The Fundamentals (1910), Vol.1

The Personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit. 67 possible and let Him do the work which the Father sent Him to do. From that day preaching has not been a burden nor a duty but a glad privilege. I have no anxiety nor care. I know that He is conducting the service and doing it just as it ought to be done, and even though things sometimes may not seem to go just as I think they ought, I know they have gone right. Often times when I get up to preach and the thought takes possession of me that He is there to do it all, such a joy fills my heart that I feel like shouting for very ecstasy. TREATMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 4. The fourth line of proof of the personality of the Hol Spirit is: a treatment is predicated of the Holy Spirit that could only be predicated of a person. y We read in Isa. 63:10, R. V., “But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and Himself fought against them.” Here we see that the Holy Spirit is rebelled against and grieved. (Cf. Eph. 4:30.) You cannot rebel against a mere influence or power. You can only rebel against and grieve a person. Still further we read in Heb. 10:29, “Of how much sorer punishment, sup­ pose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the cove­ nant wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” Here we are told that the Holy Spirit is “done despite unto,” that is “treated with contumely.” (Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.) You cannot “treat with contumely” an in­ fluence or power, only a person. Whenever a truth is pre­ sented to our thought, it is the Holy Spirit who presents it. If we refuse to listen to that truth, then we turn our backs deliberately upon that divine Person who presents it ; we in­ sult Him. Perhaps, at this present time, the Holy Spirit is trying to bring to the mind of the reader of these lines some truth that

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