The Holy Spirit Is Here

“Peter replied, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).

The Holy Spirit has come down to put the soul now, into the enjoyment of its heavenly relationships, with the Father, and the Son, and to lead it into abiding communion with the Father and the Son. That is Christianity.

But, alas, Christendom has forgotten that the Holy Spirit is here. That is why you so frequently hear the prayer that the Spirit of God might be poured out. If ever you hear it again, you would do the petitioner a true service, by asking him if he ever read the second of Acts. The Holy Ghost has come. The Spirit of God is here.

What would the Lord have thought, when on earth, if one day while He, and His twelve disciples were passing along, one of them had turned, and prayed to God fervently, that He would send His Son? I think one of the eleven would have turned on him, and said, “What are you talking about? He is already here.”

Similarly, what inconsistency is it to pray for the Holy Ghost to be poured out! Ah! you say, “I thought He was only an influence.” know it. But I want you to see that He is a Divine Person come here, and abiding here, in the name of Christ - here to act for Christ, and here to put the soul in the enjoyment of communion with the Father and the Son.

We should not pray, “Send power down!” There is no need. The Holy Spirit is with us already. I realize that He is here. We need not pray that He should come. In the second chapter of Acts you will find that He has already been sent. We have an accurate account that He came. (Evan Roberts).

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