The Holy Spirit: Who He Is and What He Does And How to Know Him in All the Fullness of His Gracious and Glorious Ministry
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R. A. Torrey was an American evangelist, a Bible scholar, and successor to D. L. Moody. A graduate of Yale, he was ordained to the ministry in 1878.
In the opening chapter, Torrey describes the purpose of his book. "We begin herewith a series of studies of the person and work of the Holy Spirit. We shall begin this series by considering what the Bible has to say about the Holy Spirit as a person. It is impossible to rightly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, or to get into right relation with the Holy Spirit Himself and thus know His blessed work in our own souls, without first coming to know the Holy Spirit as a person. One of the most fruitful sources of error and misconception, of unwholesome enthusiasm and false fire and fanaticism, in the treatment of this whole subject, is from trying to know the work of the Holy Spirit before we first come to know the Holy Spirit Himself."
Top Highlights
“In the very passage to which the Unitarians and Jews, who reject the Deity of Christ, refer so often as proving conclusively that the Deity of Christ cannot be true, namely, Deut. 6:4, the very doctrine that they are seeking to disprove is found; for Deut. 6:4, literally translated, would read, ‘Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.” (source)
“Now will you notice just what sin it is of which the Holy Spirit convicts men. Let me read it to you again. ‘And He, when He is come, will convict the world in respect of sin…of sin, because they believe not on me.’ The sin of which the Holy Spirit convicts men and women is the sin of unbelief in Jesus Christ: not the sin of drunkenness, not the sin of stealing, not the sin of adultery, not the sin of murder, nor of any other immorality or crime, but just the sin of not believing on the Son of God, not believing on Jesus Christ.” (source)
“I thank God from the depth of my heart that there is no divine power that I can get hold of to use according to my will. What could I do in my foolishness and ignorance with a divine power? What evil I might work! But while I thank God that there is no divine power that I can get hold of and use in my foolishness and ignorance according to my will, I am still more glad that there is a Divine Person Who can get hold of me and use me according to His infinitely wise and loving will.” (source)
“He hath granted unto us His precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.’” (source)
Product Details
- Title : The Holy Spirit: Who He Is and What He Does And How to Know Him in All the Fullness of His Gracious and Glorious Ministry
- Author: Torrey, D. D., R. A.
- Publisher: Ambassador International
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9781620207093
Reuben Archer Torrey (1856–1928) was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer. Torrey studied at Yale University, Yale Divinity School, Leipzig University, Erlangen University and received a doctorate degree from Wheaton College.
Soon after becoming a congregational minister, Torrey joined Dwight L. Moody in his evangelistic work in Chicago. Torrey became the superintendent of the Bible Institute of the Chicago Evangelization Society (now Moody Bible Institute).
He later became pastor of the Chicago Avenue Church (now the Moody Church). Torrey later served as a chaplain with the YMCA and dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University).
Torrey authored over 40 books in his lifetime. The classic four-volume set The Fundamentals includes over 90 articles by leading Christian scholars. The R. A. Torrey Collection features 15 titles of biblical doctrine and teaching from Torrey.