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Spirit that each one may be strengthened in the inner man. It is up to the inner man energized by the Holy Spirit to bring the outer man into subjection and in line with the inner man and the Holy Spirit. Such a person will become a ready and yielded instrument in the hands of the Spirit and will be greatly used by Him. IV. The Holy Spirit Brings the Word of God to Our Remembrance "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26). For this reason every believer needs to be filled with the Spirit. The believer needs to read and memorize the Scriptures. The Holy Spirit can wonderfully assist our heads as well as our hearts. He can move upon our intellects and enlighten our minds as well as influence and inspire our hearts. The Word of the Lord is the sword of the Spirit. Every Christian should be a devout student of the Scriptures. This will aid the Spirit in bringing the Scriptures to his remembrance. How can the Spirit bring a thing to our remembrance when we have never read or heard it? We should co-operate with the Spirit on this line. Whenever we are in trouble, or in doubt, and know not what to do, or are dealing with a soul and know not what to say, whether he be a sinner needing salvation, or a saint needing spiritual enlightenment, it is our privilege to depend on the Holy Spirit to bring to us the right Scripture which will enlighten us to do or to say the right thing. V. The Holy Spirit Reveals to Us the Deep Things of God "But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God" (I Cor. 2:9-10) It is the Holy Spirit Who inspired the Scriptures to be written by moving holy men, giving them His thoughts and His words. Since He is the divine Author of the Scriptures, and He inspired holy men to write them, He can inspire someone else to expound them rightly to us which will also greatly inspire our hearts. The Scriptures possess a high degree of inspiration which makes them absolutely infallible. Holy men were inspired, that is, moved and carried along in their thoughts and words which He gave them to write. This makes the Bible a verbally inspired book. This high degree of inspiration ceased when the canon of the Scriptures was completed. It is folly for men today to claim that their words and writings are on a par with the Scriptures. We need the Holy Spirit in our lives to help us to love, appreciate, believe, and obey the Scriptures. It has been related that a young lady once received a book as a gift. She picked the book up and started to read it, but could not interest herself in the book. Several times she picked the book up and started to read, and once she made the remark that it was the dullest story she had ever read. In the course of time, she became engaged to a young man. One evening she said to him, "I have a book in my library and the author's name and even his initials are the very same as yours. Is not this a single coincidence?"
"I do not think so," he answered. "Why not? Please tell me why this is not a coincidence." "For the simple reason that I wrote the book. I am the author of the book." That was news, and a revelation to her. After the young man left that evening, the young lady picked the book up again and started to read. She became exceedingly interested and sat up until after two o'clock reading it with great delight. She did not see one dry line in it, and it seemed to her like a new book and the most interesting story that she had ever read. The book which was once dull and uninteresting now became exceedingly fascinating because she came to know and love the author. So it is with the Bible and the Holy Spirit. The Bible, to many is a dry ancient, dull book. Some pick it up from a sense of duty and try to read it, but soon lay it down again without receiving any benefit from it. When we come to know the Holy Spirit as the Author of the Scriptures and our Comforter, Guide, and Teacher, and He Who reveals the deep things of God to us, we will read the Bible with a holy delight and feed upon it as the living Word. It becomes our meat and drink. VI. The Holy Spirit Imparts Ability To Appreciate More What He Does for Us "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (I Cor. 2:12-14). Without the aid of the Spirit, we are nearsighted and selfish. It is He Who makes the heavenly and spiritual things real and valuable to us. He enables us to appreciate our Christian experience. When He helps us to know the value of our Christian experience, the cost of our redemption, the value of our inheritance in Christ, and the joys of the glories to come, that will establish the Christian in grace enabling him to stand through all the trials and will give him such a fortitude in grace that he would rather die than backslide and forfeit all these blessings. The reason some people backslide so easily is, they have not been enlightened in regard to the cost of their salvation, the value of their Christian experience, the value of their inheritance in Christ, and the glories to come. Some would rather forfeit these blessings and enjoy the pleasures of sin and the world for a little season. The Holy Spirit does not only impart to us the ability to appreciate what the Lord has done for us, but He also enables us to appreciate what He does for others. It is through the enlightenment and appreciation which the Spirit gives of Christian experience and all that goes with it that enables us to endure, to hold on and to keep going on. One great minister related that when his little daughter became old enough that she could go to the store by herself, she begged her parents that she might do so. They gave her a few pennies which she clutched in her little hand to purchase some candy. They cautioned her again and again to be careful to stop, and look before crossing a street, and to allow passing cars to go by. She promised she would be careful. In the excitement of the joy and the thrill of going by herself, she skipped along happily and forgot to do as she had been instructed. She crossed a street without stopping, or looking, and a car
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