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48 The Person and Power of the Holy Spirit
do not care simply to have the people become Protestants. We want to
see men come out there, who will stand before the great multitudes of
the Russian people in the power of the Holy Spirit. And one thing
I have found (pardon this personal remark) one thing I have found,
since beginning to yearn for the Holy Spirit. I have found that Chris-
tian men or Christian women who want to have much of the presence
and power of the Holy Spirit must lead very cautious and very pure and
unselfish lives. No selfish man will be used by the Holy Spirit. You
show me any man whom God can use and does use, and whatever may
be said against that man, I say he cannot be selfish, because the Holy
Spirit can never use a selfish person.
"Whom the World Cannot Receive"
And now the last word: "Whom the world cannot receive." Did
you ever think of that? "Whom the world cannot receive," and does
not understand "One standeth in your midst whom you do not know,"
said John the Baptist, about Jesus Christ. "One standeth in your
midst." Let me tell you, people of Chicago, in this very city, and in
New York, and in Philadelphia, and in Los Angeles, and in this country,
One, the Paraclete has come, in this age of salvation, this age of grace.
Did you ever think of the tremendous weight of those words? "Whom
the world cannot receive."
You allow the world to come in and take any place in your heart,
you allow theatres, movies, card-playing, love of money and self to
come in, and you will see that those very things will keep away the
Holy Spirit from your heart. "Whom the world cannot receive." This
has tremendous weight, it is a truth of greatest importance. Do I want
the Holy Spirit? If that is what I want, then I must also know that
I cannot have the things of the world, the systems of the world, the
ideas of the world, the desires of the world. They must all go out of
me, because if not, He will be kept out. And my prayer to God at this
moment is that during this conference we may experience two things:
first, a great cleansing from the world, a great purification from things
which are of the world, and then, that there shall be such an infilling of
the Spirit that we, as a missionary committee for Russia, may stand
up before this country and before the world in the power of the Holy
Spirit, which is the one great recommendation, and say, "Christ, the
Son of God, has sent us." Each missionary ought to be able to say,
"Christ has sent me to that land." Let this be the ordination of every
young man who would be sent to Russia as a missionary of the Cross
of Christ.
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