Experiencing Unspeakable Joy Through the Holy Spirit

The Apostle doesn't even know their names he doesn't know who they are most Ordinary People and yet he doesn't hesitate to say that about them they rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ whom they haven't seen whom they can't see but they rejoice in him with a joy which is unspeakable it's so marvelous they can't express it indeed he says full of Glory which probably means this that it is a part of the joy and the rejoicing which is known by the Saints in glory who actually see him. [00:12:08]

What you always get as the chief characteristic in every Revival is a great spirit of rejoicing and of singing, singing generally is a part of a Revival not a worked up singing but a spontaneous bursting forth into song and you will always find that the really greatest hyms of all I don't mean these almost modling sentimental hymns that rather characteristic of the last century but I mean the great strong hymns of our himm book such as you get in the 18th century. [00:14:21]

The first effect always of a Revival is to Humble people and to convict them to cast them into an Agony of soul to make them wonder whether they'd ever been Christians at all then suddenly from the very depths they are lifted up to the Heights and the joy and the rejoicing correspond to the former sense of desolation and unworthiness and condemnation. [00:16:02]

The world outside is not going to pay much attention to all the organized efforts of the Christian Church the one thing she will pay attention do is to see a body of people filled with this Spirit of rejoicing that's how Christianity conquered the ancient world it was this amazing Joy of these people even when you threw them into prison threw them to death didn't matter they went on rejoicing rejoicing in tribulations. [00:18:18]

If you really are concerned about it if you really do feel what you say about the evidence of the newspapers day by day of the moral rock that is setting in in this country and which may even ruin the country economically and industrially because people are worshippers and lovers of Pleasures rather than lovers of God if you really believe that and mean it and feel it well then it will be your duty to become a person such as is depicted here. [00:19:08]

After that I had long seriously and repeatedly thought with myself that besides a full and undoubted Ascent to the objects of Faith a vivifying Savory taste and relish of them was also necessary that with stronger force and more powerful energy they might penetrate into the most inward center of my heart and there being most deeply fixed and rooted govern my life. [00:21:55]

It is a glorious Divine manifestation of God unto the soul shedding abroad God's love in the heart it is a thing better felt than spoken of it is no audible voice but it is a ray of Glory filling the soul with God as he is Life Light love and Liberty corresponding to that Audible Voice oh men greatly beloved putting a man in a transport with this on his heart it is good to be here. [00:25:22]

Fire god of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob not of the philosophers and of the wies security security feeling joy peace God of Jesus Christ thy God shall be my God forgetfulness of the world and of all save God he can be found only in the ways taught in the gospel greatness of the human soul he just put these things down as best he could recollect them these things that came upon him in such profusion. [00:27:50]

This is life eternal that they might Know Thee the only true God and him whom thou has sent Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I have separated myself from him I have fled renounced crucified him you see he's mixing past his past with his present he's made to feel by what was given to him what he'd been in the past may I never be separated from him he maintains himself in me me only in the ways taught in the gospel. [00:30:31]

When the Holy Spirit is operating you don't need to work it up you don't need to organize it he does it all it is the vision of him the knowledge of him this immediacy and this is the inevitable result a joy which is unspeakable and full of Glory though we don't see him the people to whom Peter were was writing had never seen him at all they were strangers scattered abroad Peter had actually seen the Lord physically these people hadn't it isn't necessary the spirit is sent in order to bring him to us and this is the result of this knowledge of him and experience of him. [00:32:36]

The first thing that happened when these apostles were baptized with the Holy Spirit was this they began to speak and to tell forth the wonderful works of God a re recent writer on the fullness of the spirit tries to say that the first sign of being filled with the spirit is that we speak to one another he's there countering the tendency to speak in and pray in tongues to God and he thinks he disposes of that by saying that in G in in Ephesians 5:18 you and following you find speaking to one another with Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. [00:36:45]

The test of the baptism of the spirit is that it leads a man to the truth and to an understanding of the truth it gives him light and understanding why well he can't witness without that you can't be a witness unless you know you must have something to say you must be ready at all times to give a reason for the hope that is in you so the spirit does this he gives a kind of Luminosity he gives a Clarity of understanding and of apprehension. [00:41:23]