by T. Austin-Sparks
Transcribed from conference messages given in May 1960. The spoken form has been retained verbatim.
Do you not feel that we take the Holy Spirit too much for granted? When we come to discuss this as a subject, what do we say? Well, in controversy over it, its many interpretations, many designations, we resolve the thing so often by saying, "Well, of course every born anew child of God has the Holy Spirit!" And that's, so often, the beginning and the end of it; that is what it amounts to. If we are really born anew from above by our new birth we receive the Holy Spirit, we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within... That One resident within you, as you sit there where you are, and in me, as I stand here where I am. Is that Christian truth? Is that the teaching of the Scripture? Is that the revelation of the Word of God? Is it? Don't you agree, we need to recover something with a new apprehension and a new appreciation of the greatness of the fundamental things of our very faith? "Ye shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you".
