The Full Blessings of Pentecost: How it is obtained by us - Part 1 of 7

The Full Blessings of Pentecost

By Andrew Murray

How it is obtained by us - Part 1 of 7


"And be not drunk with wine, 

wherein is excess; 

but be filled with the Spirit;"

EPH. v. 18.


The full blessing of Pentecost is the inheritance of all the children of God. 


This is the first principle we have to enunciate. 

There are many of God's children who do not fully believe this. 


They imagine that the day of Pentecost was only the birthday feast of the Church, 

and that it was thus a time of blessing and of power which was not destined to endure. 

They do not reflect on the command to be filled with the Spirit. 

The result is that they never with earnestness seek to receive the full blessing. 


They take their ease and remain content with the weak and defective life in which the Church of the day exists. 


Is not this the case with you, my reader? 


Far be it from us. 

In order to carry on her work in the world, the Church requires the full blessing. 


To please your Lord and to live a life of holiness, and joy, and power, you too have need of it. 

To manifest His presence, and indwelling, and glory in you, Jesus counts it necessary that you should be filled with the Spirit. 


Believe firmly that the full blessing of Pentecost is a sacred reality. 

A child of God may and must have it. 


Take time to contemplate it and to suffer yourself to be fully possessed by the thought of its glorious significance and power. 


A firm confidence that the blessing is actually within our reach is the first step towards obtaining it and a powerful impulse in the pursuit.




 

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