He Breathed on Them — J. Sidlow Baxter

Jesus Breathes the Holy Spirit on the Disciples

Now may I invite you to turn with me to the gospel according to John To the 20th chapter In which I want to read the paragraph running from verse 19 down to verse 23. The gospel according to John the 20th chapter and the paragraph beginning at verse 19.

Well here it is. Then the same day at evening Being the first day of the week When the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews Jesus came and stood in the midst and Set unto them peace be unto you.

And When he had so said he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad When they saw the Lord. Then Jesus said to them again peace be unto you as The father hath sent me. Even so am I sending you.

And when he had said this He breathed on them. He breathed On them he breathed on them and said unto them receive ye the holy breath the new man. The spirit. Whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted to them.

Whosoever sins ye retain They are retained. Now beloved fellow believers I want to draw your concentrated attention to that 22nd verse and When he had said this He breathed on them and said to them Receive ye the Holy Spirit.

One of the first lessons that we learned in the sermon class Those of us who went to seminary to prepare for the Christian ministry was That a preacher must always stick to his text and Always interpret his text in the light of its context That was delivered to us as one of the first laws of hermeneutics Exegesis and homiletics stick to your text and interpret it by the context.

Having stated the law I now proceed to break it. Because as a matter of fact Having read this paragraph and having called particular attention to this 22nd verse I want now To make an excursion away back into the Old Testament.

Indeed I may seem to stay away from our text so long That before we return to it some of you may begin to suspect that I have quite forgotten it. So Preliminarily, let me tell you that however far I may seem to wander from my subject Not for an hair's breadth.

Shall I wander from my object? Which is that you and I? That all of us now gathered here may know In deep experience What this wonderful breathing of the Holy Spirit upon us is. And now for my excursion Can I transplant your minds for a little while to the old?

The Seven Articles of Furniture in the Israelite Tabernacle

Israelite tabernacle in the wilderness. Those of you who were in our meeting on Saturday evening will remember that I was pointing out the threefold nature of that old Israelite tabernacle consisting as it did of one the outer court and to the holy place and three the holy of holies.

Well now tonight I Want to call attention to the furniture of that remarkable tabernacle. I Wonder could you tell me right off how many articles of furniture there were? Distributed through the three parts of that tabernacle.

Well, there were seven two of them in the outer court. Another three of them in the holy place and the remaining two beyond the sacred veil in the holiest of all. And These were they? First of all entering the outer court We find ourselves confronted by a solid square Altar of brass.

It was commonly known as the brazen altar of sacrifice. That was article number one. A little further in but still in the outer court was article number two. Another article of solid brass this time however not an altar But a wash basin.

It was placed there For The use of the priests as they ministered at the brazen altar of sacrifice and that wash basin of brass was called the brazen labor of cleansing that was article number two. And Now passing through the door into the holy place we find article number three on the northerly side that is on our right hand and It is a table on which there were food offerings or oblations and drink offerings or libations.

And That table with its food and drink offerings Continually upon it was known as the table of the showbred that was article number three and now article number four Opposite to the table of the showbred.

But on the southerly side that is on our left hand as we go into the holy place article number four is a beautifully wrought solid gold seven fold candlestand the seven flames from which Continually illuminated the interior of that sanctuary.

The seven forked golden candelabrum that was article number four and Now still in the holy place and right in front of us comes article number five. It's another altar. But this time not an altar of brass.

No an altar of gold and this time not an altar of sacrifice. No an altar of incense. For upon that golden altar of incense There were the golden bowls Containing the choicest confections of the apothecary's art.

From which there continually ascended the most delicious perfumes Giving the interior of the holy place a delicious fragrance. Well, that was article number five the golden altar of Incense and now reverently parting the sacred veil and passing into the third and final compartment of that tabernacle the holy of holies.

We find immediately in front of us article number six. It is a box or chest Or as it was called an ark it was made of acacia wood and Then it was covered over both exterior really and interior really with purest gold.

Inside that gold-covered acacia ark the ark of the covenant There were deposited the basic articles of the theocratic covenant between Jehovah and his redeemed people Israel. That was article number six the ark of the covenant really article number seven on the top of that gold-covered ark Was a beautifully wrought solid gold throne Guarded on each side by two exquisitely wrought golden cherubim and The outstretched wings of the two heavenly cherubs met in the dead center above that golden throne.

Now that golden throne would have become a seat of judgment If God had come down into that camp Among those sinners. For although they were redeemed there were still sinful human beings. And God is a consuming fire The blaze of which burns up the unholy.

But once every year on The tenth day of the sacred seventh month The high priest of Israel used to take blood from that brazen altar of sacrifice out yonder in the outer court and Passing through the door into the holy place and then through the veil into the holiest of all.

Seven times he reverently Sprinkled the blood of atonement upon that cherub guarded throne of gold and the sprinkling of that blood upon that throne transformed a judgment seat into the mercy seat. So wonderfully so that God said to Moses there.

I will meet with thee Above the mercy seat. Well, now those were the three parts of the old Israelite tabernacle outer court Holy place and holy of holies. And they were the seven articles of furniture Distributed at intervals through those three parts of that tabernacle.

One the brazen altar of Sacrifice to the brazen labor of cleansing. Three the table of the showbread for the seven-four candle stand and five the golden altar of incense and six the Ark of the Covenant and seven the blood-sprinkled cherub guarded mercy seat now as with every other component part of That wonderful tabernacle.

So with these seven articles of its furniture There is in all of them Both a symbolic and a typical content. May I take it that all of us know the difference precisely between a symbol and a type. Well, of course a symbol is something outward representing something inward something physical representing something spiritual something visible representing something invisible.

Now a type is also symbolic. But besides being a present symbol it also has a futuristic meaning. And these seven articles of furniture in the old Israelite tabernacle were both symbolic then and there and prophetic.

The Symbolic Meaning of the Tabernacle Furniture

For here and now very quickly these were their symbolic meanings. One that brazen altar of sacrifice symbolized Reconciliation between a holy God and sinful man through propitiatory sacrifice the brazen labor of cleansing symbolized inward moral and spiritual Cleansing of the believer.

Article number three the table of the showbread it symbolized heavenly sustenance for earthly pilgrimage. Article number four the sevenfold candlestick symbolized heavenly light for earthly walk and article number five the golden altar of incense Symbolized prayer which has now become acceptable to God in virtue of the shed blood on that brazen altar.

Article number six the ark of the covenant perhaps the most comprehensive Old Testament type of our Lord Jesus the ark of the covenant symbolized the theocratic relationship between Jehovah and his redeemed people Israel.

While finally article number seven the cherub guarded blood-sprinkled mercy seat symbolized access to God. By reason of the shed blood on the altar and in virtue of the covenant between God and his people.

The Tabernacle Fulfilled in Christ

Well, that was the symbolic meaning of those seven articles of furniture now as to their typical meaning. Article number one the brazen altar of sacrifice pointed through the intervening centuries To one of whom it was said behold the Lamb of God That beareth away the sin of the world.

As for article number two the brazen labor of cleansing it pointed on to the days of the New Testament and To the new birth of the Holy Spirit to which our incarnate Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God referred when he said except a man be born of water.

And of that which the water represents and of the spirit He cannot enter the kingdom of God. Article number three the table of the showbread with its oblations and libations. Why of course that typically anticipated our Lord Jesus as? the living bread and the giver of the living water.

Who said he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Article number four the seven thonged golden candle the candle stand Shun its radiant beams through the intervening centuries until they alighted upon one who said I am the light of This world.

Article number five the golden altar of incense shed its fragrant perfumes down the avenue of the centuries to a little room in quiet Bethany where Jesus began to teach his disciples a new kind of prayer a Kind of prayer that had never been prayed before from the foundation of the earth.

Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name, but now ask and Receive that your joy may be full for even the prayers of us poor sinners Become like fragrance in the nostrils of heaven when we perfume them with the name.

Article number six the Ark of the Covenant typified the Lord Jesus Christ as The Ark of the New Covenant. The New Covenant sealed with the crimson of his own outpoured blood on Calvary and article number seven the cherub-guarded blood-stained mercy seat.

It typified long centuries in advance the Christian doctrine of Access to God by a new and a living way. A new way because it's the way of Calvary and a living way because it is continuous access to God through a living Savior who conquered death and rose and lives and never dies again.

Those were the three parts of that tabernacle and those were the seven articles of its furniture. Those were the symbolic meanings and the typical contents of those seven pieces of Furniture. Oh. But I mustn't forget this.

For this is most important of all. Are you listening? There Was something else in that tabernacle besides those seven articles of furniture and their appurtenances. I Cannot describe it as a further article of furniture.

But it was so closely Associated with the furniture of the tabernacle that if it had not been there Those seven articles of furniture would have been meaningless. They would have been like a river losing itself in the sand they would have lost their wonderful destination.

You see all those seven articles of furniture right from the brazen altar of sacrifice to that blood-sprinkled mercy seat. They all led to something else beyond the sacred veil. Between the two exquisite cherubs and above that blood-sealed mercy seat there was an opalescent glow a Supernatural flame a Continually revolving flashing Supernal fire, I don't know how else to describe it.

It was an unearthly light. The Hebrew name for it was the Shekinah, which means God is in it and There it glowed and shone and flashed and flamed In the Holy of Holies and all those seven articles of furniture Led to that Shekinah.

John's Gospel Follows the Tabernacle Pattern

Now, let me glance at my watch. How long have I been away from my text? Oh Not too long. However, perhaps some of you are becoming so interested in that tabernacle. You may be thinking I have forgotten my originating text.

No, no, I Propose that now with with with all that we have just been seeing with all that in mind We'll come back now to our text. May I remind you that it comes in the 20th chapter of the gospel according to John and along with that?

Please pardon my naughtiness. May I remind you that the gospel according to John doesn't begin there. It begins at chapter 1. Now when you open that immortal fourth gospel What do you find? Why of course in what we call chapter 1 the first 18 verses are a wonderful ritornello or Anticipative prologue or preface the narrative proper begins at verse 19 and At verse 19, where do we find ourselves?

Oh We're in the wilderness of Judea now here is a quite remarkable fact beginning from that first chapter and Going on right to the end of his narrative the Apostle John Unmistakably follows the contour of those seven articles of furniture in the tabernacle.

I Don't think I dare to say that John purposely intended that it should be so. Indeed, I rather suspect That John had little or no idea of it when he wrote these immortal passages of his. But as a matter of fact so it is.

These Chapters of John's narrative. They just follow the course of those seven articles of furniture right to the Shekinah. I wonder if any of you Has ever happened to notice that? Well, if not, let me point it out now and once you've seen it You'll not only marvel at it with very pleasant marveling.

You'll never forget it again. Now as I was saying the narrative proper begins at verse 19. And there we are in the wilderness of Judea and the wonderful thing has happened after an historical gap Of approximately 400 years in which there has been no living voice of prophecy and When the scholars of the Israel nation have had to concentrate upon the written oracles of their scriptures suddenly after that long break a new prophet appears a shaggy hair gleaming eyes looking John the Baptizer.

And he begins to move up and down the winding course of the ancient River Jordan and to cry With a voice that sounded like thunder from the caves of the mountains. I Tell you men and women of Israel The hour has struck The Messiah is about to appear Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

I tell you The Messiah is coming there stands one among you whom you know not Who coming after me is preferred before me for he was before me and he shall immerse you in the Holy Ghost and fire. You can imagine water water thrill Run through the nation like an electric shock, but that announcement Thousands the people of Judah went out to this sign.

Oh sure profit and One day while John is haranguing the gathered multitude Suddenly into those piercing eyes of his there comes a new look of intensity and in those resounding syllables There comes a new intensity and Lifting up his index finger and pointing to one in that vast company.

He cries behold The Lamb of God That fared of the way the sin of the world. And in their thousands all those heads are turned and they find themselves looking at the noble lovely face of Jesus Jesus of Nazareth.

That's in verse 29 but again in verse 35 for emphasis we find again the next day John seeth Jesus as he walked and Cried and said concerning him behold the Lamb of God. Don't you see John has started at the first of those seven tabernacle articles.

He has started at the brazen altar of sacrifice the Lamb and No sooner has the Lamb being designated. Then you find yourself in the third chapter of John the most famous chapter in all the Bible the God so loved Chapter the ye must be born again Chapter and There on the rooftop at quiet little Bethany during that nocturnal interview between the prophet of Nazareth and One of the top leaders of the Jewish religious parliament the Sanhedrin Nicodemus by name you find yourself at the brazen labor of cleansing and Jesus is saying to Nicodemus that very educated teacher of old-time Israel sir.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. It never can become spirit only that which is born of the spirit is spirit. You mustn't marvel that I say to you ye must be born. I know then born from above Except A man be born of water.

Nicodemus I know that you and many of your fellow Pharisees You've been to John's baptism. You've been down into the river. But Nicodemus you need to know the spiritual reality behind the behind the outward symbol.

Except a man be born of water and of the spirit He cannot see the kingdom of God. John has moved now to the second of those articles the brazen labor of cleansing inward regeneration Spiritual renewal by the Holy Spirit and then you move on quickly to chapters 4 and 5 and 6 and John now brings you to the table of the showbread with its drink offerings and its food.

Offerings. In chapter 4 you're traveling with Jesus up from Judea to Galilee. And you have to go with him through Samaria, and you find yourself trekking with the master amid the heat of the day with a blistering Sun and Jesus being wearied with his journey.

Bless his dear name how human he was as well as incarnately divine. Jesus being wearied with his journey sat down by the well and There comes that unchaste woman of Samaria to draw water to whom Jesus speaks and with Gentlemanly courtesy Says Madam would you mind giving me a drink of that water?

And she being inexpressibly astonished Says to him in reply Think of it you were Jew Asking a drink of me who I'm a Samaritan. Because of course do I need even to mention it the Jews and the Samaritans were head over heels in love.

I don't think to the Jews the Samaritans were dogs and To the Samaritans the Jews were pets and so she Utters her amazement that he should ask a drink of her. Whereupon she receives this sublime rejoinder.

Oh Madam If thou knewest who it is that ask ask of the a drink. Thou Wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water. He that drinketh of the water of this well shall thirst again.

But whoso drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall become within him a well of water springing up into the life of the ages. Oh Sir said she in greater astonishment than ever.

Oh, sir Give me this water. And on the heels of that you're in that wonderful sixth chapter where we have one of the greatest public discourses of Jesus on record that great discourse in which he declares himself to the astonished members of his race as The bread which has come down from heaven and he says your fathers in the wilderness they did eat a miracle diet.

Manna sent specially from God, but even the manna couldn't keep them alive. They all died and their carcasses became bleached on the desert sands. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, but they are dead.

This is the bread of which of a man eat he shall never die. But he shall live to the ages and the bread that I will give is my flesh Which I will give for the life of the world. Like the little laddie gave his five loaves and two little fishes to feed your bodies yesterday.

I've got to be broken. It isn't a king. You're needing first of all, you're needing a savior. It isn't a new set of rules you're needing new life and I'm the living bread and who so believeth on me Shall live forever.

They'd never heard anything like that before. Don't you see? John has now brought us to article number three The living bread and the living water are you following and John continues writing and soon now he brings us to chapters eight and nine and In that eighth chapter we find Jesus confronting his countrymen and saying I Am the light of this world.

He that followeth me Shall not walk in the darkness But shall have the light of life. And again by repetition and emphasis in chapter nine He says again. I am the light of the world and to show how really he is the light of the world.

He goes to that bedraggled beggar sitting by the dusty roadside the man born blind the man whose eyes had never seen one ray of light and Jesus touches those eyes and those blind eyes see. And the man goes round saying well, I can't explain it, but I know that Jesus did it and I know this.

Whereas I was blind now I see John has now brought us to article number four the seven forked candelabrum Jesus the light of the world. And at the end of that part of the narrative our Lord concludes his public ministry and Quietly withdraws to little Bethany across the valley and up the hill and There he gathers round him the inner circle of his disciple.

Christ’s New Covenant, New Prayer, and Access to God

He begins to tell them that soon now he must leave them at least Corporeally and visibly. He tells them that he must leave them in order to return to the father but to comfort Their desponding hearts he says But I'm going to pray the father and he shall give you another paraclete another comforter That he may abide with you forever Unlike myself who now visibly at any rate must leave you.

He shall not only be with you as I have been. He shall be both with you and within you and When he comes to you, I shall be coming to you invisibly in him. I can only be with you locally While I'm in this body, but I'm going to come back and be with you omnipresently simultaneously everywhere in each of you and in all of you and.

And coupled with that he began to expound to them that new Wonderful way of prayer. He began to say You're going to pray a new kind of prayer a kind of prayer that men have never prayed before. Men have always wondered what God is like.

But now you will see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And you're going to pray to the father in my name and whatsoever. He shall ask in my name. That will he give you that the father may be glorified in the son.

Have you ever studied the component parts of our Lord's? Teaching as to this new kind of prayer I haven't time to to branch aside and point out the different parts of it. But in this new doctrine of prayer, there are seven Remarkable features all of which you find in those later chapters of John prayer in the name.

John has now brought us to article number five the golden altar of incense. For as I said earlier even the prayers of us poor sinners now that we are washed in the blood of Jesus and Born by the heavenly spirit into new spiritual life even our prayers they become like fragrant incense to the heavenly father when we perfume our prayers with the precious name and Then John brings us to article number six the new ark The new covenant and Jesus tells us His blood is the blood of the new covenant, which he shed for many for the remission of sins.

And finally John brings us To the new mercy seat. He has a standing on Golgotha before that cross and We see the expiring Savior pinioned there as our sinless stainless glorious sin-bearing substitute and At last we hear him say it is finished Father into thy hands I commit my spirit and across the road yonder Beyond the Damascus Gate in the holy place in the great Herodian temple.

There's a tearing sound and the great costly veil That divided off the holiest of all from public gaze. That veil was rent from top to bottom not from bottom to top by a human hand. But from top to bottom by a hand from heaven and not from the top halfway down.

But from the top to the bottom and there was free access to the holy of holies. There are certain sacerdotalists today who are trying to sew that veil together again and Trying to tell us we can only approach God by sacraments and priests.

No. When Jesus said it is finished and Completed his Calvary work that veil was once for all Torn from top to bottom and now we have access to God at all times by a new and a living way the way of the cross and the way of the living Savior.

Excuse me dear friends. Hallelujah, oh Wait, there's something else has John forgotten that to which all these articles of furniture led. The Shekinah, oh no. No, he hasn't and now can you believe it?

The Risen Christ Breathes the Spirit

We really are back at our text again. John chapter 20 verse 19 again, please. Let your eyes look carefully on these verses once again. Verse 19 then the same day at evening Being the first day of the week When the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews.

My dear wife and I were in little Palestine not long ago. We stayed in a very nice house not far from the temple site and And you know when you've been out there and traveled a bit up and down the Holy Land many of the scenes which are recorded in the four Gospels Take on a new and living vividness.

You can picture them more easily and more accurately. And I can see these men in that Carefully barred room. Probably an upper room. When we were there, we stayed in an upper room. That is one story up how long that building had been up.

I wouldn't care to estimate. It was a very old building. There were no carpets on the floor there was no linoleum to be seen anywhere. Even in the room upstairs where we lived. There was a flagged floor and my word weren't those flags clean and Highly polished and shiny.

I Can't help remembering that feature about them because on two occasions I sat down very quickly without meaning to do so. And you know I'm sure it was in a room just like ours that this incident took place.

Now we know that not all the twelve apostles were there but the betrayer Judas had now fallen from the apostolate and The ensuing paragraph tells us that Thomas the twin For some reason was not there but it seems Almost certain that the remaining ten were all there together and I can see that little group of men with pallid cheeks and with furtive looks in their eyes with furrowed brows and nervous agitated movements.

And I think I can hear them speaking one to another in husky staccato whispers. Well now what are we going to do? What are we going to do? Whether the women did see angels at the sepulcher. We can't be sure but one thing is certain the corpse has gone.

The corpse has gone. Where is it? Who's got it? What are we to do? The chief priests will accuse us of having removed it. Where can we go? What about our wives? What are we to do? What has really happened.

And while they're discussing it excitedly suddenly in the center of the room. There's movement. There's something there's something there's someone there. There's someone there and they slink back to the walls in terror.

Yes, there's someone there and. And while they slink back to the wall They hear the wonderful tones and accents of that lovely voice. Jesus stood in the midst and said to them peace be unto you. And they still hugged the wall In utter Astonishment and they look and they listen and as they look Jesus shows them the marks of the iron spikes through his hands and they look as though their eyes would come out and Jesus draws aside his robe and Shows them the fearful gash in his side and They listen to that lovely voice and they see those wounds and it's certain.

Then we saw the Lord and the men who had slunk in terror to the walls. Now they surge around him and they want to hug him and hold him and never let him go. And now Jesus has to speak again. And and and the Savior who had had to say peace be unto you to quell their terror.

Now he has to say again. Peace be to you in order to quell their rapture. So that he can talk to them. Then Jesus said to them again Peace be to you. Listen brethren I've some things to say to you. I know that isn't in black and white, but this is what happened.

You can see it between the lines just as well as I can can't you? Listen, my brethren said Jesus. I've things to say to you. Don't hold me like that. I'm not going to slip away and delude you. Listen to what I have to tell you.

Then Jesus said to them again peace be to you as The father has sent me. Even so now I am sending you. He paused there. Because he who can see our very thoughts He knew just what they were thinking. Mixed up with their inexpressible bliss at seeing him again.

And knowing that he was risen and alive. Was this oh? But Lord, how can you send us? What good can we do if we don't have you with us? Jesus knew they were saying that As the father hath sent me even so am I sending you.

Conversion and the Fullness of the Holy Spirit

And When he had said this He on them and second to them receive ye the Holy Spirit. Friends John has brought us to the Shekinah now try and get the picture. See these ten men and Jesus in the midst Breathing on them don't think it was just one breath in general.

Oh, no no no no. Jesus went to the first man in that little group, and he did this and to the next and to the next right round To the last and immediately thereupon he unlocked the meaning of the symbol.

Receive ye the pneuma the breath The Holy Ghost that I repeat Is the Shekinah now you don't need me to tell you that that symbolic act of our Lord Received its historical implementation 50 days later on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Breath the heavenly pneuma the Divine Spirit With the sound of a rushing mighty wind and appearing in the form of clove and tongues like as a fire suddenly descended upon the apostolic band and those who were with them in In that other room at on the day of Pentecost.

So we were told and they were all filled With the Holy Spirit that was The fulfillment of the symbol of our Lord's breathing upon these ten men. Wait a bit there though. Wait a bit receive ye the Holy Spirit.

But were not these men Already believers in the one true God. Yes, they were. Were they not Sir committed disciples of Jesus and Did they not accept him already as the promised Messiah and Redeemer? Yes.

They were not only believers. They were his disciples. Were these men not already born again? Had not Jesus made them his solemnly appointed apostles and had he not Distributed among them The Holy Spirit so that they were workers of miracles along with himself.

Were not these the men who had come back saying Lord even the demons are subject to us through thy name. Yes, these were the men and had not Jesus only a few hours before said to them now you Have become cleansed Through the word the doctrine that I have spoken to you.

Yes. Those were the men true believers the Lord's disciples his very apostles sharers of his spirit Pronounced his very own Already born again and it is to those men that our Lord now says receive ye the holy breath.

What can it mean. It means this it's one thing to be born again. It's a very different thing to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I Can't help but notice The connection of our Lord's symbolic act it says and when he had said this he breathed on them said this Said what why this as the father hath sent me so am I sending you it has to do especially with service and especially with witness to him.

Now there are millions of Christian believers. They've they've been to the cross. They've heard God speak his word of pardon through the precious blood. They know what it is to have their sins forgiven.

To have peace with God to have guilt blotted out and the promise of heaven, but they've never been to Pentecost. They don't know this deeper richer fuller bladder more wonderful experience of the Holy Spirit.

There's something more than conversion. There's something beyond regeneration. Mr. Chairman and fellow believers. I Wonder how many of us here this evening Really really know in experience this deeper breathing of The spirit.

Does somebody dare to say mr. Preacher you're preaching the second blessing. Yes, I am. I'm not at all concerned whether you call it that or not. I'm the last man on earth. I hope to quibble about a mere term.

Nor am I pressing any particular theory of sanctification. Let's leave all that out. I'm asking you dear brother dear sister, and I want to be affectionately provocative. Do you? Do I? Really know This sanctifying Enduing empowering experience of the Holy Spirit.

A Call to Consecration and Revival

Do you know I believe? That in the evangelical churches today as distinct from the churches that are no longer evangelical. I believe that the deepest need of the Evangelical churches is a new invasion by the Holy Spirit a new experience of inwrought holiness by the Holy Spirit a new experience of endowment with power from on high.