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Speaker 1: Note F of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note F
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Speaker 1: on the Mission of the Spirit, Chapter nine, Love Revealed
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Speaker 1: Meditations on the parting Words of Jesus with his Disciples
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Speaker 1: in John thirteen to seventeen by George Bowen. Such is
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Speaker 1: the title of a book from which I give some
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Speaker 1: extracts in which the thought is put with great clearness
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Speaker 1: and force that many Christians are living on an anti
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Speaker 1: Pentecostal level, and that the promise of Christ to reveal
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Speaker 1: his power to the world by his presence among his people,
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Speaker 1: made manifest through the Spirit, is still waiting its fulfillment
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Speaker 1: in our experience. To those who are not yet acquainted
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Speaker 1: with this book, I can most confidently recommend it as
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Speaker 1: full of spiritual instruction. Quote I will love Him and
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Speaker 1: will manifest myself to Him John fourteen twenty one. If
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Speaker 1: we wish, therefore to sound the depth of this promise,
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Speaker 1: I will manifest myself to him. We must honor Christ
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Speaker 1: and the Father and the Spirit by believing in the
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Speaker 1: power of the Spirit. To have faith in Christ and
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Speaker 1: not to have faith in the Spirit seems to be
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Speaker 1: a great contradiction yet we submit it for the judgment
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Speaker 1: of candid inquirers. If this contradiction is not strikingly exhibited
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Speaker 1: in the case of almost all who profess to be
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Speaker 1: follow us of Christ. To know the Father, we must
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Speaker 1: know the Psalm. To know Christ, we must know the Spirit.
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Speaker 1: He shall glorify me, said Christ. Believest thou this is
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Speaker 1: this thy conception of Christ's glory, that it is a
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Speaker 1: glory that the Spirit of God can enable thee to behold.
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Speaker 1: When the omnipotent Spirit has been allowed by our faith
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Speaker 1: to go to the full extent of him resources in
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Speaker 1: the revelation of Christ, it will be time enough for
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Speaker 1: us to turn away from Him to some more perfect
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Speaker 1: way of bringing Christ near to us. Our Lord himself
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Speaker 1: tells us that he that is least in the kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Heaven, the kingdom that he came to establish, was
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Speaker 1: greater than any of the prophets that had been in
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Speaker 1: the world before his advent. Greater why because he is
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Speaker 1: a habitation of God through the Spirit, because that magnificent
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Speaker 1: gift which Christ died to obtain for us has been bestowed. Now,
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Speaker 1: all these views of the glory of the present dispensation
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Speaker 1: seem to vanish into night when we subject them to
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Speaker 1: a comparison with the actual experiences of Christians in general.
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Speaker 1: But we do them foul in justice in this way.
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Speaker 1: We are rather to submit the experiences of Christians to
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Speaker 1: the test of scripture. When we do so, does it
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Speaker 1: not appear that the Church has fallen back into an
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Speaker 1: anti Pentecostal state, that it has slipped out of its
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Speaker 1: own dispensation. There was a measure, a feeble measure of
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Speaker 1: spiritual influence enjoyed by the disciples before the death and
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Speaker 1: resurrection of Christ. Else would they not have been able
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Speaker 1: to call Jesus Lord. But it was nothing in comparison
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Speaker 1: with what they received on the day of Pentecost. The
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Speaker 1: day of Pentecost was a pattern day. All the days
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Speaker 1: of this dispensation should have been like it, or should
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Speaker 1: have exceeded it. But alas, the Church has fallen down
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Speaker 1: to the state in which it was before this blessing
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Speaker 1: had been bestowed, and it is necessary for us to
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Speaker 1: ask Christ to begin over again. We, of course, in
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Speaker 1: respect to knowledge, intellectual knowledge of spiritual things, are far
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Speaker 1: in advance of the point where the disciples were before Pentecost,
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Speaker 1: But it should be borne in mind that when truths
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Speaker 1: have once been fully revealed and have been made a
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Speaker 1: part of Orthodoxy, the whole of them does not necessarily
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Speaker 1: imply an operation of the Spirit of God. We deceive
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Speaker 1: ourselves doubtless in this way, imagining that because we have
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Speaker 1: the whole Scripture and are conversant with all its great truths,
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Speaker 1: the Spirit of God is necessarily working in us. We
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Speaker 1: need a baptism of the Spirit as much as the
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Speaker 1: apostles did at the time of Christ's resurrection. We need
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Speaker 1: that the unsearchable riches of Christ should be revealed to
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Speaker 1: us more copiously than they were to Isiah in the temple.
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Speaker 1: We profess to love Him. We profess therefore, the inference
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Speaker 1: is unavoidable to desire to enjoy higher and more satisfactory
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Speaker 1: manifestations of Him than have yet been vouchsafed unto us.
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Speaker 1: It follows then, that we ought to feel very greatly
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Speaker 1: the pressure of the obligation to seek the outpouring of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Blessed be God. The Holy Spirit is
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Speaker 1: being poured out in many churches, and many Christians are
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Speaker 1: at this very hour enjoying such views of Christ as
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Speaker 1: filled them with a preternatural joy and love and strength.
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Speaker 1: But we have not yet entered into the fullness of
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Speaker 1: this glorious dispensation. If we love Christ, we will press
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Speaker 1: deeper into it, believing that omnipotence will find ways of
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Speaker 1: revealing itself in the spiritual world of which we have
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Speaker 1: as yet no conception. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.
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Speaker 1: It is expedient for you that I go away, For
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Speaker 1: if I go not away, the Comforter will not come
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Speaker 1: unto you. But if I depart, I will send him
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Speaker 1: unto you. John sixteen seven. Strange and scarcely credible, though
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Speaker 1: the announcement may appear to you, I nevertheless tell you
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Speaker 1: but the simple truth when I say that it will
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Speaker 1: be for your advantage that I ascend unto the Father
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Speaker 1: and send to you the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, to
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Speaker 1: be your perpetual guide. And when I say that it
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Speaker 1: will be for your advantage, I do not mean that
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is greater than I am, or that
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Speaker 1: he will prove a truer friend to you. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the special office of the Spirit will be to bring
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Speaker 1: you and myself into a more intimate and more blessed
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Speaker 1: union than has yet been revealed to your consciousness. Though
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Speaker 1: you have journeyed with me during these latter years of
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Speaker 1: my earthly pilgrimage. Yet there is no use in disguising
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Speaker 1: the fact that a moral chasm yawns between us. You
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Speaker 1: yourself must often have felt the deepest pain in reflecting
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Speaker 1: upon the very feeble amount of influence exerted upon you
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Speaker 1: by one who is manifestly God in the likeness of men.
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Speaker 1: You have mourned that the words and acts of one
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Speaker 1: who has proclaimed the only begotten of the Father, who
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Speaker 1: was transfigured before you, was served by angels who spake
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Speaker 1: unto the winds and the waves, and they obeyed him.
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Speaker 1: You have mourned that the discourse and acts of such
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Speaker 1: a one should have brought so feebly in your heart.
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Speaker 1: The desire for sanctification exists in you, But the new
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Speaker 1: and elevated conception of holiness which has been introduced into
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Speaker 1: your minds only makes you the more sensible of your
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Speaker 1: great moral deficiencies. If miracles could have given you the
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Speaker 1: victory over your sins, you would now be the holiest
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Speaker 1: of men. Since that hour when one of you fell
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Speaker 1: at my feet exclaiming, depart from me, for I am
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Speaker 1: a sinful man, how many glorious displays of My power
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Speaker 1: have you witnessed? Yet are you still sadly aware that pride, ambition,
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Speaker 1: worldliness have authority over you? Surely you must have admitted
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Speaker 1: to yourself that, if three and a half years of
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Speaker 1: such stupendous exhibitions of power have left you the unsanctified
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Speaker 1: men you are, ten years of such displays would not
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Speaker 1: give you the victory over your evil natures. For three
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Speaker 1: and a half years you have listened to a greater
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Speaker 1: than Solomon, to one who spake as never man spake,
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Speaker 1: to the wisdom of God. And you have enjoyed such
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Speaker 1: opportunities as never before were enjoyed by mortal man to
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Speaker 1: know the mind of God concerning the way in which
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Speaker 1: he would be served, And what is the result? You,
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Speaker 1: yourselves are constrained to admit that the result is very unsatisfactory. Ah,
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Speaker 1: If all that men needed were to have a teacher,
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Speaker 1: were to have lessons of divine wisdom set before him
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Speaker 1: in the most intelligible and most expressive forms, then would
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Speaker 1: you now be incomparably the holiest of men, proof against
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Speaker 1: all temptation, superior to all earthly influences. But what is
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Speaker 1: the fact was it not necessary that I should, this
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Speaker 1: very evening begin the work of instruction over again, as
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Speaker 1: it were, by washing your feet? Have you not, this
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Speaker 1: very evening been disputing among yourselves who shall be the greatest?
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Speaker 1: Are you not this very night to make even the
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Speaker 1: unprofessing world astonished by deserting me in my hour of
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Speaker 1: tryal Well, why do I now dwell upon these things?
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Speaker 1: Simply that you may be assisted to recognize that my
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Speaker 1: life on earth, however marvelous and glorious, as part of
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Speaker 1: the divine system by which God is bringing you to himself,
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Speaker 1: is yet of itself unable to effect your spiritual redemption.
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Speaker 1: It is one thing that the image of God should
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Speaker 1: have been placed before you. It is a very different
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Speaker 1: thing that you should be changed into that image. Man
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Speaker 1: foolishly asserts that he only needs to know the truth,
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Speaker 1: the good, the beautiful to be himself the embodiment of
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Speaker 1: truth and goodness and beauty. Heaven has come down to earth.
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Speaker 1: The very king of Heaven has tabernacled among men. He
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Speaker 1: whom Isiah saw in the temple high and lifted up
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Speaker 1: adored by Seraphim, has come down from his throne, dismissed
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Speaker 1: the seraphim to heaven and dwelt with the people of
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Speaker 1: Isaiah year after year. Yet it is not seen that
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Speaker 1: the men so amazingly distinguished have been rendered seraphic in
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Speaker 1: holiness and love. Something else, then, is necessary that men
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Speaker 1: may not only be made acquainted with the image of God,
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Speaker 1: but changed into the same. But not only must you
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Speaker 1: be sensible that you have little remembered, little learned, little
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Speaker 1: obeyed of all that I have told you and shown you.
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Speaker 1: You must be keenly cognizant of the fact that your influence,
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Speaker 1: as My servants and the expounders of My gospel, is
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Speaker 1: all but nothing in presence of a perverse and rebellious race.
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Speaker 1: Your hearts sink within you, and you ask yourselves, how
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Speaker 1: shall we ever be able to bring men over to
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Speaker 1: our views of Christ. You feel your need of some
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Speaker 1: unknown power by which the minds of men may be
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Speaker 1: rendered obedient to the truth. You find yourselves utterly at
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Speaker 1: a loss to communicate your deepest convictions. You are ready
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Speaker 1: to ask, is there not something beyond miracles, even something
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Speaker 1: beyond the power of a holy life? Is there not
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Speaker 1: in the resources of God some means of reaching the
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Speaker 1: hearts of men and subduing that hostility by which they
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Speaker 1: are hindered from receiving the testimony of a holy life
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Speaker 1: and a blessed gospel. There is I die, that you
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Speaker 1: may have life, and that you may have it more abundantly.
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Speaker 1: I ascend on high, that the comforter may come unto you.
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Speaker 1: Then shall you be strengthened with the strength of which
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Speaker 1: you have hitherto had no consciousness. Rivers of living water,
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Speaker 1: even of the water of life, shall flow from you.
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Speaker 1: Then the wilderness shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice
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Speaker 1: and blossom as the rose. And when he is come,
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Speaker 1: he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness
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Speaker 1: and of judgment. John chapter sixteen, verse eight. When he
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Speaker 1: in the original is emphatic, it might be rendered that
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Speaker 1: one he it is who coming will convince mankind of sin.
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Speaker 1: His very advent will revolutionize their ideas of sin being
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Speaker 1: a testimony from Heaven more striking than that of the
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Speaker 1: voice from Heaven at the baptism of Jesus, to the
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Speaker 1: fact that Jesus the Crucified is none other than Christ
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Speaker 1: the glorified. By the simple fact that the world has
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Speaker 1: placed itself in opposition to Jesus. Testimony to Jesus will
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Speaker 1: be testimony against the world. Observed that the promise of
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Speaker 1: the Spirit was unto the disciples, I will send him
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Speaker 1: unto you. And the change here intimated as to be
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Speaker 1: wrought in the sentiments of men generally, was to be
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Speaker 1: in consequence of the descent of the Spirit of God
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Speaker 1: upon the disciples. The Gospel is preached to convinced men
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Speaker 1: of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. The Disciples of
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Speaker 1: Christ are in the world that they may make known
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Speaker 1: the sin of men, the judgment of God, and the
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Speaker 1: means of escaping that judgment by means of the righteousness
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Speaker 1: of Christ. But here told that the work of introducing
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Speaker 1: the new convictions on these subjects into the minds of
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Speaker 1: men is to be accomplished by the Spirit of God. Accordingly,
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Speaker 1: the apostles speak of themselves as having preached the Gospel
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Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven. What is
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Speaker 1: here promised, then, is such an outpouring of the Spirit
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Speaker 1: of God as shall not only reveal itself in the
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Speaker 1: consciousness of the disciples, but substantiate itself as an undeniable
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Speaker 1: and wonderful fact to the apprehensions of the onlooking world.
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Speaker 1: And such was the advent of the Spirit. On the
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Speaker 1: day of Pentecost, he hath shed forth this which ye
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Speaker 1: now see and hear, said Peter to the multitude, that
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Speaker 1: which they both saw and heard, did what all the miracles,
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Speaker 1: the incomparable words, the irreproachable life of Jesus had failed
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Speaker 1: to do. Let us say that these miracles began now
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Speaker 1: to be seen, those divine words began now to be
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Speaker 1: heard for the first time by the outpouring of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit upon the disciples. The people of Jerusalem began
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Speaker 1: to look upward and see Jesus at the right hand
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Speaker 1: of the Majesty on high. They saw their own sin,
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Speaker 1: heinous beyond all conception, saw the righteousness of him whom
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Speaker 1: they had put to death. The Prince of Life. Saw
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Speaker 1: it to be such a righteousness that, in comparison, the
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Speaker 1: entire race of man stood forth apparelled in darkest iniquity,
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Speaker 1: And they saw the judgment of God, inevitable and dire,
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Speaker 1: against all who should be found in opposition to Christ.
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Speaker 1: It was as though they had been taken up into
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Speaker 1: heaven and had seen the judgment seat. The books opened,
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Speaker 1: and their own deeds manifested in the unerring light of
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Speaker 1: that tremendous scene sublime arrangements of Him whose wisdom is unsearchable.
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Speaker 1: Are the people of God at all awake to all
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Speaker 1: that is implied in the promise of the Spirit? Is
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Speaker 1: it enough that they lanngu quidly recognize their obligation to
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Speaker 1: make known the Gospel to their fellow men, and take
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Speaker 1: various steps to have it preached. Is not the great
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Speaker 1: thing wanted this? That the Spirit of God should be
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Speaker 1: so poured out upon Christ's people, that men should be
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Speaker 1: made aware of His presence with them, and of the
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Speaker 1: presence of Christ at the right hand of God, so
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Speaker 1: poured out that there should be a coming together in
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Speaker 1: some sense of the blessed God and of the world
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Speaker 1: which has separated itself from Him, that the powers of
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Speaker 1: the world to come should take hold upon men and
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Speaker 1: constrain them to cry out, Men and brethren, what must
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Speaker 1: we do. The Greek is wonderfully felicitous in that it
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Speaker 1: does not represent the Spirit of God as coming once
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Speaker 1: for all, but as persistently coming. He it is who
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Speaker 1: coming shall convince he comes as the reign from heaven
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Speaker 1: that must still come and come again as the wind
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Speaker 1: that must still blow and blow again. We are not
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Speaker 1: to look act for our pentecost. The Pentecost of the
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Speaker 1: acts is simply given to make the Church of Christ
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Speaker 1: acquainted with the privileges belonging to this dispensation. It is
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Speaker 1: only the first step in a ladder of pentecosts by
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Speaker 1: which the world and the Kingdom of Christ are to
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Speaker 1: be brought together. It is the specimen to accompany the promise,
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Speaker 1: that we may be stirred up to plead the promise
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Speaker 1: with the greatest fervency. Oh, it were unpardonable if, in
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Speaker 1: a day when God is doing so much to inspire
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Speaker 1: us with lofty conceptions of the power of the Holy Spirit,
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Speaker 1: we should still refuse to apprehend the glorious illimitableness of
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Speaker 1: this promise. Consider it. We are to look at the
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Speaker 1: work here assigned to the Holy Spirit, in order that
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Speaker 1: we may obtain a just view of His power. Look
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Speaker 1: abroad upon the earth and see the nations, tribes, and
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Speaker 1: tongues refusing to be convinced by all that God in
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Speaker 1: his providence has taught them during thousands of years, by
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Speaker 1: all that missionaries are teaching them at this eleventh hour
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Speaker 1: of sin of righteousness of judgment form an estimate of
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Speaker 1: the wickedness which envelops the earth like a dense and
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Speaker 1: deadly atmosphere, scarce suffering any of the rays of the
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Speaker 1: Son of Righteousness to penetrate it. Then consider that the
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Speaker 1: Spirit of God, for whose effusion we are taught to pray,
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Speaker 1: is pledged to reign conviction upon the world and anticipate
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Speaker 1: for a most sublime and blessed end the final judgment
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Speaker 1: by leading men to look to the righteousness of Christ
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Speaker 1: the desire of all nations. These things I have spoken
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Speaker 1: unto you in proverbs, but the time cometh when I
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Speaker 1: shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I
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Speaker 1: shall show you plainly of the Father John sixteen twenty five.
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Speaker 1: When figures are made use of in speech, there is
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Speaker 1: an outside meaning and an interior meaning. As the shell
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Speaker 1: conceals and yet protects the colonel. So a truth conveyed
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Speaker 1: topically may be unperceived at first. Afterward, when additional light
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Speaker 1: is given, it becomes manifest, and the saying ceases to
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Speaker 1: be a riddle. The Gospel is full of parables that
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Speaker 1: could very little be understood until Christ had suffered and
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Speaker 1: entered into his glory. When the Spirit of God was
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Speaker 1: poured out upon his disciples, the veil which had been
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Speaker 1: over the words of Jesus disappeared, and the interior truths
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Speaker 1: flashed forth upon them in all their luster. Christ himself
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Speaker 1: was such a proverb once his divine glory had flashed
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Speaker 1: forth upon their astonished gaze, But that was by way
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Speaker 1: of anticipation. It very little dissipated the confusion of their minds.
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Speaker 1: Nothing about Christ could produce its legitimate and full effect
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Speaker 1: upon them until they had been brought out of the
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Speaker 1: restricted and depressed valley of Judaism and placed upon the
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Speaker 1: elevated platform of the new dispensation. The Spirit of God
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Speaker 1: inundates the minds of men with truths which previously had
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Speaker 1: no meaning to them. Now it appears to us that
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Speaker 1: an observation of no little importance may here be made.
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Speaker 1: Truth which the Holy Ghost has taught us may be
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Speaker 1: retained in the mind by the mere natural power of memory.
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Speaker 1: Are we not thus in danger of deceiving ourselves? As
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Speaker 1: to the measure of spiritual power enjoyed by us, we
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Speaker 1: might have as scanty a measure of the Spirit's influence
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Speaker 1: as the disciples had in the days preceding the death
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Speaker 1: of Christ, and yet be immensely in advance of them
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Speaker 1: in respect to the amount of our knowledge of the
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Speaker 1: way of life? Is it not to be feared that
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Speaker 1: in those portions of the Church which have not yet
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Speaker 1: been visited by a true revival, Christians are to be
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Speaker 1: compared with the first Disciples, not as they were on
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Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost, but as they were previously compared.
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Speaker 1: We mean as regards the actual divine influence enjoyed by them,
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Speaker 1: because they have the truth they imagine they have the
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Speaker 1: space sirit of truth. Perhaps the word of Christ to
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Speaker 1: them is tarry ye in Jerusalem until endued with power
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Speaker 1: from on high. We are baffled, bewildered, confounded by our
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Speaker 1: utter unfitness to convince men of sin, of righteousness, and
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Speaker 1: of the judgment to come? Is it not that we
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Speaker 1: fail to realize how absolute is our deed of the
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Speaker 1: mighty and manifest advent of the Spirit. It is possible
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Speaker 1: for Christ so to cause the Holy Spirit to be
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Speaker 1: seen descending upon us, that the world around shall discover
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Speaker 1: by this fact alone the heavens opened, and the Son
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Speaker 1: of God standing at the right hand of God. Many
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Speaker 1: in these days occupy no worthier position than that first
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Speaker 1: inferior one of the apostles. The apostles were not absolutely
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Speaker 1: without the influence of the spirit during the time that
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Speaker 1: Jesus tabernacled among them. But these influences did little more
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Speaker 1: than make the present darkness visible and show them, in
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Speaker 1: the dim distance the light of the future without knowing it.
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Speaker 1: There are thousands of Christians who have that feeble and
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Speaker 1: equivocal measure of influence, which belongs to a different dispensation
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Speaker 1: from this, and shows them to be two thousand years
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Speaker 1: behind their privileges. We have said it, and without shame
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Speaker 1: we say it again. They have, of course, knowledge such
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Speaker 1: as the anti Pentecostal Church had not. It is the
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Speaker 1: consciousness of this superior knowledge that tends to keep them
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Speaker 1: ignorant of their spiritual destitution. Their position is appalling, for
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Speaker 1: they are familiar with the inspiring promises and have no
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Speaker 1: faculty to catch a glimpse of the glorious things proffered
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Speaker 1: in these promises. They actually suppose that these promises have
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Speaker 1: no more exalted interpretation than that which their own emotionless
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Speaker 1: and inglorious experience affords. Blessed be God, we are not
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Speaker 1: limited to one Pentecost. Under this dispensation, let us but
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Speaker 1: become aware of the abnormal state in which we are
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Speaker 1: and take knowledge of the lofty experiences to which God
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Speaker 1: is inviting us. Pentecost was not so much a mountain
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Speaker 1: summit as a mountain high path or table land along
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Speaker 1: which the Church should have traveled to the New Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: Let us look steadfastly up above and see among the
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Speaker 1: clouds this highway of holiness, and prove the power of
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Speaker 1: the Savior to bring us to it. End of end
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