1 00:00:01,380 --> 00:00:02,940 Welcome to From the Pulpit. 2 00:00:03,260 --> 00:00:04,880 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:06,700 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:09,480 Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:09,760 too. 6 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,040 This week we have A.W. Tozer with 7 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:14,420 his message, Who is the Holy Spirit and 8 00:00:14,420 --> 00:00:15,360 how can we know him? 9 00:00:15,740 --> 00:00:19,060 If ye love me, keep my commandments and 10 00:00:19,060 --> 00:00:22,880 I will pray the Father and he shall 11 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,780 give you another comforter that he may abide 12 00:00:26,780 --> 00:00:27,780 with you forever. 13 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,439 Even the spirit of truth whom the world 14 00:00:31,439 --> 00:00:34,760 cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither 15 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,000 knoweth him, that ye know him, for he 16 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,460 dwelleth with you and shall be in you. 17 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,780 Verse 26, But the comforter, which is the 18 00:00:45,780 --> 00:00:49,780 Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in 19 00:00:49,780 --> 00:00:52,220 my name, he shall teach you all things 20 00:00:52,220 --> 00:00:54,740 and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever 21 00:00:54,740 --> 00:00:55,940 I have said unto you. 22 00:00:58,060 --> 00:01:01,700 Now in this series of sermons, sometimes I 23 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:05,460 will use the words the Holy Spirit, sometimes 24 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:08,380 I will use the words the Holy Ghost. 25 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:12,800 They mean exactly and precisely the same thing. 26 00:01:14,540 --> 00:01:18,680 The old Anglo-Saxon word geist has been 27 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,040 turned into our English ghost, and it means 28 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:21,520 spirit. 29 00:01:22,260 --> 00:01:24,800 So when we say the Holy Ghost, we're 30 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,300 saying in the old Elizabethan and pre-Elizabethan 31 00:01:28,300 --> 00:01:30,820 English the Holy Geist, the Holy Spirit. 32 00:01:31,620 --> 00:01:34,200 So it makes no difference which I say. 33 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,300 I mean the same thing. 34 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,080 Let me start by reminding you that about 35 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,120 a half a century ago, the liberals committed 36 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:51,600 a great blunder, and that blunder was the 37 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,880 neglect or the denial of the Deity of 38 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:55,280 Jesus. 39 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,660 They either didn't talk about it at all, 40 00:01:58,380 --> 00:02:01,760 or else they explained the Deity of Jesus 41 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:02,220 away. 42 00:02:23,730 --> 00:02:27,390 Now in more recent times, oh say within 43 00:02:27,390 --> 00:02:30,770 40 years back, the evangelical Christians. 44 00:02:31,450 --> 00:02:33,930 I suppose you know what I mean when 45 00:02:33,930 --> 00:02:35,630 I say evangelical Christians. 46 00:02:35,770 --> 00:02:39,490 I mean the gospel Christians, such as you 47 00:02:39,490 --> 00:02:40,090 and I. 48 00:02:41,090 --> 00:02:42,830 People who believe the Bible. 49 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,220 A Christian down in the Convention of Doctors 50 00:02:53,220 --> 00:02:57,440 in Wheaton last week, and afterward a fine, 51 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,200 distinguished-looking gentleman came down to the front. 52 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,160 He said, I am a Methodist, and I 53 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,240 don't know what you mean by evangelical. 54 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,020 Would you tell me what you mean? 55 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,140 So I exclaimed to this good Methodist brother 56 00:03:10,140 --> 00:03:13,340 who didn't know the difference between an evangelical 57 00:03:13,340 --> 00:03:14,620 and a modernist. 58 00:03:48,570 --> 00:03:50,930 Now the result of this, of course, has 59 00:03:50,930 --> 00:04:10,410 been, it 60 00:04:10,410 --> 00:04:12,450 isn't important, but I just want to say 61 00:04:12,450 --> 00:04:14,630 it while I'm here, while I have the 62 00:04:14,630 --> 00:04:17,410 time, that I either want God or I 63 00:04:17,410 --> 00:04:29,150 don't mean 64 00:04:29,150 --> 00:04:30,430 to give it respectability. 65 00:04:30,570 --> 00:04:32,450 I either want it all or I don't. 66 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:15,020 And now the horrible part about that isn't 67 00:06:15,020 --> 00:06:18,660 that that is true, but the horrible part 68 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:20,300 about it is that it needs to be 69 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:20,820 it all. 70 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,600 That the great woe is not the presence 71 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,280 of religious toys and trifles, but the necessity 72 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:32,280 for them that the presence of the Eternal 73 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:34,340 Spirit is not in our midst. 74 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,380 The most important one that could possibly be 75 00:06:38,380 --> 00:06:40,320 here tonight is the Holy Spirit. 76 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,640 And the tragedy and woe of the hour 77 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,240 is that we neglect him, and then in 78 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,900 order to make up for his absence, we 79 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:54,800 have to do something to keep our own 80 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,580 spirits up. 81 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,620 I said in Chicago, whenever I talk this 82 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:01,840 way, wherever I go, you know, I preach 83 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:04,260 this way at Moody Church and everywhere I 84 00:07:04,260 --> 00:07:04,500 go. 85 00:07:04,740 --> 00:07:06,900 Some like it, some don't, but they come 86 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:07,260 back. 87 00:07:08,260 --> 00:07:10,800 And I said this in our church in 88 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,100 the south side of Chicago. 89 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,980 Suddenly, in an impulse, I said, there are 90 00:07:15,980 --> 00:07:19,120 churches so completely out of the hands of 91 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,720 God that if the Holy Ghost withdrew from 92 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,920 them, they wouldn't sign it out for three 93 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:25,260 months. 94 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:29,500 And then the next day or so afterward, 95 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,340 a telephone rang, and a woman's voice said, 96 00:07:32,420 --> 00:07:35,600 Mr. Tozer, I am not a member of 97 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,460 your church, I'm a member of the church. 98 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,580 Now I want to ask who is the 99 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:02,360 Holy Spirit. 100 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,240 That's the subject for tonight. 101 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:22,820 We're on the 102 00:09:22,820 --> 00:09:23,680 beaten track. 103 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:25,140 You know how trouble is. 104 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,680 A fellow came to church one time, a 105 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:30,160 fine-looking fellow, but obviously wasn't too well 106 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:30,840 -educated. 107 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,840 He said, Father Tozer, he said, I'm a 108 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:38,660 fundamentalist, evangelical Christian, but I confess I'm getting 109 00:09:38,660 --> 00:09:41,560 sick and weary of all these religious cliches 110 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:42,380 that I hear. 111 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:43,960 He meant cliches, of course. 112 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:47,700 And these religious cliches that we have, these 113 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:51,820 cliches, just are repeating the same old cliché, 114 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:51,980 old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, 115 00:09:51,980 --> 00:09:52,080 old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, 116 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:52,180 old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, 117 00:09:52,180 --> 00:09:52,280 old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, 118 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:52,380 old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, 119 00:09:52,380 --> 00:09:52,480 old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, 120 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:52,580 old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, old cliché, 121 00:09:52,580 --> 00:09:53,120 old clich over and over again. 122 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,260 Well, one of the things I do is 123 00:09:55,260 --> 00:09:56,200 not do that. 124 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,080 And some people are startled and want to 125 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,960 never come back, but others come to see 126 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:03,900 this great sign. 127 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:36,200 You can 128 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,820 pick a thing up and bounce it around, 129 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:38,620 that matters. 130 00:11:58,530 --> 00:12:04,530 And spirit, then, is another kind of substance. 131 00:12:04,950 --> 00:12:10,850 It's different from material things, and it can 132 00:12:10,850 --> 00:12:12,290 penetrate personality. 133 00:12:12,290 --> 00:12:14,950 Your spirit can penetrate your personality. 134 00:12:15,210 --> 00:12:18,250 One personality can penetrate another personality. 135 00:12:18,850 --> 00:12:22,590 The Holy Spirit can penetrate your personality, your 136 00:12:22,590 --> 00:12:23,310 spirit. 137 00:12:23,790 --> 00:12:27,730 The Bible talks in 1 Corinthians, yes, 1 138 00:12:27,730 --> 00:12:30,990 Corinthians, about the no man knowing the things 139 00:12:30,990 --> 00:12:33,370 of God save the spirit of the man. 140 00:12:33,430 --> 00:12:35,390 No man knoweth the things of a man 141 00:12:35,390 --> 00:12:37,270 save the spirit of the man that's in 142 00:12:37,270 --> 00:12:37,410 him. 143 00:12:37,410 --> 00:12:40,410 No man knoweth the spirit things of God 144 00:12:40,410 --> 00:12:43,730 except the spirit of God which reveals them. 145 00:12:44,070 --> 00:12:46,490 So the spirit of God can penetrate the 146 00:12:46,490 --> 00:12:47,670 spirit of man. 147 00:12:48,670 --> 00:12:51,070 Now, I want to just say what the 148 00:12:51,070 --> 00:12:52,570 Holy Spirit is not. 149 00:12:53,010 --> 00:12:55,070 The Holy Spirit's not enthusiasm. 150 00:12:55,930 --> 00:13:05,520 Some get worked up over a song 151 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,360 until they're actually sent. 152 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,060 You know, they get sent just by a 153 00:13:11,060 --> 00:13:11,440 song. 154 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:13,480 And they imagine that's the spirit. 155 00:13:13,620 --> 00:13:16,620 Not necessarily, because those same people, a lot 156 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:18,140 of them, go out and live just like 157 00:13:18,140 --> 00:13:18,640 the world. 158 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:30,200 And he has all the... 159 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,820 And he has feeling, and he has knowledge, 160 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,140 and sympathy, and ability to love. 161 00:15:38,690 --> 00:15:41,090 Now, who is the Holy Spirit? 162 00:15:41,710 --> 00:15:43,970 I've spoken briefly on what is the Holy 163 00:15:43,970 --> 00:15:46,770 Spirit, and I have said he is spirit 164 00:15:46,770 --> 00:15:47,990 and not matters. 165 00:15:48,450 --> 00:15:49,530 He is personality. 166 00:15:49,870 --> 00:15:51,210 He is individuality. 167 00:15:51,590 --> 00:15:55,590 He has intelligence, and love, and memory, and 168 00:15:55,590 --> 00:15:59,090 he can communicate with you, and he can 169 00:15:59,090 --> 00:16:01,830 love you, and he can be grieved when 170 00:16:01,830 --> 00:16:03,170 you grieve him. 171 00:16:03,170 --> 00:16:06,050 He can be quenched, as any friend can 172 00:16:06,050 --> 00:16:08,450 be shut up if you turn on him. 173 00:16:08,630 --> 00:16:10,490 And if he's in your home as a 174 00:16:10,490 --> 00:16:12,650 guest, and you suddenly turn on him, of 175 00:16:12,650 --> 00:16:15,250 course, you'll be hushed into hurt silence. 176 00:16:15,730 --> 00:16:17,510 Because you've wounded him. 177 00:16:17,930 --> 00:16:19,950 And so we can wound the Holy Spirit. 178 00:16:20,090 --> 00:16:21,050 Now, that's what he is. 179 00:16:21,110 --> 00:16:22,670 But who is the Holy Spirit? 180 00:16:22,670 --> 00:16:25,970 Well, the historic Church said that the Holy 181 00:16:25,970 --> 00:16:27,190 Spirit is God. 182 00:16:27,670 --> 00:16:29,770 Some of you who attended some of the 183 00:16:29,770 --> 00:16:32,550 denominations remember the Nicene Creed. 184 00:16:33,230 --> 00:16:34,930 That is quoted every so often. 185 00:16:35,070 --> 00:16:37,090 If I recall, it runs something like this, 186 00:16:37,090 --> 00:16:39,650 I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, 187 00:16:39,830 --> 00:16:41,390 maker of heaven and earth, and of all 188 00:16:41,390 --> 00:16:44,230 things visible and invisible, and in one Lord 189 00:16:44,230 --> 00:16:46,510 Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, begotten 190 00:16:46,510 --> 00:16:47,910 of Him before all ages. 191 00:16:48,410 --> 00:16:50,410 God of God, light of light, very God 192 00:16:50,410 --> 00:16:53,070 of very God, begotten, not made, being of 193 00:16:53,070 --> 00:16:55,150 one substance with the Father, by whom all 194 00:16:55,150 --> 00:16:55,870 things were made. 195 00:16:55,870 --> 00:16:58,350 And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the 196 00:16:58,350 --> 00:16:59,570 Lord and giver of life. 197 00:17:12,010 --> 00:17:14,869 And then there is another creed that was, 198 00:17:15,430 --> 00:17:18,430 oh, about thirteen hundred years ago, maybe fourteen, 199 00:17:18,630 --> 00:17:20,329 and that's called the Athanasian Creed. 200 00:17:20,890 --> 00:17:22,950 That came into being way back there when 201 00:17:22,950 --> 00:17:25,790 a man named Arias stood up and said 202 00:17:25,790 --> 00:17:27,890 that Jesus was a good man and a 203 00:17:27,890 --> 00:17:31,390 great man, but he wasn't God, he wasn't 204 00:17:31,390 --> 00:17:34,550 really divine, he was not any second person 205 00:17:34,550 --> 00:17:36,110 of the Trinity, and there was a man 206 00:17:36,110 --> 00:17:37,270 named Athanasius. 207 00:17:37,690 --> 00:17:39,950 He said, no, the Bible teaches that Jesus 208 00:17:39,950 --> 00:17:42,290 is God, and they had all kinds of 209 00:17:42,290 --> 00:17:43,950 controversy about it there. 210 00:19:50,220 --> 00:21:18,230 Well, now, 211 00:21:18,490 --> 00:21:22,050 not only, not only do the historic Church 212 00:21:22,050 --> 00:21:24,790 say that the Holy Spirit is God, but 213 00:21:24,790 --> 00:22:07,010 the Scriptures say that the Holy Spirit is 214 00:22:07,010 --> 00:22:07,110 God. 215 00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:19,460 The Scripture says that 216 00:22:19,460 --> 00:22:22,160 whither shall I go from thyself? 217 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:55,620 He has given me 218 00:22:55,620 --> 00:22:55,720 life. 219 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,340 There we have the breath, the breath, the 220 00:22:58,340 --> 00:23:01,240 ghost, the ghost, the spirit of the Almighty 221 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,720 has given me life. 222 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,980 So the Holy Spirit is here, said to 223 00:23:06,980 --> 00:23:07,700 be creator. 224 00:23:08,340 --> 00:23:11,640 He issues commands, thus saith the Spirit, and 225 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,860 only God can do that. 226 00:23:13,180 --> 00:23:36,150 He is called Lord, but 227 00:23:36,150 --> 00:23:47,800 I want to ask you, if 228 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,020 he just wasn't God, as some people say, 229 00:24:10,820 --> 00:24:12,760 if I said I baptize you in the 230 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,320 name of the Father and the Son and 231 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,180 the Virgin Mary, wouldn't that be a horrible 232 00:24:16,180 --> 00:24:16,600 thing? 233 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,700 For you cannot attribute deity to St. Paul, 234 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,720 you cannot attribute deity to the Virgin, though 235 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,540 we honor her, for she was the mother 236 00:24:24,540 --> 00:24:27,340 of our Lord, and the mother of our 237 00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:29,720 Lord's body, not the mother of the Lord's 238 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:30,100 deity. 239 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,500 For his deity had been before the foundation 240 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:34,260 of the world. 241 00:24:34,420 --> 00:24:35,880 In the beginning was the Word, and the 242 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,200 Word was with God, and the Word was 243 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,080 God, and all things were made by him, 244 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,280 and without him was anything, nothing made that 245 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:41,780 was made. 246 00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:44,840 And the very atoms that composed the body 247 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,320 of his mother had been made by the 248 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,540 Holy Lord whom she bore. 249 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,560 But suppose that we introduced her there, or 250 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,180 introduced Gabriel, the archangel, there, and we'd say, 251 00:24:57,300 --> 00:24:59,200 the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 252 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:00,720 love of God, and the communion of the 253 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:01,640 archangel Gabriel. 254 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,240 Everybody would run for the door. 255 00:25:03,380 --> 00:25:05,520 They'd say, there's heresy in that church. 256 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,320 It would be a horrible thing to introduce 257 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,480 an archangel, or an angel, or a man 258 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,320 in where the Holy Spirit belongs. 259 00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:14,800 Never, never, my brother. 260 00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:17,120 The Holy Spirit is God. 261 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,960 And the most important thing here tonight is 262 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,620 that the Holy Spirit is present. 263 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:25,220 There is unseen deity present. 264 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,940 Now I cannot bring him here. 265 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,240 I can only tell you that he is 266 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:31,680 here. 267 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,220 That is all I can tell you that 268 00:25:34,220 --> 00:25:36,020 he is present in our midst. 269 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,220 A knowing, feeling personality. 270 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,400 He knows how you're reacting to what I'm 271 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:42,800 saying. 272 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:44,680 He knows why you came. 273 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,840 He knows what you're going to say as 274 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,320 soon as you get out on the sidewalk. 275 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:51,380 He knows how you're thinking now. 276 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,020 He knows you're up rising and you're down 277 00:25:55,020 --> 00:25:57,940 sitting and understands your thought afar off. 278 00:25:57,940 --> 00:26:00,000 And you can't hide from him. 279 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,740 He's present in our midst. 280 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,380 I will send another comforter to you, and 281 00:26:05,380 --> 00:26:06,980 he will abide with you. 282 00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:08,780 So he's here among us. 283 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,920 We're here met as Christians in this. 284 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:13,060 Most of us are Christians here. 285 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,880 And there's an invisible present here. 286 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,360 And we can't see him, but we know 287 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:18,920 he's here. 288 00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:22,060 Now he is, as I have said, indivisible 289 00:26:22,060 --> 00:26:23,720 from the Father and the Son. 290 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,260 And he is all God and exercise all 291 00:26:27,260 --> 00:26:28,560 the rights of God. 292 00:26:29,060 --> 00:26:33,040 And he merits all worship and all love 293 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,300 and all obedience. 294 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:36,500 That's who the Holy Spirit is. 295 00:26:37,140 --> 00:26:39,500 And here's a beautiful thing about the Holy 296 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:40,000 Spirit. 297 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,400 Being the spirit of Jesus, you will find 298 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,080 him exactly like Jesus. 299 00:26:45,660 --> 00:26:47,760 A lot of people have been frightened, you 300 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,700 know, by people claiming to be filled with 301 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:54,520 the Spirit and acting any way else but 302 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,820 like the Spirit. 303 00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,900 Some people, when they say they're filled with 304 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:02,660 the Spirit, they are very stern and harsh 305 00:27:02,660 --> 00:27:03,420 and abusive. 306 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:07,920 And others do weird things. 307 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:18,300 And he that hath 308 00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:21,420 seen me hath seen the Father, said Jesus. 309 00:27:21,420 --> 00:27:24,500 And I will send you another Comforter, and 310 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,520 he will take the things of mine, and 311 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,680 he will show them to you. 312 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,600 He'll demonstrate me to you. 313 00:27:30,340 --> 00:27:32,320 Now, what does the Holy Spirit think of 314 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:32,580 babies? 315 00:27:32,780 --> 00:27:34,500 Well, what did Jesus think of babies? 316 00:27:35,060 --> 00:27:36,940 He thought of babies just like the Father 317 00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:37,300 did. 318 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,260 And the Father must think wonderfully well of 319 00:27:40,260 --> 00:27:42,560 babies, because the Son took a baby in 320 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,820 his arms and put his hand on his 321 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:46,880 little bald head and said, God bless you, 322 00:27:46,940 --> 00:27:47,840 and blessed the baby. 323 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,380 Maybe theologians don't know why I did it, 324 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,440 but I think I do. 325 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,040 Because there's nothing sweeter and softer in all 326 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,420 the world than the top of a little 327 00:27:55,420 --> 00:27:56,760 bald baby's head. 328 00:27:57,420 --> 00:27:59,160 And Jesus put his hand on that little 329 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,540 soft head and blessed it in the name 330 00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:02,340 of his Father. 331 00:28:02,980 --> 00:28:05,080 Well, now the Holy Spirit is the Spirit 332 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:05,700 of Jesus. 333 00:28:05,820 --> 00:28:08,060 What does Jesus think, what does the Spirit 334 00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:09,220 think of babies then? 335 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:18,150 Well, the Spirit thinks of people. 336 00:28:31,330 --> 00:28:34,050 And he acts exactly the way Jesus acts. 337 00:28:34,050 --> 00:28:37,730 If Christ Jesus, our Lord, we could think 338 00:28:37,730 --> 00:28:40,110 him here in person, if he had that 339 00:28:40,110 --> 00:28:42,710 old toga on, we're walking quietly down the 340 00:28:42,710 --> 00:28:45,490 aisle, there wouldn't be anybody run from Jesus, 341 00:28:45,650 --> 00:28:45,990 nobody. 342 00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:47,510 They came to him. 343 00:28:47,590 --> 00:28:48,710 Others brought their babies. 344 00:28:48,830 --> 00:28:51,130 The sick came, the weary came, the tired 345 00:28:51,130 --> 00:28:53,670 came, the dispossessed came. 346 00:28:53,770 --> 00:28:56,930 Everybody came, because he was the most magnetic 347 00:28:56,930 --> 00:28:58,210 person that ever lived. 348 00:28:58,210 --> 00:29:39,990 Even old Frederick Nietzsche, that spirit 349 00:29:39,990 --> 00:29:42,970 he was demonstrating, that's the way the Spirit 350 00:29:42,970 --> 00:29:43,470 is. 351 00:30:09,780 --> 00:30:15,840 Now, he's friendly, the Holy Spirit's friendly. 352 00:30:17,020 --> 00:30:19,220 We try to make him something else but 353 00:30:19,220 --> 00:30:20,400 friendly, but he's friendly. 354 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,160 And because he's friendly, he may be grieved, 355 00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:24,280 as I said before. 356 00:30:25,110 --> 00:30:28,400 And we can grieve him by ignoring him, 357 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,340 by resisting him, by doubting him or by 358 00:30:31,340 --> 00:30:34,700 sinning against him, by refusing to obey him, 359 00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:37,820 by turning our backs on him. 360 00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:39,100 We can grieve the Spirit. 361 00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:40,800 But you know there's one thing. 362 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,260 There must be love present before there can 363 00:30:44,260 --> 00:30:44,820 be grief. 364 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,020 Let me give an example. 365 00:30:47,260 --> 00:30:48,540 How long can I preach, brother? 366 00:30:48,540 --> 00:30:49,440 Hmm? 367 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,540 I don't want to take all your time. 368 00:30:54,820 --> 00:30:56,240 It's 18 after. 369 00:30:56,340 --> 00:30:57,980 I should be through in another five minutes, 370 00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:58,320 shouldn't I? 371 00:31:04,420 --> 00:31:08,560 Well, I said was friendly. 372 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,320 I suppose you had a 17-year-old 373 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:20,480 son, and that son of yours began to 374 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:20,980 go bad. 375 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,660 I pray this might never happen. 376 00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:24,820 Thank God it didn't happen with our six. 377 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:40,300 And suppose that he joined up with some 378 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:42,560 boy you didn't know, some stranger from another 379 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,420 part of town, and they got into trouble. 380 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:50,080 And you were called down to the police 381 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:50,580 station. 382 00:31:50,860 --> 00:31:59,600 And you went down, and you know how 383 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:00,620 you'd feel about it? 384 00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:16,490 You'd be sorry for the other boy, for 385 00:32:16,490 --> 00:32:18,370 only love can grieve. 386 00:32:19,070 --> 00:32:21,250 And if those two boys were sent off 387 00:32:21,250 --> 00:32:24,310 to prison, you might pity the boy you 388 00:32:24,310 --> 00:32:27,390 didn't know, but you'd grieve over the boy 389 00:32:27,390 --> 00:32:28,330 you didn't know. 390 00:32:29,050 --> 00:32:31,250 A mother can grieve because she loves. 391 00:32:31,330 --> 00:32:33,130 If you don't love, you can't grieve. 392 00:32:33,650 --> 00:32:35,870 So that when the Scripture says, Grieve not 393 00:32:35,870 --> 00:32:37,990 the Holy Spirit of God, it is telling 394 00:32:37,990 --> 00:32:40,750 us that he loves us so much that 395 00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:42,510 when we insult him, he's grieved. 396 00:32:42,830 --> 00:32:44,470 When we ignore him, he's grieved. 397 00:32:44,570 --> 00:32:46,470 When we resist him, he's grieved. 398 00:32:46,470 --> 00:32:48,470 When we doubt him, he's grieved. 399 00:32:49,090 --> 00:32:52,250 But also we can please him by obeying 400 00:32:52,250 --> 00:32:54,850 and believing, and when we please him, he 401 00:32:54,850 --> 00:32:58,550 responds to us just like a pleased father 402 00:32:58,550 --> 00:33:01,450 responds, just like a pleased mother responds. 403 00:33:01,930 --> 00:33:05,230 He responds to us because he's pleased, because 404 00:33:05,230 --> 00:33:06,050 he loves us. 405 00:33:06,730 --> 00:33:08,130 Now, he that hath an ear, let him 406 00:33:08,130 --> 00:33:10,090 hear what the Spirit saith unto the Avenue 407 00:33:10,090 --> 00:33:10,990 Road Church. 408 00:33:10,990 --> 00:33:13,890 The Spirit saith unto the churches, and to 409 00:33:13,890 --> 00:33:17,630 this church, the restoration of the Spirit to 410 00:33:17,630 --> 00:33:20,970 his rightful place in the church, in this 411 00:33:20,970 --> 00:33:25,650 church, in your life, is by all means 412 00:33:25,650 --> 00:33:28,730 the most important thing that could possibly take 413 00:33:28,730 --> 00:33:29,170 place. 414 00:33:29,730 --> 00:33:32,330 If you were to increase the attendance until 415 00:33:32,330 --> 00:33:33,890 there wasn't a place to put them, if 416 00:33:33,890 --> 00:33:36,110 you were to get ten thousand or twenty 417 00:33:36,110 --> 00:33:40,470 thousand dollars given to you, if you were 418 00:33:40,470 --> 00:33:43,850 to have anything that they have in churches 419 00:33:43,850 --> 00:33:46,170 that men want and love and put value 420 00:33:46,170 --> 00:33:49,630 on, and you didn't have the Holy Spirit, 421 00:33:49,870 --> 00:33:52,210 you might as well have nothing at all, 422 00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:54,650 for it is not by might nor by 423 00:33:54,650 --> 00:33:56,430 power, but it's by my Spirit. 424 00:33:56,970 --> 00:33:59,410 Not by the eloquence of a man, not 425 00:33:59,410 --> 00:34:02,070 by good music, not by good preaching, if 426 00:34:02,070 --> 00:34:04,390 this might pass for some kind of preaching, 427 00:34:04,390 --> 00:34:06,910 but it is by the Spirit that God 428 00:34:06,910 --> 00:34:08,350 works his mighty work. 429 00:34:09,570 --> 00:34:12,690 I said this morning that we had better 430 00:34:12,690 --> 00:34:15,150 throw ourselves back on God, for there'll be 431 00:34:15,150 --> 00:34:18,830 a day when we'll have nothing but God. 432 00:34:19,350 --> 00:34:22,610 I didn't know when I said that, that 433 00:34:22,610 --> 00:34:26,650 last night around midnight, my friend Cecil Thomas 434 00:34:26,650 --> 00:34:58,070 got until 435 00:34:58,070 --> 00:35:00,690 he takes over, then there will be life, 436 00:35:05,740 --> 00:35:08,620 and we can live upon a different level 437 00:35:08,620 --> 00:35:09,620 altogether. 438 00:35:13,390 --> 00:35:14,150 Do you believe that? 439 00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:16,350 Oh, it's so, my friends. 440 00:35:17,370 --> 00:35:19,230 So I'm going to stop tonight, for all 441 00:35:19,230 --> 00:35:20,150 I've done is taught. 442 00:35:20,310 --> 00:35:24,850 I haven't given any evangelism, I've just taught 443 00:35:24,850 --> 00:35:25,310 tonight. 444 00:35:25,990 --> 00:35:27,090 What is the Spirit? 445 00:35:27,590 --> 00:35:28,870 Who is the Spirit? 446 00:35:36,340 --> 00:35:39,020 And he is in our midst, but unless 447 00:35:39,020 --> 00:35:41,880 he is feelingly in our midst, unless he 448 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,900 is consciously in our midst, that is, we're 449 00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:46,940 conscious of it, he might as well be 450 00:35:46,940 --> 00:35:51,100 somewhere else, because it's possible to run a 451 00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:53,420 church without the Holy Spirit, that's the terrible 452 00:35:53,420 --> 00:35:53,860 thing. 453 00:35:54,060 --> 00:35:56,780 You organize it, you get a board and 454 00:35:56,780 --> 00:35:58,920 a pastor and a choir and a lady's 455 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,840 aide and a Sunday school, and you get 456 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,220 all organized, and I believe in organization, I'm 457 00:36:04,220 --> 00:36:05,480 not against it, I'm for it. 458 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,280 You get organized, and then you get a 459 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:09,900 pastor to turn the crank, and that's all 460 00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:10,760 there is to it, you know. 461 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,860 The Holy Ghost can leave, and the pastor 462 00:36:12,860 --> 00:36:14,900 goes on turning the crank, and nobody finds 463 00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:16,120 it out for five years. 464 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,920 Oh, what a tragedy, my brother. 465 00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:21,780 What a horrible tragedy to the Church of 466 00:36:21,780 --> 00:36:22,300 Christ. 467 00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:25,140 But we don't have to have it that 468 00:36:25,140 --> 00:36:25,480 way. 469 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,500 He that hath an ear, let him hear 470 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:29,200 what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 471 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:33,100 Now, to this kind of preaching, having your 472 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:34,480 own church is going to do one of 473 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,240 two things. 474 00:36:35,940 --> 00:36:37,600 It's going to bring your action from it, 475 00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:40,440 in which case, as I said to somebody, 476 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,180 I came, and I can go again. 477 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,160 Or, there is going to be an eager 478 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,780 seeking, and I believe the latter will be 479 00:36:50,780 --> 00:36:51,340 the case. 480 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,220 I believe that there will be an eager 481 00:36:54,220 --> 00:36:57,500 seeking for better things than that we now 482 00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:58,280 have. 483 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,420 So we're going to seek God together these 484 00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:01,820 nights. 485 00:37:02,780 --> 00:37:05,620 Next week, come back and tell the people 486 00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:07,580 about it, and we'll talk about the promise 487 00:37:07,580 --> 00:37:09,980 of the Father, and show how that promise 488 00:37:09,980 --> 00:37:12,900 which is for you has its roots way 489 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:15,780 back into the early chapters of the Scriptures 490 00:37:15,780 --> 00:37:17,260 and on down the years. 491 00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:21,160 We'll go on all night after night to 492 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,880 develop this and show finally how to do 493 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,780 taking this down. 494 00:37:25,900 --> 00:37:27,060 They want to know when to start. 495 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,400 You've been listening to From the Pulpit. 496 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,040 This week you heard A.W. Tozer with 497 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,240 his message, Who is the Holy Spirit and 498 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:35,160 How Can We Know Him? 499 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,500 Tune in next week for another powerful message 500 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:39,360 from God's Word on From the Pulpit.