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Issue No: 843 Published: 18 Dec 2017
WHOSE CHURCH IS IT ANYWAY? Part 23
OTHER PROMINENT LEADERS
A J GORDON (1836-1895) A Baptist pastor in Boston, USA, and founder of Gordon College, his voluminous writings were widely read in the latter 19th century. Gordon authored such works as The Ministry of Healing, The Two-Fold Life and The Ministry of the Holy Spirit. The book titles indicate the leading of the Holy Spirit in his life. One writer described him as "a major figure on the way to Pentecostalism."
Quoting from Hyatt.....
In his work The Two-Fold Life, Gordon declares, "It is still our privilege to pray for the baptism of the Spirit and to tarry in supplication until we be endued with power from on high." In The Ministry of Healing he not only defends divine healing as a ministry of the church, but he also says that even the gifts of tongues and prophecy "do not seem to be confined within the first age of the Church."
DWIGHT L. MOODY (1837-1899) (Pictured) The most prominent evangelist of the second half of the 19th century, he experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1871, through the fervent prayers of two women in his church. He describes the experience.....
I was crying all the time that God would fill me with His Spirit. Well, one day, in the city of New York—oh, what a day!—I cannot describe it, I seldom refer to it; it is almost too sacred an experience to name. Paul had an experience of which he never spoke for fourteen years. I can only say that God revealed Himself to me, and I had an experience of His love that I had to ask Him to stay His hand. I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not be placed back where I was before that blessed experience for all the world—it would be as the small dust of the balance.
While Moody's ministry was not characterized by Holy Spirit manifestations, healing, prophecy and tongues did occur. For example, an astounded Baptist minister testified.....
When I got to the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, Victoria Hall, London, I found the meeting on fire. The young men were speaking with tongues, prophesying. What on earth did it mean? Only that Moody had addressed them that afternoon.
REUBEN A. TORREY (1856-1928) As Moody's associate and heir apparent, he popularized Moody's doctrine of a subsequent Holy Spirit baptism experience through the Moody Bible Institute and speaking engagements. He disagreed with the Pentecostals of the early 20th century that speaking in tongues was the necessary, initial evidence of Spirit baptism, although agreed it could occur. He wrote.....
It [Spirit baptism] is the impartation of supernatural power or gifts in service, and sometimes one may have rare gifts by the Spirit's power and few graces...The power may be of one kind in one person and of another kind in another person, but there will always be power.
CONCLUSION
As we can see in our journey through the ages, in the same way that the Reformation did not just suddenly happen, but was prepared for by spiritual people of the centuries beforehand, so the Pentecostal Revival of the 20th century had its foundations laid by the Lord in the 18th and 19th centuries, through men and women filled with, and guided by, the Holy Spirit.
(Continued next week)
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FROM THE WORD
THE WORDS OF JESUS
May we hear what the Lord is saying to us.....
A Warning to be Alert (Matthew 24:36-51, Mark 13:32-37, Luke 21:32-36)
For the return of Jesus.
“But no one knows the day or hour when this will take place, not the angels in heaven, nor the Son. Only the Father knows. When the Son of man comes it will be like it was during the time of Noah. 38It will be as in the days before the flood, when they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, right up until the day that Noah went into the Ark. They didn’t realize what was going to happen until the flood came and swept them all away. That’s how the coming of the Son of man will be.
“Two men will be working in the fields. One will be taken, the other left. Two women will be grinding grain with a mill. One will be taken, the other left. So stay alert, because you don’t know what day your Lord is coming. But consider this: if the house-owner knew what time a thief was coming, he would keep watch. He would not allow his house to be broken into and robbed. You also need to be ready, because the Son of man is coming at a time when you’re not expecting him.
“For who is the trustworthy and thoughtful servant? It’s the one his master puts in charge of his household to provide them with food at the proper time. How good it will be for that servant to be found doing that when his master returns! I tell you the truth: the master will put that servant in charge over everything he has. But if he was evil, the servant would say to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time,’ and would start beating the other servants, feasting and drinking with the drunks. Then that servant’s master will return when the man doesn’t expect him, at a time he doesn’t know. He’ll cut him to pieces, and treat him in the same way as the hypocrites, sending him to a place where there’s weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13)
“The kingdom of heaven is like ten girls, who took their lamps with them to go and meet the bridegroom.
Five were foolish, and five were wise. The foolish girls took their lamps but didn’t take any oil with them, while the wise took jars of oil with them as well as their lamps. The bridegroom took a long time and all the girls became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight the shout came, ‘Look, the bridegroom’s here! Come out and meet him!’ All the girls got up and trimmed the wicks of their lamps. The foolish girls said to the wise ones, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’ But the wise girls replied, ‘No, because otherwise there won’t be enough for both you and for us. Go to the shopkeepers and buy some oil for yourselves.’ While they went to buy oil, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was locked shut. The other girls came later. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they called, ‘Open the door for us!’ But he answered, ‘I tell you the truth: I don’t know you.’ So stay alert, for you don’t know the day, or the hour.
(Continued next week)
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DAVID'S DOODLINGS
36. God's nature is finely balanced between love and judgement. As His love has predominated for the past 2000 years, how fearsome then must be the single Day of Judgement that is to come.
37. We know in life, that all good things come to an end. How is it then, that we continue to believe that the current age of God's grace and mercy will go on forever?
38. Why is it that I continue to walk round and round the mountain when I know when the path to the top goes up?
178. God's gracious gift of grace is the reason to walk in truth, not an excuse to continue in sin.
317. God's graciously given grace gift gallantly galvanises garrulous, grateful gentiles!
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LAUGHING AT OURSELVES
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87. Our Witness
After the christening of his baby brother in church, little Johnny sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him three times what was wrong.
Finally, the boy replied, "That priest said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I want to stay with you guys!"
88. No Prayer Required
The Sunday School Teacher asks, "Now, Johnny, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?"
"No sir," little Johnny replies, "I don't have to. My Mom is a good cook."
QWIK QWIP: “When it comes time to die...make sure all you got to do is die.”
89. Practice Makes Perfect
A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek. She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again.
Finally she spoke up, "Grandpa, did God make you?"
"Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time ago."
"Oh," she paused, "Grandpa, did God make me too?"
"Yes, indeed, honey," he said, "God made you just a little while ago."
Feeling their respective faces again, she observed, "God's getting better at it, isn't he?"
A DAVID MUSING
So much is happening in some areas, while in others, we wait! Waiting is a specialty of Africa, and they do it much better than Westerners.
Of course, the Bible tells us that patience is a fruit of the Spirit, but here it can be so extreme that not much gets done on time.
Earlier in my life I was a great, impatient clock watcher. In fact, years ago, I remember the Lord giving me a series of 3 dreams one night about different aspects of my life needing correction. The only one I can still remember is that my watch caught fire!
Since then I have tried to develop greater patience, when things don't go my way timewise.
It certainly is a necessary attribute living here in Kenya! Lateness and delays are facts of life the people take in their stride. And to be honest, they are happier in their poverty than we are in our relative riches.
There is a lesson here for us all. But a middle path would be rather nice, I must admit!
Until next week.......
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOU BLESS GOD.
His servant and yours
David Tait
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