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How Great a Witness

"And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them" (Ezek. 36:27). When God puts His Spirit in you, the evidence of that is that He will help you to understand and keep His commandments and judgments. He will give you an awareness of the Word that is alive and working in you. It is very important that we realize what the purpose of the infilling of the Holy Spirit is. Many old time Pentecostals mistakenly thought that the purpose of the Holy Spirit was to cause them to speak in tongues. That is not the reason the Holy Spirit came. Yet many fundamentalists, who lean toward knowledge instead of relationship, deny the active working of the Holy Spirit in the life of individuals today. They say when you are born again, you get everything that there is of God and you don't need anything subsequent. That is not what the Scripture teaches. Though the Holy Spirit indwells us at regeneration, the Holy Spirit enables us, renews us, and empowers us in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is a distinct subsequent work to regeneration. The Scripture is full of that, yet denied by so many today. Are you conscious of the Holy Spirit in your life? Are you aware of the working of the Holy Spirit in your life? If you don't know what He is doing, you might not be aware of it and His presence.

What is it that the Holy Spirit is to do? Acts 1:8 says, "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me." How great of a witness are you today for the Lord Jesus? How much power do you move in? Are you conscious at times that you need the unction of God and the power of God? Are you conscious of a distinct power and presence rising up within you to meet needs when you feel weak and incapable? Do you see the ability in you to move against your natural tendencies to boldly speak the name of Jesus in any environment? Is your life a witness, not just verbally, but with the enabling to live differently than all the other people around you? Do you live a life of sanctification and separation that gives glory to God? Is there an enabling and an empowering that accomplishes that in our lives? This begins to be an evidence of our awareness of the working of the Holy Spirit within us.

Isaiah 11 has probably one of the most specific statements in the Scripture concerning the Holy Spirit and what we can really be looking for Him to accomplish in our lives. This is a prophetic statement of what John the Baptist saw that day at Jordan. It says, "The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him..." (Isa. 11:2). The Holy Spirit coming upon Jesus was a distinct event, but the Scripture says that this promise of the Father "is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call" (Acts 2:39). So the Holy Spirit and His empowering and His indwelling are available to every one of us. Is your life controlled by the Holy Spirit? Is there the fruit of the Spirit manifesting in your life? Is the power of the Holy Spirit that the book of Acts talks about evidencing itself in your life? Is the purification of the Holy Spirit in worship and praise recognizable in your life? Are you full of the Spirit now?

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