When He Is Come - Media Sabda Org

in the right decision, and cause things to look vague and hazy and minus a joy in the contemplation
of the wrong decision. The Spirit directed Philip where to go in order to make contact with the
Ethiopian eunuch. It was made very clear to Simon Peter that he should go to the house of Cornelius
in Caesarea. The Spirit also restrained and forbade Paul to preach in Asia Minor, and then made it
very clear to him that he should go into Macedonia, even into a new continent to preach the gospel
to those who had never heard. Every minister should depend on the Holy Spirit as to where He wants
him to labor.
IV. He Directs Ministers Where Not To Preach
"Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of
the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, after they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into
Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not" (Acts 16:6, 7).
The Holy Spirit knows where the minister should not go even as well as He does where he should
go. The Spirit is able to close doors and to make certain fields and places of labor to look gloomy,
vague, and hazy to the minister. Sometimes ministers make mistakes in choosing their field of labor,
because they have not depended upon the leading of the Holy Spirit, but have followed their own
personal leadings. When it comes to the work of the Lord, whatever it may be, the wise Christian
worker will always lay his own personal feelings or preferences aside in honor of the leadings of the
Spirit. Many have made mistakes in following their own inclinations which have led to defeat,
sorrow, and a limited ministry.
V. He Instructs Ministers What To Preach
"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" (I Cor. 2:13).
One of the great delights in a minister's life is that of the leadership of the Holy Spirit. The
minister should depend on the Spirit as to what to preach for each occasion. The Holy Spirit will
direct the minister along this line, either by directing him to a certain text, a certain line of truth, or
by giving a gist of the message. A minister may consider different sermons or texts, but when they
are not the Spirit's choice there is no inspiration, joy, blessing, or divine glow on the sermon, or the
text. When the right choice has been made, He will give divine inspiration and add a divine glow on
the text and the line of truth that is under consideration. He will also reveal His own will to the
minister, until he becomes greatly enthused and inspired while he is preparing his message.
VI. He Speaks in and Through Ministers
"Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the
mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus" (Acts
1:16).
"Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when
it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was