Preached at Springfield Assembly of God in 1922
You have no licence to continue beyond a, “Thus sayeth the Lord.”
There is another side to this
God would have the assembly as free as possible, and you must not put your hand upon the working of the Spirit, or it will surely bring trouble.
You must be prepared to allow a certain amount of extravagance in young, and newly baptized souls.
You must remember that when you were brought into this life of the Spirit, you had as many extravagances as anybody, but you have now become somewhat sobered down.
It is a pity that some do get sobered down, for they are not where they were in the early days.
We have to look to God for wisdom that we do not quench the power of God when He is manifested in our meetings.
If you want to have an assembly full of life, you must have an assembly full of manifestation.
Nobody will come if there is no manifestation
We need to look to God for special grace that we do not move back to looking at things from a natural viewpoint.
The preacher, after he loses his unction should get right with God, and get the unction back. [anointing. Ed.]
We are no good without the unction of the Spirit of God.
The Greatest of These is Charity
If you are filled with the Grace of God you will not be judging everybody in the assembly, you will rather be trusting everybody, you will not be frightened at what is being done, you will have a heart to believe all things, and to believe that though there may be some extravagances, the Spirit of God will take control of things, and will see that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is exalted, glorified, and revealed to hungry hearts that desire to know Him.
The Lord would have us wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil, free from distrust, entering into a divine likeness to Jesus, that dares believe that God Almighty will surely watch over all. Halleluia!
The Holy Ghost is the One who magnifies the Lord Jesus Christ, the One who gives illumination of Him.
Let Him Loose!
If you are filled with the Holy Ghost, it is impossible to keep your tongue still.
Talk about a dumb baptized soul! It is not to be found in the Scriptures, or outside the Scriptures.
We are filled with the Spirit in order that we magnify the Lord, and there should be no meeting in which the saints do not glorify, magnify, praise, and worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth.
Keep your Body Subject
I would like to give one word of caution, for failure often comes through our not recognizing the fact that we are always in the body.
We will need our bodies as long as we live. But our body is to be used, and controlled, by the Spirit of God. [1]
We are to present our bodies, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service.
Every member of our body must be so sanctified that it works in harmony with the Spirit of God.
Our very eyes must be sanctified.
God hates the winking of the eye.
From the day that I read in the Proverbs, what God had to say about the winking of the eye (Prov. 6:13 and 10:10) I have never winked.
I desire that my eyes may be so sanctified that they can always be used for the Lord.
The Spirit of God will bring us a compassion for souls that will be seen in our very eyes.
God has never changed the order of things that, first, there comes the natural, and then the spiritual.
For instance, when it is on your heart to pray, you begin in the natural, and your second word will probably be under the power of the Spirit.
You begin: And God will end
It is the same in giving forth utterances under the Spirit’s power.
You feel the moving of the Spirit within, and you begin to speak, and the Spirit of God will give forth utterance.
Thousands have missed wonderful blessings because they have not had faith to move out and begin in the natural, in faith that the Lord would take them into the realm of the supernatural.
[1] 1 Cor. 9:27 KJV; But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
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Preached at Springfield Assembly of God in 1922
© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
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