him and upon them. This is what we need. Jesus
was God's gift to the world, and the Holy Ghost is his gift to the
church. Have we failed to take both? A man over in England, telling
his pastor about his experience, said that he had taken Jesus for his
eternal life and the Holy Ghost for his internal life. This is
certainly what we need to do more than anything else. We need the Holy
Spirit of God in our lives. He would illuminate our minds as we read
the Bible, strengthen our faith as we appropriate Christ, transform our
lives as he came to do, and enable us to live and preach in
demonstration of the Spirit and with power. Have you ever stopped to
think what is really associated with the full acceptance of the third
Person of the Trinity?

First, _Power_. "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has
come upon you."

Second, _Ability to pray_. "We know not what we should pray for as we
ought, but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us."

Third, _Victory over sin_. "For the law of the Spirit of Christ in
Christ Jesus sets me free from the law of sin and death."

Fourth, _Cleanness of life_. "Ye have purified your souls in obeying
the truth through the Spirit."

Fifth, _The representation of Jesus Christ_. Not imitation, but
reproduction, is what we need.

Two artists are painting before a picture. The work of one is sadly
deficient, the other an inspiration, for one is copying while the other
is reproducing his own work. Oh, that we might be so filled with the
spirit of God that men should take knowledge of us that we not only had
been with Jesus but were like him! Two things we need, both of which
we may have: _His word and his touch_. First, his Word. We surely
have this. Has he not said, "Ye shall receive power"? But with this
there is coupled a condition, "Come out from among them and be ye
separate." Fulfilling this condition, we have only to step out upon
his promise on the ground of the fact that he has said, "That ye might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."

Second, we have the touch of his hand. This emphasizes his reality.
One of the greatest dangers of the day, it seems to me, is the fact
that we are so inclined to make him unreal. It also indicates his
nearness. He can fill us so that his life may come throbbing into our
very being, and this is the secret of victory in the time of
temptation. We must be empty to be filled, but no man can empty
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