The Gospel of the Comforter

By Daniel Steele

Introduction

The Father's Promise Of The Spirit.

I will pour out my Spirit unto you. Proverbs i. 23.

I will pour out my Spirit upon thy seed. Isaiah xliv. 3.

I will put my Spirit within you. Ezekiel xxxvi. 27.

 I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Joel ii. 28.

The Son's Promise Of The Spirit.

How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. Luke xi. 13. (This has been called the dawn of Pentecost.)

I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth. John xiv. 16.

The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. John xiv. 26.

When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. John xv. 26.

It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. John xvi. 7.

When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. He shall glorify me : for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. John xvi. 13, 14.

Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. Luke xxiv. 49.

Wait for the promise of the Father, which ye have heard of me. Acts i. 4.

But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. Acts i. 8.


Theology without the Holy Spirit is not only a cold stone, it is a deadly poison.— Prof. Beck Of Tübingen.

 

The place given to the Holy Spirit in the heart of the most decided Christians is altogether out of proportion to that which it occupies in the Word of God. — Bishop Ryle.

 

The Father and His unmerited grace, the Son and His expiatory sacrifice, have been much more studied in our day than the Holy Spirit, His person, His work, and all that new world which He creates in the heart. — Adolph Monod.

 

Man is a vessel destined to receive God, a vessel which must be enlarged in proportion as it is filled, and filled in proportion as it is enlarged. — Godet.

 

The Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost descended into the temple of His apostles, which He had prepared for Himself, as a shower of sanctification and a perpetual Comforter. — Augustine.