Let us go back for a few moments te the earliest records that we have of the Holy Spirit's work—the creation of the world. We are told that the Spirit brooded over the face of the waters. Order was created out of Chaos by the work of the Holy Spirit, No human power could have done it. No human eloquence could have caused it. Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit saith the Lord of Hosts.
We proceed to the times of the Old Testament—the times of the Prophets. What do we see? The Holy Spirit takes man after man. He often takes the roughest of men, men of little education, for we are told that the Spirit of the Lord came upon them—the Spirit of the Lord came upon this man and that, and used him for His work; and there is no understanding how those simple, unlearned men did such a marvellous work unless they did it by the power of the Holy Spirit,
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