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It is this ever-recurring revelation to penitent, believing
hearts, by the agency of the ever-present Holy Spirit, that makes
faith in Jesus Christ living and invincible. "I know He is Lord,
for He saves my soul from sin, and He saves me now," is an
argument that rationalism and unbelief cannot answer nor
overthrow, and so long as there are men in the world who can say
this, faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ is secure; and this
experience and witness come by the Holy Ghost.
"I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost,
I love to worship Thee;
My risen Lord for aye were lost
But for Thy company."
And so it is by the guidance and teaching of the Holy Spirit that
all saving truth becomes vital to us.
It is He that makes the Bible a living Book; it is He that
convinces the world of judgment (John xvi. 8-11); it is He that
makes men certain that there is a Heaven of surpassing and
enduring glory and joy, and a Hell of endless sorrow and woe for
those who sin away their day of grace and die in impenitence.
Who have been the mightiest and most faithful preachers of the
gloom and terror and pain of a perpetual Hell? those who have
been the mightiest and most effective preachers of God's
compassionate love.
In all periods of great revival, when men seemed to live on the
borderland, and in the vision of eternity, Hell has been
preached.
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