Category: 2c1 – A.B. Simpson

A.B. Simpson (1843 to 1919) Was a Presbyterian Minister who promoted a consciousness of global evangelism. He founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

Chapter 4 – The Parable of the Pounds; or, Power for Service

The Holy Spirit A B Simpson Chapter 4 – The Parable of the Pounds or Power for Service business It is not necessary, therefore, that you should give up your business and go out of the world to serve Him; but let it be God's business, and then it will always be service. God has no better opportunity for glorifying Himself than to use a man in the secular affairs of life, and be as near to him on Monday as on Sunday; in the workshop as in the holy sanctuary and the secret place. There are plenty of preachers in the world today, but God wants more practitioners. There are many apostles, but Christ is looking for living epistles. There is nothing that speaks more for God than a life spent in the blaze of the world, yet lighted up with holy and heavenly purity and power. Such lives preach to men, whether they want to hear or not.

  “Occupy till I come.” Luke 19: 13. Archelaus, the son of Herod, went to Rome to secure, by influence at the court of the Emperor, the kingdom of Judea, and then returned to enjoy his patrimony. Christ used this familiar illustration to represent His return to the Father to receive the Kingdom, and then […]

Chapter 6 – The Comforter

The Holy Spirit A B Simpson Chapter 6 – The Comforter Not only does He teach us, but He quickens our intellect to remember and to learn. He is the Author and the Illuminator of the mind, and He is the Spirit of suggestion. He knows how to bring back forgotten truths in the moment of need. He knows how to suggest the promise in the time of depression. He knows how to say, "It is written," and put into our hand the sword of the Spirit, when the adversary's wiles are trying and perplexing us.

Chapter 6 – The Comforter “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.” John 14: 16. These three chapters contain Christ’s deepest teachings concerning the Holy Ghost. I. THE NAME, THE COMFORTER. This is not a very happy translation. The Greek word is […]

Chapter 7 – Waiting for The Spirit

The Holy Spirit A B Simpson Chapter 7 – Waiting for The Spirit Oh, it is so sweet to wait upon the Lord and dwell on high, to survey the mountain peaks of His glorious grace and look out on the boundless fullness of His promises and His power, and to hear Him say, "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee" not merely the things thou hast seen, but "great and hidden things which thou knowest not!"

  “Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.” “Wait,” saith He, “for the promise of the Father, which ye have heard of Me.” “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.” These three passages all suggest […]

Chapter 9 – Filled with the Spirit

The Holy Spirit A B Simpson Chapter 9 – Filled with the Spirit It is one thing to be baptized into the one body by the Spirit; it is another thing to drink into that one Spirit. The first is an act; the second is a habit. The first brings us into a relationship; the second is the true use of that relationship, the drinking of His fullness until we become filled, and the habit of abiding in His fullness so that we are always filled.

  “They were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2: 4. “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.” Eph. 5: 18. These words imply that there is a difference between having the Spirit and being filled with the Spirit. These disciples, on the day of Pentecost, had, […]