We do not need to seek the Holy Spirit, He has already been given. He is here.
Luke 11:13, “how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” Notice, “your heavenly Father”; that is for a believer. That was not written for the Jews, for He was not the Jews’ Heavenly Father. Gal. 3:2 “This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the message of faith?” That settles the issue! But, you say, the disciples waited ten days. Yes, but they didn’t know what they were waiting for. They didn’t know that Christ had died for their sins according to the Scripture. They didn’t know during those ten days why they were waiting in that Upper Room.
They didn’t know anything about His Substitutionary Sacrifice. None of them believed in His resurrection, even when they saw Him after He arose. They knew nothing about what the three days and three nights meant to the human race. They didn’t know what Jesus meant when He said they were to tarry and be baptized. They didn’t know that baptism meant the New Birth. They didn’t know anything about the indwelling of the Spirit that was to enable them to speak in tongues. They didn’t understand it. 1 Cor. 12:13 “For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greek, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.” That is the New Birth.
Immersion doesn’t mean a filling, for when I immerse one in water, I don’t fill them with water. When they were immersed by the Holy Spirit in that Upper Room, they weren’t filled with the Spirit until after the immersion. The question we should ask is the question that Paul asked the Ephesians, “Have ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed?” This is an intelligent question. When you ask a believer if he has received his baptism, and the believer is instructed in the Word, he will say, “Certainly, I have received Eternal Life. But if you mean, have I received the Holy Spirit, that is another question.”
We do not seek for Righteousness. We are made the Righteousness of God in Christ.
We do not seek for power, because we have the Holy Spirit, who raised Jesus from the dead, within us. We do not seek for faith, because we are believers. We are not doubters, we are the true Sons of God. We are men who act upon the Father’s Word just as Jesus acted on His Father’s Word. This new order of Life, this new type of Christianity that has unveiled to us the truth about sense knowledge and has made us Masters in the Name of Jesus over the forces that have held us in bondage all our lives, has become a Living Reality. We know now what makes an atheist, an atheist; a modernist, a modernist.
We know the why of metaphysics. We understand why men have become philosophers.
It is all sense knowledge seeking after something to satisfy a hungry human spirit that is craving God. These people are all in one class. They are all sense knowledge devotees. They tell me they are scientific. What is science? It is but sense knowledge gathering together certain data. They haven’t one thing except what the five senses have contributed. They are sense knowledge men, ofttimes drunken with the few facts they have collated, gathered, classified. Philosophy is sense knowledge seeking after God. No philosopher ever found God in the realm of philosophy. It is the child of the senses.
The seeking philosopher finds only himself, for he is seeking in himself. He can’t seek outside of himself. The natural man cannot find or know aught but himself.
The philosopher is a psychical, mental man. Psycho-analysis is but discovering oneself. He has not discovered the real self, for he can’t find that. The real self is a spirit. The only self he has discovered is the mental self that has derived all his knowledge from the five senses. When one searches in his inner self, he only finds what he has already built there or else someone else has built. Philosophy is a total failure in seeking the solution of the human problem. Psychologists have called our human spirit, “a subconscious mind,” for this searcher in his own self-consciousness, has discovered that there is something besides the reasoning faculties.
He can’t find it nor diagnose it, so he calls it “a sub-conscious mind.” It is his spirit. That is not the right way of expressing it. It is himself, his spirit, that the reasoning faculties cannot find or understand even if they found it. When that spirit receives the Nature of God and gains the ascendancy over the reasoning faculties that get their impulses from the senses, then man can study psychology and get to know himself in Reality. There is room for a new psychology, but it will not be called psychology – it would be Spiritology.
It is knowledge of the activities and operations of the recreated human spirit in its relation to the renewed mind.