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THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
R.A. Torrey
CHIOS CLASSICS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Baptism with the Holy Spirit: What it is and what it does
Chapter 2: The Necessity and Possibility of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Chapter 3: How the Baptism with the Holy Spirit can be Obtained
Chapter 4: “Fresh Baptisms with the Holy Spirit,” or the Refilling with the Holy Spirit
Chapter 5: How Spiritual, Power is Lost
THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
INTRODUCTION
IT WAS A GREAT TURNING point in my ministry when, after much thought and study and meditation, I became satisfied that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit was an experience for to-day and for me, and set myself about obtaining it. Such blessing came to me personally, that I began giving Bible readings on the subject, and with increasing frequency as the years have passed. God in his wondrous grace has so greatly blessed these readings, and so many have asked for them in printed form, convenient for circulation among their friends, that I have decided to write them out in full for publication. It is an occasion of great joy that so many and such excellent books on the person and work of the Holy Spirit have appeared of late. I wish to call especial attention to two of these: ‘’Through the Eternal Spirit,” by James Elder Gumming and “The Spirit of Christ,” by Andrew Murray.
In the following pages I speak uniformly of the Holy Spirit, but in the quotations from the Bible retain the less desirable phraseology there used —"The Holy Ghost"— except in those instances where the translators themselves varied their usage. Probably most of the readers of this bookalready know that “the Holy Spirit” and ‘’the Holy Ghost” are simply two different translations of precisely the same Greek words. It seems very unfortunate, and almost unaccountable, that the English revisors did not follow the suggestion of the American Committee and for ‘’Holy Ghost” adopt uniformly the rendering “Holy Spirit.”
CHAPTER 1: THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES
WHILE A GREAT DEAL IS said in these days concerning the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, it is to be feared that there are many who talk about it and pray for it, who have no clear and definite idea of what it is. But the Bible, if carefully studied, will give us a view of this wondrous blessing that is perfectly clear and remarkably definite.
I. We find first of all that there are a number of designations in the Bible for this one experience. In Acts i: 5, Jesus said, ‘’Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” In Acts ii: 4. when this promise was fulfilled, we read ‘’they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” In Acts i:4. the same experience is spoken of as ‘’the promise of the Father,’’ and in Luuke xxiv: 49 as “the promise of my Father” and “endued with power from on high.” By a comparison of Acts x: 44, 45, 47 with Acts xi: 15,16, we find that the expressions “The Holy Spirit fell on them” and “The gift of the Holy Ghost” and “received the Holy Ghost’’ are all equivalent to “baptised with the Holy Ghost.”
2. We find in the next place that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit is a definite experience of which one may know whether he has received it or not. This is evident from our Saviour’s command to the Apostles: “Tarry ye in the city, until ye be endued with power from on high.” (Luke xxiv:49.) If this enduement with power or Baptism with the Holy Ghost were not an experience so definite that one could know whether he had received it or not, how could they tell when those commanded days of tarrying were at an end? The same thing is clear from Paul’s very definite question to the disciples at Ephesus. “Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?” (Acts xix:2, R. V.) Paul evidently expected a definite “yes” or a definite “no” for an answer. Unless the experience were definite and of such a character that one could know whether he had received it or not, how could these disciples answer Paul’s question? In point of fact they knew they had not “received” or been “baptised with” the Holy Ghost, and a short time afterward they knew they had “received” or been “baptised with” the Holy Ghost. (Acts xix: 6.) Ask many a man to-day who prays that he may be baptisedwith the Holy Ghost: ‘’Well, my brother, did you get what you asked, were you baptised with the Holy Ghost,” and he would be dumb-founded. He did not expect anything so definite that he could answer positively to a question like that, “yes” or ‘’no.” But we find in the Bible nothing of that vagueness and indefiniteness which we find in much of our modern prayer and speech regarding this subject. The Bible is a very definite book. It is very definite about salvation: so definite that a man who knows his Bible can say positively “yes” or “no “ to the question “are you saved.” It is equally definite about “the Baptism with the Holy Ghost:” so that a man who knows his Bible can say positively, ‘ ‘ yes, “ or “ no, ‘ ‘ to the question, “have you been baptised with the Holy Ghost.” There may be those who are saved who do not know it, because they do not understand their Bibles, but it is their privilege to know it. So there may be those who have been Baptised with the Holy Ghost, who do not know the Bible name for what has come to them, but it is their privilege to know.
3. The Baptism with the Holy Spirit is a work of the Holy Spirit separate and distinct from His regenerating work. To be regenerated by the Holy Spirit is one thing, to be baptised With the Holy Spirit is something different, some thing further. This is evident from Acts i: 5.There Jesus said: “Ye shall be baptised with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.’’ They were not then as yet “baptised with the Holy Ghost.” But they were already regenerated. Jesus Himself had already pronounced them so. In Jno. xv: 3, he had said to the same men, “Now are ye clean through the Word.” (Comp. Jas. i: 18; I Pet. i: 23) and in Jno. xiii: 10: “Ye are clean, but not all,” excepting by the “but not all,” the one unregenerate man in the Apostolic company, Judas Iscariot, from the statement “Ye are clean.” (See Jno. xiii: 11.) The Apostles, excepting Judas Iscariot, were then already regenerate men, but they were not yet “baptised with the Holy Ghost.” From this it is evident that regeneration is one thing, and that the baptism with the Holy Spirit is something different, something further. One can be regenerated and still not yet be baptised with the Holy Ghost. The same thing is evident from Acts viii: 12-16. Here we find a company of believers who had been baptised. Surely in this company of baptised believers there were some regenerate men. But the record informs us that when Peter and John came down they “prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them). “It is clear then that one may be a believer, may be a regenerate man, and yet not have the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. In other words, the Baptism with the Holy Spirit is something distinct from and beyond His regenerating work. Not every regenerate man has the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, though as we shall see later, every regenerate man may have this Baptism. If a man has experienced the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit he is a saved man, but he is not fitted for service until in addition to this he has received the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.
