© 19 Colin Melbourne
Smith Wigglesworth at the Union Pentecostal Meeting, Nov. 2, 1922.
The Spirit of God Is No Mixture
This morning I believe the Lord will impress us with the necessity of understanding the gifts of the Spirit, why and when, and where, we should manifest them.
I have been trying to impress upon you the importance of being filled with the Holy Ghost, but I do not want you to think that you can understand, or use, gifts apart from the Giver.
I know that the Holy Ghost has nine gifts to minister [1 Co. Ch.12 Ed.], and I know that Jesus has gifts [Eph. 4:7-13 KJV Ed.], and you will never find that the gifts of the Holy Ghost and the gifts of Jesus clash.
They are perfectly in order.
Gifts For The Rebellious
In the fourth chapter of Ephesians, we read that Jesus went up on high, and received gifts for men, and the most remarkable of all is that He received gifts for the rebellious.
[Ed. As prophesied in Ps. 68:18-19 KJV;
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.]
Paul knew that, because God had been ministering to him gifts, and yet he was the most rebellious of all.
When you look at that calling, and see the remarkableness of his life, and see how he persecuted the church, and then in his examination of his own personality, his weakness, he calls himself the chief of sinners. And in that revelation, realizing how God had been gracious to him, he writes here, even the rebellious also. 1 Ti 1:15-16 KJV;
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
So all the people in this place, without exception, are eligible for the gifts.
His Fruit: Not Yours
It is not what you were or are, it is what God will do for you, and you must see that by the power of God all things are possible.
He wants every person in this place to know that He is not, and never will be, pleased with a Fig tree that bears nothing but leaves.
Jesus was disappointed in it. [Mk. Ch.11 Ed.]
God Can: You Can’t
Never think that gifts can ever be of any source whatever, only on the lines they have to be exercised, wrought out by the power of God.
You must never allow yourself to be led into any trap to use the gift. [ie. The person decides to, instead of the Holy Ghost prompting under the anointing.] If you do, you will surely have trouble in your life.
Have WE not Prophesied in Thy Name?
You must understand that all the gifts are to be made manifest for the glory of Jesus.
Everything that you have come heir to, since you came into the fact of salvation, everything from that day, without exception, has been, and must continue to be, for the glory of God.
If it is not, you will find yourself amongst the wood, and the hay, and the stubble. 1 Co. 3:11-13 KJV;
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
There is nothing going to be of any importance to your life, or any other lives, only that which is gold, and silver, and precious stones: Something that cannot be destroyed by fire.
Not of This World
And so God would have us this morning to have an inward revelation that we have been delivered from the corruption of the world, so that the powers of Christ may rest upon us, that the glory of God may be seen, and that we may be inwardly, and outwardly, always bearing about in our body, the dying of the Lord, that the life of the Lord should be always eminently manifested to the glory of God.
Tongues Message and Interpretation:
The Lord of Glory came from the heights thereof to dispense of His Graces in the world, in the church; to establish, and bring forth a ministry of power that should permeate the Earth, and bring to nought, the things that are.
One of the reasons why Jesus came was to make in the world, new orders in the Spirit.
Your Calling
We must, this morning, see our vocation in the Spirit.
We must, under all circumstances, understand that God has something far in excess of that day when we first saw the light.
You must see that He took your sins only for one purpose, that you might be channels for the Covenant of Promise.
Eph. 4: Christ Gives Gifts
The fourth of Ephesians is very distinct on this line; that Jesus went up on high, and He made; prophets, apostles, evangelists, and teachers, and it was for ‘the perfecting of the saints’; of which you will see the need.
God has nothing in His ministry for us on any lines only perfection.
God is a Cleanser
All the mighty movings of God are always to purge you, perfect you, make you holy, make you see that He can dwell in you mightily, and move in you by the Spirit gloriously.
We have to be ‘insulators’, as it were, of the mighty power, the saving power in the world. [Ed. We are like ‘insulated wires’, or ‘fresh-air conduits’, connected to God allowing Him to bring His Life to Earth through us.]
Continue Reading: Wigglesworth On The Gift of Prophecy
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