The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-09

| And Of the rest burst no man ioiu him
self 20 them, and believers were the more
added to the Lord, multitudes both of
men and women | wonder when these
scriptures lost their force, for now almost
any OF the rest (unbclievers) NAV ioin
! himself to almost any church." In all
of these scriptures fire seems to have
| disappeared: it is not mentioned at least
and now let us 20 on to learn how Il poor
| sinner may come into the possession of
| the Holy Spirit. John, II, 16 and II.
and will pray the Father, and He will
| give you another comforter, that he may
abide with you forever, even the spirit of
the truth whom the world cannot receive
because il seeth Him not, neither know
eth Him, but We know Him, for He dwell
eth with you and shall be in you,n and
verse %, but the comforter, the Holy
| Ghost whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all things"
Here then is the promise of that which
WAS fulfilled on the day of Pentecost
The Holy Ghost came down to abide for
ever in the church and in the believer
which the Scriptures, already quoted
abundantly prove. Romans 5:1.5.
Therefore, being justified by faith
etc. And hope maketh not ASHAMED
because the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. which
is given to us" Romans, SOIL, ''But We
are not i'll the flesh, if so be that the
spirit of God dwell in YOU .Now. if
any man have not the spirit of Christ he
is none of His, but if the spirit of Him
who raised up Christ from among the
dead dwell in you, He that raised up
Christ shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by His. spirit that .dwelleth in
YOU" Above we learn that the HOLY
Ghost is given to us, and here we learn
that he dwelleth in us,and the Lord Jesus
said He shall abide. with you forever"
This to the poor sinners in Rome, who
believed the Gospel of God concerning
His SOM and in lst Corinthians, IL;
Unto the Church of ,ioh, which is at
Corinth, to them. that are sanctiiicd in
Jesus Christ, called saints, with all that
in every place call upon the name of Jesus
Chr;.G. our Lord, with theirs and ours
Ne learn how His wondrous grace and
the gift by the grace comes down to us
i'll this day. Also in chap. 2:12: Now,
we have received not the, spirit of the
world but the spirit which is of Cod
And in chap. G:l0 "What! Know We
not that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost, which is in you, which We
have of God, and We are not your own"
And yet i'll neither epistle- to the CORN.
thians do find the remotcst reference to
fire burning up or out anything from
the bodies of the Corinthian Christians.
In Galatians, it is chap. 1923 This
would learn of you: received We the
spirit by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of the faith; are We so foolish,
having begun i'll the spirit, are We now
made perfect by the flesh.' Ephesians
4:30. And grcve not the Holy Spirit
OF God, whereby ye are sealed unto the
day OF redemption" \ plain reference
back to chap. l:l3 ii: Il whom We also
trusted, after that We heard the word of
the truth Of the Gospel of Your salvation,
i'll whom also after that We believed We
were sealed with that Holy Spirit of
promise, which is the earnest of our in
hcritance until the redemption of the
purchased possession unto the praise of
His glory. find then in the VOID of
God that we are sealed with the Holy
Spirit when as IL poor sinner we believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ: corroborated
in Acts, ll-l1: God gave them the
like gift rs unto us who believed OH the
Lord Jesus Christ" and l5:,-S: "That
the Gentiles by my mouth should hear
the word of the Gospel and believe, and
God, which knoweth the hearts, bear
them witness, giving them the Holy
Ghost even rs unto us. ask. do then
lack understanding" or is it prejudice.
if from these testimonies of the Word of
God believe, aye know that every child
of God receives the seal of the Holy Shirt
when he believes God knoweth the
hearts, OH the Lord Jesus Christ as his
Savior Yet it is said and written that
or any other Christian must make
full surrender, must givc@up something,
all things, or | must pay the plice.
Where does this bargain making come
from? When the words give and
''givenp constantly fall upon our ears
from the Scriptures. IL is true that
when Simon SAW that through LAYING
or of the apostles hands the HOLY Ghost
was given, he offered them money" evil
IDENTIFY quite willing to pay the price de-
manded.
And let us not he stumbled by that oft
quoted text, Acts 1872: ''IIave We received
the Holy Ghost since We bclicved?n more
correctly rendered by Tregclcs, Dasby
and others: Holy Spirit received We
when We believed" Apostolic power be-
ing still on earth and the church vet in
its primitive state, in this case we learn,
Just as in Simon's just quoted, they re-
ccvcd the Holy Ghost when the APOSTLES
laid their hands on them, a fact quite
overlooked when this scripture is
quoted. The question, received ye the
Holy Ghost when We believe" plainly in
dictates that this WAS to he expected and,
as we have already learned in other cases,
did come to pass. The Holy Ghost is
not given now by the laying ON of the
hands OF the Apostles, or bv any dele
gated by them, but is received by the
hearing of faith. again | call attention
to this fact; God which knowcth the
hearts, > In LIST Thess. l:S, it is'swho
hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit
In 2nd Timothy 1:li: by the Holy
Ghost which INy.iintl &, -, NJ. 49,,