Holy Spirit

Lecture V: The Sciences As Sources Of Illustration.

… The Scriptures do not make the truth; but they reveal it in a way in which our poor, feeble intellect, when enlightened by the Holy Spirit, is able …

The Memorable Hymn

… Perhaps no one hymn will quite meet the sentiments of all; and while we would not write a hymn for you, we would pray the Holy Spirit to …

Psalm 20

Psalm 20

… As the anointing with the Holy Spirit signifies the gifts and aids of the Holy Spirit, it terminates upon his human nature only, and not his divine person …

The Fear of Final Falling

… Oh, that God, the Holy Spirit, may give us a very clear idea of where the strength must come from by which we shall be preserved until the …

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… May the Holy Spirit graciously rest upon us now ! I will read my text to you from the Gospel according to Matthew, the twenty-eighth chapter, and the …

Just and the Justifier

… When I was under the hand of the Holy Spirit, under conviction of sin, I had a clear and sharp sense of the justice of God. Sin, whatever …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… We must follow the one or the other; the Book of Life, or the way of death; the word of the Holy Spirit, or the suggestion of the …

Enquirers and Converts

… This "Satan" came, on the Lord's-day morning when the text was upon soul-murder; and, by the Holy Spirit's gracious application of the Word to …

Our Expectation

Isaiah 53:10

… Christian life needs to daily have the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Church must perpetually receive fresh light and life from above, or else it would die …

Daniel's Undaunted Courage

Daniel 6:10

… Because the Holy Spirit had inwrought into Daniel's' spirit the principles of faith, he was sustained in the time of trial. But I doubt not that Daniel …

Heaven

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

… He might have said, as he looked forward to the future, God having touched his eye with the anointing eye-salve of the Holy Spirit, “Eye hath not …

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… Besides, your contrition of heart is the work of the Holy Spirit and where the Holy Spirit is at work, there God the Father loves to be! Don …

Goodness Going Before

Psalm 21:3

… His Holy Spirit often comes to make ready your heart to receive Him so that when He comes you may be ready to open the door because He …

Repentance Must Go With Forgiveness

… It is not the Holy Spirit who repents. He has never done anything for which He should repent. If He could repent, it would not meet the case …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… Ah! and if ye in your prime, in the days of your youth, have been enabled by the Holy Spirit to consecrate yourselves to God, you will, when …

Unknown Depths and Heights

Luke 23:34

… If we ever had, before our eyes, God's hatred of sin and this were revealed to our heart by the Holy Spirit, we would long to be …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878

… Spurgeon continued:—”We must confess that, just now, we have not the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that we could wish. Many are being converted; I hope that …

Elijah’s Appeal to the Undecided

1 Kings 18:21

… May God grant you his Holy Spirit that you may turn unto him and be saved!

A Serious Reprimand

2 Kings 5:13

… O my dear Hearers, may the Holy Spirit constrain you, now, to trust in Jesus! I think I never see the depravity of man's heart so clearly …

Consulting With Jesus

1 Kings 10:1-3

… The Holy Spirit regenerates a man, causes him to be born-again, so that, though his bodily frame remains the same, yet his inner spirit becomes like that …

A Willing People and an Immutable Leader

Psalm 110:3

… As Timothy upheld the Lord’s word, so may Timothys now, and the same Holy Spirit shall attend it. I am afraid Christ’s people do not believe …

The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Hebrews 13:20

… The Holy Spirit also, as one of the high contracting parties on this side of the covenant, gave his declaration, “I hereby covenant,” saith he, “that all whom …

“A New Departure”

… Brethren, what if the Lord should depart from us? Alas for us, and for our work! Nothing can be done if the Holy Spirit be withdrawn; indeed, nothing …

Trust In God—True Wisdom

Proverbs 16:20

… One must come to depend upon the Eternal One, because the Eternal One has enabled him to use this Christian Grace which is the fruit of the Holy …

The New Wine of the Kingdom

Matthew 26:29

… That is, when the mind lies still and God the Holy Spirit writes His will upon it, He also writes God's will. Hence such prayers are sure …

Believing With The Heart

Romans 10:10

… Beloved, you know very well that the first work of God, the Holy Spirit, in man, is not to teach him doctrines, but to make him feel a …

How May Faith Be Illustrated?

… Though the Holy Spirit alone can make my reader see, it is my duty and my joy to furnish all the light I can, and to pray the …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… May the Holy Spirit bend your thoughts downward to the tomb. May he guide you to the grave, that you may there see the end of all earthly …

The Father's Will

John 6:39

… The Holy Spirit comes into them and quickens them. Whereas they were up to then dead in trespasses and sins, the Holy Spirit makes them alive unto God …

Good Talk

1 Chronicles 16:9

… Yes, and living as we do in the Presence of God, professing to have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us and to have been lifted up from the …

Their Desired Haven

Psalm 107:30

… you to know that you are!— "The sinner is a sacred thing, The Holy Spirit has made him so." That is, a really awakened sinner, for his ship …

Prompt Obedience

Psalm 18:44

… May the Holy Spirit make it very clear to you that there is no necessity for you to wait a long while before the blessing of salvation may …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

… Heaven-taught man declared the Gospel of Jesus with the power of the Holy Spirit! That they were illiterate, I am quite sure, for on looking over the …

The Great Assize

2Corinthians 5:10

… It is asserted over and over again by the Holy Spirit, whose Word is truth, that THERE WILL BE A JUDGMENT OF THE QUICK AND OF THE DEAD …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… I am sure that God the Holy Spirit spoke to some of us. If we never heard Him before, we certainly did then feel the power of His …

Our Youth Renewed

Psalm 103:5

… When we feel once more the Holy Spirit bedewing us and our heart gets to be like Gideon's fleece and we are saturated, then, like the eagle …

The New Heart

Ezekiel 36:26

… be the subject of a new creation through the power of God’s Holy Spirit. Behold this and wonder! What is man compared with an angel? Is he …

The Seven Sneezes

2 Kings 4:35

… The Holy Spirit works by those who feel that they would lay down their own lives for the good of others and would impart to them not only …

The Saints' Riches

Romans 8:32

… But the Holy Spirit can articulate these unuttered groans and the deepest needs of our soul can thus be brought before God by His own Spirit. You, then …

'A Kind of First Fruits'

James 1:18

… It must be the display of the eternal power of the Holy Spirit, or where God, is you cannot go. Happy should you be, my Brothers and Sisters …