The Holy Spirit - Part 2 — Keith Daniel

The Holy Spirit Glorifies Christ

Our, in Jesus the Christ's name, in Jesus Christ's name, we all ask these things of thee, our Father in heaven. Amen. I would like tonight to speak to you about the Holy Spirit, and I'm very careful in starting by telling you that the Holy Spirit is some word in the Bible that somehow we have got all confused about.

It is not the gospel of the Holy Spirit, and many churches today, in this generation especially, have the gospel not according to the gospel of Christ, but the gospel of the Holy Spirit. They make more of the Holy Spirit than of Jesus.

They make more of the gifts than the giver. And everything is centered around the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit Himself. And this holy book, this holy book has told us that the Holy Spirit shall not speak of Himself.

His whole work is to glorify Christ. His whole work is to make us into the image of Jesus Christ, that we may be conformed into the image of God's Son, and that's the work of the Holy Spirit. I read a book when I was shortly saved by R. A. Torrey.

Moody, Torrey, and the Need for Spiritual Fire

Torrey was D. L. Moody's theologian. Moody was the man who won millions to Christ, and Moody was probably the greatest soul winner in earth's history, him and Charles Finney. Millions and millions came to God through these men, but Moody brought nations to God.

Scotland turned to God. John Knox brought Scotland away from Rome, but Moody brought Scotland to God. Moody brought a king and a queen to God. I don't know of any evangelist in history where God did that through a man who never went through a theological seminar in his life, who had no degrees, but Queen Mary knelt with Moody and gave her heart to Christ, and King George followed and gave out tracts, literally hundreds of thousands of tracts to generals and the leaders of the empire were handed by Queen Mary on Moody's recommendation.

She gave out safety, certainty, and enjoyment. She was a soul winner. She was a prayer warrior, and Moody was the man God used, but Moody wasn't the great theologian. That was Torrey who God gave to Moody and to the millions throughout the world that had sought God.

Now, here was a man who suddenly had an academic—we don't despise the academic achievement. We don't despise men who can academically go into theological seminars and come out with fire, not deadened through doctrine.

I pity the man who goes and gets degrees that take seven years and he can't win his soul to Christ. I pity the man who doesn't realize that the God of Moody didn't need the degrees. He just needed fire, reality, and no compromise on this book.

That was Moody. But the book that Torrey wrote, the Holy Spirit, the person, the work of the Holy Spirit, the personality and the work of the Holy Spirit, I got that when I was just saved and I was transformed into my understanding of God and His ways.

And I would recommend that book to anyone. There are many books on the Holy Spirit which teach us. We can't bury the fact that the Holy Spirit is mentioned throughout the Holy Bible, and we need to know His work without diverting from Christ, but rather honoring Christ.

If you go to a book like R .I. Torrey wrote, you'll find he takes the basics, the things most of you sitting here have come aware of as you've gone through the Scriptures from cover to cover again and again, and I hope you've done that.

The Holy Spirit Gives Life to Scripture

And you will become conscious of the things Torrey would speak of and these other books would speak of, of the work of the Holy Spirit. It's God, the Holy Spirit's work to take this book and to make it alive.

It's dead. It's dead without the Holy Spirit. The letter killeth. That's a strong word, but the Spirit giveth life. This book in the hands of an unsaved man kills what God could do. This book in the hands of a man who has no revelation, by God the Holy Ghost of what he's reading, well, all it does is destroy.

It's very seldom in the history of the church that an unsaved man holding the Word of God ever did anything for God. But the moment a man is born of God and anointed by God and given the right to preach, ordained by God, this book becomes a throbbing life to souls.

The letter kills. The letter kills to people who are not even saved. It's just a dead book in many aspects, but the moment they're saved and the Holy Spirit's in them, the natural man can't receive the things of God, but the spiritual man, the moment he's saved and the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, Christ in you is the hope of glory.

That man suddenly, this book grips and every word is alive. Suddenly he weeps across the pages, whereas before he was saved, he was dead. Dead. The letter killeth. It can do nothing without the Holy Spirit, but the Spirit giveth life, and it's God's book that God the Holy Ghost uses to give eternal life.

Faith, Revelation, and Salvation

Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. The faith by which you are saved, by grace you are saved through faith, not of yourselves. That faith is the result of the Holy Spirit giving revelation to your heart in your darkness, in the unsaved state you are, and so faith is worked by the Holy Ghost by giving life to this book.

And then when we are saved, it's the Holy Spirit's work to bear witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God.

Assurance of Eternal Life

You know you've passed from death unto life. We know we're saved. He that believeth in the Son of God hath a witness in himself, God says. He that believeth not, God hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son, and this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life.

And this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that is not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.

And that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God. You must know that you have eternal life, otherwise you don't have eternal life. You must know you've passed from death unto life, or you haven't passed from death unto life.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. He that believeth in the Son of God hath the witness in himself. And so that is the Holy Spirit's work. We could go on and on.

The Holy Spirit Teaches Believers to Pray

He teaches us how to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit, God the Holy Ghost, teaches us to pray as we ought to pray, with groanings that cannot be uttered. That's not speaking about tongues.

Groanings that cannot be uttered, sir, when the Holy Spirit's in you. The grief you have you never had before for the lost or for the saved. It's His grief. It's His groan. It's His hurt that puts you to your knees.

And you pray for things that you wouldn't pray unless the Holy Ghost was there. It's His burden. It's His people that He longs to be revived and not to compromise with the world. And the grief you feel when you see the church compromising with the world is God's grief.

And you pray, for God teaches you to pray as He shares His burden. He teaches us to pray as we ought to pray, with groanings. If you and I can't work up, you don't work up a burden. Any Christianity that works themself up, you don't work up a burden.