Category: The Holy Spirit
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The Holy Spirit: His Presence, Power, and Fruits
There are several difficulties in preparing and presenting a paper such as this. There is the obvious brevity required on a subject which has been dealt with in many, many volumes of books. The subject is very broad, the number of subdivisions so many, that the treatment of the entire subject is impossible with any…
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I. The Character of the Holy Spirit
Before discussing the presence, power, and fruits of the Spirit, several things ought to be made plain. I believe that we also face a very real danger in a discussion as this in placing erroneous emphasis upon the work of the Spirit. Many churches have been facing the fact of inroads of neo-Pentecostalism in their…
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II. The Work of the Holy Spirit
Again, in treating of the work of the Spirit, we are confronted with far more material than can be adequately presented in this paper. I can only touch on some of this. I would suggest that we can distinguish various areas in which the operation of the Spirit of Christ is evident. There is, first…
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III. The Holy Spirit’s Work – and Ours
Perhaps of great concern this afternoon might be the question of the relationship of the work of the Spirit to that which is required of us. There are evils which have arisen on both the right and left in connection with the work of the Spirit. On the one hand, there have been the errors…