The Latter Rain Covenant: And Pentecostal Power (Pentecostal Pioneers) by David Wesley Myland

Author:David Wesley Myland [Myland, David Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

“POSITION OF PENTECOST”

Then you will know it is “upon you.” You are immersed into the Spirit. The Spirit is upon you. He has been with you,” and has been “in you,” and now He is “upon you.” You cannot eliminate from your New Testament these three prepositions, “with,” “in,” and “upon,” and understand truth in its right relation regarding the Spirit. We have seen the promise, the preparation, now here is the position. He is “upon you,” making you a witness, and thank God, you cannot escape. In this sense the witness is in the “witness-box.”

You do not fix up things any more, saying—I guess I will do this for the Lord, I guess I will pray, I guess I will give a testimony. The thing goes and it is God. You cannot help it. He has thrust you right out. Everybody sees it. Jerusalem found them with the goods on them: “They spake in tongues as the Spirit gave utterance.” I wish we could catch more of them that way today. There are lots of people saying, “I have had my baptism,” but one that He fully baptizes today shows the sign, and the best of it is, you cannot stop it. Tongues, in one sense, is the advance agent, the tell-tale of Pentecost. That is where it is valuable as a gift when nothing else will do. But you need a baptism of interpretation when you get a baptism of tongues, and some need a baptism of discernment, and some will need, especially the leaders, a baptism of wisdom, and you will have to have a baptism of knowledge and a great baptism of faith to lead this kind of life, or you will have a great deal of trouble. And so when we get all these ministries together we can make some sort of a complete assembly, but, like the Corinthians, we may get too much of the gift of tongues and not enough wisdom to balance it, and then it works weakness. We may have too much “caution” also, and so come to neglect even tongues. If we do we shall not see God display Himself in freshness and newness thus subduing the human. Every little while it requires the outburst of a tongue to subdue things and make us mind our business and look to God. We are too well acquainted with the old English tongue, and we can play fast and loose with that; but not when God begins to talk. The people begin to get near to God and say, “What meaneth this?”

How we need perfect assemblies where all the gifts are in operation! I am praying day and night for this. The great deficiency in this movement is interpretation of tongues, and discernment of spirits, and these are the fundamental parts of Pentecost.

“PROFUSION OF PENTECOST”

“They were all filled overflowing. Everywhere you find that word in the New Testament it means the “overflow." They were overflowing with the Holy Ghost. That is the

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