The Great Azusa Street Revival: The Life and Sermons of William Seymour by William Seymour & Roberts Liardon

Author:William Seymour & Roberts Liardon [Seymour, William & Liardon, Roberts]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Embassy Publishing
Published: 2014-08-19T23:00:00+00:00

{ CHAPTER TEN }

The Baptism with the Holy Spirit

Dear one in Christ who are seeking the baptism with the Holy Ghost: do not seek for tongues but for the promise of the Father, and pray for the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and God will throw in the tongues according to Acts 2:4. We read in Acts 1:4, 5, “And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jemsalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith He, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.”

This promise of the Father was preached unto the disciples by John the Baptist. And Jesus reminded the disciples about this baptism that John had preached to them in life. In England we find the same thing. Matthew 3:11. John, after warning the Jews and Pharisees against sin and hypocrisy, preached the doctrine of the baptism with the Holy Ghost. He said first in Matthew 3:8, “Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.” God is sending His precious ministers to preach repentance to the people and turn them from their sins and cause them to make restitution according to their ability, and to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. Glory to God!

And then they must get sanctified through the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, for He says in John 17:15-19, “I pray not that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth. As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself , that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” God wants His people to be sanctified, because He says again in Hebrews 13:12-13, “Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.”

Then Jesus taught the disciples to tarry at Jerusalem. They obeyed Him and waited for the promise of the Father. “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance” (Acts 2:1-4).

Wind is always typical of the Spirit or of life. “And it filled all the house where they were sitting.” The rivers of salvation had come and had filled the whole place, and they all were immersed or baptized in the Holy Spirit. Praise God! “And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire.

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