The Personality of the Holy Spirit E-Book

C. H. Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Hope messages in times of crisis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 33

Beschreibung

This sermon preached by Charles Spurgeon invites us to meditate on God's presence. Meet the Holy Spirit and the signs of its presence in the life of the Christians. A message to bless your life.

Leseprobe

INTRODUCTION

THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

REV. C. H. SPURGEON

“And I will pray the Father and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you

forever: even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not,

neither knows Him: but you know Him for He dwells with you and shall be in you.”

John 14:16, 17.

You will be surprised to hear me announce that I do not intend this morning to say anything about the Holy Spirit as the Comforter. I propose to reserve that for a special sermon this evening.

In this discourse I shall endeavor to explain and enforce certain other doctrines which I believe are plainly taught in this text and which I hope God the Holy Spirit may make profitable to our souls. Old John Newton once said thatthere were some books which he could not read, they were good and sound enough, but, he said, “they are books of halfpence you have to take so much in quantity before you have any value.

There are other books of silver and others of gold, but I have one book that is a book of bank notes. And every leaf is a bank note of immense value.”

So I found with this text that I had a bank note of so large a sum, that I could not preach on all of it this morning. I should have to keep you several hours before I could unfold to you the whole value of this precious promise one of the last which Christ gave to His people.

I invite your attention to this passage because we shall find in it some instruction on four points, first, concerning the true and proper personality of the Holy Spirit. Secondly, concerning the unitedagency of the glorious three Persons in the work of our salvation. Thirdly, we shall find something toestablish the Doctrine of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the souls of all believers. And fourthly, we shall find out the reason why the carnal mind rejects the Holy Spirit.

SUMMARY

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 1

First of all, we shall have some little instruction concerning the proper PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. We are so much accustomed to talk about the influence of the Holy Spirit and His sacred operations and Graces that we are apt to forget that the Holy Spirit is truly and actually a personthat He is a subsistence an existence.

Or as we Trinitarians usually say, one person in the essence of the Godhead. I am afraid that though we do not know it, we have acquired the habit of regarding the Holy Spirit as an emanation flowing from the Father and the Son, but not as being actually a person, Himself. I know it is not easy to carry about in our mind the idea of the Holy Spirit as a person.

I can think of the Father as a person, because His acts are such as I can understand. I see Him hang the world in ether.

I behold Him swaddling a newborn sea in bands of darkness. I know it is He who formed the drops of hail, who leads forth the stars by their hosts and calls them by their name, I can conceive of Him as a person because I behold His operations. I can realize Jesus, the Son of Man, as a real person because He is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It takes no great stretch of my imagination to picture the Baby in Bethlehem, or to behold the, “Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief.”

I can easily realize the King of Martyrs, as He was persecuted in Pilate’s hall, or nailed to the accursed tree for our sins. Nor do I find it difficult at times to realize the person of my Jesus sitting on His throne in Heaven.