COMMUNION WITH THE PRESENT ENERGY OF THE SPIRIT
COMMUNION WITH THE PRESENT ENERGY OF THE SPIRIT
I am quite certain that there must be, at any rate, a moral separation everywhere between the ten spies and the two; or the two-and-half tribes and the nine-and-half. But there is this immense difference with us, who are members of the body of Christ, that any advance that any member or members of the body make must now conduce to the help and encouragement of every other member. What is good and right for one member is good and right for all the other members, and the one who takes the step in advance should take it with the sense that he is not a unit, but part of the great whole. I believe it is of immense importance to seize by faith the intention of the Lord in giving back to brethren the truth as to the church of God. Do we accept the truth with the conviction that a fresh energy of the Spirit of God is connected with it - that it is not to be held as an abstract truth, but that every one who truly receives it is in communion with the present energy of the Spirit? The energy of the Spirit was always connected with that truth; but now, in the close of the church period, He has enlightened souls anew respecting it, and everyone [p. 196] so enlightened is in a very favoured and responsible position, for if he truly answers to the light of it he is enabled to be in the testimony in power. Do you feel that you are called of God to be in the new and great and, I believe, last revival? I am sure you do, and the more you feel it the more you will encourage and help others to be there also. “Thou... hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name”. (Revelation 3: 8) It is not enough to come out of Egypt; you have to come into the land, and to stand there for God. If we do not know our vocation we are not only blundering, but we cannot avail ourselves of the power and resources given of God to maintain the testimony. The captain of the Lord’s host is only in the land, is only connected with the testimony, for our vocation is according to it.