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RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT by David Wilkerson
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:3).
For years I’ve claimed to be filled with the Spirit. I have testified that I’ve been baptized in the Spirit. I’ve preached that the Holy Spirit empowers me to witness, and that he sanctifies me. I’ve prayed in the Spirit, talked to the Spirit, walked in the Spirit and heard his voice. I truly believe the Holy Spirit is the power of God.
I can take you to the place where I was filled with the Spirit, at eight years of age. I still remember my tears and my heart’s cry to the Lord. I recall the incredible vision of Christ I received. And I remember the passion for Jesus that resulted from that experience. The Holy Spirit has been my friend and close comfort ever since.
I’ve read everything that Scripture says about the Holy Spirit, from Genesis to Revelation. I’ve preached on Pentecost, on the need to be filled with the Spirit, on our bodies being temples of the Spirit. And I trust that the Spirit has spoken through me to his church.
Yet, lately, I’ve found myself praying, “Lord, have I truly received your Holy Spirit? Do I really know this incredible power that lives in me? Or is the Spirit just a doctrine to me? Am I somehow ignoring him? Am I not asking him to do for me what he came to do? Am I still carrying things, still doing things on my own, that he came to do for me?”
The fact is, you can have something very valuable and not know it. And you can’t enjoy what it is you have, because you don’t understand how valuable it is.
There’s a story about a farmer who worked his small farm his whole life. For decades he tilled the rocky soil, living poor and finally dying in discontent. At his death, the farm was passed down to his son. One day, while plowing, the son found a gold-streaked nugget. He had it appraised and was told it was pure gold. The young man soon discovered that the farm was full of gold. Instantly, he became a wealthy man. Yet that wealth was lost on his father, even though it was on the land his whole life.
So it is with the Holy Spirit. Many of us live in ignorance of what we have, of the power that resides in us. Some Christians live their entire lives thinking they have the Holy Spirit, yet they haven’t truly received him in fullness and power. He isn’t accomplishing in them the eternal work he was sent to do.
Now, I’m not talking about manifestations. Often, some believers seek the Spirit only when they’re in trouble and want him to manifest himself. They hope he’ll come down and sweep away their problems. But Peter says that’s not the truth about the Spirit. According to him, we have the treasure within us: “His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3, italics mine).
At the Jordan River, John the Baptist told the Pharisees, “I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not” (John 1:26). Those religious leaders saw Jesus in the flesh, and they heard him speak. But they had no understanding of who he was. They didn’t know about his power and glory.
Likewise, Jesus asked his own disciple, Philip, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?” (14:9). I want to ask you a similar question: how long have you testified that you’ve been filled with the Holy Spirit? Could the Spirit possibly say to you, as the Lord did to Philip, “Have I been with you all these years, yet you really don’t know me”?I sometimes wonder if Christians today aren’t measuring up to the believers of Paul’s day…
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