© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
The Holy Spirit v Unholy Spirits
There is a power of God, and there is a power which is of Satan.
When the Holy Spirit fell in the early days, a number of spiritists came to our meetings. [1]
They thought we had received something like they had, and they were coming to have a good time.
They filled the two front rows of our mission.
When the power of God fell, these imitators began their shaking and muttering under the power of the Devil.
The Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon me, and I cried,
Now you devils, clear out of this!
And out they went. I followed them right out into the street, and then they turned round and cursed me.
There was power from below, but it was no match for the power of the Holy Ghost, and they soon had to retreat.
Clothed with Power
The Lord wants all saved people to receive power from on High: Power to witness, power to act, power to live, and power to show forth the divine manifestation of God within.
The power of God will take you out of your own plans, and put you into the plan of God.
You will be unmantled and divested of that which is purely of yourself, and put into a divine order.
The Lord will change you, and put His mind where yours was, and thus enable you to have the mind of Christ.
He in You Can
Instead of labouring according to your own plan, it will be God working in you, and through you, to do His own good pleasure through the power of the Spirit within.
Someone has said that you are no good until you have your “I” knocked out.
Christ must reign within, and the life of the Holy Ghost means at all times the subjection of your own will to make way for the working out of the good and acceptable and perfect will of God within.
Hungry for God
The Lord Jesus gave the commandment that the Disciples should tarry until they were endued with power from on High, and in Acts 2 we read how the Spirit of God came.
He comes the same way today, and we don’t know the Holy Ghost coming any other way.
I was holding a meeting once, in London, and at the close a man came to me and said, “We are not allowed to hold meetings in this hall after 11 o’clock, and we would like you to come home with us, I am so hungry for God.”
The Wife said, she too, was hungry, and so I agreed to go with them. At about 12:30 we arrived at their house. The man began stirring up the fire and said, “Now we will have a good supper.”
I said to them, “I did not come here for your warm fire, your supper, or your bed. I came here because I thought you were hungry to get more of God.”
[1] a number of spiritists came to our meetings: People who believe in Spiritism, ie. that anything “spiritual” is divine, they are actually worshipping demons and Satan: The occult. Beware the Ecumenical Movement.
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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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