Jealous for the spirit

Quotations

The Holy Spirit is God’s imperative of life.

A. W. Tozer

The Holy Spirit is not a luxury meant to make deluxe Christians, as an illuminated frontispiece and a leather binding make a deluxe book. The Spirit is an imperative necessity. Only the Eternal Spirit can do eternal deeds.12

A. W. Tozer

Most Christians are not joyful persons because they are not holy persons, and they are not holy persons because they are not filled with the Holy Spirit, and they are not filled with the Holy Spirit because they are not separated persons.

The Spirit cannot fill whom He cannot separate, and whom He cannot fill, He cannot make holy, and whom He cannot make holy, He cannot make happy!1

A. W. Tozer

The Holy Spirit is pure, for He is the Holy Spirit. He is wise, for He is the Spirit of wisdom. He is true, for He is the Spirit of truth. He is like Jesus, for He is the Spirit of Christ. He is like the Father, for He is the Spirit of die Father. He wants to be the Lord of your life, and He wants to possess you so that you are no longer in command of the little vessel in which you sail. You may be a passenger on board, or one of the crew, but you definitely are not in charge. Someone else is in command of the vessel.23

A. W. Tozer

The Church has been propagated by the Holy Spirit, so we can only worship in the Spirit, we can only pray in the Spirit, and we can only preach effectively in the Spirit, and what we do must be done by the power of the Spirit.37

A. W. Tozer

The Holy Spirit is in some measure resident in the breast of everybody that’s converted. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be conversion. The Holy Spirit doesn’t stand outside a man and regenerate him; He comes in to regenerate him. That is one thing, and we’re glad and grateful for that, but it’s quite another thing for the Holy Spirit to come down with His wings outspread, uninhibited, free and pleased to fill lives and to fill churches and to fill denominations. That’s quite another thing.30

A. W. Tozer

Though every believer has the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit does not have every believer.

A. W. Tozer

There are too many who want the Holy Spirit in order that they may have the gift of healing. Others want the Holy Spirit for the gift of tongues. Others want Him to help them in the preaching ministry. Still others seek the Spirit that their testimony may become effective.

All of these things, I grant you, are a part of the total pattern of the New Testament, but it is impossible for us to make God our servant, and let us never pray that we may be filled with the Spirit of God for a secondary purpose. God wants to fill you with His Spirit as an end in your moral life. The purpose of God is that we should know Him first of all, and be lost in Him and that we should enter into the fullness of the Spirit that His Son may be glorified in us.34

A. W. Tozer

If we are not filled with the Spirit unless we have the evidence of tongues, then Augustine, Bernard, Thomas ád Kempis, Frederick Faber, Charles Finney, David Livingstone, Charles Spurgeon and George Mueller weren’t filled with the Holy Ghost. Not one of them ever said anything about the evidence of tongues.27

A. W. Tozer

5777 Every time we say, “I believe in the Holy Spirit,” we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

J. B. Phillips

657I dread beyond all things the Spirit’s withdrawal. Death has not half the terror of that thought. I would sooner die a thousand times than lose the helpful presence of the Holy Ghost.—16.559

Charles Spurgeon

660It were better to speak six words in the power of the Holy Ghost than to preach seventy years of sermons without the Spirit.—32.487

Charles Spurgeon

3. The Baptism with the Holy Spirit is a work of the Holy Spirit separate and distinct from His regenerating work. To be regenerated by the Holy Spirit is one thing, to be baptized with the Holy Spirit is something different, something additional.

R. A. Torrey

If a man has experienced the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit he is a saved man, but he is not fitted for service until in addition to this he has received the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.

R. A. Torrey

5785 It is extraordinary how things fall off from a man like autumn leaves once he comes to the place where there is no rule but that of the personal domination of the Holy Spirit.

Oswald Chambers

5798 The Holy Spirit does not obliterate a man’s personality; he lifts it to its highest use.

Oswald Chambers

Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit (or Spirit of God) transforms and empowers God’s people.

Craig Keener

God the Father is Jealous for the Spirit in Us

John 14.16 “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—”

Jesus is Jealous for the Spirit in Us

Luke 24:49 “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.””

Acts 1:4 “On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.”

Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.””

Satan is Jealous for the Spirit NOT to Dwell in You

We have to say, moreover, that the Gospel has a demonstration of its own, more divine than any established by Grecian dialectics. And this diviner method is called by the apostle the “manifestation of the Spirit and of power:” of “the Spirit,” on account of the prophecies, which are sufficient to produce faith in any one who reads them, especially in those things which relate to Christ; and of “power,” because of the signs and wonders which we must believe to have been performed, both on many other grounds, and on this, that traces of them are still preserved among those who regulate their lives by the precepts of the Gospel.[1]

[1]Origen. (1885). Origen against Celsus. In A. Roberts, J. Donaldson, & A. C. Coxe (Eds.), & F. Crombie (Trans.), Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second(Vol. 4, pp. 397–398). Christian Literature Company.