Receiving the Holy Ghost

Charles Haddon Spurgeon July 13, 1884
Scripture: Acts 19:2
From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 30
As the Holy Ghost is the Author of our quickening, the Lord and Giver of life, so is he the Author of all true instruction. My brother, you have professed to be a believer, but you know nothing at all unless the Holy Spirit has taught you. "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord." To be taught of the minister is nothing, but to be taught of the Lord is everything. It is only the Spirit of God who can engrave the truth upon the fleshy tablets of the heart. We speak to the ear, but only he can speak to the inmost soul. He that professes to be a believer, while he has never received the truth in the power of it, as sent home by the Spirit of light and fire, has need to begin again, and learn the first rudiments of the faith.