So we trust you are happy in the
Lord Jesus tonight.
We as only people have a right to
be happy.
You know, you're on your way to glory
and your sins are forgiven.
You have the blessed Holy Spirit dwelling within.
We have every right to be happy.
Turn tonight, please, to the book of Acts,
chapter 2.
Acts, chapter 2.
Tonight we're going to speak on the baptism
of the Holy Spirit of Pentecost.
Big subject.
Try to handle it as well as we
can on the time allotted.
Remember, Sunday morning we spoke on the Holy
Spirit being born of the Spirit.
And apart from the Spirit, we could never
understand the gospel.
Apart from the Spirit, we'd never want to
be saved.
Apart from the Spirit of God doing His
great work of convicting us of sin and
the need to be saved, we'd never be
saved.
No desire to.
Could never understand it.
All the college and university education can in
no way illuminate Jesus so you can see
how to be saved.
Only the Spirit of God can do that.
What are we more than anyone else?
What is man?
Isn't it wonderful to be in the family
of the Lord?
The Lord has revealed His Son to us.
Then on Sunday night we spoke on the
blessed coming of the Holy Spirit to dwell
in the hearts of believers.
In the Old Testament days He came upon
people in a mighty way.
But David prayed, Take not thy Holy Spirit
from me.
That wouldn't be proper to pray today.
He came upon men.
He came upon even wicked men like Balaam
and Saul.
But the Lord Jesus said He was going
to go away and He was going to
send the Comforter.
He was going to abide with us.
And He's going to be in you, He
said.
The olden days, I remember reading A.P.
Barker said it was like the days of
sailing vessels.
They were dependent on the outside force of
the wind to give them speed.
And when there was no wind, they didn't
go very far.
But we're living the day when the power
is within.
The Spirit of God has come to dwell
within us.
And that's a tremendous thing that God dwelleth
in the believers.
Know ye not that your bodies are the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
Now to start with, we're going to read
the Word of God.
Let's just read a verse from chapter 1,
verse 4.
This is taken up from Luke 24 where
the Lord Jesus told them that Behold I
send the promise of my Father upon you
but e'er ye in the city of
Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from
on high.
And in Acts chapter 1 he says here
in verse 4 And being assembled together with
them, commanded them that they should not depart
from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of
the Father which saith, He ye have heard
of me.
For John truly baptized with water for Jesus
shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
many days hence.
And when we come to chapter 2, it
does not mention the word baptized but we
know that this is the event the Lord
Jesus promised.
And it says in chapter 2, verse 1
And when the day of Pentecost was fully
come they were all with one accord in
one place.
What a great way to gather, isn't it?
God can certainly bless us today when we
gather like that.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven
as a rushing mighty wind and it filled
all the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like
as the fire and it sat upon each
of them and they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost and began to speak with
other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Now, we'll stop there for the time being.
Now, I am convinced that today we need
teaching on the Holy Spirit sometimes because in
certain areas there's been an over-emphasis of
the Holy Spirit others when we have gone
to the other extreme and hardly ever mentioned
the Holy Spirit.
I think there are two extremes and we
need to find the scriptural balance to be
as balanced as the word of God.
After all, He is God as we saw
on Sunday night.
He has all the attributes of God.
Peter called Him God in Acts chapter 5.
He's God the Spirit.
Now, if I were to preach to you
only certain aspects of the gospel, it wouldn't
be the right thing just to preach unto
you tonight that believing is everything.
Now, there's justification and there's many other great
subjects and including it's the gift of the
Holy Spirit.
So to give us the whole word of
God we need to deal with it all.
Now, there's only seven verses in the New
Testament that mentions the baptism of the Holy
Spirit.
There's four given by John the Baptist, one
in the beginning of each one of the
gospels.
The first one is found in Matthew 3
.11 where John said, I indeed baptize you
with water unto repentance, but he that cometh
after me is mightier than I, whose shoes
I am not worthy to bear.
He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
You have the same reference again in Mark
1.8. I indeed baptize you with water,
but he shall baptize you with the Holy
Spirit.
Again, the same in Luke 3.16, a
very similar verse to what you had in
Matthew 1.
And then again in John 1.33 where
John the Baptist is speaking, and I knew
him not, but he that sent me to
baptize with water, the same said unto me,
upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending
and remaining on him, the same as he
which baptizeth with the Holy Spirit.
And then there's one more, what we might
call prophetic passage.
All these were looking ahead to the Holy
Spirit coming.
In Acts 1.5 we read that, but
John truly baptized with water, but he shall
be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many
days hence.
All these were spoken, these five scriptures were
spoken before it happened.
Then we have the historical passage.
Of course, you have it in Acts 2,
but the word is not mentioned.
But if you turn to Acts 11, Acts
11.15 and 16 where Peter recounts what
took place in the house of Cornelius as
he was preaching the gospel.
And Peter refers here to that great event.
And you might call this a historical thing.
This has taken place.
And Peter is now saying this very thing
that happened in the house of Cornelius is
the very same thing that happened on the
day of Pentecost.
It's part of the whole great coming of
the Spirit of God, taking in these, as
we will see in a little while.
In Acts 11.15, "...and as I began
to speak," Peter's telling the others about it,
"...the Holy Spirit fell on us at the
beginning.
Then learned I the word of the Lord,
how that he said, John indeed baptized with
water, for ye shall be baptized with the
Holy Spirit."
So there you have the word mentioned.
Then the other scripture that we might call
a doctrinal verse is found in 1 Corinthians
12.13. 1 Corinthians 12.13 "...for by
one Spirit are we all baptized into one
body, whether we be Jew or Gentile, whether
we be bond or free, and have been
all made to drink into one Spirit."
That's true today.
That was true of the Corinthians.
Even though they were not present, it was
still true of them.
It incorporated them by one Spirit that we
are all baptized into that one body.
Now, Pentecost is the beginning or the inauguration
of a new thing that came.
It was the beginning of the body of
the Lord Jesus Christ upon earth.
Do you remember when the Lord Jesus was
here in Matthew 16, verse 18?
He said, "...I will build my church."
The church was yet future.
Sometimes people have disagreements about when the church
started.
I don't think it's very hard to come
to a scriptural conclusion, and I just want
you to turn to two verses again to
verify that.
John 7 and 39.
"...For this spake he," he spoke about them
receiving the Spirit, "...and that he would indwell
them," and verse 39 says, "...and this spake
he, that the spirit which they that believe
on him should receive for the Holy Spirit
was not yet given, because," here's the reason,
"...that Jesus was not yet glorified."
That's why the spirit was not given.
He was not yet glorified.
Then in John 16, verse 7, and these
are very important verses, foundational verses, "...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."
Now, you cannot have a body on earth
until you have a head in heaven.
And when the Lord Jesus went back to
heaven, he said, I'm going to send you
the Comforter, and that's exactly what he did.
And when the Comforter came, that was the
inauguration of the body of Christ upon earth.
That was the beginning of that new thing.
As it were, 120 people went up into
the upper room, and only one came down.
They were all baptized into the one body.
They were all just fused together to become
that one body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And tonight, dear friends, I believe every one
of us that is saved here, we have
been brought in under that great event of
being baptized by that one Spirit into the
one body, and we're members one of another.
Isn't that great?
We belong to the greatest family in the
world.
Wonderful family.
Now, when the time of the Pentecost and
we'll deal with that in a moment, but
I believe it took in these four communities.
What you have here in Acts 2, the
Jewish community.
Then if you turn to Acts 8, it
takes in the Samaritans.
Remember, there was no dealings between the Jews
and the Samaritans.
So when Philip went down there and preached
in a great multitude of people was saved,
the church at Jerusalem, they sent down Peter
and John.
You'll see that in verse 14 of Acts
8.
And who?
They said in verse 15, when they were
come down, they prayed for them that they
might receive the Holy Spirit.
They had not received the Holy Spirit because
I believe had they received the Holy Spirit,
there would have been two separate churches, the
Samaritan church and the Jewish church, and there
would have been division from the beginning.
But they had to come down and pray
for them that they might receive the Holy
Spirit, for yet he was fallen upon none
of them, only they were baptized in the
name of the Lord Jesus.
Then laid at their hands, that which identifies
them with the church of Jerusalem, laid their
hands on them and they received the Holy
Spirit.
So that took in the Samaritan believers.
Now, Acts 10, where Peter is sent for
by Cornelius, an angel that appeared to him.
The angel could not preach the gospel to
the house of Cornelius, so he sent for
Peter, and Peter came.
And I tell you, he preached to a
great, attentive audience that day.
Oh, what a God that people have decided
that all that God has to say to
us today, like they did.
And it says there in verse 43, referring
to the Lord Jesus, "...to him give all
the prophets witness," the whole Old Testament witness
to the Lord Jesus, "...that through his name
whosoever believeth."
And if there's someone here tonight and you're
not saved, whosoever means you, takes in you.
If you really believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ, it says, then you'll receive remission of
the forgiveness of sins.
And that's the only way you can have
your sins forgiven, for no man upon earth
can forgive your sins.
Only God can forgive sin.
If you just simply put your faith in
the Lord Jesus, he'll say like he did
to that falsely man who lay down to
the roofs, "...chance thy sins be forgiven thee."
You'll be forgiven tonight, and when he forgives
you, he says, I'll remember your sins no
more.
They're blotted out as far as the east
is from the west.
That's the kind of salvation God gives us.
Tremendous, isn't it?
And then it says, "...while Peter yet spake
these words, the Holy Spirit telling all them
that heard the word."
All of them that heard the word.
Look at that.
That's the Gentiles.
And that's true ever since, when people hear
the word, and the Holy Spirit uses that
word to convict them, they receive the Lord
Jesus.
And the moment you receive the Lord Jesus,
you receive the spirit of Ephesians 1, verses
13 and 14, upon believing.
The very moment you believe, you receive.
It's instant.
And that's what happens here.
They receive the Holy Spirit, and they're all
heard to speak with languages and magnify God,
and when Peter refers to that, he says,
"...the same thing that happened to us at
the beginning," when?
At Pentecost, "...happened to the Gentiles."
That takes in the Gentile community.
And then there's only one other incident, and
I want to draw the attention, never in
the book of Acts did it ever happen
to an individual.
It was always a collective group, because this
is a historical event that was to take
place that we'll try to show you from
the word of God.
Acts 19.
In this chapter, you get the teaching and
the meaning of John's baptism, but we're not
talking about that tonight.
But Paul came there to Ephesus, and he
found certain disciples, and the first thing he
asked them, have you received the Holy Spirit?
They said, we haven't heard of the Holy
Spirit.
They didn't know a thing about it.
Well, unto what will you baptize?
is the question.
Well, unto John's baptism.
Oh!
Then what did they do?
John only baptized to repentance, that those that
were baptized should believe on him that shall
come after them, which was Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, they were baptized in
the name of the Lord Jesus, and when
Paul, notice that, "...had laid hands," identifying with
them, "...and upon them the Holy Ghost came
on them, and they spake with tongues and
prophesied."
And all the men were but twelve.
Now, that's the last time you find that
in the book of Acts.
Now, I want to say that the book
of Acts was a transitional period from Judaism
into Christianity.
And this, I believe, takes in, and the
baptism of the Holy Spirit takes in these
four communities.
Now, I believe another thing in connection with
what happened at Pentecost, if you turn back
to Leviticus, chapter 23, it was the fulfillment
of the prophetic type given to us in
the book of Leviticus, chapter 23.
Now, you'll notice in verse 5 of Leviticus,
chapter 23, "...in the fourteenth day of the
first month, as even if the Lord pass
over."
Now, the Lord pass over speaks of Christ's
death for us.
Christ, or Passover, has been sacrificed for us,
says Paul the Apostle in 2 Corinthians, chapter
5.
Then, you go down to verse 9 of
Leviticus, chapter 22, "...and the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them, When ye come into
the land which I have given you, ye
shall reap the harvest thereof.
Then ye shall bring a sheep of the
firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest, and
he shall wave the sheep thereof before the
Lord to be accepted for you on the
morrow after the Sabbath."
Notice that.
The morrow after the Sabbath.
That's the first day of the week.
Now, in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, we have
that fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ.
It says there in 1 Corinthians 15, verse
20, "...but now is Christ risen from the
dead and become the firstfruits of them that
slept."
He was that first sheep that was raised.
He was the firstfruit.
Verse 23, "...but after every man in his
own order Christ the firstfruit.
Afterward, then, there that Christ hath his coming."
His resurrection guarantees our resurrection.
One of these days is going to be
the Great Resurrecting Morning, the first resurrection.
The dead and Christ will be raised, and
we together are going to be caught up.
Are you ready?
Would you like to go tonight?
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
He's coming.
Back to Leviticus 23.
Now, down to verse 15.
"...and ye shall count unto you from the
morrow after the sabbath from the day that
ye bought the sheep of the way of
offering."
Notice that.
From the day you bought the sheep of
the way of offering.
Seven sabbaths.
That's 49 days.
"...seven sabbaths shall be complete, even unto the
morrow after the seventh sabbath ye shall number
fifty days, and ye shall offer a new
offering unto the Lord."
When the day of Pentecost was fully come.
Pentecost means fifty.
Fifty days after the waving of the first
sheep.
That's when this was to take place.
That picture to us, fifty days after the
Lord's resurrection.
It meant He appeared forty days, showed Himself
alive, and many infallible ploofs.
And then He went back to Heaven.
He told them to wait for the promise
of the Father.
Ten days after He came back, He sent
the Comforter.
On the fiftieth day after the waving of
that first sheep of the harvest.
My, there's the fulfillment.
I believe the believers were certainly in the
upper room, one of course, praying.
No doubt praying as the Lord Jesus we
make do tonight.
Before the Holy Spirit came, He told the
disciples to pray for the Holy Spirit.
But now He came in fulfillment, not just
of their praying, but because of the fulfillment
of the Word of God in the Old
Testament, in Leviticus chapter 23.
Now, I'd like you to turn to some
of the other promises that were fulfilled.
Turn to the Gospel of John.
Then because the fiftieth day the blessed Comforter
came.
Just like John the Baptist had promised in
those four verses we gave you, in Mark,
Matthew, Luke, and John.
And in Acts chapter 1.
These verses were completely fulfilled in the day
of Pentecost when the Spirit of God came.
Now, John's Gospel, chapter 14 again.
Let's just look very briefly at these verses
as we pass by.
John 14, verses 16 and 17.
Remember, the Lord is as good at His
word.
Had He not said, and shall He not
do it?
Oh yes, He keeps His word.
There's one thing about God, He's able to
keep His word.
Sometimes we promise something, and through some circumstances
we're not able to keep our word.
Not that we wouldn't like to, but we're
not able.
We're human sometimes.
We fail, we can't do it, but not
so with God.
And the Lord Jesus said, when I go
and I'll pray the Father, and He shall
give you another Comforter that He may abide
with you, how long?
Forever.
That word is often used in the word
of God.
I love that, because it's the same as
with the sealing of the Holy Spirit we're
speaking of next time.
It's forever.
Even the Spirit of truth whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither
knoweth Him.
But ye know Him, for He dwelleth with
you, and He shall be in you.
Remember, He promised it in John, chapter 4,
also the woman at Samaria, how that the
water He was going to give was going
to be a spring dwelling up in you.
He promised in John, chapter 7.
He promised now, if you turn to also
verse 26 of chapter 14, but the Comforter,
which is the Holy Spirit whom the Father
will send in my name, He shall teach
you all things.
Notice the personality of the Holy Spirit, and
bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I
said unto you.
Chapter 15, and verse 26.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I
will send unto you from the Father, even
the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the
Father, He shall testify of me, and ye
shall bear witness, because ye have been with
me from the beginning.
And then down in chapter 16, we read
verse 7, we'll read verse 8.
When He is come, He will reprove the
world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
And I tell you, friend, tonight the Spirit
of God wants to convict you of your
sin if you're here as an unsaved person.
He wants you to realize the Lord Jesus
bear you a sin in His own body
and the tree, so you'd never come under
judgment.
He came to convict of righteousness.
All we like sheep, we have gone astray.
We're all unrighteous.
We've all turned our own way.
But the Lord Jesus, He came and He
revealed the righteousness of God, perfect righteousness.
And it can be put to your account
if you put your trust in Him and
of judgment.
I tell you, Satan, he's going to be
judged in the coming day.
And all those that neglect the Lord Jesus
are going to be cast into the same
lake of fire.
But again, the Lord Jesus, He came and
He fulfilled everything God ever desired, and He
can indeed save you so you'll never come
into judgment.
He also justified God in every way.
Verse 12, And yet are many things to
say unto you, and ye cannot bear them.
Now, when He, the Spirit of truth, is
come, He will guide you into all truth,
and He shall speak.
He shall not speak of Himself, but whatever
He shall hear, shall He speak.
And He will show you things to come.
You have the epistles in the book of
Revelation all here.
He shall glorify Me.
He shall receive of Mine, and shall show
it unto you.
All things that the Father had of Mine,
therefore said I, that He shall take of
Mine, and shall show it unto you.
We'll deal more about that in the future.
I just want to read these verses to
show these are the promises of the Lord
Jesus, and they were fulfilled the Spirit of
God came when the day of Pentecost was
fully come.
Now, the promises made before that during the
three and a half years from John the
Baptist and the Lord Jesus was here, even
before the Spirit of God, I want to
just make this point very clear, the disciples
did some tremendous miracles while the Lord Jesus
was with them.
It tells us in the Word of God,
in Luke 9, verse 6, for instance, and
they departed and went through the towns preaching
the gospel and healing everywhere.
It also tells us that they had authority
over all devils and to cure diseases.
There was something they could do because the
Lord was working with them in Mark 9,
verse 28, it says this, and when he
would come unto the home, his disciples asked
him privately, why could not we cast them
out?
You remember they came down from the Mount
of Transfiguration?
And he said, under this kind can come
forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting.
He didn't say to them, now you need
the baptism of the Holy Spirit to do
this or that experience that sometimes people talk
about, but he said, yes, this time only
comes forth by prayer and fasting.
But they did some remarkable things before Pentecost
while the Lord Jesus was present with them.
But he said, now before you will have
the power within you, I have to go
back to heaven.
And that's what he did.
And when the Pentecost came, and I believe
it's like Calvary, it was a one forever
event.
Turn to the book of Hebrews, chapter 9
and 10.
There's two or three verses there.
I think if we can realize that, if
you think of Leviticus chapter 23, there's the
one Passover, there's the first fruits, then there's
the Pentecost, 50 days.
Christ died for us upon the cross.
How often does he have to die?
Let's read it in Hebrews, in chapter 9,
verse 26.
But now once in the end of the
world had he appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself.
Well, if it's been put away, you can't
put it away again, can you?
He did once.
Chapter 10, verse 10.
By the which will we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for the twelve.
But this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice forever for sin, forever sat down on
the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting
till his enemies be made his footstool.
For by one offering he had perfected how
long?
Forever.
Them that are sanctified.
Calvary only appears once, once in the end
of the age.
So the Holy Spirit of God only came
once.
Never to be repeated.
How often did the U.S. Constitution have
to be written up?
That was written back, I think, in 1776.
Just once.
If you're born in the United States today,
you come in under the good of that,
and that's the same as Pentecost.
By one spirit are we all baptized into
one body.
Oh, blessed be God for that.
And those kind of Christians that Corwin was
saying, no, you're not.
That your bodies are the temple of the
living God.
It's to them, he wrote, ye have all
been baptized.
All of them.
You'll notice, it doesn't say just those of
you that are spiritual.
Look at that verse in 1 Corinthians, chapter
12, and verse 13.
For by one spirit are we all baptized.
Writing to carnal believers, that Corwin, into one
body, whether we be Jew or Gentile, whether
we be born afree, and have been all
made to drink into one spirit.
That's very simple and clear, isn't it?
Very, very wonderful to have that.
Now, what are some of the other purposes
of Calvary or Pentecost?
Well, it is, of course, to give the
disciples power.
No question about that.
Ye shall receive power after the Holy Spirit
of God has come upon you.
And God wants us to enjoy the presence
and the power of the Spirit of God.
That's why on Friday night, Lord willing, we're
going to speak about the filling or the
control of the Holy Spirit.
God wants us to enjoy that liberty and
power.
The leather killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
The Spirit of the Lord gives liberty and
freedom and power, and you only have to
read the book of Acts to see.
See the freedom they have.
See the boldness they receive.
Think of Peter when a little maid could
back him down.
Aren't you one of his?
Peter says, I never knew him.
The man that hath said these others, they
might deny you, Lord, but not Peter.
You can depend on me.
I'll even go into death with you, Lord.
Remember how a young maiden probably made him
turn pale and shake all over.
And he went back to some of his
old habits of cursing.
Sometimes these old sins come out, you know.
But on the day of Pentecost, it's a
different Peter then, isn't it?
What does he say in Acts 2?
Look at this man.
Acts 2.
And verse 38.
Then Peter said to them, Repent and be
baptized.
Every one of you knows before that I
wanted the Scripture.
Verse 30 speaks about the verse.
I was going to think about where they
were just cut to the heart, and they
cried out, What must we do?
And thank you.
Now when they heard this, they were pricked
in their hearts, and said unto Peter and
to the rest of the apostles, Men and
bread, and what shall we do?
But he pointed right at them and said,
You have taken the Lord Jesus, and you
have with wicked hands taken and crucified him.
So on.
He charged them with their guilt.
Think of that angel-like face of Stephen
that wouldn't back down one moment when those
men full of hatred and anger came upon
him, running toward him, gnashing with their teeth
all stones in their hands.
But Stephen, bold as a lion, he says,
I see Jesus.
Oh, he reflected his face too, didn't he?
Oh, this bit of God makes a difference.
Remember in Acts chapter 4 when these men
had been thrown in jail and other things,
and there was terrible persecution, and that great
prayer reading, chapter 4, so they prayed, they
prayed for shaking of their members.
And there was one thing they prayed for.
They didn't pray that God would remove the
emperor and give them a more lenient government
and all these things that some of the
modern Christians are looking for.
For they prayed that they would have holy
boldness to meet the need of the hour,
and God met them.
Yes, the Holy Spirit gave them great power.
I want to emphasize in closing that the
great object of the baptism of the Holy
Spirit was the formation of the body, the
one fall event that followed the death and
the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, to fulfill
his promise, the promise given in the Old
Testament, the promise by John the Baptist, the
promise by the Lord Jesus.
It was all this to be fulfilled, to
come and bring the believers, you might say
individual people, into one, fuse them into one
body, the body of Christ upon earth, the
bride of Christ, his building, baptized together by
the blessed Holy Spirit.
And I believe tonight, friends, that that great
event has included every believer, just like the
Constitution includes every American born here, so everyone
that's been born of the Spirit, and that's
where it all begins.
The Lord Jesus said, you must be born
again.
And how am I born again?
Simply by receiving the Lord Jesus Christ by
faith.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved.
There's no question about it.
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved.
The moment you receive him as your only
hope, as your only righteousness, the moment you
take him as your substitute that died for
you upon the cross and rose again the
third day, the moment you receive him, that
moment you're also baptized by the Spirit of
God into the body of Christ.
You're born of the Spirit at that very
moment, and you're sealed with the Holy Spirit.
You have the earnestness of the Holy Spirit.
Many wonderful things happen when you receive the
Lord Jesus Christ.
It's a wonderful thing.
Your sins are forgiven.
You have the gift of eternal life, and
you can have the joy of the Lord
in your soul.
Joy unspeakable and full of glory.
People like to have a good time and
have something really, you know, you know, when
you have this, you have it inside.
You don't have to wait for the wind
to blow once in a while.
You have the presence of the Spirit of
God continually dwelling in your heart.
The thing is, we need to let him
have all of us.
He's God, and he wants to control our
lives.
This is Barnabas Wilson with a prayer.
Father, we thank Thee for the blessed Holy
Spirit.
Thank Thee for Thy Holy Word.
We thank Thee that He hath come.
And we thank Thee when we receive the
Lord Jesus, we receive this wonderful comforter to
entwine us, the one who can lead us
into all truth, the one that can keep
and empower us, give us victory.
We thank Thee for the blessed comforter.
And now, Father, we just commend ourselves to
Thee.
Help us to live out and allow Thee.
May the Spirit of God indeed so glorify
Christ, and may the life of Christ be
evident in and through us.
May we not try to live this in
our own strength, but may we allow the
Blessed Spirit to live His life, the life
of the Lord Jesus, in and through us.
We pray for His glory, for His sake,
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
amen.