Revival - Part 5 — Doc Greenway

Revival as Pentecost Re-enacted

So far as its spiritual implication is concerned, a revival is Pentecost re-enacted, Pentecost repeated. Historically, we know that Pentecost cannot be repeated, and yet experientially, it is something which is continually recurring in the Christian Church and in the world.

The Holy Spirit as the Agent of Revival

For God's agent in revival is the Holy Spirit. Without His presence, there is no revival. Without His ministry, we look in vain for the outpouring of God's power and God's might upon us as the people of God.

It follows, then, that any expectation of revival that we may have ought to be based on a practical and personal understanding of the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit. Now, up to this point in our studies together, we have been considering various aspects of revival.

But tonight, I am not so much concerned with revival as such, as with the agent in revival. And it does seem to me that it is imperative that we, as God's people, should know more about the Holy Spirit as a person, and more about His work and His ministry, more about His character, more about His desires and His ambitions, if you like, concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, more about His absorbing passion for Jesus.

We are inclined to think in terms of power and demonstration when we think of the Holy Spirit. But there is far more to it than this, surely. And I am sure that as we prepare our hearts and our minds before God and look to Him for His revelation, then we shall see that beneath the surface of much that occurs in our experience, and much that is in the Word of God itself, there are indeed deep strutters that we have not yet understood or comprehended.

You know, compared with other subjects in the Church, this subject of the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit seems hardly to have been touched in many, many places. There are many who are practically in the same position as were the Ephesians, whom Paul questioned on that occasion.

You recall it is recorded in the Word of God, when he said to them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And their reply was, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Spirit.

And I suppose that lack of instruction could account for part of this situation. And isn't it true that in many, many places the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit seems not to be mentioned hardly at all?

It reminds me of the old lady in Scotland who was being catechized with a view to church membership. And the examiner asked her the question, How many persons are in the blessed Godhead? And she answered, There be two persons.

And the examiner said, Two persons? Woman, there are three. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yes, sir, I can not well, but she said, In all my experience, I've never heard you mention anything but the Father and the Son.

Never the Holy Spirit at all. And this, I think, is a very sad commentary on the situation as we see it in the Church, even in our day. Of course, it is not by accident, for this is part of the stratagem of Satan for these days, which are indeed the dispensation of the Holy Spirit.

In the dispensation of the Father, his stratagem was to cause the people to go whoring after other gods. He said of their affection and their attention upon the idols that were worshipped by the nations around.

And in this way he sought to destroy monotheism in Israel. In the dispensation of the Son, he changed his tactics. And now he directed the gaze of the people upon a political messiah, someone who would wrest authority from the Roman Empire and give it back to the Jews.

The result was that they missed the purpose of the Lord in his coming. In these days, his strategy has changed again. And now it is his desire to cause people to look with suspicion upon anything at all to do with the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit.

You know how it is. You mention the Holy Spirit, and at once they say, this tongue's business, or this fanaticism, or else some other choice expression that they have. And you know they sort of pass it by as though it weren't important, or that it ought not to be considered.

And I believe that this is the very truth that God would bring into the forefront in these days, the truth concerning the work and ministry and character and personality and authority of the Holy Spirit.

And so it's not just this Pentecostalism that we are concerned about. Our concern is with preparation for revival, and with the fact that God often works not simply by the confluence of circumstances, but always and ever directly by the agency of the Holy Spirit.

You know as well as I do that when there is a state of God's people which can only be described as apostate, when there is declension, indifference, when there is compromise with the things of the world, when indeed there is deadness and apathy abounding, it is then that God comes to revive His people, because revival presupposes some state like this of declension and backsliding and going away from God.

Nevertheless, I repeat it, whatever general agencies there may be in preparation for revival, the one great mighty agent is the Spirit of God. And without Him it is impossible even to think in terms of revival, for there is no revival apart from the Holy Spirit.

You remember Edwin Orr's hymn that makes this very apparent, O Holy Ghost, revival comes from Thee. Send the revival, start the work in me. How true this is. Revival comes from the Spirit of God. So we can forget about everything else tonight.

Forget about revival as such, if you wish. But do concentrate with me upon this theme of the Holy Spirit who is the agent in revival. Who is He? What are His desires? What is His purpose? What sort of life does He lead?

What is His character like? How are we to develop fellowship with Him? This to me is the important thing. And to this point I believe God has been slowly but surely bringing us during our times together in the weeks that are past.

Jesus' Promise of the Holy Spirit's Power

Now we have stated already that revival is a demonstration of the outflowing power of God. And the instrument in this demonstration is, of course, the Holy Spirit. Jesus made this abundantly clear in His specific promise which He gave.

And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon, epi, upon you. But tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued, endusasti, clothed upon with power from on high. That's Luke 24 and 49. I send the promise.

It's the simple tense here. I send and send and send and send is the tense of repetition. Not that He needs to send the Spirit of God into the church again and again. But upon God's people in the church, He will send and send and send and send in a tremendous repetitive action as the need arises because this is the purpose of God and this is the promise of Jesus.

So here you have the continuing possibility of revival in the personal presence of the Holy Spirit. Historically then, Pentecost is a day. But practically, it implies a continuing manifestation of God's power from the day of Pentecost until Jesus returns again.

Jesus promised that the presence of the Comforter would be permanently abiding in the church. And so He has never been withdrawn. That He may abide with you forever, said Jesus. And this preposition, with, that He used is meta, identified with, so that He is to be in permanent residence in the church of Jesus Christ.

It is a fact then that the perpetual agent in revival is the Holy Spirit. That He is continually, ceaselessly abiding in the Christian church. He has not been withdrawn and none of us need ever pray with David, take not thy Holy Spirit from me, because Jesus promised He would abide forever.

Personal Fellowship with the Holy Spirit

Nevertheless, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit with us as believers, this is conditional and this is affected in certain ways. Now let us ask for a moment, what does fellowship with the Spirit of God really imply?

In the first place, it is of course a personal fellowship. This is because He is a person. You cannot have fellowship with an influence, an emanation, a manifestation of God, an effusion. If you are going to have fellowship, it can only be between persons.

It is an interchange between persons. This is the meaning of fellowship. Therefore, it is a personal fellowship, because the Spirit of God is a person and because there is to be an interchange between us as persons, if we are having fellowship with Him and if He is having fellowship with us.

Now, it is not simply a question of fellowship of the Spirit in the church. But on a far more intimate and incisive basis, the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all here in the benediction. With you, where He finds you, at the point in your experience, where you are at the moment, at this point, He is prepared to enter into fellowship with us as individual believers.

We do not have to wait until we are victorious Christians. We do not have to reach some high standard of spirituality before He deigns to have fellowship with us. But just where He finds us, at that point, He is prepared to have fellowship with us just where He finds us.

This point needs to be emphasized, I think, because people have wrong ideas about the willingness of the Holy Spirit to have fellowship with the people of God. That, of course, is just the starting point.

But now, what kind of a person is He? Well, He is not aggressive, but self-effacing in the true sense of the term, in the real meaning of the word. Never advancing his own interests, but always advancing the interests of Jesus Christ.

Never pushing himself forward into the picture. And I believe that this is a true mark of the Spirit-filled believer, of the Christian who truly knows fellowship with the Spirit of God. You will not find him always pushing himself into the forefront of the picture, but rather, like the Blessed Spirit of God Himself, seeking, yearning, working, striving always to advance the interests of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never his own selfish interests at all.

This, I think, is one of the first things. Graciously and lovingly, he seeks to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ, to enthrone Him in the lives of God's people. And He is Christ's sole advocate with men. Our advocate is with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

The Holy Spirit is Christ's advocate with men. This, I know, is not new to you, but it needs to be repeated, because sometimes we are inclined to lose sight of this essential truth, this very important fact.

So you see, as Christ's advocate, he longs to magnify Christ. He wants to mediate Christ. He desires to minister Christ. This is always his passionate desire, that Christ may be seen, Christ may be magnified, Christ may be spread abroad in the hearts and lives of the people, that Christ and Christ only shall be always in the full front of the picture.

This is what the Spirit of God is doing. And therefore, you see, he will not tolerate sin in the lives of God's people, because this surely would not glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. And whether it is sin against the Spirit, or sin in the general sense, he will not tolerate it, because it is abhorrent to his very nature.

And this, I think, underscores one of the first offices of the Spirit of God, as the agent of revival. He is the spirit of conviction. He is the convicting spirit, the reproving spirit. And this in a very real and personal way.

Quenching and Grieving the Holy Spirit

Fellowship with him, then, is not simply personal. It is also conditional. And we must not be guilty of any sins at all against the Spirit of God, if we are to develop and cultivate a fellowship with him.

For instance, we must guard against quenching the Spirit of God. 1 Thessalonians 5 .19 has this exhortation, Quench not the Spirit. Don't allow the fire to die down, in other words. And what will cause a fire to die down?

Well, I suppose one thing, and we are conscious of it in these days, would be lack of fuel. If you don't supply the flame, if you don't add fuel to the fire, it will die down. And I am sure this is true concerning the Holy Spirit.

We quench the Spirit, we cause the flame of God to die down in our lives, if we do not feed that flame with the fuel of God's Word. If we neglect the study of God's Word, if we refuse to meditate upon God's Word, if we say we have no time to be concerned with the Word of God, then what we are doing is denying the flame the fuel it needs to burn brightly and to keep on glowing with the glow of God.

A fire will go out for lack of fuel. You can be sure of this. How did the psalmist say it? While I mused, the fires burned. While he was meditating upon the Word of God, while he was thinking about what God said to him in His Word, while he was considering it, while he was applying it to his life, while he was doing this, the fires were burning.

My brother, my sister, remember that nothing can ever supersede the written Word of God. Not all your experiences, not all your tremendous revelations, not all your mighty manifestations of the Spirit, nothing can ever take the place of the written Word of God.

Please remember that. And if you neglect the study of it, then you cause the flame to die down. A fire, as you know, will not burn in a vacuum. A fire needs air in which to burn, atmosphere. And isn't this true, too, that the fire of God's Spirit will die down?

There will be a suppressing, a quenching of the flame if we neglect the place of prayer. How true it is that prayer is the Christian's vital breath, the Christian's native air. It's not only the native air for the Christian, it's the native air to the Holy Spirit.

For in this atmosphere, He will burn brightly. Fire will go out for lack of air, and the Spirit of God will die down in your life, and the flame will be suppressed, and the Spirit of God be quenched. If you neglect the place of prayer, if you neglect to take time to wait upon God.

And fire will die down, too, unless you give it proper attention. If you forget to rake away the ashes, the fire will die down. You've seen this happen. And how very often a fire dies down because people are content with the burned-out, cold ashes of an experience that once was, but is no longer.

Rake away the ashes. Don't be content with a burned-out experience. Don't be simply desirous of talking about the past all the time, about the mighty thing God did ten years ago, or five years ago, or a year ago.

When Jesus comes, He will find us as we are, not as we were. So we need to be careful that the fire burns, because we are content to rake away the ashes of the forgotten, the burned-out experiences, and are seeking always a fresh flame, a glow with God.

Fire will die down if you introduce some foreign element. Water and fire will never mix, will they? I can't help but tell you this one. I was in a prayer meeting in Wales some time ago, quite a long while ago now, in 1950 actually.

And I heard a dear man of God. He was a Welshman. He didn't have very much English, but he had a lot of fire and zeal and fervor. And I remember how he prayed. Everybody in the meeting had been praying about revival and wanting a new revival, and remember the 1904 or 6th revival, Lord, you know, the usual type of thing.

But there he was. Oh, God, he said, you know how much we need revival. The church is dead without revival. We are useless without revival. Oh, God, he said, if you can see one single spark of desire for revival, water that spark, Lord.

I'm sure the Lord understood what he meant. But it doesn't work that way very often, does it? You can't introduce some foreign element. And so you can't mix the world and God, self and the Savior, the flesh and the spirit.

There can be no odd mixture here. If the fire is to burn brightly, you must not introduce some foreign element into it. Now, what does it mean, really? If we are unyielding, unresponsive, unwilling to obey the voice of the Spirit, then there is suppression, there is quenching, there is the dying down of the flame of God in your life and mine.

And so it is important that we are not guilty of this sin against the blessed Holy Spirit. Again, in this condition of fellowship, we must guard against grieving the Spirit. Writing to the Ephesians, Paul says,.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby he was sealed unto the day of redemption. Nothing in our lives that is contrary to his holy character. This is what is intended here. Because if there is something there which cuts against what he is essentially, the Holy Spirit, then surely this is grieving to him.

The presence of unconfessed sin in the lives of God's people is revolting to his essential purity. And how much of this is in Christian experience? Not sins that were forgiven when we came to Christ and accepted him as Savior, but unconfessed sins in the intervening years as it may be.

These things grieve the Spirit of God. For this, you know, is the grief of offended righteousness. With him, sin has to be condemned. It cannot be condoned, and we cannot cover it up and hope to get by.

You can't do that if you are dealing in fellowship with the Spirit of God. I remember hearing of an office worker whose wife was taken seriously ill. She had to have medical attention, and in the end, surgery.

And the accounts mounted up, and he didn't have the money to meet them. And so he did a very foolish thing. He borrowed some money from the firm without telling anybody, thinking that he could repay it before the auditors came around.

But unfortunately for him, the auditors were coming the very next day, he heard. And so he went to the cashier, who was a friend of his, and told him what had happened. And the cashier looked at him and said, Well, you were very foolish, but never mind.

He said, I can cover it for you. I'll cover it. And the man looked at him and said, There is only one man that can cover it, and I'm going to see him. And he went to see his manager, and he laid the whole thing before the manager.

And you know, very often you find understanding at the top, don't you? This manager was sympathetic. He was understanding. And he said, All right, so long as you repay the money, in your own time we'll forget about it.

There was only one who could cover it. And may we remember, by the grace of God, there is only one who can cover our sin, and that one is God himself. We talk about time healing things, time healing sorrow.

Time never heals unconfessed sin. It simply drives it deeper into the personality, into the life, until it festers and becomes worse and worse as time goes on. If we are conscious tonight of unconfessed sin in our life, let us bring it to the surface, let us bring it to God.

Let us remember, if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Unconfessed sin is unforgiven sin. Unforgiven sin is uncleansed sin. But God has a way and a method whereby he can meet us when we come in humility and confess to him what we have done wrong and look for his own pardoning grace.

For instant confession means instant restoration. This is the glorious thing about it. And so, you see, we grieve the Spirit of God if there is unconfessed sin in our lives. What is sin? Sin is discord.

It's a jarring note in the symphony of creation. Read Psalm 51, the penitential psalm, if you want a statement of this. It's a jarring note. It's a discord in the whole of God's creation. Sin is distortion.

It twists the facts, misinterprets the truth, misrepresents the situation. And how can the spirit of truth abide in fellowship with deception of this kind? Fellowship with the Holy Spirit of God involves accepting his convictions without question, without argument, refusing the wrong and deliberately, consciously choosing the right, whatever it may cost.

When I was minister of Draper Memorial Church in Adelaide, South Australia, there was a minister in the city who had been speaking out against sin in no uncertain terms. And his deacons had a meeting with him because they were disturbed.

And they said, Now, sir, we know that you have to speak and you have to preach about sin, but couldn't you use some other term? You see, you're disturbing the young people in the church. This is the difficulty, you know.

And so the minister reached up to a high little place in his study, out of the way of the children, a high shelf, and took down a bottle. It was labeled poison, and he said to them, Now, what does this bottle say on the label?

They said, Poison, that's right. He said, Now, what I propose to do is to change the label and just put there peppermint drops. Do you think it's going to make any difference of what is inside? Yes. They said, No, it wouldn't.

Well, sin is sin, he said in the sight of God, and I'm going to preach it for all I'm worth as God reveals it. Because until a man knows he's a sinner, he will never look for a savior. And I felt that man had tremendous courage in his situation, but he was quite right.

We have to refuse the wrong. We have to choose the right deliberately, whatever the cost may be. And so there is this grief of offended righteousness that we subject the Holy Spirit to in our fellowship with Him if we are conscious of sin which has never been confessed and never been dealt with.

The Holy Spirit's Thwarted Purpose and the Anointing

And then there is also the grief of thwarted purpose. And here, too, the convicting spirit may be active in your life and mine. Thwarted purpose. What is the purpose of the Holy Spirit in fellowship with us as believers?

Surely it is that our fellowship should be progressive and productive. That it shouldn't just stand still. That we would know Him in all those wonderful pictures which are presented, in the emblems of the Spirit, in the titles of the Spirit, for instance.

That we would know this productive life in fellowship through the graces of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit. That we should know Him in this area. How many there are who are prepared to say, I am in constant fellowship with the Holy Spirit because I speak with tongue.

To them it means they have arrived. Man, you have only begun. It is only the beginning. It is only the commencement. There are waters to swim in out there, if only you dare believe it. And this, I think, is what the Spirit of God is trying to show us.

That there can be thwarted purpose, so far as He is concerned, in our lives, if we limit Him because of our small vision, our small outlook, and our small expectation. Take the emblems under which the Spirit of God is revealed to us.

I know I have spoken about these things in days gone by, when we were meeting in Gordon Peller's home. But one or two things I would like to say, which I did not say then. Take the emblems under which the Spirit of God is represented to us.

Progressive fellowship demands that we know Him in the relationship which these emblems suggest. Take one only, the anointing oil. We should know Him in this relationship. Not simply say, well, the Spirit of God is revealed in the Word of God as the anointing oil, full stop.

Not at all. What does it mean? What is it intended to mean in your life and mine? That He is indeed the anointing oil of God? What does it mean? The significant thing about this is that whatever was anointed was separated unto the Lord.

Moses took of the anointing oil and with it he anointed Aaron and his sons, we read, to sanctify or to separate them unto Jehovah. That is Leviticus chapter 8. Because the oil was upon them, they were henceforth holy the Lord's.

They were completely and altogether His possession. They were no longer their own. And when Paul writes as he does with the Corinthians and tells them, What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price?

It is because of the anointing Holy Spirit which is upon the life of the Christian. As in the Old Testament days, when the heads of Aaron and his sons were anointed and they were separated wholly, completely unto the Lord, they were sold out to God, this was the intention in the emblem and symbol that was used.

And the head was anointed because their thought life was separated unto God. The breastplate was anointed because their affections were separated unto the Lord. They were anointed a minister, we are told.

Of Aaron and his sons it is written, Thou shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify or separate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. That is Exodus 28 and 41. So their ministry belonged to the Lord, to Jehovah exclusively.

And we should know a fellowship in the Spirit and with the Spirit, which produces this personal ministry unto the Lord. Not serving a church, not serving a group, not serving our friends, certainly not serving ourselves, but serving Him exclusively, serving the Lord.

This was the idea in the anointing oil upon the head of the servants of God. What this ministry is, of course, is determined by Him and by no one else. It may be public ministry of the Word, and then we have to wait on our teaching.

It may be private ministry to the needs of others. It may be that He that showeth mercy, that endued with cheerfulness, is where we come in. And what a tremendous blessing this can be. He who comes with sympathy to sorrow, let him bring God's sunlight in his face, is the translation which I like so very much.

Is this a ministry? When Talmadge, the great American preacher, lost his son, there were many who came to sympathize and offer their condolences. But there was one servant of God. He wasn't a big preacher by any means, not great in the ministry of the Word.

But he came and sat where Talmadge was, and reached out his hand, and took his brother's hand in his, and just held it, and didn't say a word, but sat there full of compassion, full of sympathy, full of overflowing love.

He didn't need to say anything. He was the whole thing. And as he sat there, Talmadge said afterwards, he felt the fountains within begin to break. And for the first time since his son had died, the wells overflowed.

And he found relief and release in the presence of God. What a ministry! The ministry of sympathy, of understanding, of compassion, of love. What a ministry this is. And when it is anointed under the ancient, which is the Holy Spirit, what a tremendous blessing it can be in the church of the living God.

This, too, is ministry, you know, as well as prophesying, and interpreting, and having gifts of healing, or miracles, or anything else of that nature. This, too, is ministry. Let us not forget it. If we know him as the anointing oil, then we know the reality of things which are spiritual.

And this, too, is scriptural, isn't it? The same anointing which you have received of him teaches you of all things and is truth. And so, under this relationship with the Spirit of God, we are to be taught the things of God.

And we are to have an evaluation of things which are spiritual, which could never be our experience, were it not for developing a fellowship with the Spirit as the anointing oil of God. This is his particular function under this emblem, under this figure of speech.

Progressive Fellowship Through the Spirit's Emblems

And, you know, there is something so comprehensive about the way in which the Spirit of God will teach you. Eye hath not seen, it is not by human observation, nor ear heard, it is not by human instruction, neither hath it arisen up, it is literally, in the heart of man.

It is not by some natural intuition that God hath revealed his things to those that love him. Not by these means at all, but by his Spirit. And because he is the anointing which rests upon us, then, as John the Apostle reminded his readers, we know all things, and this is knowledge gained by experience.

Do we know progressive fellowship with him, even in this one small facet of his ministry? Do we know him as the anointing oil? The late Dr. Harry Einstein once came home from seminary, Bible seminary, and found his mother had taken in as a boarder, or really as someone whom she wanted to help, an Irish Christian who was suffering from tuberculosis, and she had put him out on a tent on the lawn.

And he was quite comfortable. So Harry Einstein took his Bible and went out to have fellowship with him, and began to expound the Word to him, and to teach him things from the Bible, thinking, of course, that seeing he had come from Bible seminary, well, he probably knew most of it anyhow.

And then this dear man of God, after a while, said, Would you mind, brother, if I expounded the Word just a little bit? And he began to open up the Scripture. Einstein forgot about his dinner, forgot about everything.

He sat there for a solid hour and listened to this man of God. And when it was all finished and done with, he turned to him and he said, Where did you get your training? What Bible college did you attend?

He said, None at all. He said, Just a log cabin in Ireland. He said, And in fact, he said, it was an earthen floor. But he said, The Spirit of God came upon me, and the Spirit of God taught me. And if I know anything at all about the Word of God, he said, this is the reason why.

I would say to you tonight, and I say it very humbly, that whatever I have learned in my experience as a Christian, and I have been on the way for quite a long while, it has not been that which has come because of academic attainment and achievement.

That I do not regard as being the essential thing. I know from experience that the Holy Spirit of God, blessed be His name as the anointing oil, has taught me more in one hour than I have learned in years by any other means.

And oh, I say to you, if you are prepared to develop and cultivate a fellowship with this blessed agent of revival, if you are willing to take your Bible and go on your knees before him and ask him to be your teacher, he will guide you into all truth.

And he will cause you to stand in wonder and amazement at the things he will reveal to you. We need to develop fellowship with the Spirit of God in this way, as well as in all the other ways that are mentioned in the book we call the Bible.

So you see, it is important, isn't it, that we should develop a ministry in fellowship with the Spirit, which is under His divine anointing. Fellowship with the Spirit, then, is intended to be progressive.

And as we grow to know Him, then we must learn to comprehend Him also, not only as the oil, but as the wind or the breath of God penetrating to your inmost being. Hallelujah! What an experience this is!

When it is not just simply the Spirit of God coming upon you, and you have a few shakes and thrills, and you say, oh, I have had a mighty visitation. But the breath of God penetrating to your inmost being to the very core of your being, to your very God-consciousness, making you aware that God is there in the inmost part of your being.

We are to know Him as the wind. We are to know Him, too, as the rain in refreshing. Hallelujah! We are to know Him as the fire purging and searing and cleansing and consuming deep within. We are to know Him as the clothing covering and protecting us as we journey through life.

We are to know Him as the dove brooding, tremulous with mother love in our very spirit, producing, creating, bringing to birth that which God intends. We are to know Him as the seal securing us for time and for eternity.

We are to know Him in all these areas of life and experience because these emblems, these figures of speech, simply represent something of what He is. Fellowship with the Spirit is to be progressive, and in all these relationships we need to know Him.

It is to be progressive fellowship also in the sense of knowing His gifts and graces. Here we are not thinking simply of the gifts mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12 and 1 Corinthians 14, although there are those, of course, who limit their fellowship with the Spirit because they have no faith for these particular gifts.

We said the other evening that a prejudice is a floating opinion without visible means of support. It is very true. I came across one by Dr. Robert Lee that I thought was choice. Dr. Robert Lee was a great, I think he still is alive in America, a great Baptist minister.

He tells this story of two hillbilly farmers, you know, out in the back blocks. They had never seen a train in their lives, but they decided they would have a train journey. And at last they got to the railway station and walking along they saw all sorts of things displayed.