1 00:00:00,430 --> 00:00:03,550 If ye love me, keep my commandments, and 2 00:00:03,550 --> 00:00:07,350 I will pray the Father, and he shall 3 00:00:07,350 --> 00:00:11,270 give you another Comforter, that he may abide 4 00:00:11,270 --> 00:00:12,250 with you forever. 5 00:00:13,530 --> 00:00:15,910 Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world 6 00:00:15,910 --> 00:00:19,250 cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither 7 00:00:19,250 --> 00:00:22,470 knoweth him, that ye know him, for he 8 00:00:22,470 --> 00:00:25,910 dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 9 00:00:27,610 --> 00:00:30,270 Verse 26, But the Comforter, which is the 10 00:00:30,270 --> 00:00:34,250 Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in 11 00:00:34,250 --> 00:00:36,710 my name, he shall teach you all things, 12 00:00:36,790 --> 00:00:39,210 and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever 13 00:00:39,210 --> 00:00:40,510 I have said unto you. 14 00:00:42,950 --> 00:00:46,170 Now in this series of sermons, sometimes I 15 00:00:46,170 --> 00:00:49,970 will use the words the Holy Spirit, sometimes 16 00:00:49,970 --> 00:00:52,890 I will use the words the Holy Ghost. 17 00:00:53,550 --> 00:00:57,250 They mean exactly and precisely the same thing. 18 00:00:58,610 --> 00:01:03,190 The old Anglo-Saxon word geist has been 19 00:01:03,190 --> 00:01:05,530 turned into our English ghost, and it means 20 00:01:05,530 --> 00:01:06,010 spirit. 21 00:01:06,810 --> 00:01:09,310 So when we say the Holy Ghost, we're 22 00:01:09,310 --> 00:01:12,790 saying in the old Elizabethan and pre-Elizabethan 23 00:01:12,790 --> 00:01:15,370 English, the Holy Geist, the Holy Spirit. 24 00:01:16,350 --> 00:01:18,690 So it makes no difference which I say, 25 00:01:19,250 --> 00:01:20,830 I mean the same thing. 26 00:01:23,020 --> 00:01:26,580 Let me start by reminding you that about 27 00:01:26,580 --> 00:01:30,620 a half a century ago, the liberals committed 28 00:01:30,620 --> 00:01:31,900 a great blunder. 29 00:01:33,060 --> 00:01:37,560 And that blunder was the neglect or the 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,800 denial of the deity of Jesus. 31 00:01:40,060 --> 00:01:42,160 They either didn't talk about it at all, 32 00:01:42,940 --> 00:01:46,240 or else they explained the deity of Jesus 33 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:46,720 away. 34 00:01:48,020 --> 00:01:51,440 They denied or explained away or neglected to 35 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,680 mention his lordship over the Church. 36 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,000 This was a stupid and a dangerous blunder, 37 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,740 and it brought in her blindness the thousands 38 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:06,740 and spiritual decay and death to greater thousands. 39 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,900 Now, in more recent times, oh, say within 40 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:15,260 forty years back, the evangelical Christians. 41 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,420 I suppose you know what I mean when 42 00:02:18,420 --> 00:02:20,140 I say evangelical Christians. 43 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,980 I mean the gospel Christians, such as you 44 00:02:23,980 --> 00:02:27,880 and I, people who believe the Bible, Bible 45 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:28,500 Christians. 46 00:02:29,420 --> 00:02:32,180 That's what I mean by the evangelical Christians. 47 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:35,560 I mentioned the word evangelical Christian down in 48 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,860 the convention of doctors in Wheaton last week. 49 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:43,840 And afterward, a fine, distinguished-looking gentleman came 50 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:44,700 down to the front. 51 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,640 He said, I am a Methodist, and I 52 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:49,720 don't know what you mean by evangelical. 53 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,540 Would you tell me what you mean? 54 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,640 So I explained to this good Methodist brother 55 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,880 who didn't know the difference between an evangelical 56 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,060 and a Modernist, what the difference was and 57 00:03:01,060 --> 00:03:02,860 what I meant by what I had said. 58 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,320 He thanked me, and was very courteously, and 59 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:05,960 walked away. 60 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,420 Now, evangelical Christianity has committed a great blunder 61 00:03:10,420 --> 00:03:12,120 over the last years. 62 00:03:12,980 --> 00:03:15,740 It has been the neglect for the denial 63 00:03:15,740 --> 00:03:17,800 of the deity of the Holy Spirit. 64 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,820 I think I ought to modify that, for 65 00:03:19,820 --> 00:03:23,840 I doubt very much whether any evangelical ever 66 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,280 denied the deity of the Holy Spirit, but 67 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:27,860 we certainly neglect him. 68 00:03:28,740 --> 00:03:31,300 And, of course, we have neglected his lordship 69 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:32,300 within the Church. 70 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:35,400 Now, the result of this, of course, has 71 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,800 been, this failure to honor the Holy Spirit, 72 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,780 has been many. 73 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:41,980 The results have been many. 74 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,060 For one has been that the fellowship of 75 00:03:45,060 --> 00:03:48,500 the Church has degenerated into a social fellowship 76 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:50,480 with a mild religious flavor. 77 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,300 Now, I want you to know something about 78 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:53,660 me. 79 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,720 It isn't important, but I just want to 80 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,920 say it while I'm here, while I have 81 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,760 the time, that I either want God or 82 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,580 I don't want anything at all to do 83 00:04:03,580 --> 00:04:04,120 with religion. 84 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:09,440 You never get me interested in the old 85 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,280 -maid social club with a little bit of 86 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,920 Christianity thrown in to give it respectability. 87 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,920 I either want it all or I don't 88 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:17,440 want any. 89 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:21,140 I want God or I am perfectly happy 90 00:04:21,140 --> 00:04:23,000 to go out and be something else. 91 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,420 I think the Lord had something like that 92 00:04:25,420 --> 00:04:27,060 in mind when he said, I wish thou 93 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:28,640 were not hot or cold, because thou art 94 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,200 neither hot or cold, I will spew thee 95 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,240 out of my mouth. 96 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:36,500 Another result of the failure to honor the 97 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:43,680 Holy Ghost is that so many non-spiritual 98 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,780 and unspiritual and anti-spiritual features have been 99 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:49,240 brought into the Church. 100 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,300 If the average Church couldn't run on a 101 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:54,180 hymn book and a Bible, we just wouldn't 102 00:04:54,180 --> 00:04:55,300 be able to do it. 103 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,880 You know, the Church started out with a 104 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,700 Bible, and then it got a hymn book, 105 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:01,760 and for years they had a hymn book 106 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:02,340 and a Bible. 107 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,180 Now we have to have all kinds of 108 00:05:05,180 --> 00:05:07,460 trucks, a lot of people, and they couldn't 109 00:05:07,460 --> 00:05:09,620 serve God at all without at least one 110 00:05:09,620 --> 00:05:14,280 van load of equipment to keep them happy. 111 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,140 And all this stuff, this fellowship. 112 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,000 Now, the attraction that we have to win 113 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,740 people and keep them coming, it may be 114 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:29,340 fine, it may be elevated, it may be 115 00:05:29,340 --> 00:05:32,000 cheap, it may be degrading, it may be 116 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,600 coarse, it may be artistic, it all depends 117 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,100 upon who is running the show. 118 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:40,680 But because the Holy Spirit is not the 119 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,800 center of attraction and the Lord is not 120 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,340 the one who is in charge, we bring 121 00:05:47,340 --> 00:05:50,800 in all sorts of anti-scriptural and unscriptural 122 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,600 claptrap to keep the people happy and keep 123 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:54,080 them coming. 124 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,500 And now, the horrible part about that isn't 125 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:03,160 that that is true, but the horrible part 126 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:04,800 about it is that it needs to be 127 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:05,360 at all. 128 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:10,100 That the great woe is not the presence 129 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:13,740 of religious toys and trifles, but the necessity 130 00:06:13,740 --> 00:06:16,800 for them that the presence of the Eternal 131 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:18,820 Spirit is not in our midst. 132 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,860 The most important one that could possibly be 133 00:06:22,860 --> 00:06:24,780 here tonight is the Holy Spirit. 134 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,140 And the tragedy and woe of the hour 135 00:06:31,140 --> 00:06:33,740 is that we neglect him, and then in 136 00:06:33,740 --> 00:06:36,400 order to make up for his absence, we 137 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,300 have to do something to keep our own 138 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:40,080 spirits up. 139 00:06:41,060 --> 00:06:44,120 I said in Chicago over, I talk this 140 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:45,720 way wherever I go, you know. 141 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:47,940 I preach this way at Moody Church and 142 00:06:47,940 --> 00:06:49,000 everywhere I go. 143 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,400 Some like it, some don't, but they come 144 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:51,740 back. 145 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,300 And I said this in our church in 146 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:56,600 the south side of Chicago. 147 00:06:57,260 --> 00:07:00,460 Suddenly in an impulse I said, There are 148 00:07:00,460 --> 00:07:03,620 churches so completely out of the hands of 149 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:07,240 God that if the Holy Ghost withdrew from 150 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,400 them, they wouldn't find it out for three 151 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:09,760 months. 152 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:14,020 And then the next day or so afterward, 153 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:16,840 a telephone rang and a woman's voice said, 154 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,080 Mr. Tozer, I am not a member of 155 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,600 your church, I am a member of a 156 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,800 church on the north side. 157 00:07:23,860 --> 00:07:25,720 If you know anything about that great city, 158 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,920 you know that being on the north side 159 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:29,500 is like being in another state. 160 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,800 It's almost like being in Buffalo from here, 161 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:34,240 just way off there. 162 00:07:34,740 --> 00:07:36,580 She said, I was down to your church 163 00:07:36,580 --> 00:07:38,740 last night, and I heard you say that 164 00:07:38,740 --> 00:07:42,000 there are churches where the Holy Spirit should 165 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,160 desert them, they'd never find it out. 166 00:07:44,820 --> 00:07:47,840 She said, Mr. Tozer, I want you to 167 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,020 know that that's what happened in our church. 168 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,520 Her voice was very tender and broken and 169 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,060 there was no criticism or censoriousness at all. 170 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,240 And I tried to console her. 171 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,460 I said, well, maybe it's just that he 172 00:08:00,460 --> 00:08:03,880 is grieved, or maybe that he is not 173 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:04,720 given the place. 174 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,180 No, she said, it's past that, Mr. Tozer. 175 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:12,520 She said, we have so consistently rejected him 176 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,860 in our church, and it's a gospel church, 177 00:08:15,260 --> 00:08:18,700 we have so consistently rejected him that he 178 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:20,760 is gone, he's no longer there. 179 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:23,340 Now, I don't know whether she's right, I 180 00:08:23,340 --> 00:08:24,840 doubt whether she is right. 181 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,500 I don't believe the Spirit of God ever 182 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:30,080 leaves a church completely, but he can, like 183 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,860 the Savior who is asleep on the behinder 184 00:08:32,860 --> 00:08:35,460 part of the ship, he can go, so 185 00:08:35,460 --> 00:08:38,020 to speak, to sleep and not make himself 186 00:08:38,020 --> 00:08:41,100 known and to let us get along without 187 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:42,400 him for years. 188 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:46,080 Now I want to ask, who is the 189 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:46,840 Holy Spirit? 190 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,780 That's the subject for tonight. 191 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,140 First of all, what is the Holy Spirit? 192 00:08:52,260 --> 00:08:54,940 Here I'm going to ask you to shake 193 00:08:54,940 --> 00:08:57,100 your head real hard and wake up some 194 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:58,760 of the cells that haven't had a good 195 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,500 workout since you got out of college or 196 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:03,800 high school, because I'm going to ask you 197 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,440 to think with me about something that's a 198 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,180 little bit off the beaten track. 199 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,620 You know how trouble is. 200 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:12,180 A fellow came to church one time, a 201 00:09:12,180 --> 00:09:14,640 fine-looking fellow, but obviously wasn't too well 202 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,280 educated. 203 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:19,240 He said, Father Tozer, he said, I'm a 204 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,500 fundamentalist evangelical Christian, but he said, I confess 205 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:24,980 I'm getting sick and weary of all these 206 00:09:24,980 --> 00:09:26,880 religious cliches that I hear. 207 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:28,440 He meant cliches, of course. 208 00:09:29,340 --> 00:09:32,180 And these religious cliches that we have, these 209 00:09:32,180 --> 00:09:36,680 cliches, just repeating the same old cliché over 210 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:37,680 and over again. 211 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:39,740 Well, one of the things I do is 212 00:09:39,740 --> 00:09:40,720 not do that. 213 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,580 And some people are startled and run and 214 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:47,440 never come back, but others come to see 215 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,340 this great sight and wonder how it is 216 00:09:50,340 --> 00:09:52,080 you can say something and not sound like 217 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:53,300 a preacher in saying it. 218 00:09:53,380 --> 00:09:55,360 Well, I've worked on that all my life. 219 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,220 I've been a preacher since I was eighteen, 220 00:09:57,460 --> 00:09:59,320 but I sure tried hard not to sound 221 00:09:59,320 --> 00:09:59,840 like one. 222 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,540 Well, what is the Holy Spirit? 223 00:10:04,780 --> 00:10:07,860 Well, first place, Spirit is another mode of 224 00:10:07,860 --> 00:10:08,220 being. 225 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,180 Now shake your head real hard on that. 226 00:10:10,820 --> 00:10:13,720 Spirit is another mode of being than matter. 227 00:10:13,940 --> 00:10:15,640 You know, we'd bump this pulpit. 228 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,420 I won't do it because it would spoil 229 00:10:18,420 --> 00:10:21,260 the tape, but you can pick a thing 230 00:10:21,260 --> 00:10:22,300 up and bounce it around. 231 00:10:22,420 --> 00:10:25,220 That matter, you're a composite of matter. 232 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,160 That head you have on there and that 233 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:28,320 body, that matter. 234 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,940 But you know, that's only one mode of 235 00:10:31,940 --> 00:10:32,440 existence. 236 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,760 There's another, and that's at least another, and 237 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:35,460 that's Spirit. 238 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,500 And the difference between matter and Spirit is 239 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:43,960 that matter possesses weight and size and color 240 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,820 and extension in space. 241 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,660 It can be measured and weighed and it 242 00:10:48,660 --> 00:10:49,580 has form. 243 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,620 But the Holy Spirit is not material, therefore 244 00:10:53,620 --> 00:10:56,280 he does not have weight nor dimension nor 245 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,620 shape nor extension in space. 246 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:04,560 One power of Spirit is to penetrate matter, 247 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,660 to penetrate things, all substances. 248 00:11:08,780 --> 00:11:11,760 Your Spirit, for instance, dwells in your body 249 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,080 somewhere, and it penetrates your body and doesn't 250 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:15,840 hurt the body. 251 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:18,840 It's in there penetrating because it's another form. 252 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,140 When Jesus had risen from the dead and 253 00:11:23,140 --> 00:11:26,880 he was no more mere matter, he came 254 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,080 into a locked door where it was locked 255 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,480 and shut, and he came evidently through the 256 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,560 wall somehow, and he managed to penetrate and 257 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:37,520 get into that room without unlocking it. 258 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:39,600 Now, he couldn't have done that before he 259 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,920 died, but he did it afterward. 260 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:49,000 And Spirit, then, is another kind of substance. 261 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:55,360 It's different from material things, and it can 262 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:56,720 penetrate personality. 263 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,420 Your Spirit can penetrate your personality. 264 00:11:59,660 --> 00:12:02,740 One personality can penetrate another personality. 265 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,080 The Holy Spirit can penetrate your personality, your 266 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:07,780 Spirit. 267 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:14,040 The Bible talks in 1 Corinthians about the 268 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,220 no man knowing the things of God save 269 00:12:16,220 --> 00:12:17,860 the Spirit of the man. 270 00:12:17,980 --> 00:12:19,880 No man knoweth the things of a man 271 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:21,760 save the Spirit of the man that's in 272 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:21,920 him. 273 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:24,900 No man knows the Spirit things of God 274 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:28,240 except the Spirit of God which reveals them. 275 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:31,360 So the Spirit of God can the Spirit 276 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:32,180 of man. 277 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,560 Now, I want to just say what the 278 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:37,060 Holy Spirit is not. 279 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,540 The Holy Spirit is not enthusiasm. 280 00:12:40,340 --> 00:12:43,080 Some people get enthusiasm, they imagine it's the 281 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:43,780 Holy Spirit. 282 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,080 Why, we have people down in our part 283 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,120 of the country that can get worked up 284 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,860 over a song until they are actually sent. 285 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,120 You know, they say they get sent just 286 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,700 by a song, and they imagine that's the 287 00:12:57,700 --> 00:12:57,980 Spirit. 288 00:12:58,060 --> 00:13:01,100 Not necessarily, because those same people, a lot 289 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:02,640 of them, go out and live just like 290 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:03,200 the world. 291 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,460 And the Holy Spirit never enters a man 292 00:13:06,460 --> 00:13:08,000 and then lets him live like the world. 293 00:13:08,060 --> 00:13:09,280 You can be sure of that. 294 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:12,320 And incidentally, that's the reason most people don't 295 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,020 want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 296 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:15,940 They want to live the way they want 297 00:13:15,940 --> 00:13:18,040 to live and have the Holy Spirit as 298 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,800 a bit of something extra, as you might 299 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,760 have a diamond stick pin or something very 300 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,420 beautiful on your clothing. 301 00:13:27,420 --> 00:13:30,340 They want the Holy Ghost to be added, 302 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,140 but the Holy Spirit will not be an 303 00:13:33,140 --> 00:13:33,660 addition. 304 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,680 The Holy Spirit must be Lord, or he 305 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:37,600 won't come at all. 306 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:38,980 But that's for another sermon. 307 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,440 Now, the Holy Spirit is a person. 308 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:43,740 I want you to get that. 309 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,700 You can spell that with capital letters if 310 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:46,240 you want to. 311 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,260 The Holy Spirit is a person. 312 00:13:48,420 --> 00:13:49,300 He's not enthusiasm. 313 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,360 He's not courage, nor energy, nor the personification 314 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,480 of all good qualities, like Jack Frost is 315 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,100 the personification of cold weather and Santa Claus 316 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:02,340 the personification of wanting to give somebody Thai. 317 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:06,600 That's a personification. 318 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,120 But the Holy Spirit is not a personification 319 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:09,880 of anything. 320 00:14:10,020 --> 00:14:11,860 The Holy Spirit is a person, just the 321 00:14:11,860 --> 00:14:12,940 same as you're a person. 322 00:14:13,580 --> 00:14:15,480 And he has all the qualities of a 323 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:15,800 person. 324 00:14:16,340 --> 00:14:19,660 The Holy Spirit has substance, but not material 325 00:14:19,660 --> 00:14:20,240 substance. 326 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,340 He has individuality. 327 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,380 He is one being and not another. 328 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:30,120 He has will, and he has intelligence, and 329 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,720 he has feeling, and he has knowledge, and 330 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,360 sympathy, and ability to love, and see, and 331 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,660 think, and hear, and speak, and desire, and 332 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:38,780 grieve, and rejoice. 333 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,280 He is a person, this Holy Spirit. 334 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,180 And Jesus said, I will send him unto 335 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:46,800 you, and I will not leave you comfortless, 336 00:14:46,860 --> 00:14:49,080 but he will come, and when he has 337 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,800 come, he will take the things of mine 338 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,140 and show them unto you. 339 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,440 And the most important thing in the world 340 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,460 is that this blessed Holy Spirit is now 341 00:14:59,460 --> 00:15:01,600 present here in this church tonight. 342 00:15:02,180 --> 00:15:04,420 Jesus, you know, in his body, is at 343 00:15:04,420 --> 00:15:06,460 the right hand of God the Father Almighty, 344 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,640 interceding for us, and he will be there 345 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,160 until he comes again. 346 00:15:12,660 --> 00:15:15,240 But he said, I will send another comforter, 347 00:15:15,380 --> 00:15:18,900 the Holy Ghost, the Spirit, and he will 348 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:21,780 be my representative, and he will be all 349 00:15:21,780 --> 00:15:22,820 that I am. 350 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,600 Now, who is the Holy Spirit? 351 00:15:26,140 --> 00:15:28,200 I have spoken briefly on what is the 352 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,500 Holy Spirit, and I have said he is 353 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:32,240 spirit and not matter. 354 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,540 He is personality, he is individuality, he has 355 00:15:36,540 --> 00:15:40,580 intelligence, and love, and memory, and he can 356 00:15:40,580 --> 00:15:44,280 communicate with you, and he can love you, 357 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:47,300 and he can be grieved when you grieve 358 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:47,660 him. 359 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,540 He can be quenched, as any friend can 360 00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:52,940 be shut up if you turn on him. 361 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,840 And if he is in your home as 362 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:56,920 a guest, and you suddenly turn on him, 363 00:15:56,980 --> 00:15:59,080 of course you will be hushed into hurt 364 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,000 silence, because you have wounded him. 365 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,460 And so we can wound the Holy Spirit. 366 00:16:04,580 --> 00:16:05,520 Now that is what he is. 367 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,180 But who is the Holy Spirit? 368 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,460 Well, the historic Church said that the Holy 369 00:16:10,460 --> 00:16:11,660 Spirit is God. 370 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,260 Some of you who attended some of the 371 00:16:14,260 --> 00:16:17,140 denominations remember the Nicene Creed. 372 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,420 That is quoted every so often. 373 00:16:19,540 --> 00:16:21,580 If I recall, it runs something like this, 374 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,140 I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, 375 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:25,880 maker of heaven and earth, and of all 376 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,720 things visible and invisible, and in one Lord 377 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,000 Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, begotten 378 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,380 of him before all ages. 379 00:16:32,380 --> 00:16:34,900 God of God, light of light, very God 380 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:37,560 of very God, begotten, not made, being of 381 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,660 one substance with the Father, by whom all 382 00:16:39,660 --> 00:16:40,340 things were made. 383 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:42,860 And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the 384 00:16:42,860 --> 00:16:45,600 Lord and giver of life, who with the 385 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,320 Father and Son together is worshiped and glorified. 386 00:16:50,060 --> 00:16:52,520 Now there is what the Creed said way 387 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,740 back there 1,600 years ago. 388 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,380 And then there is another Creed that was, 389 00:16:59,380 --> 00:17:02,700 oh, about 1,300 years ago, maybe 1 390 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:04,859 ,400, and that is called the Athanasian Creed. 391 00:17:05,380 --> 00:17:07,440 That came into being way back there when 392 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,280 a man named Arias stood up and said 393 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,380 that Jesus was a good man and a 394 00:17:12,380 --> 00:17:15,859 great man, but he wasn't God, he wasn't 395 00:17:15,859 --> 00:17:19,060 really divine, he was not any second person 396 00:17:19,060 --> 00:17:20,599 of the Trinity, and there was a man 397 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:21,780 named Athanasius. 398 00:17:22,180 --> 00:17:24,460 He said, No, the Bible teaches that Jesus 399 00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:26,780 is God, and they had all kinds of 400 00:17:26,780 --> 00:17:28,440 controversy about it there. 401 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,920 But he came to Athanasius and said, Athanasius, 402 00:17:33,060 --> 00:17:35,580 the whole world is against you on this. 403 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,120 He said, All right then, I'm against the 404 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:38,780 whole world. 405 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,700 He didn't mind having them against him, but 406 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:45,940 they had that great gathering at Nice, and 407 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:49,760 there they formed the, out of it came 408 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,320 the Athanasian Creed. 409 00:17:51,420 --> 00:17:53,000 The Nicene Creed is supposed to have been 410 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,020 born there, but the Church Fathers got together 411 00:17:55,020 --> 00:17:57,260 and they thought out what the Bible had 412 00:17:57,260 --> 00:17:59,300 to say about the three persons of the 413 00:17:59,300 --> 00:17:59,600 Trinity. 414 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:01,940 You know, most of us, we're so busy 415 00:18:01,940 --> 00:18:04,360 reading religious fiction we never get around to 416 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:04,500 it. 417 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,840 So I thought it might be nice tonight 418 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,640 if I let you, if I took you 419 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,400 back about, oh, 1,300 years and listened 420 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,040 to our Fathers tell about who Jesus is. 421 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,460 Well, here's what it says. 422 00:18:21,580 --> 00:18:24,000 There is one person of the Father and 423 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,120 another of the Son and another of the 424 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:26,800 Holy Ghost. 425 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,080 But the Godhead of the Father and of 426 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,920 the Son and of the Holy Ghost is 427 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:32,580 but one. 428 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:36,840 The glory is equal and the majesty coeternal, 429 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,240 such as the Father is, such is the 430 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:40,920 Son, and such is the Holy Ghost. 431 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,820 Now, this is what they said back in 432 00:18:42,820 --> 00:18:44,120 the days of Athanasius. 433 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,320 They said the Father is uncreated, the Son 434 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,720 is uncreated, and the Holy Ghost is uncreated. 435 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,080 The Father is infinite, the Son is infinite, 436 00:18:52,220 --> 00:18:53,480 and the Holy Ghost is infinite. 437 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,160 The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, 438 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,020 and the Holy Ghost is eternal. 439 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,020 And yet there are not three eternals, but 440 00:19:02,020 --> 00:19:02,640 one eternal. 441 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:05,540 So there are not three uncreated nor three 442 00:19:05,540 --> 00:19:07,940 infinite, but one uncreated and one infinite. 443 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,920 So also the Father is almighty, and the 444 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,080 Son is almighty, and the Holy Spirit is 445 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:13,460 almighty. 446 00:19:13,460 --> 00:19:16,060 Yet there are not three allmighties, but one 447 00:19:16,060 --> 00:19:16,540 almighty. 448 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:19,100 The Father is God, the Son is God, 449 00:19:19,180 --> 00:19:20,420 and the Holy Ghost is God. 450 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,180 Yet there are not three Gods, but one 451 00:19:22,180 --> 00:19:22,560 God. 452 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,260 The Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, 453 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:26,560 and the Holy Ghost is Lord. 454 00:19:26,660 --> 00:19:28,480 Yet there are not three Lords, but one 455 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:28,900 Lord. 456 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,560 So the Father is God and the Son 457 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,960 is God, and so the Father is Lord 458 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,800 and the Son is Lord, and the Holy 459 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,420 Ghost is also these things. 460 00:19:41,540 --> 00:19:44,100 The Father is made of none, neither created 461 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:44,900 nor begotten. 462 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:47,660 The Son is of the Father alone, not 463 00:19:47,660 --> 00:19:48,620 made nor created. 464 00:19:49,180 --> 00:19:51,020 And the Holy Ghost is of the Father 465 00:19:51,020 --> 00:19:53,260 and the Son, not made nor created nor 466 00:19:53,260 --> 00:19:54,520 begotten, but proceeding. 467 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,240 Oh, brother, I don't know what that does 468 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,640 to you, but that's just like a chicken 469 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,360 dinner to my soul to hear that you 470 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:04,520 know that this has come down the years, 471 00:20:04,660 --> 00:20:06,920 that this is what our fathers believed. 472 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:08,400 And do you know what? 473 00:20:08,820 --> 00:20:11,460 When that company of Christians met and declared 474 00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:14,060 this kind of thing, they tell us that 475 00:20:14,060 --> 00:20:17,300 when they met and gathered there, that some 476 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:19,500 of them had their tongues pulled out, some 477 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:21,820 of them had their ears burned off, some 478 00:20:21,820 --> 00:20:24,140 of them had their arms torn off, some 479 00:20:24,140 --> 00:20:26,560 of them had lost a leg, all because 480 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,920 they stood for this thing, that Jesus was 481 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,040 Lord to the glory of God the Father, 482 00:20:32,580 --> 00:20:35,560 and the Romans had persecuted them under Diocletian 483 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,200 and Caligula and the rest of them. 484 00:20:37,780 --> 00:20:41,160 And these men were martyrs who hadn't quite 485 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,240 died, but were maimed horribly. 486 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,420 But old saints of God and learned scholars 487 00:20:47,420 --> 00:20:50,260 who knew the truth, and they came there 488 00:20:50,260 --> 00:20:53,440 and they wrote these things up and gave 489 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,270 it to us for the for the world 490 00:20:56,270 --> 00:20:58,390 and for the ages, and I thank God 491 00:20:58,390 --> 00:20:59,930 on my knees for them. 492 00:21:01,030 --> 00:21:06,530 Well, now not only do the historic Church 493 00:21:06,530 --> 00:21:09,270 say that the Holy Spirit is God, but 494 00:21:09,270 --> 00:21:11,550 the Scriptures say that the Holy Spirit is 495 00:21:11,550 --> 00:21:11,810 God. 496 00:21:11,850 --> 00:21:14,250 And I might say this to you, that 497 00:21:14,250 --> 00:21:15,770 if the Church said it and the Scripture 498 00:21:15,770 --> 00:21:17,270 didn't say it, I'd reject it. 499 00:21:17,810 --> 00:21:20,010 I wouldn't believe an archangel if he came 500 00:21:20,010 --> 00:21:22,170 to Toronto with a wing spread at 12 501 00:21:22,170 --> 00:21:26,310 feet, shining like an atom bomb, just at 502 00:21:26,310 --> 00:21:28,410 the moment it goes off, if he couldn't 503 00:21:28,410 --> 00:21:29,710 give me chapter and verse. 504 00:21:29,770 --> 00:21:31,250 I want to know what's here in the 505 00:21:31,250 --> 00:21:31,490 book. 506 00:21:31,650 --> 00:21:35,750 I am not a traditionalist, and anybody comes 507 00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:37,770 to me and says, it's traditional, I say, 508 00:21:37,850 --> 00:21:40,170 all right, very nice, interesting if true, but 509 00:21:40,170 --> 00:21:40,770 is it true? 510 00:21:41,270 --> 00:21:42,450 Give me verse and chapter. 511 00:21:43,070 --> 00:21:44,890 So I want to know now, were these 512 00:21:44,890 --> 00:21:47,230 old brethren, when they said all this, were 513 00:21:47,230 --> 00:21:48,370 they telling the truth? 514 00:21:48,470 --> 00:21:50,090 Well, listen to what the Scriptures have to 515 00:21:50,090 --> 00:21:50,490 say. 516 00:21:51,270 --> 00:21:54,530 The Scripture says he's God, gives to him 517 00:21:54,530 --> 00:21:57,750 the attributes that belong to God and the 518 00:21:57,750 --> 00:21:58,830 Son and the Father. 519 00:21:59,010 --> 00:22:04,390 For instance, 139th Psalm, it says there, that 520 00:22:04,390 --> 00:22:07,190 whither shall I go from thy spirit, and 521 00:22:07,190 --> 00:22:09,490 whither shall I hide from thy presence? 522 00:22:09,790 --> 00:22:11,510 That is omnipresence. 523 00:22:11,870 --> 00:22:14,790 Not even the devil is omnipresent, only God 524 00:22:14,790 --> 00:22:16,170 can claim omnipresence. 525 00:22:16,170 --> 00:22:19,710 And the psalmist attributed omnipresence to the Holy 526 00:22:19,710 --> 00:22:20,090 Spirit. 527 00:22:20,950 --> 00:22:24,290 Then in Job, he is given the power 528 00:22:24,290 --> 00:22:24,950 to create. 529 00:22:25,670 --> 00:22:29,550 Job 26 and so on, 33, says, By 530 00:22:29,550 --> 00:22:32,470 his spirit he garnished the heavens and made 531 00:22:32,470 --> 00:22:33,250 the crooked serpent. 532 00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:35,870 He said, The Spirit of God hath made 533 00:22:35,870 --> 00:22:38,270 me, and the breath of the Almighty has 534 00:22:38,270 --> 00:22:39,170 given me life. 535 00:22:39,910 --> 00:22:44,290 And there we have the breath, the ghost, 536 00:22:44,410 --> 00:22:46,630 the spirit of the Almighty has given me 537 00:22:46,630 --> 00:22:48,250 life. 538 00:22:48,870 --> 00:22:51,470 So the Holy Spirit is here, said to 539 00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:52,170 be creator. 540 00:22:52,810 --> 00:22:56,130 He issues commands, thus saith the Spirit, and 541 00:22:56,130 --> 00:22:57,370 only God can do that. 542 00:22:57,670 --> 00:23:00,270 He is called Lord in 2 Corinthians 3. 543 00:23:00,790 --> 00:23:03,910 Then there's a baptismal formula, I baptize you 544 00:23:03,910 --> 00:23:05,830 in the name of the Father and of 545 00:23:05,830 --> 00:23:07,310 the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 546 00:23:07,390 --> 00:23:09,410 There's the benediction, the love of God and 547 00:23:09,410 --> 00:23:12,750 the grace of Christ, the love of God 548 00:23:12,750 --> 00:23:14,370 and the communion of the Holy Ghost. 549 00:23:15,070 --> 00:23:17,210 Now, I want to ask you something. 550 00:23:17,370 --> 00:23:18,930 This is going to be a little shocking, 551 00:23:19,110 --> 00:23:19,310 maybe. 552 00:23:20,430 --> 00:23:24,450 But I want to ask you, if the 553 00:23:24,450 --> 00:23:27,150 Spirit of God was not God, if he 554 00:23:27,150 --> 00:23:29,190 was not God but something less, if he 555 00:23:29,190 --> 00:23:30,850 was a man or an angel or something 556 00:23:30,850 --> 00:23:33,830 else, if he just wasn't God, as some 557 00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:36,370 people say, then I want to ask you, 558 00:23:36,470 --> 00:23:38,690 if the scriptures don't teach that he's God, 559 00:23:39,090 --> 00:23:40,430 I want to ask you how it would 560 00:23:40,430 --> 00:23:43,650 sound if I introduced here the name of, 561 00:23:43,730 --> 00:23:46,310 say, the Archangel Gabriel or somebody. 562 00:23:46,830 --> 00:23:49,150 Suppose that I said, I baptize you in 563 00:23:49,150 --> 00:23:50,890 the name of the Father and of the 564 00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:51,870 Son and St. Paul. 565 00:23:52,370 --> 00:23:54,530 Wouldn't that be a shocking, horrible thing? 566 00:23:55,330 --> 00:23:57,250 If I said, I baptize you in the 567 00:23:57,250 --> 00:23:58,810 name of the Father and the Son and 568 00:23:58,810 --> 00:24:00,650 the Virgin Mary, wouldn't that be a horrible 569 00:24:00,650 --> 00:24:01,090 thing? 570 00:24:01,670 --> 00:24:04,170 For you cannot attribute deity to St. Paul, 571 00:24:04,670 --> 00:24:07,210 you cannot attribute deity to the Virgin, though 572 00:24:07,210 --> 00:24:09,030 we honor her, for she was the mother 573 00:24:09,030 --> 00:24:09,970 of our Lord. 574 00:24:10,870 --> 00:24:13,190 The mother of our Lord's body, not the 575 00:24:13,190 --> 00:24:14,590 mother of the Lord's deity. 576 00:24:15,290 --> 00:24:17,990 For his deity had been before the foundation 577 00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:18,750 of the world. 578 00:24:18,910 --> 00:24:20,350 In the beginning was the Word, and the 579 00:24:20,350 --> 00:24:21,690 Word was with God, and the Word was 580 00:24:21,690 --> 00:24:23,570 God, and all things were made by him, 581 00:24:23,610 --> 00:24:25,910 and without him was nothing made that was 582 00:24:25,910 --> 00:24:26,230 made. 583 00:24:26,890 --> 00:24:29,330 And the very atoms that composed the body 584 00:24:29,330 --> 00:24:31,850 of his mother had been made by the 585 00:24:31,850 --> 00:24:34,010 Holy Lord whom she bore. 586 00:24:34,930 --> 00:24:38,050 But suppose that we introduced her there, or 587 00:24:38,050 --> 00:24:41,650 introduced Gabriel the Archangel there, and we'd say, 588 00:24:41,770 --> 00:24:43,670 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 589 00:24:43,670 --> 00:24:45,210 love of God, and the communion of the 590 00:24:45,210 --> 00:24:46,130 Archangel Gabriel. 591 00:24:46,250 --> 00:24:48,250 Everybody would run for the door, they'd say, 592 00:24:48,370 --> 00:24:50,010 there's heresy in that church. 593 00:24:50,510 --> 00:24:52,790 It would be a horrible thing to introduce 594 00:24:52,790 --> 00:24:54,970 an archangel or an angel or a man 595 00:24:54,970 --> 00:24:57,810 in where the Holy Spirit belongs. 596 00:24:57,930 --> 00:25:01,030 Never, never, my brother, the Holy Spirit is 597 00:25:01,030 --> 00:25:01,630 God. 598 00:25:02,270 --> 00:25:04,450 And the most important thing here tonight is 599 00:25:04,450 --> 00:25:06,130 that the Holy Spirit is present. 600 00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:09,730 There is unseen deity present. 601 00:25:10,370 --> 00:25:13,510 Now I cannot bring him here, I can 602 00:25:13,510 --> 00:25:16,530 only tell you that he is here, that 603 00:25:16,530 --> 00:25:17,130 is all. 604 00:25:17,610 --> 00:25:19,590 I can tell you that he is present 605 00:25:19,590 --> 00:25:23,670 in our midst, a knowing, feeling personality. 606 00:25:24,410 --> 00:25:26,890 He knows how you're reacting to what I'm 607 00:25:26,890 --> 00:25:27,310 saying. 608 00:25:27,830 --> 00:25:29,170 He knows why you came. 609 00:25:29,770 --> 00:25:31,310 He knows what you're going to say as 610 00:25:31,310 --> 00:25:32,810 soon as you get out on the sidewalk. 611 00:25:33,390 --> 00:25:35,850 He knows how you're thinking now. 612 00:25:36,510 --> 00:25:39,490 He knows you're up rising and you're down 613 00:25:39,490 --> 00:25:42,410 sitting and understands your thought afar off. 614 00:25:42,890 --> 00:25:45,510 And you can't hide from him, he's present 615 00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:46,230 in our midst. 616 00:25:46,390 --> 00:25:49,870 I will send another comforter to you, and 617 00:25:49,870 --> 00:25:51,430 he will abide with you. 618 00:25:51,830 --> 00:25:53,270 So he's here among us. 619 00:25:53,390 --> 00:25:55,430 We're here met as Christians in this. 620 00:25:55,770 --> 00:25:58,390 Most of us are Christians here, and there's 621 00:25:58,390 --> 00:26:00,390 an invisible presence here. 622 00:26:01,050 --> 00:26:02,850 And we can't see him, but we know 623 00:26:02,850 --> 00:26:03,430 he's here. 624 00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:06,550 Now he is, as I have said, indivisible 625 00:26:06,550 --> 00:26:09,170 from the Father and the Son, and he 626 00:26:09,170 --> 00:26:12,370 is all God and exercise all the rights 627 00:26:12,370 --> 00:26:13,030 of God. 628 00:26:13,930 --> 00:26:17,530 And he merits all worship and all love 629 00:26:17,530 --> 00:26:18,770 and all obedience. 630 00:26:19,090 --> 00:26:21,010 That's who the Holy Spirit is. 631 00:26:21,690 --> 00:26:24,010 And here's a beautiful thing about the Holy 632 00:26:24,010 --> 00:26:24,470 Spirit. 633 00:26:25,190 --> 00:26:27,890 Being the Spirit of Jesus, you will find 634 00:26:27,890 --> 00:26:29,550 him exactly like Jesus. 635 00:26:30,090 --> 00:26:33,410 A lot of people have been frightened by 636 00:26:33,410 --> 00:26:36,630 people claiming to be filled with the Spirit 637 00:26:36,630 --> 00:26:40,890 and acting any way else but like the 638 00:26:40,890 --> 00:26:41,310 Spirit. 639 00:26:42,290 --> 00:26:44,370 Some people, when they say they're filled with 640 00:26:44,370 --> 00:26:47,170 the Spirit, they are very stern and harsh 641 00:26:47,170 --> 00:26:47,910 and abusive. 642 00:26:48,930 --> 00:26:54,350 And others do weird things, and they say 643 00:26:54,350 --> 00:26:55,470 that's the Holy Spirit. 644 00:26:55,930 --> 00:26:58,730 Well, the Holy Spirit is exactly like Jesus, 645 00:26:58,930 --> 00:27:01,450 just as Jesus is exactly like the Father. 646 00:27:02,070 --> 00:27:04,710 He that has seen me has seen the 647 00:27:04,710 --> 00:27:05,890 Father, said Jesus. 648 00:27:06,610 --> 00:27:09,010 And I will send you another comforter, and 649 00:27:09,010 --> 00:27:11,010 he will take the things of mine, and 650 00:27:11,010 --> 00:27:12,150 he will show them to you. 651 00:27:12,230 --> 00:27:14,050 He will demonstrate me to you. 652 00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:16,770 Now, what does the Holy Spirit think of 653 00:27:16,770 --> 00:27:17,050 babies? 654 00:27:17,270 --> 00:27:18,990 Well, what did Jesus think of babies? 655 00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:21,410 He thought of babies just like the Father 656 00:27:21,410 --> 00:27:21,810 did. 657 00:27:22,490 --> 00:27:24,730 And the Father must think wonderfully well of 658 00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:27,050 babies, because the Son took a baby in 659 00:27:27,050 --> 00:27:29,290 his arms and put his hand on his 660 00:27:29,290 --> 00:27:31,370 little bald head and said, God bless you, 661 00:27:31,430 --> 00:27:32,370 and blessed the baby. 662 00:27:33,050 --> 00:27:34,890 Maybe theologians don't know why I did it, 663 00:27:34,910 --> 00:27:37,010 but I think I do, because there's nothing 664 00:27:37,010 --> 00:27:39,190 sweeter and softer in all the world than 665 00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:41,250 the top of a little bald baby's head. 666 00:27:41,870 --> 00:27:43,650 And Jesus put his hand on that little 667 00:27:43,650 --> 00:27:46,030 soft head and blessed it in the name 668 00:27:46,030 --> 00:27:46,830 of his Father. 669 00:27:47,450 --> 00:27:49,570 Well, now the Holy Spirit is the Spirit 670 00:27:49,570 --> 00:27:50,190 of Jesus. 671 00:27:50,310 --> 00:27:53,390 What does the Spirit think of babies? 672 00:27:53,710 --> 00:27:56,230 Well, the Spirit thinks of babies just exactly 673 00:27:56,230 --> 00:27:57,270 what Jesus did. 674 00:27:57,850 --> 00:28:00,010 What does the Spirit think of sick people? 675 00:28:00,330 --> 00:28:02,690 Well, what did Jesus think of sick people? 676 00:28:02,690 --> 00:28:05,690 What does the Spirit think of sinful people? 677 00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:07,830 What did Jesus think of the woman dragged 678 00:28:07,830 --> 00:28:09,630 into his presence, taken in adultery? 679 00:28:10,130 --> 00:28:12,890 The Spirit feels exactly the way Jesus feels 680 00:28:12,890 --> 00:28:13,650 about everything. 681 00:28:14,190 --> 00:28:16,450 He is the Spirit of Jesus, and he 682 00:28:16,450 --> 00:28:18,530 acts exactly the way Jesus acts. 683 00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:22,230 If Christ Jesus our Lord, we could thank 684 00:28:22,230 --> 00:28:23,290 him here in person. 685 00:28:23,850 --> 00:28:25,750 If he had that old toga on, we're 686 00:28:25,750 --> 00:28:28,970 walking quietly down the aisle, wouldn't be anybody 687 00:28:28,970 --> 00:28:30,490 run from Jesus, nobody. 688 00:28:31,190 --> 00:28:33,230 They came to him, mothers brought their babies, 689 00:28:33,330 --> 00:28:35,630 the sick came, the weary came, the tired 690 00:28:35,630 --> 00:28:40,250 came, the dispossessed came, everybody came, because he 691 00:28:40,250 --> 00:28:42,710 was the most magnetic person that ever lived. 692 00:28:43,350 --> 00:28:49,410 Even old Frederick Nietzsche, that nihilistic German philosopher 693 00:28:49,410 --> 00:28:52,070 that brought on World Wars I and II, 694 00:28:52,190 --> 00:28:54,650 they tell me, he laid the foundation work 695 00:28:54,650 --> 00:28:55,390 for the Nazis. 696 00:28:56,470 --> 00:29:01,330 That old ungodly fellow, he said, I like 697 00:29:01,330 --> 00:29:03,750 Jesus, I love Jesus, but I hate that 698 00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:04,370 man Paul. 699 00:29:04,450 --> 00:29:06,790 He couldn't take Paul, but he said he 700 00:29:06,790 --> 00:29:07,530 loved Jesus. 701 00:29:08,050 --> 00:29:10,610 And you'll not find anybody saying very much 702 00:29:10,610 --> 00:29:13,850 against Jesus personally, because Jesus was the most 703 00:29:13,850 --> 00:29:16,930 winsome, the most loving, the most kindly, the 704 00:29:16,930 --> 00:29:19,610 tenderest, the most beautiful character that ever lived 705 00:29:19,610 --> 00:29:20,430 in all the world. 706 00:29:20,890 --> 00:29:21,990 And you know what he was? 707 00:29:22,110 --> 00:29:24,550 He was demonstrating the Spirit. 708 00:29:24,710 --> 00:29:27,450 He was demonstrating, that's the way the Spirit 709 00:29:27,450 --> 00:29:27,890 is. 710 00:29:28,490 --> 00:29:30,550 So in all these sermons that I'm going 711 00:29:30,550 --> 00:29:32,410 to preach about how to be filled with 712 00:29:32,410 --> 00:29:34,270 the Spirit, how to walk with the Spirit, 713 00:29:34,390 --> 00:29:37,090 what difference does the Spirit make, and what 714 00:29:37,090 --> 00:29:38,970 is the promise of the Father, and how 715 00:29:38,970 --> 00:29:40,030 can we receive him? 716 00:29:40,170 --> 00:29:42,530 In all of this, I want you to 717 00:29:42,530 --> 00:29:47,390 think of the Spirit as cultured, gracious, loving, 718 00:29:48,150 --> 00:29:52,110 kind, gentle, just like our Lord Jesus Christ 719 00:29:52,110 --> 00:29:52,850 himself. 720 00:29:54,270 --> 00:30:00,330 Now, he's friendly, the Holy Spirit's friendly. 721 00:30:01,810 --> 00:30:03,730 We try to make him something else but 722 00:30:03,730 --> 00:30:04,910 friendly, but he's friendly. 723 00:30:05,530 --> 00:30:07,650 And because he's friendly, he may be grieved, 724 00:30:07,750 --> 00:30:08,770 as I said before. 725 00:30:09,750 --> 00:30:12,890 And we can grieve him by ignoring him, 726 00:30:12,970 --> 00:30:15,830 by resisting him, by doubting him, or by 727 00:30:15,830 --> 00:30:19,150 sinning against him, by refusing to obey him, 728 00:30:19,870 --> 00:30:22,310 by turning our backs on him. 729 00:30:22,310 --> 00:30:23,590 We can grieve the Spirit. 730 00:30:23,950 --> 00:30:25,310 But you know, there's one thing. 731 00:30:26,030 --> 00:30:28,770 There must be love present before there can 732 00:30:28,770 --> 00:30:29,310 be grief. 733 00:30:29,450 --> 00:30:30,510 Let me give you an example. 734 00:30:31,750 --> 00:30:33,050 How long can I preach, brother? 735 00:30:35,210 --> 00:30:38,050 I don't want to take all your time. 736 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:40,750 It's 18 after. 737 00:30:40,830 --> 00:30:42,690 I should be through another five minutes, shouldn't 738 00:30:42,690 --> 00:30:42,830 I? 739 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:53,050 Well, the Holy Spirit, I said, was friendly. 740 00:30:53,990 --> 00:30:55,770 And he can be grieved, and he can 741 00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:57,130 be grieved because he's loving. 742 00:30:57,830 --> 00:30:59,830 Now, suppose you had a 17-year-old 743 00:30:59,830 --> 00:31:04,970 son, and that son of yours began to 744 00:31:04,970 --> 00:31:05,490 go bad. 745 00:31:05,670 --> 00:31:07,150 I pray this might never happen. 746 00:31:07,350 --> 00:31:09,330 Thank God it didn't happen with our six, 747 00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:12,710 any of them, but I hope it'll never 748 00:31:12,710 --> 00:31:14,770 happen with any you may have or love. 749 00:31:15,630 --> 00:31:17,450 But suppose you had a 17-year-old 750 00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:19,850 boy, and he got to that age, you 751 00:31:19,850 --> 00:31:21,490 know, where he wanted to take things in 752 00:31:21,490 --> 00:31:22,150 his own hand. 753 00:31:22,950 --> 00:31:24,770 And suppose that he joined up with some 754 00:31:24,770 --> 00:31:27,030 boy you didn't know, some stranger from another 755 00:31:27,030 --> 00:31:28,910 part of town, and they got into trouble. 756 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,580 And you were called down to the police 757 00:31:34,580 --> 00:31:35,040 station. 758 00:31:35,420 --> 00:31:37,980 You went down, and here sat your boy 759 00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:42,060 and another boy you'd never seen in handcuffs. 760 00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:45,120 You know how you'd feel about it? 761 00:31:46,820 --> 00:31:50,740 You'd be sorry for the other boy, but 762 00:31:50,740 --> 00:31:53,120 you didn't love the other boy because you 763 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,060 didn't know him. 764 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,060 But with your own boy, your grief would 765 00:31:57,060 --> 00:32:01,440 penetrate your heart like a sword, for only 766 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:02,860 love can grieve. 767 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,760 And if those two boys were sent off 768 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,800 to prison, you might pity the boy you 769 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,880 didn't know, but you'd grieve over the boy 770 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:12,740 you didn't know. 771 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,720 A mother can grieve because she loves. 772 00:32:15,820 --> 00:32:17,600 If you don't love, you can't grieve. 773 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,360 So that when the scripture says, grieve not 774 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,420 the Holy Spirit of God, it is telling 775 00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:25,240 us that he loves us so much that 776 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,000 when we insult him, he's grieved. 777 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:28,980 When we ignore him, he's grieved. 778 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,960 When we resist him, he's grieved. 779 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:32,960 When we doubt him, he's grieved. 780 00:32:33,620 --> 00:32:36,720 But also we can please him by obeying 781 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,340 and believing, and when we please him, he 782 00:32:39,340 --> 00:32:43,040 responds to us just like a pleased father 783 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,940 responds, just like a mother responds. 784 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,700 He responds to us because he's pleased, because 785 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:50,540 he loves us. 786 00:32:51,180 --> 00:32:52,620 Now, he that hath an ear, let him 787 00:32:52,620 --> 00:32:55,020 hear what the Spirit saith unto Avenue Road 788 00:32:55,020 --> 00:32:55,500 Church. 789 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,380 The Spirit saith unto the churches, and to 790 00:32:58,380 --> 00:33:02,120 this church, the restoration of the Spirit to 791 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,460 his rightful place in the church, in this 792 00:33:05,460 --> 00:33:10,120 church, in your life, is by all means 793 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,200 the most important thing that could possibly take 794 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:13,680 place. 795 00:33:14,220 --> 00:33:16,820 If you were to increase the attendance until 796 00:33:16,820 --> 00:33:18,380 there wasn't a place to put them, if 797 00:33:18,380 --> 00:33:20,640 you were to get $10,000 or $20 798 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:25,120 ,000 given to you, if you were to 799 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,760 have anything that they have in churches that 800 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,000 men want and love and put value on, 801 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,560 and you didn't have the Holy Spirit, you 802 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,520 might as well have nothing at all, for 803 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,600 it is not by might nor by power, 804 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,940 but it's by my Spirit. 805 00:33:41,580 --> 00:33:43,880 Not by the eloquence of a man, not 806 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,540 by good music, not by good preaching, if 807 00:33:46,540 --> 00:33:48,880 this might pass for some kind of preaching, 808 00:33:49,220 --> 00:33:51,400 but it is by the Spirit that God 809 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,800 works his mighty work. 810 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,180 I said this morning that we had better 811 00:33:57,180 --> 00:33:59,640 throw ourselves back on God, for there'll be 812 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,320 a day when we'll have nothing but God. 813 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,080 I didn't know when I said that, that 814 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,159 last night around midnight, my friend Cecil Thomas 815 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,600 got to a place suddenly where he has 816 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:15,800 nothing but God. 817 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:16,440 Nothing. 818 00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:18,820 He had friends all over the world, he 819 00:34:18,820 --> 00:34:21,020 had a big car, he had lots of 820 00:34:21,020 --> 00:34:23,960 things, but now he has nothing but God, 821 00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:27,360 and his nice little wife, nothing but God. 822 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,960 And we'd better now, while we can, do 823 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,139 something about it, my friends, and bring the 824 00:34:35,139 --> 00:34:38,060 Holy Spirit of God back into the Church, 825 00:34:38,179 --> 00:34:40,860 back by prayer, back by obedience, back by 826 00:34:40,860 --> 00:34:43,460 confession, until he takes over. 827 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,760 Then there will be life and light and 828 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,719 power and victory and joy and fruit, and 829 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,980 it will come to us, and we can 830 00:34:50,980 --> 00:34:55,080 live upon a different level altogether, a level 831 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,360 we never dreamed was possible before. 832 00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:58,680 Do you believe that? 833 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,040 Oh, it's so, my friends. 834 00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:03,720 So I'm going to stop tonight, for all 835 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:04,660 I've done is taught. 836 00:35:04,820 --> 00:35:09,360 I haven't given any evangelism, I've just taught 837 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:09,800 tonight. 838 00:35:10,340 --> 00:35:11,540 What is the Spirit? 839 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,320 Who is the Spirit? 840 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:15,340 How do we know who the Spirit is? 841 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,380 We know by the scriptures, we know because 842 00:35:17,380 --> 00:35:19,860 the Church Fathers knew what the scriptures said. 843 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,700 And he is in our midst. 844 00:35:22,940 --> 00:35:25,520 But unless he is feelingly in our midst, 845 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,020 unless he is consciously in our midst, that 846 00:35:29,020 --> 00:35:31,100 is, we're conscious of it, he might as 847 00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:32,320 well be somewhere else. 848 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:36,080 Because it's possible to run a Church without 849 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,360 the Holy Spirit, that's the terrible thing. 850 00:35:38,540 --> 00:35:41,260 You organize it, you get a board and 851 00:35:41,260 --> 00:35:43,320 a pastor and a choir and a ladies' 852 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,340 aide and a Sunday school, and you get 853 00:35:46,340 --> 00:35:47,060 all organized. 854 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,180 And I believe in organization, I'm not against 855 00:35:49,180 --> 00:35:49,960 it, I'm for it. 856 00:35:50,420 --> 00:35:52,780 You get organized, and then you get a 857 00:35:52,780 --> 00:35:54,380 pastor to turn the crank, and that's all 858 00:35:54,380 --> 00:35:54,940 there is to it. 859 00:35:55,140 --> 00:35:57,360 The Holy Ghost can leave, and the pastor 860 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,360 goes on turning the crank, and nobody finds 861 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:00,560 it out for five years. 862 00:36:01,540 --> 00:36:03,480 Oh, what a tragedy, my brethren. 863 00:36:03,740 --> 00:36:06,260 What a horrible tragedy to the Church of 864 00:36:06,260 --> 00:36:06,760 Christ. 865 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,620 But we don't have to have it that 866 00:36:09,620 --> 00:36:09,940 way. 867 00:36:10,660 --> 00:36:11,980 He that hath an ear, let him hear 868 00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:13,880 what the Spirit saith unto the Churches. 869 00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:17,580 Now, to this kind of preaching, having your 870 00:36:17,580 --> 00:36:19,680 own Church is going to do two things. 871 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,080 It's going to bring your action from it, 872 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,920 in which case, as I said to somebody, 873 00:36:26,340 --> 00:36:28,680 I came and I can go again. 874 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,720 Or there is going to be an eager 875 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:35,260 seeking, and I believe the latter will be 876 00:36:35,260 --> 00:36:35,860 the case. 877 00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:38,700 I believe that there will be an eager 878 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:42,000 seeking for better things than that we now 879 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:42,540 have. 880 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,900 So we're going to seek God together these 881 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:46,320 nights. 882 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,100 Next week, come back and tell the people 883 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:50,580 about it. 884 00:36:50,780 --> 00:36:52,700 We'll talk about the promise of the Father, 885 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,140 and show how that promise which is for 886 00:36:55,140 --> 00:36:58,600 you has its roots way back into the 887 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,100 early chapters of the scriptures and on down 888 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:01,700 the years. 889 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,640 We'll go on all night after night to 890 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,280 develop this and show finally how to be 891 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:08,560 filled. 892 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,060 Taking this down, they want to know when 893 00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:11,480 to start.