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THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY

clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; a I

give you, and a

new

spirit will I

new

put within you

SPIRIT heart also will

and I will put My statutes and ye save you from all

;

and cause you to walk in My and do them and I will your uncleanness. Not for yourselves will I do this, saith the Lord, Ezek. xi. 19 gives the be it known unto you" (chap, xxxvi. 25). prelude of this prophecy " Thus saith the Lord God, I will give them one heart, and I will give a new Spirit within them and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, that they may walk in My Spirit within you,

shall

keep

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My judgments,

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statutes."

Joel uttered his well-known prophecy

:

"

And

it

shall

come

to

pass afterward that I will pour My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream

dreams, your young

men

shall see visions

;

and also upon thy servI pour out My

ants and upon thy handmaidens in those days will Spirit" (Joel

ii.

30, 31)

;

—a prophecy which, according to the author-

itative exposition of St. Peter, refers directly to the

Zechariah adds a beautiful prophecy

(xii.

10)

:

day of Pentecost. " I will pour out

the Spirit of grace and of supplication." It is

true that these prophecies were given to Israel during its

later period,

when

the vigorous spiritual

life

of the nation

already departed.

But Moses expressed the same thought

prophetic prayer:

"Would God

had

in his

that all the Lord's people were

them " (Num. But these prophecies are evidence of the Old Testament prophetic conviction that the dispensation of the Holy Spirit -in those days was exceedingly imperfect; that the real dispensation of the Holy Spirit was still tarrying; and that only in the days of the Messiah was it to come in all its fulness and glory. Regarding the second difficulty, our Lord repeatedly put the stamp of His divine authority upon this prophetic conviction, announcing to His disciples the still future coming of the Holy Spirit " I will pray the Father and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world can not receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knowetb Him, for He dwelleth with you and shall be in you" (John xiv. 16, 17); "When the Comforter is come whom I will send from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me " (John xv. 26) " Behold, I send the promise of the Father upon you, and ye shall be endued with power from prophets, and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon xi. 29).

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