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THE HOLY SPIRIT His Office and Work in the World THE HOLY SPIRIT His Office and Work in the World By William Henry Branson SOUTHERN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 1933 The Holy Spirit – W.H Branson Contents PREFACE 1. PERSONALITY AND DEITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 2. THE AUTHOR OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 3. THE HOLY SPIRIT IN CHRIST 4. THE COMFORTER-A CHANGED RELATIONSHIP 5. THE COMFORTER-AT WORK 6. PENTECOST-THE EARLY RAIN 7. THE APOSTASY AND THE PENTECOSTAL POWER 8. THE LATTER RAIN 9. FALSE EVIDENCES OF THE SPIRIT'S PRESENCE 10. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN 11. RECEIVING THE SPIRIT 2 The Holy Spirit – W.H Branson Preface Apart from the giving of His Son, the most precious gift of God to His church on earth is that of the Holy Spirit. In fact, most that we Christians know of God, of Jesus, and of God's word to man, we owe to the teachings of the Spirit. All that we spiritually know of ourselves, we have learned from Him. All our knowledge of truth, all our experience in regeneration and sanctification, all our victories over the world, the flesh, and the devil must be ascribed to His presence and influence. When He is present, He reproves of sin, points the sinner to the great Sin Bearer, Jesus, leads the believer into all truth, speaks comforting messages from Jesus to the soul, and provokes the church to active effort in helping to save lost men. To be filled with the Spirit is to be filled with love for God and a passion for souls. In bestowing this blessed gift upon the church, God purposed that the Holy Spirit should be the constant companion and guide of the believer. "I will pray the Father," said Jesus, "and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever." Although it is true that this promise was made directly to Christ's disciples, yet we are assured by Peter in his Pentecostal address that no particular people or generation were to have a monopoly upon this precious gift. "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Acts 2: 38, 39. God has never revoked the gift of the Spirit. In times of apostasy He has been forced to withdraw His presence and power from the organic church, but He has ever been present with the true follower of Jesus. We should seek as earnestly today for the fullness of the Spirit's presence as did the disciples before Pentecost. The promise is as verily ours as it was theirs. One of keen spiritual discernment has well said that this promised blessing, if claimed by faith, would bring all other blessings in its train. Surely a gift so freighted with blessing for the church cannot be disregarded without the suffering of untold loss. Let us pray for the fullness of the Spirit. 3 The Holy Spirit – W.H Branson 1. Personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit THE nature and work of the Holy Spirit is a divine mystery-far too great for the finite mind to fathom fully. Jesus aptly illustrated this fact by His significant statement to Nicodemus when He explained to him the mystery of the new birth. "The wind blows where it listeth," He said, "and thou hears the sound thereof, but cannot not tell whence it comes, and whither it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." John 3: 8. We cannot see the wind. But we are made aware of its existence by many undeniable proofs. We hear it. We feel it. We see the results of its contact with nature. Mighty changes are wrought by it: the sea is lashed into fury; great trees are uprooted, and mighty rocks are displaced; whole cities are carried away in fragments, and many lives are crushed out. And yet as we stand by and behold the results of its mighty work, it is quite impossible for us either to explain its character or to behold it with the eye. Just so it is with the Holy Spirit. Of His existence there can be no question. We Christians see the results of His work. We hear Him speak through the Sacred Scriptures. We feel His influence and power in our lives. We see Him striving with sinners and leading them by an irresistible influence to renunciation of sin and acceptance of the salvation offered by the Son of God. We see their lives mightily transformed by His power. And yet we do not actually see Him. His exact nature and character no one can explain: for this is one of the mysteries that our heavenly Father has not seen fit to reveal. No doubt in this withholding of exact knowledge there is a divine purpose on the part of an all wise and loving God. Some day, of course, we shall understand. Some day this dimming veil which now separates God and His people will be withdrawn, and these deep and hidden mysteries will then stand revealed. "Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Corinthians 13:12. But although we are not now able to sound the depths of this mystery, yet there is much that we may know-yes, that is essential that we should know-about the person and work of this divine Spirit. There are three living persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. (See Matthew 28: 19) Not three Gods, but one God in three persons. Should an exact explanation be required of the nature of God the Father, we would be at a loss to give it; and yet the entire universe abounds with evidence that He exists and that He has a distinct personality and is clothed with infinite wisdom and omnipotent power. Just so with the Holy Spirit. He is the third person of the heavenly trio. The Spirit is not merely an influence emanating from God, but is a distinct person in the Godhead, working in unison with the Father and the Son in all things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Evidence of the distinct personality of the Holy Spirit abounds in the Sacred Scriptures. The Master Himself, in explaining to the disciples how the Spirit was to take His place in the church after His ascension, everywhere employs the personal pronoun in His references to this heavenly being. Note carefully the following which are only a few of the multitude of Scriptural evidences of the personality of the Spirit. "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of Me." John 15: 26. "If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin." John 16: 7, 8. "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come." Verse 13. 4 The Holy Spirit – W.H Branson Note also the things the Spirit is to do: "He shall testify of me." "He will reprove the world of sin." "He will guide you into all truth." "Whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak." "He will show you things to come." Can a mere influence without personality and knowledge testify as a witness, reprove sinners, guide the people of God, hear God's voice, and, in turn, speak the messages of God to the church? The answer is obvious. Only an intelligent personality could accomplish these, for they are personal actions, not the work of non intelligent influence. Knowledge is spoken of as one of the attributes of the .Spirit. "The Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God." 1 Corinthians 10, 11. The Spirit, therefore, is more than a divine attribute or power. He is a person, possessing both attributes and power. The disciples performed their marvelous miracles "through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God." (Romans 15: 19.) The Spirit is a life-giving agency. "It is the Spirit that quickens." John 6: 63. He directs the servants of God. "The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." Acts 13: 2. "So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia." Acts 13: 4. "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers." Acts 20: 28. He warns the church of apostasy. "Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith." 1 Timothy 4: 1. He has the power of revelation. "And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ." Luke 2: 26.
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