The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 165

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ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS Holy Ghost not many days hence"';

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promise that undoubtedly

referred to the Pentecost miracle.

This agrees with the fact that Jesus during His ministry allowed His disciples to continue the

Baptism of John. And this shows that even before the crucifixion, John and Peter, Philip and Zaccheus, and many others received saving grace of the Holy Spirit, each for himself, but none of them was baptized with the Holy Spirit before the day of Pentecost.

With reference

Holy

First, that of saving

mination

— Matt.

Secondly,

John XX.

we must

to the apostles,

threefold giving of the

therefore distinguish a

Spirit

grace in regeneration and subsequent

illu-

xvi. 17.

official

gifts qualifying

them

for the apostolic office

22.

—Acts

Thirdly, the Baptism with the Holy Ghost tion with Acts

One more

ii.

We

difficulty remains.

In Acts

x.

44,

spake these words, the Holy Ghost

And they of the as many as came

5

in connec-

often read of outpourings of

How

the Holy Spirit after Pentecost.

our explanation?

i.

iff.

45 fell

can this be reconciled with

we on

read: "While Peter yet all

who heard

the word.

circumcision which believed were astonished,

with Peter, because on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost." And Peter confirms this by saying " Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?" :

From

this it is evident that the

was

outpouring on the house of Cor-

same nature as that on Pentecost. Moreover, we hear of a descent of the Holy Ghost in Samaria (Acts viii.), and of another in Ephesus (Acts xix. 6). This descent took place in both instances after the laying on of hands by the apostles; and at Cassarea and Corinth it was followed by a speaking with foreign nelius

of the

tongues as in Jerusalem. It is evident, therefore, that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was not limited to Pentecost in Jerusalem, but was afterward repeated in a weaker and modified form, but still extraordinarily, as

on Pentecost.

And who would deny eration,

there

is

is an outpouring of the Holy Without it there can be no regen-

that there

Spirit to-day in the churches?

no salvation. Yet the Pentecost signs are lacking, e.g., no more speaking with tongues. Hence it is necessary to

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