CHAPTER LXII
WORK OF THE HOLY GHOST
Sermon ry Mrs. M. B. Woodworth-Etter
John 15:26, 27. Jesus is speaking of the coming of the Holy Ghost. “But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, He shall testify of Me.
He is the Holy Ghost. The Lord speaks of the Holy Ghost as a person as much as He would of one of the Apostles. On the day of Pentecost, they were all of one accord, in one place and something happened.
It will every day if you have the Spirit. “Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind.” This was the Holy Ghost when He came to stay. “There appeared unto them cloven tongues like unto fire, and it sat on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
When this was noised abroad, multitudes came together. What was noised abroad? That these people were all speaking in other languages. The news went through Jerusalem and the multitude came together; and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language; and those who came were men out of every nation under heaven.
They heard these hundred and twenty speak in their own language wherein they were born. This is what gathered the people and confounded them. “They were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold! are not all these that speak Galileans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born?” “We do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.”
The Holy Ghost is a wonderful person, not a myth or shadow. Pentecost is the greatest thing that ever happened in God’s work, when the Holy Ghost came in to stay. He came and took possession of 120 men and women; He sat upon their heads in cloven tongues of fire, and went in and took possession of their bodies; then of their vocal organs; and they spoke, every one, as He gave them utterance.
They spoke in languages they had never learned, and did not
know what they were saying. The Holy Ghost took possession
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