Because the blessed Spirit of God is wounded in the house of His
friends, the church languishes and fails to “bring forth” while sinners
go carelessly down the broad road to hell.
Many want a “dignified” revival or no revival at all. They do not want
anybody’s feelings hurt or people’s sense of orderliness insulted. That
blessed man, Duncan Campbell, told me once that after speaking to a
ministerial group concerning the mighty manifestations of God in
Hebrides, one pastor declared, “If that is revival, I for one, do not
want it!” What a tragedy. As E. W. Mills has so beautifully stated:
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
and streams in the desert. - Isa. 35:5-6
Surely we can trust the Holy Spirit to take care of His own
work. If we can trust Him for small manifestations, why can we not
trust Him for mighty ones? In the Book of Acts, we see how He restrains
as well as constrains. He vindicated His deity when He restrained sin
in the church through the death of Ananias and Sapphira. His
restraining influence is again seen when He forbade Paul on two
occasions to enter into fields of his own choosing. We need not be
afraid of the Spirit.
