THE HOLY GHOST AND THE MYSTERY

THE HOLY GHOST AND THE MYSTERY

I hold most assuredly that the Holy Ghost came down at Pentecost, and that the church began at Pentecost. Then the baptism of the Holy Ghost took place; but though the Spirit was then given to make good all that was involved in the mystery, still the mystery was not as yet revealed, and no one could now plead that he might be now as the disciples in Acts 2, because then the mystery was not revealed; now it is revealed. In Acts 2 the Holy Ghost baptised all there, though the consequence of the baptism was not yet revealed, but now that it is revealed, any one to begin at the beginning cannot ignore the mystery which was involved, though not revealed, when the Holy Ghost at Pentecost filled every one of them.

^[p. 182] In my paper I am trying to guard against meeting as merely ‘Believers’ Meetings’, and denying that we can be corporately gathered. I am cheered by your remark — ‘I trust that if the Lord tarries there may be a revival in the hearts of His own’. This is my one great desire. Surely “the bride” is ready for Him.

The Lord bless you much in your new abode. May you in every way be for Him who was rejected here, but who now exalted to God’s right hand is the source and fountain of all our joy and blessing. May you greatly prosper in every good word and work.

The Lord with His disciples was the real Servitor, making them His object and serving them so perfectly that, though His service never obtruded itself, when they lost it they felt that they had lost everything. I know when I have served a person genuinely by my desire for his benefit, irrespective of myself or my service.