The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1897-01-10
HE THAT BAPTIzETH
WITH the HOLY GHOST.
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! of grace, come to the great sacrifice, come
to the Cross of Calvary, come to the great
| High Priest, come to Jesus, and He will
| cleanse you by His blood and baptize YOU
| with His Holy Spirit.
| ,. Jesus baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
| inasmuch rs He received the Holy Ghost
into His own person, and for three years
| and II half walked through Galilean Judea
"in the Spirit" which He now gives to
us; receiving the third person of the God.
head into personal union with Himself,
| so that He could send Him forth, not as
another Spirit, but us His own Spirit.
! This is very precious and truly wonder
| full. The Holy Ghost is not to us now
| what He would have been before Jesus
| came, and what He was under the Old
Testament purely the Spirit of Deity:
| but lie is. il we can understand what il
means, the Spirit that dwelt in the hui
man and divine Christ: the Spirit that dc
we may say it with reverence), was soft.
ened and in some sense humanized by
union with Jesus; the Spirit that loved
John and Mary, that took the little chill
dren to His bosom, that compassionatcd
the multitude, that wept for .Ieru salem.
that said to the poor woman, $50 and sin
no more;' that whispered, ''Let not YOUR
heart be troubled that talked with the
women of Samaria, that forgavc and re-
stored Peter, that overlooked all Thomas
unbelief, that bore significantly the shame
of the Judgment hall, and endured the
agony of the cross, that walked and
talked on the way to Emmaus, so simply
and yet with such human tenderness and
ncarncss. Oh, how near it brings Him
TO receive Him as the Spirit of our pre-
ciouS Christ! And so Jesus received Hin,
and spake all His words, and lid all His
work through the Spirit: and now He
gives to us the very same Spirit that
dwelt i'll Him. And so in Romans the
apostle speaks of the Spirit of Christ, and
says Z" Ii Christ be in YOU. the body is
dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life
| because of righteousness, and, IF any
man have not the Spirit of Christ. he is
none of His
Beloved, He is waiting to-day to give
| you His own very Spirit, to breathe upon
you and say, Receive We the HOLY
| Ghost" And you may take Him warm
| from the bosom OF Jesus, sweet as the
breath of His love. pure as the light of
| His holiness, mighty MS the strength of
His omnipotence, and in some sense, col
! ored and sof,ene' by the very humanity
| of our incarnate Lord.
| j. Jesus baptizes with the Holy Ghost
in the sense that He distinctly sent Him
on the day of Pentecost from heaven to
earth. 1t was His promise that He would
do so IF go not away, the Comforter
| VIII not come; but if depart will send
| Him upon YOU And so Peter, speak
| ing of His coming, says, He, having re-
celved OF the Father The promise of the
| Holy Ghost, hath now she'd forth this,
which We now see and hear" This was
! II distinct and actual transaction which
| involved the most stupcndcus issues and
! relations. On that day and in that mo-
| ment real person, II divine person, ac-
tually changed His residence and removed
from heaven to earth, and has ever since
resided, not in heaven, but in this world.
With the sound of that mighty, rushing
wind, procession rs glorious as the ms.
cension of Jesus, took place. The Holy
| Dove, the mighty Paraclete, came down
| from heaven to return no more till the
| dispensaton of the GOSPEL shall have
closed; and from that hour His residence
has been in this world in the hearts of
Christ's people, and in the sacred sane
tuary of His body, the church.
Let us fully realize this: The Spirit is
not now i'll heaven, and we need never
ask Him TO come from heaven; but He is
present. and we have only to receive Him,
for He has already come The mighty
parted; and, Just rs the air is charged
with electricity and you have but TO alb
sorb Il from the atmosphere, just rs the
atmosphere is saturated with moisture,
and the cool pitcher has only to absorb
the dew; so the Holy Ghost is all around
us; the spaces about us are filled with
HIS presence, His ear is within whisper
ing distance of every heart, and we have
but to become receiving vessels adjusted
to His touch, and He flows in to fiji every
channel OF our being as naturally as the
airenters the open lungs, as the light floods
the lifted window as the sun shines
wherever there is any object to receive
its radiance. Beloved, the Holy Ghost
has come, the day of Pentecost is past,
the Spirit Of God is here; will YOU receive
Him?
4. But there is yet n personal baptism
with the Holy Ghost which must come
to each heart for itself. To each of us
must he applied personally the great
atonemcnt, TO each of us must come the
actual presence of the Comforter, and
Jesus is the One that will bring this
to pass. IL is not the Holy Ghost YOU
are 30 pray to. but 1t is the Saviour. 1t
is He that baptizcth with the Holy Ghost.
60 to Jesus for Him, put yourself at His
dear feet, take Him as your Saviour. take
Him MS your Sanctiiier. trust Him to give
YOU this most precious gift, claim IT, and
refuse to let Him 20 without its fulness,
hold fast to His loving feet, claim your
bir:hright, your redemption right, what
lie so longs TO give you; obey His voice
follow His directions; thank Him for the
taintest touch that answers your prayers,
follow on in the light that He gives, even
in CLEAN of radiance, ana you shall
know the Lord in all the fuilness of His
glory and love, and eternally praise Him
who baptizctl with the Holy Ghost
II. WHAT is INVOLVED IN THE
GREAT BAPTISM AND BLESSING.