Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-11
When Is The Holy Spirit Received?
AN EvAMGELISTlc SERMON BY JOHN ELWARD BROWN

their baptism. in receiving the Holy
Spirit, we do not know.
We know this much:
The only condition that God laws
down, in this dispensation of the Holy
Spirit, is, Repent, and be baptized
in the name Of Jesus Christ for the
remission of sins. and We shall receive
the Holy Ghost"
And we also knew that one. at least
of these who claimed to believe. and
who had teen baptized. had evidently
failed to meet the conditions of re-
pentance, for to him st Peter said,
"Thy heart Is not right
Repent, and be baptized eyery one
OF you In the name Of Jesus Christ
for the remission OF sins. and We shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost
Back tc Pentecost," is the cry of
many preachers today.
Back to Pentecost for what?
For the same experience the dis
ciples had?
That will never come. That is. the
Identical experience is not ours to
possess, but the same HOLY Shirt who
possessed the hearts of the disciples.
In the long ago. will also take posses
sion of our hearts. today
The disciples waited 10 DAYS, and we
are often urged to do likewise.
Neveri
The disciples waited 10 days for
the ushering in of the dispensation of
the Holy Spirit. and when He came
thew all received Him.
Never again did they teach, or even
Intimate, that others were to wait for.
or pray for, the coming OF the Holy
Spirit.
Christian men and women, seeking
the fulness of the life of Christ. have
been taught by MISGUIDED teachers
that they were to seek for. and pray
for the corning of the Holy Spirit
10 days. as did the disciples--10 weeks
or ten months. If necessary.
] challenge any Bible preacher, or
teacher, anywhere, to show me one
line of Scripture, since the day Of
Pentecost, for any such teaching.
The disciples never taught anyone
to seek for, or pray for, the Holy
Spirit.
And why?
For the simple and evident reason,
that all men and women, everywhere.
receive the Holy Spirit at convention
st. Paul says we are in the Spirit. II
so be that the Spirit dwells in US. and
he says, If He Dies not dwell in us,
then we are not Christs.
The Holy Spirit Is a person. and
dwells in the heart of the believer, as
q person.
Certainly, the Inspired disciples
would not teach us to seek for, and
pray for, that which we already pos
sess
What should the Christian man or
woman be taught? st
Just this:
The Holy Spirit takes up His abode
in their hearts at conversion. and lis
there, ready to take possession oflalli
that they will surrender to Him. I'D.
Z, 1t is not theirs to get down on their
knees to Dray for God to do. but rather
it is theirs to realize that God has
done, and that God is now waiting for
them to do. A
To do what?
God IS waiting for them to get down
on their knees, and surrender them
selves, unreseryedly and uncondition-
ally, to the blessed Holy Spirit, who
already dwells in their hearts.
II this theory is right. you will say,
then, that does away with waiting
with praying with fasting with ag-
onizing. .ss.el y,
Yes, and no!
You do not have to wait, or pray, or
fast, or agonize, one hour or mooment
to get God ready to give to you--or
to get the Holy Spirit ready to pos
seSs you.
On the other hand. you may have to
pray, and fast, and agonige, hours or
even days, to get yourself ready to
surrender all to the Spirit of God,
Let's put the responsibility where
responsibility belongs!
Have you been born again?
Then the Holy Spirit is in you.
1t is one thing for you to have Him
as a person-in His fulness. and quite
another thing for Him to have you in
your fulness.
AS child of God, It isn't yours to
get more and more Of the Holy Spirit,
but it is yours to humbly kneel and
surrender more and more to Him.
1t is yours to give all, and His to
possess all.
God has done for you, and now He
is waiting for you to do.
Will you surrender yourself wholly
to the One who already dwells with.
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