 00:10:12,340 to the familiar things of the Word of 106 00:10:12,340 --> 00:10:12,600 God. 107 00:10:14,820 --> 00:10:16,140 Then we put it like this. 108 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:24,360 If you and I were complete strangers to 109 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:33,240 Christianity, and to the Bible, and were really 110 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:40,870 very anxious to know the meaning of Christianity, 111 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:48,290 and the meaning of the Bible, we really 112 00:10:48,290 --> 00:10:52,750 were concerned to know. 113 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,460 So that we sat down, and with all 114 00:10:59,460 --> 00:11:07,840 diligence, earnestness, and thoughtfulness, began to read the 115 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:08,580 New Testament. 116 00:11:12,420 --> 00:11:15,180 Here is a parenthesis I may suggest to 117 00:11:15,180 --> 00:11:20,080 you, that's a very useful thing to do. 118 00:11:20,860 --> 00:11:22,800 Try and forget that you know it. 119 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:29,000 And make yourself, imagine that you've never read 120 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:29,660 that before. 121 00:11:30,580 --> 00:11:33,820 Come to it as though it were for 122 00:11:33,820 --> 00:11:34,520 the first time. 123 00:11:34,620 --> 00:11:37,960 You try it, you find there's a real 124 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:38,680 value in that. 125 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,580 Well, supposing that you were really doing that 126 00:11:43,580 --> 00:11:46,820 for the first time. 127 00:11:49,340 --> 00:11:52,300 What do you think would be the thing 128 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:58,390 that would press itself upon your notice, perhaps 129 00:11:58,390 --> 00:11:59,630 more than anything else? 130 00:12:03,340 --> 00:12:08,080 If you took up this New Testament, thoughtfully, 131 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:17,380 carefully read, read through the Gospels, found yourself 132 00:12:17,380 --> 00:12:23,120 in all that vivid life and movement of 133 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,630 the book of the Acts, and then on 134 00:12:26,630 --> 00:12:31,810 into the remainder, the letters and the consummation, 135 00:12:33,090 --> 00:12:39,610 seeking to get one distinct impression. 136 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,860 What do you think that would be? 137 00:12:48,410 --> 00:12:53,640 I suggest to you, dear friends, that it 138 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:54,260 would be this. 139 00:12:56,390 --> 00:12:59,870 This, of course, this book is all about 140 00:12:59,870 --> 00:13:00,690 one person. 141 00:13:02,330 --> 00:13:05,850 That person is called Jesus. 142 00:13:10,550 --> 00:13:16,050 That Jesus lived on the earth for a 143 00:13:16,050 --> 00:13:22,690 time, taught and walked, and then was put 144 00:13:22,690 --> 00:13:23,130 to death. 145 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,980 This book, everywhere, declares that God raised him 146 00:13:32,980 --> 00:13:34,300 from the dead. 147 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:39,440 That is the outstanding thing. 148 00:13:40,460 --> 00:13:40,940 Everywhere. 149 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,900 God raised him from the dead. 150 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:47,920 But that is not all. 151 00:13:49,940 --> 00:14:01,550 This book is just alive because that 152 00:14:01,550 --> 00:14:05,410 raising of Jesus from the dead has become 153 00:14:05,410 --> 00:14:12,730 a living experience in the people concerned by 154 00:14:12,730 --> 00:14:15,450 the power of the Spirit of God. 155 00:14:19,290 --> 00:14:23,650 Don't you agree that that would be the 156 00:14:23,650 --> 00:14:25,630 thing that would impress you most? 157 00:14:26,370 --> 00:14:29,470 As a stranger to the story, to the 158 00:14:29,470 --> 00:14:36,110 book, God raised Jesus from the dead and 159 00:14:36,110 --> 00:14:38,490 the Spirit of God has made that a 160 00:14:38,490 --> 00:14:44,230 living reality in the life of a whole 161 00:14:44,230 --> 00:14:49,990 multitude, and an ever-growing multitude of men 162 00:14:49,990 --> 00:14:50,430 and women. 163 00:14:51,890 --> 00:14:56,750 The Holy Spirit, for them, was not a 164 00:14:56,750 --> 00:14:59,650 theme and a subject, a doctrine and a 165 00:14:59,650 --> 00:15:02,850 truth to be discussed and argued about, but 166 00:15:02,850 --> 00:15:03,770 an experience. 167 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:13,790 And an experience of Jesus being alive after 168 00:15:13,790 --> 00:15:15,650 having died. 169 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,940 When you have really put your hand upon 170 00:15:25,940 --> 00:15:28,960 that, and I can see that it makes 171 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:35,190 very little impression upon you, doesn't strike you 172 00:15:35,190 --> 00:15:38,610 as anything very wonderful, because you're so familiar 173 00:15:38,610 --> 00:15:39,110 with it. 174 00:15:41,780 --> 00:15:44,240 But there you are, having put your finger 175 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:49,320 upon that, you have put your finger upon 176 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:56,840 the whole key secret, the wonderful significance of 177 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:57,660 the Holy Spirit. 178 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,520 Far more, of course, bound up with that 179 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,700 than I have indicated. 180 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:12,360 Christianity is built upon these two themes. 181 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,280 God raised Jesus from the dead, and the 182 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:22,620 Holy Spirit makes that a reality in the 183 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:24,400 lives of believers. 184 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,280 Jesus risen, the Holy Spirit given. 185 00:16:31,580 --> 00:16:36,520 Two great foundations of Christianity. 186 00:16:39,620 --> 00:16:42,140 But it carries you into a very large 187 00:16:42,140 --> 00:16:42,540 realm. 188 00:16:45,580 --> 00:16:48,520 You will see that this has its backward 189 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,020 aspect. 190 00:16:51,980 --> 00:16:59,920 The Holy Spirit throws full light upon Jesus 191 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:06,690 from his birth to his cross, and explains 192 00:17:06,690 --> 00:17:09,450 everything in his life. 193 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,460 You will never come into the good and 194 00:17:15,460 --> 00:17:19,140 the value of the life of the Lord 195 00:17:19,140 --> 00:17:25,700 Jesus from his birth to his cross without 196 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:32,440 the Holy Spirit interpreting, explaining, and making live. 197 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:39,120 You'll only have an earthly story, a bit 198 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:42,200 of history, and biography. 199 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:48,220 You'll have no life out of those years, 200 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,380 and all that was in them, until the 201 00:17:51,380 --> 00:17:56,420 Holy Spirit takes up the incarnation, the walk, 202 00:17:56,940 --> 00:18:02,380 the teaching, the working, and the dying, and 203 00:18:02,380 --> 00:18:03,220 makes them live. 204 00:18:04,970 --> 00:18:07,010 We require the Holy Spirit. 205 00:18:07,590 --> 00:18:15,010 He is indispensable to the understanding of the 206 00:18:15,010 --> 00:18:18,290 coming of the Lord Jesus, and his being 207 00:18:18,290 --> 00:18:19,510 here on this earth at all. 208 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:25,280 Now take one inclusive factor in that. 209 00:18:25,780 --> 00:18:26,800 Why did he come? 210 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:29,920 Why did he come? 211 00:18:32,190 --> 00:18:33,550 Why was he here? 212 00:18:36,310 --> 00:18:41,830 For what did he live, and work, and 213 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:43,830 teach, and die? 214 00:18:46,290 --> 00:18:47,070 Only one thing. 215 00:18:47,670 --> 00:18:52,090 You might answer it in many ways, but 216 00:18:52,090 --> 00:18:56,610 the one inclusive thing was to bring man 217 00:18:56,610 --> 00:19:03,650 back into a living, conscious union with God. 218 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,280 That sums up the whole meaning of the 219 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,580 life of the Lord Jesus on this earth, 220 00:19:13,060 --> 00:19:13,880 and his death. 221 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:15,680 Let me repeat. 222 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:22,520 To bring man into a living and conscious 223 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,160 union with God. 224 00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:27,580 Do you recognize that that is a feature, 225 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,320 the feature of Christianity which distinguishes it from 226 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,000 all other religions in this world? 227 00:19:36,330 --> 00:19:42,470 A living, conscious union and fellowship with God. 228 00:19:46,260 --> 00:19:50,720 But if that is true, if that is 229 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,220 why he came, lived, worked, taught, and died, 230 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:58,240 it was all in vain until the Holy 231 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,720 Spirit came, and made it real and live. 232 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,420 He came in vain, he lived in vain, 233 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:09,960 he taught in vain, he worked in vain, 234 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,080 he died in vain, until the Holy Spirit 235 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:13,460 came. 236 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:19,960 Therefore, he puts this tremendous importance upon the 237 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:20,560 Holy Spirit. 238 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:25,800 It is expedient for you, if I go 239 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:32,020 not away, the Comforter will not come, even 240 00:20:32,020 --> 00:20:33,180 the Spirit of Truth. 241 00:20:39,690 --> 00:20:44,610 There is no effecting of the meaning of 242 00:20:44,610 --> 00:20:50,340 the life of Christ, apart from the gift 243 00:20:50,340 --> 00:20:52,480 and indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 244 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,920 And the very first thing that the Holy 245 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,600 Spirit does is to make all that for 246 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,060 which Christ came instantly real. 247 00:21:03,820 --> 00:21:07,840 The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit that 248 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,940 we are children of God. 249 00:21:12,580 --> 00:21:16,300 If that does not mean living, conscious relationship 250 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:17,920 with God, what does it mean? 251 00:21:19,860 --> 00:21:24,380 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit. 252 00:21:25,340 --> 00:21:29,440 All the meaning of Christ's coming is made 253 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,020 good. 254 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:38,180 Immediately we receive the Holy Spirit, or it 255 00:21:38,180 --> 00:21:39,800 begins to be made good. 256 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,080 It is taken up and made real. 257 00:21:45,780 --> 00:21:49,500 And what is true of the life of 258 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:53,760 the Lord Jesus, here is true of everything 259 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,460 else which we need not pursue. 260 00:21:57,420 --> 00:22:05,600 There is no real knowing or living until 261 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:10,800 the Holy Spirit comes and comes in. 262 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:20,100 In our readings this afternoon, we have underlined 263 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:21,480 one word. 264 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,460 I trust that you did it as we 265 00:22:24,460 --> 00:22:25,040 were reading. 266 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,140 The common factor of all that we were 267 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:31,640 reading, all those passages. 268 00:22:33,460 --> 00:22:36,440 There are many more that can be added. 269 00:22:40,190 --> 00:22:46,210 In John's statement for instance, Behold what manner 270 00:22:46,210 --> 00:22:50,150 of love the Father hath bestowed upon us 271 00:22:50,150 --> 00:22:57,830 that we should be called children of God. 272 00:23:01,190 --> 00:23:03,430 Now are we the children of God. 273 00:23:06,850 --> 00:23:10,270 And you know that it is a basic 274 00:23:10,270 --> 00:23:13,610 statement in relation to the coming of the 275 00:23:13,610 --> 00:23:20,080 Lord Jesus into this world that through faith 276 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,080 in him, believing on him, we should have 277 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,320 the right to be called children of God. 278 00:23:27,420 --> 00:23:29,360 The right to be called the children of 279 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:29,540 God. 280 00:23:29,540 --> 00:23:30,860 That is why he came. 281 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,100 That is why he came. 282 00:23:35,740 --> 00:23:43,000 To constitute this heavenly spiritual family. 283 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,540 Children of God. 284 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,920 And sons of God. 285 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,060 That is the end in view. 286 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:56,760 Now having just made that statement, dear friends, 287 00:23:57,660 --> 00:24:05,650 we are going to allow the advent of 288 00:24:05,650 --> 00:24:10,190 the Holy Spirit, the day of Pentecost, to 289 00:24:10,190 --> 00:24:12,070 take us a long way back. 290 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,740 You know that the Bible is a book 291 00:24:17,740 --> 00:24:18,540 of crises. 292 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:27,900 That is, of turning points which contain different 293 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:29,220 features. 294 00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:36,840 Crisis and critic are from the same root. 295 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:41,820 And a critic is someone who takes up 296 00:24:41,820 --> 00:24:46,300 a matter at a certain point and indicates 297 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:47,920 the differences. 298 00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:57,240 How differences of view and interpretation are to 299 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:58,920 be seen at that point. 300 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:00,900 And that is a crisis. 301 00:25:01,260 --> 00:25:05,140 It is a point reached where things are 302 00:25:05,140 --> 00:25:07,880 going to change and there is going to 303 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:08,520 be a difference. 304 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:10,760 You are going to see a difference from 305 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:16,180 what has been and what is going to 306 00:25:16,180 --> 00:25:16,360 be. 307 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:19,680 Now the Bible is a book of crises. 308 00:25:20,860 --> 00:25:24,500 There are four major crises in the Bible 309 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:28,720 with a great many minor ones between. 310 00:25:30,220 --> 00:25:34,900 The first great crisis is that of creation. 311 00:25:38,030 --> 00:25:39,050 Indeed it was a crisis. 312 00:25:40,050 --> 00:25:46,410 It was the intervention of God in relation 313 00:25:46,410 --> 00:25:47,610 to purpose. 314 00:25:49,210 --> 00:25:54,950 God's reaction to vanity, to what is void, 315 00:25:55,790 --> 00:25:59,350 to what is without purpose and meaning. 316 00:26:00,270 --> 00:26:02,810 Serving no real end. 317 00:26:03,030 --> 00:26:07,330 Now the earth was without form and void. 318 00:26:08,410 --> 00:26:11,350 God intervened and that was a crisis. 319 00:26:12,470 --> 00:26:17,190 And the difference of course is quite plain. 320 00:26:18,310 --> 00:26:22,350 The second great crisis is that of redemption. 321 00:26:24,620 --> 00:26:27,920 God intervening to recover. 322 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:35,970 The third crisis was that of Pentecost. 323 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:47,820 The intervention of spiritual fullness as against mere 324 00:26:47,820 --> 00:26:51,940 figures and representations and fragments. 325 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,460 Now to bring in the real and the 326 00:26:56,460 --> 00:26:56,780 full. 327 00:26:56,780 --> 00:27:01,960 For the word full or fullness is always 328 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,700 associated with the Holy Spirit. 329 00:27:05,980 --> 00:27:15,020 By Pentecost heaven intervention intervened unto spiritual fullness. 330 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,880 I could enlarge upon that no doubt very 331 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,160 much comes to you in relation to the 332 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:22,820 Holy Spirit. 333 00:27:22,820 --> 00:27:25,780 If I only hint at the number seven 334 00:27:25,780 --> 00:27:28,860 connected with the Spirit you know that it 335 00:27:28,860 --> 00:27:31,400 signifies spiritual fullness. 336 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:37,740 Great intervention of heavenly fullness on the day 337 00:27:37,740 --> 00:27:38,600 of Pentecost. 338 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,740 Then the fourth great crisis of course is 339 00:27:43,740 --> 00:27:46,820 that of the coming again of the Lord. 340 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:54,520 The intervention for universal restoration and restitution. 341 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,840 Many aspects but that's what it is and 342 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,460 for that crisis we wait. 343 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:06,760 Now note that every one of these major 344 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:13,920 crises the Holy Spirit is very distinctly in 345 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:14,220 view. 346 00:28:15,380 --> 00:28:19,000 Spirit of God brooded over the face of 347 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:19,940 the people. 348 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:25,460 Was the agent and the energy of creation. 349 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,020 Everything to do with the crisis of redemption 350 00:28:30,020 --> 00:28:32,700 is in the hands of the Holy Spirit. 351 00:28:33,220 --> 00:28:35,180 The Redeemer is born of the Spirit. 352 00:28:36,060 --> 00:28:38,440 The Redeemer is anointed of the Spirit. 353 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,380 The Redeemer offered himself without spot unto God 354 00:28:43,380 --> 00:28:49,240 through the eternal Spirit all the way through 355 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,340 the work of redemption. 356 00:28:51,290 --> 00:28:55,260 The Holy Spirit was the energy, power, the 357 00:28:55,260 --> 00:28:58,140 agent, the custodian. 358 00:29:00,820 --> 00:29:04,800 It goes without saying the third great crisis 359 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,420 of Pentecost was in the hands of the 360 00:29:07,420 --> 00:29:08,020 Holy Spirit. 361 00:29:08,740 --> 00:29:11,520 He took over everything at that point. 362 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:19,080 Even the Lord Jesus very, very strongly stipulated 363 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,260 that nothing was to be done, no attempt 364 00:29:23,260 --> 00:29:27,460 made even to preach until the Spirit was 365 00:29:27,460 --> 00:29:27,720 come. 366 00:29:30,070 --> 00:29:33,590 He gave commandment, Luke says, after that by 367 00:29:33,590 --> 00:29:34,770 commandment. 368 00:29:35,530 --> 00:29:37,430 What was his commandment? 369 00:29:38,050 --> 00:29:40,750 Tarry until he be endued. 370 00:29:43,780 --> 00:29:44,780 That was the commandment. 371 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,420 No movement, no attempt at anything. 372 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,780 The Holy Spirit came and he took over 373 00:29:51,780 --> 00:29:52,680 the whole program. 374 00:29:53,780 --> 00:29:58,380 Will it be less in the final crisis 375 00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:00,140 of his coming again? 376 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,120 The coming again, dear friends, will be but 377 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,840 the consummation of the Spirit's work in this 378 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:07,200 age. 379 00:30:09,730 --> 00:30:12,230 Then he will have done his work. 380 00:30:14,390 --> 00:30:17,490 He will have brought to birth the sons 381 00:30:17,490 --> 00:30:18,810 for manifestation. 382 00:30:18,810 --> 00:30:24,950 He will have effected their spiritual growth and 383 00:30:24,950 --> 00:30:26,090 perfection. 384 00:30:27,750 --> 00:30:32,490 He will, like Abraham's servant, bring the bride 385 00:30:32,490 --> 00:30:37,250 and present the bride to the bridegroom. 386 00:30:38,250 --> 00:30:41,210 So the end of the book of the 387 00:30:41,210 --> 00:30:44,730 Revelation is the Spirit and the bride. 388 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,400 He is in evidence in every connection through 389 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,520 the whole outworking of divine powers. 390 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:59,040 But when you have said that, about the 391 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:04,700 four major crises and the many minor ones 392 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:07,140 between, what is it? 393 00:31:09,180 --> 00:31:12,420 That is, they are in the foreground all 394 00:31:12,420 --> 00:31:12,980 the time. 395 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,580 There are many other intelligences and created beings 396 00:31:20,580 --> 00:31:27,600 in the background looking on, sometimes being agents 397 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,240 and instruments in the great drama. 398 00:31:32,060 --> 00:31:36,320 But in the foreground, or right in the 399 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:41,620 center of the stage, is a creation called 400 00:31:41,620 --> 00:31:42,280 man. 401 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:44,820 A unique creation. 402 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:47,600 A particular creation. 403 00:31:48,620 --> 00:31:50,120 The crown of creation. 404 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,340 He stands right there as the center of 405 00:31:54,340 --> 00:32:00,740 all attention, interest, and activity through all the 406 00:32:00,740 --> 00:32:01,140 ages. 407 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,020 He holds heaven's attention. 408 00:32:06,020 --> 00:32:10,680 The Bible is the story, from one standpoint, 409 00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:13,300 of heaven's interest in man. 410 00:32:14,020 --> 00:32:16,340 Heaven's concern over man. 411 00:32:18,220 --> 00:32:20,200 An active interest. 412 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,820 A great interest. 413 00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:28,740 Time to time we see heaven and heaven's 414 00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:31,620 agents breaking in for men. 415 00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:35,280 They are the incidents. 416 00:32:36,580 --> 00:32:38,660 It's one great story. 417 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,160 Man standing there in the center of the 418 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,100 stage and all heaven looking on, all heaven 419 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:49,740 concerned, all heaven active. 420 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,960 Look through your Bible again with that thought 421 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:55,400 in mind. 422 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:02,460 God has created an order called man. 423 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:05,640 There is no other order called man. 424 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,640 Order called man. 425 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,000 God is seen from the beginning as the 426 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,780 center of heaven concerned with man all the 427 00:33:15,780 --> 00:33:16,300 way through. 428 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:20,520 And all heaven is with God in that 429 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:21,020 himself. 430 00:33:21,020 --> 00:33:27,620 Angels and archangels and heavenly councils are all 431 00:33:27,620 --> 00:33:29,500 concerned with man. 432 00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:33,020 He holds heaven's attention. 433 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:36,420 It's a great, great statement. 434 00:33:37,260 --> 00:33:40,560 That statement of the writer of the letter 435 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:41,420 to the Hebrews. 436 00:33:41,420 --> 00:33:48,220 Not unto angels hath he subjected the inhabited 437 00:33:48,220 --> 00:33:51,700 earth to come, but one in a southern 438 00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:54,540 place hath said, What is man? 439 00:33:55,540 --> 00:33:57,500 Thou art mindful of him. 440 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:02,160 Not unto angels, but unto man. 441 00:34:04,830 --> 00:34:05,630 Heaven is concerned. 442 00:34:08,290 --> 00:34:13,810 And all hell, all hell is focused upon 443 00:34:13,810 --> 00:34:17,469 this particular order of creation. 444 00:34:18,469 --> 00:34:24,170 He holds the attention of the whole system 445 00:34:24,170 --> 00:34:26,489 of evil. 446 00:34:27,590 --> 00:34:29,130 It is focused upon man. 447 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:34,000 It's a kingdom, but it's a divided kingdom. 448 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,520 It is well that we do remember it 449 00:34:44,610 --> 00:34:46,030 is focused upon man. 450 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:50,860 It's a kingdom, but it's a divided kingdom. 451 00:34:52,980 --> 00:34:56,540 It is well that we do remember the 452 00:34:56,540 --> 00:34:58,920 kingdom of Satan is a divided kingdom. 453 00:35:01,260 --> 00:35:02,380 Divided in itself. 454 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,320 Jesus said it. 455 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,440 He said it was divided. 456 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:10,800 He didn't put an if about it. 457 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,700 He said it's a kingdom divided against itself. 458 00:35:15,650 --> 00:35:17,490 A house divided against itself. 459 00:35:19,570 --> 00:35:20,370 It is. 460 00:35:21,150 --> 00:35:24,470 And you can see how in a contradictory 461 00:35:24,470 --> 00:35:30,230 way that kingdom of evil works in relation 462 00:35:30,230 --> 00:35:30,830 to man. 463 00:35:31,810 --> 00:35:37,350 On the one side, it gives itself with 464 00:35:37,350 --> 00:35:44,710 such application, determination and subtlety to degrade man. 465 00:35:45,450 --> 00:35:49,730 To make man less than he really is. 466 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:53,340 To lower him. 467 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,060 To dishonor him. 468 00:35:59,370 --> 00:36:03,260 Evolution can have that effect. 469 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:10,400 Rubbing man of his dignity in the mind 470 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,340 and thought of God. 471 00:36:17,830 --> 00:36:21,330 All the terrible history of war. 472 00:36:22,130 --> 00:36:22,690 What is it? 473 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:30,110 What is it if it is not the 474 00:36:30,110 --> 00:36:35,670 result of a lost sense of the sacredness 475 00:36:35,670 --> 00:36:36,430 of human life? 476 00:36:37,940 --> 00:36:40,280 The sacredness of humanity. 477 00:36:42,350 --> 00:36:43,230 Gun fodder. 478 00:36:46,350 --> 00:36:48,770 Food for the soul. 479 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,960 You see, where evil is most prominent and 480 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,060 God is most rejected, human life is cheapest. 481 00:37:01,060 --> 00:37:11,170 The liquidation of man as though cheapness 482 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:22,500 to degrade, dishonor and make cheap this great 483 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:29,100 creation with its destiny bound up with it. 484 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:32,820 Is one side of the activity of this 485 00:37:32,820 --> 00:37:33,680 divided house. 486 00:37:34,340 --> 00:37:39,440 On the other side in its contradiction to 487 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:44,320 make man without God something more than he 488 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:44,720 is. 489 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:49,900 Man without God something more than is true 490 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:50,380 of him. 491 00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:56,700 There you get all that goes to make 492 00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:58,480 self-importance. 493 00:37:58,940 --> 00:38:00,800 Self-sufficiency. 494 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:10,490 Arrogance to arrogate to himself rights and abilities 495 00:38:10,490 --> 00:38:12,570 and authority. 496 00:38:13,570 --> 00:38:14,810 Independence. 497 00:38:17,380 --> 00:38:17,840 Pride. 498 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:26,120 Whole host of things to make man without 499 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,720 God more than is true of him. 500 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,000 Without God. 501 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,300 The destruction of man, dear friends, the destruction 502 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:44,440 of man spiritually, morally and finally physically is 503 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,340 the object of that great system of wickedness. 504 00:38:49,170 --> 00:38:53,630 God has a great judgment, the word says, 505 00:38:53,810 --> 00:38:55,630 in store for those who destroy. 506 00:38:56,790 --> 00:38:57,710 Those who destroy. 507 00:38:59,070 --> 00:39:04,130 Which means undervalue his creation. 508 00:39:06,270 --> 00:39:08,530 Now what has all that to do with 509 00:39:08,530 --> 00:39:09,310 the Holy Spirit? 510 00:39:11,350 --> 00:39:19,170 Well we can never understand Pentecost, the advent 511 00:39:19,170 --> 00:39:25,270 of the Holy Spirit, until we recognize that 512 00:39:25,270 --> 00:39:28,590 it is by the coming in of the 513 00:39:28,590 --> 00:39:31,930 Holy Spirit and only so that God gets 514 00:39:31,930 --> 00:39:35,370 the man that he has ever intended to 515 00:39:37,450 --> 00:39:37,770 be. 516 00:39:37,770 --> 00:39:42,770 The purpose of man's creation was that he 517 00:39:42,770 --> 00:39:45,170 should be a child of God. 518 00:39:46,030 --> 00:39:49,470 That men should become sons of God. 519 00:39:49,810 --> 00:39:55,720 Paul says, for ordained unto the adoption to 520 00:39:55,720 --> 00:39:58,180 be conformed to the image of his son. 521 00:40:01,860 --> 00:40:06,840 Pentecost therefore takes us right back to the 522 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,180 original thought and purpose of God in the 523 00:40:11,180 --> 00:40:12,100 creation of man. 524 00:40:13,260 --> 00:40:17,120 And brings that right up to date so 525 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,960 that when you and I or any believing 526 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,080 man or woman receives the Holy Spirit within, 527 00:40:26,020 --> 00:40:31,060 all that God intended in creation starts up, 528 00:40:32,020 --> 00:40:35,840 comes into the first phase of its realization. 529 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,560 It can never be until then. 530 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,460 And you can see, as we perhaps shall 531 00:40:43,460 --> 00:40:47,900 see later as we go on, tremendous change 532 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:52,780 in the kind of person that resulted from 533 00:40:52,780 --> 00:40:53,680 the day of Pentecost. 534 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,980 You will not tell me that those men 535 00:40:57,980 --> 00:41:04,360 and women before Pentecost are those so closely 536 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,380 associated with the Lord Jesus in his walk 537 00:41:07,380 --> 00:41:11,280 and work, answered to God's thought originally. 538 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:13,760 But look now. 539 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,060 The Holy Spirit has come on and in. 540 00:41:19,820 --> 00:41:21,100 They are different creatures. 541 00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:24,660 You might say they are a different order 542 00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:25,360 of being. 543 00:41:26,140 --> 00:41:30,080 Change is so great in so many respects 544 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,640 that they pass from one kingdom to another. 545 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:41,260 Here indeed are the manifestations of Sonship. 546 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,440 Because the Son himself by the Spirit of 547 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,700 Sonship has entered in. 548 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:55,120 I repeat, we cannot understand the meaning of 549 00:41:55,120 --> 00:42:02,860 Pentecost until we recognize God's intention in making 550 00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:03,280 man. 551 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,140 And immediately you recognize that. 552 00:42:06,780 --> 00:42:08,800 Then you see the key to the coming 553 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:09,700 of the Holy Spirit. 554 00:42:10,740 --> 00:42:14,780 Everything has been pointing toward that in touches 555 00:42:14,780 --> 00:42:18,420 and activities of the Holy Spirit through the 556 00:42:18,420 --> 00:42:19,740 Old Dispensation. 557 00:42:19,740 --> 00:42:25,260 There are some 88 references, direct references to 558 00:42:25,260 --> 00:42:27,420 the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. 559 00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:29,840 Do you notice they are partial? 560 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:31,520 They are indicative. 561 00:42:32,580 --> 00:42:33,600 They are symbolic. 562 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,180 They are representations. 563 00:42:38,300 --> 00:42:39,820 They are pointing on to something. 564 00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:46,440 Now do you see something more in that 565 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,180 fragment from Galatians? 566 00:42:48,860 --> 00:42:54,020 That upon the Gentiles might come the promise 567 00:42:54,020 --> 00:42:56,460 to Abraham? 568 00:42:58,910 --> 00:43:00,290 The promise to Abraham. 569 00:43:01,830 --> 00:43:04,570 What was the promise to Abraham? 570 00:43:06,890 --> 00:43:09,450 Universal Sonship in Jesus Christ. 571 00:43:09,910 --> 00:43:10,750 Wasn't it? 572 00:43:11,570 --> 00:43:14,490 Paul makes that perfectly clear in the letter 573 00:43:14,490 --> 00:43:16,600 to the Galatians. 574 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:21,500 Universal Sonship by faith in Jesus Christ. 575 00:43:23,130 --> 00:43:25,850 We are all sons of God through faith 576 00:43:25,850 --> 00:43:27,190 in Jesus Christ. 577 00:43:29,020 --> 00:43:31,720 It was a universal thing, thy seed, thy 578 00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:32,060 seed. 579 00:43:32,660 --> 00:43:39,030 It was the stars of heaven, sand, vast, 580 00:43:39,650 --> 00:43:40,110 vast. 581 00:43:40,430 --> 00:43:41,990 But Paul brings it all down and says 582 00:43:41,990 --> 00:43:45,290 the seed is not many seeds, it's one 583 00:43:45,290 --> 00:43:46,330 seed, it's Christ. 584 00:43:48,730 --> 00:43:53,550 The promise to Abraham was Sonship to men 585 00:43:55,180 --> 00:43:56,940 in Jesus Christ. 586 00:43:56,940 --> 00:44:00,760 And now says the Apostle, that is made 587 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,440 good by the gift of the Holy Spirit. 588 00:44:04,580 --> 00:44:09,580 The promise that we might receive the Spirit. 589 00:44:17,530 --> 00:44:24,890 This universe is eventually to be people with 590 00:44:24,890 --> 00:44:25,990 sons of God. 591 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:33,360 Creation groaning and travailing is subject to vanity 592 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,640 waiting for the manifestation. 593 00:44:39,650 --> 00:44:43,410 People with the sons of God. 594 00:44:45,490 --> 00:44:49,990 Behold what manner of love the Father has 595 00:44:49,990 --> 00:44:53,470 bestowed upon us that we should be called 596 00:44:53,470 --> 00:44:54,690 children of God. 597 00:44:54,890 --> 00:44:56,430 And such we are. 598 00:44:56,430 --> 00:45:00,790 It is not yet manifested what we shall 599 00:45:00,790 --> 00:45:05,300 be, but we know that he shall be 600 00:45:05,300 --> 00:45:08,600 manifested, we shall be like him. 601 00:45:10,940 --> 00:45:11,640 That's John. 602 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,960 And Paul just ups him there and says 603 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,940 yes, for ordained to be conformed to his 604 00:45:18,940 --> 00:45:20,800 image, the image of his son, we shall 605 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:21,880 be like him. 606 00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:26,800 The consummation of the Spirit's work is in 607 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,120 sons conformed to the image of God's Son. 608 00:45:32,070 --> 00:45:34,870 That is what he is doing now. 609 00:45:36,110 --> 00:45:38,410 Bringing in the sons. 610 00:45:39,450 --> 00:45:43,290 Bringing them to birth, born of the Spirit. 611 00:45:45,010 --> 00:45:47,570 Training them as sons. 612 00:45:47,770 --> 00:45:51,390 God dealeth with us as with sons. 613 00:45:52,910 --> 00:45:54,130 Perfecting sons. 614 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:03,120 I do wish, dear friends, that this could 615 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,720 come to you with due force. 616 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:07,760 That you could really get hold of this. 617 00:46:08,660 --> 00:46:10,260 Not just teaching in truth. 618 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,700 It is the most wonderful thing that has 619 00:46:13,700 --> 00:46:16,640 ever been revealed in God's universe. 620 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,100 This is grace. 621 00:46:19,900 --> 00:46:21,680 This is mercy. 622 00:46:22,780 --> 00:46:24,300 This is power. 623 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:26,520 This is wisdom. 624 00:46:27,900 --> 00:46:35,120 Everything of God, almighty, all-wise, all-knowing, 625 00:46:35,340 --> 00:46:38,580 all-gracious is centered in this. 626 00:46:38,580 --> 00:46:42,880 Bringing many sons to glory. 627 00:46:45,140 --> 00:46:48,480 It holds the center of the stage of 628 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:49,160 this universe. 629 00:46:52,980 --> 00:46:58,020 Presently, I shall say something more about that 630 00:46:58,020 --> 00:47:00,260 from another angle. 631 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,520 But this afternoon, it's just to get in 632 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:05,760 view. 633 00:47:06,860 --> 00:47:07,940 The object. 634 00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:12,640 The great meaning of Pentecost. 635 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,080 Oh, how we've limited Pentecost. 636 00:47:16,260 --> 00:47:18,240 How we have put the emphasis in the 637 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:19,060 wrong place. 638 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:22,600 Yes, with the best of motives. 639 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:27,140 Seeing the great importance of the Holy Spirit. 640 00:47:28,420 --> 00:47:31,180 Rightly seeing the great importance. 641 00:47:32,500 --> 00:47:36,960 We have put our emphasis all in one 642 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:37,440 place. 643 00:47:38,060 --> 00:47:41,160 All along certain exclusive lines. 644 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,100 All the lines. 645 00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:49,200 All the lines and all the emphasis focus 646 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:49,560 here. 647 00:47:51,380 --> 00:47:56,620 The Holy Spirit of God from creation to 648 00:47:56,620 --> 00:48:00,400 consummation is occupied with one thing. 649 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,880 Making for God a family of sons. 650 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,500 Conformed to the image of his son. 651 00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:11,380 That explains everything. 652 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,200 And all his dealings with us. 653 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:19,820 The Lord right the object deeply in our 654 00:48:19,820 --> 00:48:20,200 hearts.