The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit - Softcover

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Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he mustfirst of all know the Spirit Himself. A frequent source of error andfanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study andunderstand His work without first of all coming to know Him as a Person.It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of worship that wedecide whether the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person, worthy to receive ouradoration, our faith, our love, and our entire surrender to Himself, orwhether it is simply an influence emanating from God or a power or anillumination that God imparts to us. If the Holy Spirit is a person, and aDivine Person, and we do not know Him as such, then we are robbing aDivine Being of the worship and the faith and the love and the surrenderto Himself which are His due.It is also of the highest importance from the practical standpoint that wedecide whether the Holy Spirit is merely some mysterious and wonderfulpower that we in our weakness and ignorance are somehow to get hold of anduse, or whether the Holy Spirit is a real Person, infinitely holy,infinitely wise, infinitely mighty and infinitely tender who is to gethold of and use us. The former conception is utterly heathenish, notessentially different from the thought of the African fetich worshipperwho has his god whom he uses. The latter conception is sublime andChristian. If we think of the Holy Spirit as so many do as merely a poweror influence, our constant thought will be, “How can I get more of theHoly Spirit,” but if we think of Him in the Biblical way as a DivinePerson, our thought will rather be, “How can the Holy Spirit have more ofme?” The conception of the Holy Spirit as a Divine influence or power thatwe are somehow to get hold of and use, leads to self-exaltation andself-sufficiency. One who so thinks of the Holy Spirit and who at the sametime imagines that he has received the Holy Spirit will almost inevitably

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