Weekly Devotional 7-21-14: No Revelation Apart From The Holy Spirit And The Word of God

Weekly Devotional 7-21-14
No Spiritual Revelation Apart From the Holy Spirit and the Word of God

Concerning the Holy Spirit and the word of God, Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote, “Dear brother, honor the Spirit of God as you would honor Jesus Christ if he were present. If Jesus Christ were dwelling in your house you would not ignore him, you would not go about your business as if he were not there. Do not ignore the presence of the Holy Ghost in your soul. I beseech you, do not live as if you had not heard whether there were any Holy Spirit. To him pay your constant adorations. Reverence the august guest who has been pleased to make your body his sacred abode. Love him, obey him, worship him!

Take care never to impute the vain imaginings of your fancy to Him. I have seen the Spirit of God shamefully dishonored by persons—I hope they were insane—who have said that they have had this and that revealed to them. There has not for some years passed over my head a single week in which I have not been pestered with the revelations of hypocrites or maniacs. Semi-lunatics are very fond of coming with messages from the Lord to me, and it may spare them some trouble if I tell them once for all that I will have none of their stupid messages…. Never dream that events are revealed to you by heaven, or you may come to be like those idiots who dare impute their blatant follies to the Holy Ghost. If you feel your tongue itch to talk nonsense, trace it to the devil, not to the Spirit of God. Whatever is to be revealed by the Spirit to any of us is in the word of God already—he adds nothing to the Bible, and never will. Let persons who have revelations of this, that, and the other, go to bed and wake up in their senses. I only wish they would follow the advice, and no longer insult the Holy Ghost by laying their nonsense at his door.”

Charles Spurgeon, sermon entitled “The Paraclete,” October 6, 1872, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1984), 18.

Perhaps some might consider this harsh, but none-the-less Spurgeon spoke volumes of truth in the above message. Many today claim that God has spoken directly to them by some means other than through His authorized word, the Bible. However, the Bible is a closed document comprised of sixty-six books. What God said in and through these books is what he intended for man to know. God does not change. As Spurgeon wrote, “whatever is to be revealed by the Spirit to any of us is in the word of God already—he adds nothing to the Bible, and never will.”

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