And we're at week number 20, and we're
looking at the Spirits' Work, Saint Ward this
evening.
Spirits' Work, Saint Ward.
Now we were singing a moment or two
ago that the Comforter has come.
And I think that every believer in here,
I believe this, that every believer in here
is perfectly sure that the Comforter, the Holy
Ghost, is the third person of the Trinity,
and we took a night on the personality
of the Spirit, and I'm sure they're sure
now about the third person of the Trinity.
And they're very sure that He indwells at
this moment every believer in this building.
It matters not what flag you fly or
what denomination you claim.
If you're born again and you're saved by
grace and washed in the blood of the
Lamb, then you're indwelled tonight at this moment
by the Holy Spirit.
Can I prove this to you again?
Let's have a look at 1 Corinthians chapter
7.
And Paul's writing to these Corinthians, and remember
in the third chapter, he had to say
to them, I could not speak unto you
without the spiritual.
These believers at Corinth at that moment were
very carnal.
There was strife and divisions among them.
Nevertheless, they were saved, you know.
They were truly born again.
But they were living carnal lives.
But when we come to chapter 6 and
verse 19, he says to them, What?
One of those great questions of Paul's.
What?
Know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you?
They're saying, carnal Christians.
Of course he is.
Of course he wasn't having his way in
them.
Oh no, they were grieving him and quenching
him.
Nevertheless, their body was the temple of the
Holy Ghost.
And so you see, the comforter has come.
And you remember our Lord Jesus Christ said
this in John 16.
Let's go back to John 16.
Verse 7.
Our Lord speaking to his own here said,
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.
It is expedient for you that I go
away.
For if I go not away, the comforter
will not come unto you.
But if I depart, I will send him
unto you.
And when he is come, we have noted
this in the night gone by.
He will reprove, or the word there, he
will convince the world of sin.
Of this sin of unbelief and of righteousness.
And of judgment, not judgment to come.
Judgment that's passed because the prince of this
world is judged.
He said in verse 13.
When he the spirit of truth is come,
he will guide you into all truth.
Now this is what he wants to do
with believers.
He wants to use them.
To convince the world of sin.
And of righteousness.
And to convince the world that the old
devil is judged.
Just because they are absolutely set free.
He wants to go a bit further.
Last week we looked at him.
Taking the believers to glorify Christ.
He shall glorify me was the text.
But tonight we are going to look at
him.
Taking believers.
To guide them into all truth.
Now I want you to notice the faculties
he will use.
First of all your body.
You know I don't think that sometimes we
get this clear enough.
That the holy ghost needs every part of
our body.
If he is going to lead us into
all truth.
You see he needs your hands just now
to turn over the pages.
And I'll tell you this.
He needs your eyes.
So that you'll look at the truth.
And examine it.
Yes.
And it doesn't matter who brings you to
the bible class.
There must be a place where you've got
to use your feet.
The holy ghost needs that body of yours.
He needs it in its completeness, in its
totality.
If he's to guide you into all truth.
We have a dear brother in here just
now.
He's got only one leg.
But he's been here for 20 years more.
I'm 25 here and he must be here
as long as I am.
He never misses.
Another dear brother just at the back there.
He comes on a walking aid.
And we have to help him in.
You know the lord wants your body.
We're to present our bodies.
A living sacrifice.
Wants to take our eyes.
Wants to take our ears.
Wants to take our lips.
Wants to take our hands.
Wants to take our feet.
And he needs all this.
If he's to guide us into all truth.
I don't want to linger here.
You know he not only needs your body,
he needs your soul.
And there is a great difference you know
between body and soul.
You know there are also lights come and
say to me there is no difference.
Two of them at the door not long
ago with the old yarn.
I've had it since I was born again
I think.
Forty years ago.
He said there is no difference between body
and soul.
He just knew on the road.
You have to start over with him again.
Have a look at this.
So that you'll know how to treat them
when they come to the door.
This is Matthew's gospel chapter 10.
This is what I turned up to.
Poor wee fella he hadn't been long out
of school.
He's standing at the door all dressed up
and he thinks he knows everything.
And he said to me there is no
difference between body and soul.
And I said now this is Matthew's gospel
chapter 10.
And our Lord Jesus is calling his 12
disciples.
And he's sending them out.
You're in agreement with this.
He said yes.
Verse 16 he said behold I send you
forth our sheep in the midst of wolves.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents.
Harmless as doves.
What a message for preachers.
And then I said he said this to
them down the chapter a little bit son.
He said at verse 28.
Wait until he got his Bible open.
Fear not them which kill the body.
But are not able to kill the soul.
I said you tell me there's no difference.
I said surely our Lord Jesus Christ is
differentiating between body and soul.
You see the worst that the rebels could
do to me would be to kill the
body.
That's all they can do.
They cannot touch my soul you know.
My soul is different from my body.
You see my soul is myself.
I just live in this body.
This is the tent I live in.
And the day I die or the day
that somebody kills me.
Then I shall be absent from the body.
And our loved ones will have to bury
it.
Oh but I'll be present with the Lord
then.
Oh there is a difference.
There is a difference.
You see your soul is very wonderful.
Have a look at this.
It's way back in the book of Revelation.
I got this wee fellow to look at
this too.
He stands looking at me as stupid as
he is.
And I rattled it into him because he
needs it.
I have no emotion I've gone easy with
the devil.
These same wee fellows I'll have to lash
them.
Yes.
If he comes along he'll get them too.
Yes.
Ah the master just opened the book to
the devil and scared the life out of
him.
He just said it is written.
It is written.
It's a pity the fellows we send out
onto the TV couldn't say it was written.
Fiddling around.
Yes.
Here we are.
We are at Revelation chapter 6.
And it's a terrible day on earth.
Terrible things are happening.
We've been through this here on Sunday evenings.
This day of wrath.
Verse 9.
And when he had opened the fifth seal.
That is when our Lord Jesus Christ in
heaven had opened the fifth seal of this
book that he took out of the hand
of God.
I saw under the altar.
I saw under the altar the souls of
them.
I want you to get that word very
carefully.
The souls of them that were slain for
the word of God and for the testimony
they held.
Now let's get the souls of them that
were slain.
Let's get the slain bit in first.
What better than the slain.
The body was slain.
You see John's in heaven and he's seeing
all this.
He looks down.
He can see the bodies that were slain.
The Antichrist had beheaded these men.
Everybody's got their heads off.
But John sees the souls.
Let me tell anybody in here that's got
inoculated with soul sleep.
One fellow tried to get out of this
dilemma by saying but the soul goes to
sleep when they die.
And not the ones that I see I
said.
These are the souls.
They're under the altar.
He can see the bodies slain and the
heads off.
But he says I saw the souls of
them that were slain for the word of
God and the testimony which they held.
And they cried with a loud voice.
And no sleep about that.
Roman Catholic fellow came here on Sunday night
for the first time.
He says boy you don't let them go
to sleep here.
Out of bit of it I said.
I have no notion of letting them go
to sleep.
I'm able to shout yet.
Thank God.
And I saw under the altar the souls
of them that were slain for the word
of God and the testimony which they held.
And they cried with a loud voice saying.
How long oh Lord holy and true.
Dost thou not judge and avenge our blood
on them that dwell on the earth.
Cause it was boys on the earth that
took these heads off.
And white robes were given unto every one
of them.
And it was said unto them that they
should rest for a little season.
Until their fellow servants.
Watch this carefully.
Their fellow servants also and their brethren.
That should be killed as they were.
Oh yes God has this time some of
his servants.
To be killed.
Don't make any mistakes about it.
Yes he has.
James was killed with a sword.
God says alright I'll allow this.
Yes and Stephen was told while God stood
still in the heavens.
That there was a day when Paul the
great Paul put his head on the block.
And they took it off with one blow.
You would never know what God wants you
to do at the end.
Whatever God wants us to do it will
suit us.
He must be right.
I can tell you there's a difference between
body and soul here.
That's all the bit that I'm after just
now.
And I mustn't wander into other doctrines.
Oh yes there's the body slaying the head
off.
Here are the souls shouting on their tiptoes
in heaven.
Oh come to the door to tell me
there's no difference.
You can't read that's your trouble.
Oh no.
Look the soul's a very wonderful part.
It's the emotional part of me.
And you.
You see if the Holy Ghost has me
properly.
Then my soul shall be filled with love.
And my soul shall be filled with joy.
My soul shall be filled with peace.
Now if he's going to guide us into
all truth he needs your soul.
You see can I confess something just to
help everybody.
There is nothing I love more and I
say this very honestly.
There is nothing I love more than to
sit for hours and hours and hours and
hours and ponder this book.
And I shall tell you this and there's
a boy here who can prove it.
He's been in the house two or three
times today.
I've been at this book from six this
morning to six this night.
And it's the greatest joy.
It's no bother to me.
My bother is getting up and going to
do something else.
No bother at all.
I can read this and study this hour
after hour after hour.
And it's not only a great love I
have for it.
I have a great joy in doing it.
It is no work for me.
It is joy.
And I'll tell you that's where I get
most of my peace.
And if he's going to use you and
guide you into all truth he'll have to
have a bit more of your time.
I would wonder how he could guide some
of you into all truth when you're stuck
with half of the night on the TV.
And let's be very fair about this.
He needs your body.
He needs your soul.
But you see this.
He needs your mind.
You know your mind's a very wonderful part
of you.
I've been trying to teach the boys out
at the school for a long time.
All about their mind.
And I'm not a psychologist mind you.
I happen to know you know that up
here in here somewhere there's a thing called
memory.
And mine's a pretty good one and I
thank God every day for it.
And I can just remember almost everything I
need to remember in this book.
There's other things I don't remember.
But there is a memory up here.
And then of course you know that up
here there is an understanding.
Which is quite different from memory.
Memory is just this faculty upstairs here.
That can go back in a flash and
get all the things that's back there you
know.
When I'm tracing truth sometimes I can put
the light out and lie.
And my memory can go back to Genesis
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9 and I know all the chapters right
through to 50.
And I know all the chapters in Exodus
and Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy and Joshua,
Judges, Ruth and all around.
And works.
Works like that.
It's been trained to work like that.
Then of course understanding is up here.
That's different.
Just need to know the meaning of this.
When I look at my times are in.
Are in.
How do they get in?
What way did they get in?
Tell me how they got in.
I need to understand that.
If I'm going to teach it I need
to understand it.
I need to ask a lot of questions.
And I need to ask somebody who knows.
I need to ask the Holy Ghost.
He happens to know.
And you see my imagination is up there
too.
Yes.
You know your imagination is a mighty part
of you.
All the architects in the meetings a few
years before me.
They take a bit of blank paper and
they are going to do something for an
old fellow who owns a corner of a
field.
And they draft this out and they can
see this whole thing.
And the trees grown and everything else.
It's not a bricklayed you know.
But it's their imagination.
And because of their profession they can do
it pretty well.
Our Holy Ghost wants to take that imagination
you know.
Wants to show you things.
To come.
He wants to open your understanding.
He wants you to remember.
Let's go back to John 14 just for
a moment.
I think you remember this but you know
it's always good to go back.
And this is John 14.
And verse 26.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is speaking and saying,
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things and bring
all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have
said unto you.
You know that's what he's come to do.
Saint one.
He wants to get your body and we
must get that bit over.
And he wants to get your soul so
that you'll love the thing and you'll enjoy
it and you'll have peace in doing it.
But he wants to go up to the
upstairs here and he wants to take your
memory.
And he wants to bring all things to
your remembrance.
Yeah that's a great thing isn't it?
Sometimes when we sit at this table on
Sunday morning and we're taken up with the
words this do in remembrance of me.
Sometimes one of our young men will stand
up and read a little phrase from the
book of Job.
And in the book of Job it says,
remember the battle and do no more.
But it's a great thing to sit down
on Sunday morning and let the Holy Ghost
take you back to Calvary.
And you remember the battle.
You don't need to do any more, that's
all you do, you just remember the battle.
And you remember when Peter had denied our
Lord Jesus and he did it again and
again and again and the last time he
got cross about it and he denied him
with laws and curses.
And then the Lord turned and looked at
him, just looked.
And Peter remembered.
That's the word.
He remembered what the Lord had said.
And you know when the day of Pentecost
was fully come and Peter was filled with
the Holy Ghost and he stood up to
preach.
You know the Holy Ghost not only took
his body and soul but his whole mind.
Go through the chapter and I don't want
to take you back through but like a
flash he went back to Psalm 16 and
he could explain this to the whole crowd
just there and then.
Oh the Holy Ghost was taking his memory.
And you'll find that when he stood before
the Sanhedrin in Acts chapter 4 and they
were pressing him to the gate you know
and they wanted to take his life.
You remember he stood up.
Let's go to Acts 4 till you just
see this demonstration of this thing.
Acts chapter 4.
This to me is thrilling and has always
been encouraging to me.
Great comfort to me.
Verse 7 And when they have set them
in the midst and the they is talking
about the old Jewish Sanhedrin, the council of
the Jews and they had authority to kill
the member.
When they had set them, it's Peter and
John standing before 71 members of the council.
They asked by what power or by what
name have you done this?
It was a very subtle question.
Because there was a Jewish Lord in the
book of Deuteronomy.
If any man shall perform a miracle in
any other name than the name of Jehovah
he must be slain.
So they're leading him into a trap.
By what name or by what power have
you done this?
He had lifted the man at the beautiful
gate of the temple and he was wonderfully
miraculously healed.
It says this miracle will get into it
next week that was done.
When they had set them in the midst
they asked by what power or by what
name have you done this?
Then Peter, now watch this bit, filled with
the Holy Ghost.
You need to be filled with the Holy
Ghost on these occasions.
Said unto him, ye rulers of the people
and elders of Israel I'm sure if we're
filled with the Holy Ghost we'll always be
nice.
If we this day be examined of the
good deed done to the impotent man by
what means he is made whole Be it
known unto you all, unto all the people
of Israel that by the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth and that was asking for
trouble Whom ye crucify that's asking for more
trouble Whom God raised from the dead and
these were sadducees he was facing they didn't
like this resurrection Even by him, not this
man stand here before you all and then
like a flash he's away back to one
of the sands His memory must have been
working Nay, the Holy Ghost was bringing to
remembrance things that he must have read long
ago This is the stone that was set
at naught of you builders which has become
the head of the corner My, if you'd
work up the Bible for a month you
wouldn't get a better text would you?
Like a flash he got It's the Holy
Ghost Not brilliance that, that's the Spirit of
God And then you see Not only did
he stand up and be truthful and go
back and find the scriptures to back it
But now he's as bold as a lion
He says neither is there salvation in any
other for there is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be
saved No, when they saw the boldness I'll
tell you this, this is what the Holy
Ghost wants to do with us You see,
I think this must be said now There
is no chance of the Holy Ghost in
a moment like this or in a crisis
like this bringing things to your remembrance that
you never read in your life There isn't
a chance in the world Oh no, don't
you think that he's going to work miracles
up here Oh no Old F.B. Mair
said on one occasion when he was talking
about the marriage feast at Cana of Galilee
How the Lord Jesus said to them, fill
the water pots with water And he said,
you know how often I felt just like
a stone water pot And I said to
myself, Mair, you're not much use And I
knew that was the truth But I felt
as if the Lord was saying, well never
mind you're only an old cold stone water
pot But fill it with the water of
the word And I'll tell you, if you
get filled with the word Then when the
occasion arises Oh, the Holy Ghost can turn
the water into wine And don't you think
he's going to work the miracle if you're
just reading the telegraph And not the book
We need to get back to the book
You young ones don't know the education you're
getting in the book There isn't anything anywhere
in any of the universities can give you
it This is first and foremost And we
must get down to it and we mustn't
waste time Put your nose in the book,
I know you haven't the time I have
I've been set apart for this The Apostle
said we will give ourselves unto prayer Unto
the ministry of the word That's all they
did, just prayed and ministered the word You
see, he wants to take your memory, you
see And he wants to take your understanding
You know, he opened that understanding You remember
our Lord Jesus In Luke 24 when the
two came back From Emmaus, what a wonderful
day it was Our Lord began at Moses,
first five books of the Bible And all
the prophets, and he expounded unto them and
all the scriptures The things concerning himself Oh,
how often I longed and I just walked
behind them and heard them talking Like that,
I suppose five or six hours of an
exposition What a thrill it would be And
these two were so thrilled, their hearts burned
They began at the same hour and went
back to Jerusalem, you know And when they
went into the upper room and the saints
were there The saints said, you know, the
Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon
Ah, these two said, yes, and we know,
we know, we were with them on the
road We will tell you what he told
us And as they were just getting over
the message to them, the Lord appeared Stood
in the midst, he was there Then he
opened their understanding See this thing up here,
understanding Here's how the old school master used
to bother me about He used to look
into my face close up into it, you
know, what a wee fellow He was a
great big six feet three and broad shoulders
Looked right in, trying to scare me, he
was a fool for trying that And he
says, you're stupid Can always see that big
face close to mine, you're stupid Both of
us were stupid Yes, I'll tell you this,
the Holy Ghost can take your understanding You
know, let's get all the clever fellows in
Let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 2 for
a moment I think this is one of
the mightiest passages in the book Concerning the
understanding that's up here Watch this very carefully,
because you need to read this carefully Verse
9 But it is written, I hath not
seen, nor ear heard Neither hath entered into
the heart of man The things which God
hath prepared for them that love him Now,
I'm about to say this to you When
he says, neither hath entered Neither hath entered
into the heart of man That he's talking
about unsaved man Unnatural, unsaved natural man Talking
about the natural man You say, how do
you know?
I'll tell you how I know Because it
says here I hath not seen, nor ear
heard Neither hath entered into the heart of
man The things which God hath prepared for
them that love him But, but, but, but
God hath revealed them unto us Oh yes,
I think that's quite easy You don't need
to be in an upper class to get
that bit There's a difference between them and
us, that's all there is about it And
it doesn't make a matter what school they
go to Doesn't make a matter They just
can't see the thing We'll approve this to
you But God hath revealed them unto us
by his Spirit That's the bit The Holy
Ghost should take your understanding For the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
God For what man knoweth the things of
man, sayeth the Spirit of man which is
in him Even so the things of God
knoweth no man but the Spirit of God
Now we have received not the Spirit of
the world But the Spirit which is of
God That we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God Which
things also we speak, not in the words
which man's wisdom teacheth But which the Holy
Ghost teacheth Comparing spiritual things with spiritual The
whole thing comes out into the open now
But the natural man Receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God For they are
foolishness unto him Neither can he know them
Doesn't make a matter how clever he is
You see I have seen natural men you
know I go to Queens two or three
times a week And I see the professors
Yea, brilliant in their own department Absolutely brilliant
But when they come into my department Absolutely
dense They don't understand the things of God
Neither can they know them The natural man
just cannot know them That's all there is
about it now You see his understanding is
darkened But when you get saved you see
The Holy Ghost takes this understanding And he
opens your understanding That you might understand the
scriptures He's going to lead you into all
truth And he must get your understanding Oh
how I have looked at this book at
times And how things from Genesis And things
from Daniel And things from Revelation have all
come together And you say to yourself my
that is wonderful Never say to yourself that
you're wonderful Because it's not you It's the
spirit leading you into all truth Needs your
understanding You know he needs your imagination doesn't
he If he's going to show you things
to come You know we should take a
light in that But we'll not do it
You see he lets us see the rapture
in that book The day when Jesus will
come You know we believe this We can
see this happening you know So I had
this on my face to come to this
Jesus will come to the air And we'll
rise to meet him And then we can
see the great tribulation period He has given
this to us in this book And then
we can see the whole millennial reign And
all the things that will be done when
Jesus reigns It's too big a bit of
a book there to be missed By a
millennialist What are you going to do with
the things that's in the book I'll tell
you this He not only lets us see
all those things But he takes us on,
on, on A way past When time shall
be no more And we can see our
eternal home And it's glories and wonders and
comforts But we'll have to give the Holy
Ghost a better time That's what I must
plead for I'm sure we've been rushed I'm
sure that we were never meant to be
rushed the way we are I'm sure they
all sense, the old Puritans Why they would
sit down for hours But the book We
are not doing it There we gather we
bits up here and there And we love
the world and we're going to heaven and
all right Do we give them time?
A wee woman came to me the other
day She says to me You know my
husband since you went to the Bible class
He's sitting up for hours reading this book,
is it right?
So when he was out at the bottle
you had more bother with him Oh let's
give the Lord a chance Take time, give
God time Give him your body Give him
your soul Give him your mind Give him
your memory Your imagination, your understanding Let him
take you over And I'll tell you this
he'll thrill you But he'll not only thrill
you He'll talk to the woman next door
And she might get saved Now don't miss
next week Because it's important for you Let's
bow together before the Lord Not sing anymore
Let's spare her other hand just for the
moment Lord we're at thy feet We praise
you for yourself We thank you we live
in this age when the Holy Ghost has
come We thank you that our bodies tonight
The temples of the Holy Ghost Which is
in us Oh Lord it's true we have
the Holy Ghost But the question is has
the Holy Ghost got us?
Or are we only giving them wee picks
of time?
Lord talk to us about this We would
need to give you more time We would
need you to take our whole body And
then all the parts of our soul And
every bit of our memory And fill it
with the word of God that can be
used when it's needed Lord take us into
the deep things of God Make us understand
Even when the most brilliant natural man cannot
understand There is foolishness to him Lord just
make us to be what you want us
to be Bless this class tonight Part us
now In thy feet And with thy blessing
For thine own sake Amen