The Holy Spirit: Let Him Come In - Classic A. W. Tozer Audio Sermons

clean the pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them but the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose the Lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man for that he also is flesh what his days shall be a hundred and twenty years and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only he were continually and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air and it repented me that I had made them the earth was corrupt before God and the earth was plagued with violence broad said unto Noah the end of all flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold I will destroy them with the earth make thee an ark of gopher wood rooms shalt thou make in the Ark and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch in the six hundredth year of Noah's life in the six month second month in the seventeenth day of the month the same day were all the Fountains of the great deep broken up the windows of heaven were opened then the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights and all flesh died that moved upon the earth both of fowl and its cattle and the Beast and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth and every man and every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground both men and cattle and the creeping things in the fowl of the heaven they were destroyed from the earth and now only remained alive and they that were with him in the ark some God remembered Noah and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and God made a wind the Passover Dera and the water is a swage and the fountains are all sold the deep and the windows of heaven were wrapped in the rain from heaven was restrained the waters returned from out the earth continually after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated came to pass at the end of 40 days that not opened the window of the ark which he had made and they sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth also is sent forth a dove from him to see if the water's were abated from off the face of the ground but the blood found no rest for the sole of her foot she returned unto him into the ark for the waters were on the face of the whole earth when he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in under him into the ark he stayed yet seven other days and again he sent for the dive out of the ark and the Dove came into her in the evening to him and lowering her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth and he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth about rook's returned not again under him anymore otherwise I have particularly in mind is the part of verse 9 and chapter 8 but the Dove found normal rest for the sole of her foot I say this is a Millis tration rather than the type but I believe the Holy Spirit put it here and I don't wish to enter this strange beautiful region of the Genesis wrong for the landscape is as mysterious as it is lovely but it seems our sketchy and fragmentary and I leave close exegesis for somebody else tonight and I want to illustrate why the Holy Spirit does not fill his church no first we notice the world as God saw and judged it before the flood God searched into the hearts of men it says here and we saw that mankind was corrupt and wicked filled with evil thoughts and imaginations continually now the Holy Spirit says this the man is corrupt wicked evil thoughts and of imagination and God saw the ways of men that they were corrupt violence and engrossed with transitory interests even amid their corruption and Vallance the results are what God saw among men was grief to God's own heart it really met his heart and as I said on another occasion only love can grieve you cannot grieve unless you love and God loved the man whom he had made and the degenerate and corrupt race that had descended from him and God's love caused him to grieve and it's filled him with anxious care the result was a sentence you see the kindest thing a physician or a surgeon can do sometimes is to take off the leg the kindest thing he can do is to remove that which otherwise would kill the patient however shocking it may be and however terrible the news might be to the patient the best news for you is amputation will otherwise it would be better so the bird who loved mankind looked upon man and saw that moral corruption had had gotten such a hold on men it had gone out into all the bloodstream and was in all the tissues and cells and he knew that the patient would die unless who sent kindly judgment to destroy it and saved a few to start over but the race might not perish borne down by the spongy corrupt wake of his own sins so God sent a judgement on the earth and the waters covered the earth as they had formerly covered the sea and after the passing of a great many days great numbers of days one hundred and fifty days the Ark of God still floated there with eight persons aboard and with the the animals and birds and all the creatures that would drown did not die didn't take fish or the aquatic animals because they could live in the water but all that which would die by the waters of the flood there were they were in the ark moon of course after the passing of so many days it would long past the flood stage worship people and things were simply dead corruption had already started to set in in the Northland the ark would had settled upon Ararat opened the ark and turned the bird out to sea you see the windows of the ark were upward toward heaven and there were no apparently no portals out to don't look down so now decided to find out from the bird whether there was dry ground below they're the waters of judgment had ass waged as it's called here and he opened the window and push the Raven out and there we have a sight the like of which it is probably very hard to visualize or understand but where is that sight of a dark bird sailing across the desolations now what was that desolation what did it amount to what did it add up whoo it added up to the judgment of God because the the angry displeasure of God was on the world and the waters of the judgment the boiling silt and the floating corpses and all did things and bits of flotsam and jetsam that were there all over the waters they were a mark of the judgment of God's upon the world and the dark birds sailed across the desolations and was dark heart felt at home their prey was a carrion eater and he felt at home among the carrion and as that raven sailed away from the warm labour dark and from the presence of Noah he crawled through the delight because out there now swollen with internal gases until their hides were swirl word topped as a drum and then wetted with the waters of the flood these floating things cattle and all creatures corpses human corpses floating there in the waters to everything in every bar else it would have been a repulsive and horrible sight the Pavin was built for it something in his jaw hardly loved it because he lived on it so he immediately sailed down and lighted on a near and likely corpse and began to tear with his great claws and with his huge be great hunks of half rotten flesh eat or away an eighth until he was Logie than sleepy with overeating and when fastened his and clogged down into the floating thing and dill happy and restful we went to sleep croaking it goodnight word the happiness that he found what his heart wanted corruption and desolation in silken flotsam and rotten flesh and dead things for I say this finit is disposition in his temperament so he paid on the floating death and so my friends this is it's not a type at least a brilliant illustration of how things are in the world today will man sin and god deserted him and he deserted God and he went out from the place that had been Eden the garden eastward in Eden and began to propagate himself man had the judgment of God upon him the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die the pointed under man wants to die and after that the judgment says God and God says that he's displeased with every man and then as we repent we shall all perish and all the nations of the world shall be turned into hell God is displeased with the nations of the world he's displeased not only with the east he's displeased with the west we send these judgment not only upon the Iron Curtain countries but he sends his judgement upon the soul cloth free nations of the world of which this is one so that the great judgment of God is upon mankind all the stock of mankind red and yellow black and white educators and uneducated cultured and uncultured cavemen and learned men around the world and yet you know that because man has an in that thing we call sin doesn't seem to bother people doesn't bother them go because there are just as the Raven was at home in the revelation his dark heart had an affinity for the judgment and desolation so it is that men find themselves at home in a world under the judgment of God the only one good man that ever came to the world could only manage to stay alive 33 years and then they took him out and nailed him on the cross and the better men are the worse they're despised by those who love the desolation and the darkness that is the sin of the world and just as the Raven never came back to the ark but lived out there in the desolations soul men have built their civilization a porn floating death and you find that everywhere we like to think otherwise we're proud of our culture and they were proud of our bridges and our and our perfect sand there all the things that we can do but God looks on the heart and God says the world is filled with violence and it's filled with violence now and it's filled with corruption now and it's filled with iniquity now just as it was then but the little thing is that we accept it men accept it as such you spread of being horrified by it they accepted and they excused it and there write books to call it something else I think for instance the sodomy overwhelm all sexuality that is the plain name is suddenly that brought the fire of God down on Sodom and Gomorrah I have seen books and read books that have been written to excuse this and say that it's quite the proper thing and that if a man is born the end for another man instead of a woman he's natural and he ought not to be criticized he's living his own nature and they ought to call it's not something bad but it's his way of living so we have books and rented professors rise and rava where degrees and stand up and and I view in favor of sodomy and every other advice under the Sun so the judgment of God is upon the world for this Sepang floating bethe everywhere well the judgment now God sends out the Raven and the Raven never comes back because the Raven is pleased with what it sees but God sends out the dog Noah sends out the Dove acting for God sends out the dog and you know have you ever heard a job or pigeon the brevin huddled where their wing have how they cling to your wrist and you put her upon his wrist and she took off and British banks and turned and banks and turns and pretty soon he heard the wear of the wings again he brought out his wrist and she hopped on his wrist he pulled her back in I she had something in her that couldn't stand corruption she couldn't stand food she couldn't stand bird chirps and she couldn't stand what the raven loved because she had in a knot with dark height of the Raven but she had into the heart of the dog it was not for nothing that when the Holy Ghost came down upon Jesus he came in the form of above the paint feet and around right eye of the Dove now those pink feet will never land on anything day those pink feet will never land on anything filthy and though the ground bright eyes will never look with allowance upon anything that is filthy the Dove is a type and picture of the Holy Ghost harmless and poor and weak and sensitive and loving and so she came back she couldn't stand it the regiments of God were everywhere and this Hilton the filth and the flotsam were too much for her dove heart so she came back and asked to get in the best she could fluttering against the edge of the window when you pulled her in and kept her there for a while now why did Jesus say we spoke of the Holy Spirit whom the world cannot receive whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him there is one thing absolutely that Christians ought to get in your minds it is that the world knows nothing about the Holy Ghost the world knows nothing about the speed the world moves about good men the world the world appreciates a good man if he gives to colleges and hospitals and goes over and runs a clinic to take care of lepers they avail right whoops about him and celebrate him the world knows about good men but the world has absolutely no affinity for the holy spirit because even good men are under the judgment of God and the best that we have in the world our universities or our oratorical societies the best we have apart from the new birth apart from from the presence of God in the life of a man his only corruption and the wrath of God is upon it the world cannot receive it and I think that the most I think that the most the most awful enlists the most terrifying thing that the sensitive Christian heart can hear is the wearing of the wings of God God wants to come down who wants to get into our houses of parliment he wants to get into our congress's and senate he wants to get into our United Nations he wants to get in to our groups would play baseball and hockey God wants to get in but he can't get in because the judgments his wrath is upon men his fury is upon a corrupt and violent and vicious world so the Holy Spirit's restless and you can't come down and you wouldn't come down for a loves mankind who loves the blackest sinner in all the world it might be or me because sin is of the heart as well as of the body in and then akanda now it would be something else again and I suppose I wouldn't preach this sermon tonight if all I had to say was that the world could not receive the Holy Spirit but that which gives me the most concern is that the Holy Ghost cannot even light upon Christians now every Christian has a measure of the Holy Spirit let's get that straight except a man has the Holy Spirit moves none of his and when the Holy Spirit converts a man regenerate the man there's a deposit of the Holy Spirit in the life of that man that is one thing I want you to know my theologies quite sound indeed in fact I preached this same sermon the Moody Bible Institute mountain colleges to other places so it's not heresy and it's not Pentecostalism I'm trying to get through to you a proof but I want you to hear and is that the Holy Spirit is in some major resident in the breasts of everybody that's converted otherwise it wouldn't be converted the Holy Spirit doesn't stand outside the man and regenerating weakens engines are regenerating that is one thing and we're glad and grateful for that that is one thing but it's quite another thing for the Holy Spirit to come down where these rays outspread uninhibited free and pleased and for full lives into full churches and the further denomination that's quite another thing but some major of the Spirit is in the breast of every man is read and write and real but that the Holy Spirit wants to come down as the dove water the land on the earth on the dry ground and could find no place for the sole of her foot that is also true now the spirit seeks I say among us a resting place for his feet the Holy Ghost seeks a resting place for his feet and we have called these lightnings down these comings down comings down of the Holy Ghost we have called them revivals and we're languishing for the Lightning down of the Spirit I will I say this to you now there you know I I can't hope to continue to please people very long because I have to tell the truth and truth is not very well received not even by the saints but the simple truth is unless we have a lighting down upon evangelicalism upon fundamentalism Apollo upon swift riches is our line stretchers unless we have a lightning down unless the daughter of God can come down with his wings outspread and make himself known and tell them on us that's which is fundamentalism to be in 25 years will be liberalism you can be certain of that and liberalism will be unitarianism because this vile world is not a friend the grace to lead us on to God we're going the other direction have you thought about it my brother have you thought about it for a is simply running around being entertained have you thought about all this you and I have got to face judgment one of these days you and I are going to stand before the man whose eyes are like fire and out of whose mouth this comes a sharp two-edged it's hard and we're going to have to talk to him about deeds done in the body and we're going to have to face what Wesley called the greatest size and there are the guts for the deeds done in the not the great white throne judgment which is for sinners but another judgment which is for Christians and we're going to have to show him and we've been serious about all this we weren't out to be under tained we were out to be that we might be holy the Spirit is seeking the rest for the sole of his foot we're seeking it and yet I hear the fluttering of holy wings and I hear the morning sound of him who is grieved and quenched I see him looking about for signs of repentance for signs of sorrow of life and the lifting of the judgment of God from the church when God judges the world it will be terror and fire but God wants to judge the church he wants to judge you and me his children he wants to begin at the house of the Lord and he wants to begin to judge us and the absence of the full power of the Holy Ghost is perpetual condemnation and what are the marks of of God's displeasure upon his people what are the marks of them well let me name a few of them for you claims in which nobody can deny sins of act and of habit sins of selfishness such as rolling in wealth all the world stars living like kings while millions perish sins of the heart such as lust you know you can be a Christian or at least you can belong to a good church and still have lust in your heart you can belong to a good church and still have spite in your heart because you go to the pastor or the elders that we couldn't ever catch them in in your church and they can't look in your heart and nobody got lust in their not we've all that is a religious grin when we all manage to look past when the occasion comes up so when we apply for membership we smile past we may say he's a fine young man but in his heart there is less than God hates it and the government come down we can't look in the woman's heart and see that she's spiteful there because the woman across the street had with the longer card and she has wore a fur coat that cost more she can't see resentment between the hearts of people and blame there there are churches where deacons and the elders sit on the same board for years with unconfessed resentment in their hearts and resentment in the heart of the man is just as bad as adultery and resentment in their spike in the heart of a woman is just as bad of the world we make ourselves very holy and we laugh at Elvis Presley I don't think he's worth it even being laughed at myself I think he should go get lost that's why I feel about him but I wonder after all a poor little Billy from where is it in Mississippi or somewhere never had a chance in his life and all we learn to do is to look pretty and wiggle and sing well he made a million at it he made a million at it they wanted him here in Toronto he asked for $50,000 and the fellows was signing him up said I can't stand the expansion I can't stand Elvis so they didn't bring Elvis but why should we look down our holy noses at that hillbilly he's doing the only thing he knows to do and I wonder if Elvis when he goes into a coma and begins to swing insane I wonder if Elvis is any worse than some of us pious people that have spite in our heart and resentment and jealousy all I hope is not so in your acquired I have no reason to think it is but you know what they call a choir the War Department because up there for the fights take place alone why don't you ask me to sing well cheaply cause you can't is amazing that's it but we we have this kind of evil thing in our hearts resentment I've met people that just lived with resentment we're no friends I just mad at anybody I refuse absolutely I come from of a fiery nervous English strain my father could his temper was was like the trigger on an atom bomb and he could blow up I've seen him take a shovel and beat a wheelbarrow in anger you know just be the real girl and I got it but I won't stay sorrowed anybody I refuse to do it I refuse to have to have a resentment in the hill will an unforgiving spirit eat at my vitals forgive the guy for God's sake Frank given sister we didn't know any better in town if he did be sorry now forgive the power and you'll feel better inside that we've got it spike we got jealousy and we got in vain they've got pride pride of person pride of Cretan pride of position and pride of race and pride of accomplishments and then there's Clovis of heart toward the Godhead we sing about God and we pray but at last we are and we worship but coldly and stiffly and toward the languishing church back in Israel the man of God warned the Jews he said woe unto them that IDs enzyme stretch themselves on beds of ivory and make instance of music like David but they're not v4 the judgments of Israel and that's where we are we're fundamental sure we are carrying our Scofield Bible sure we do and there were evangelical but we the churches languishing and we don't care least we don't care very much and then there's the poor sick world out there I put my pride as I've said again before I don't want to be happy while the world perishes nobody loves the world quite enough the man who loved the world enough to die for it died for us and the man who loved Israel enough to lump the perish for Israel cried out we wanted to be a Christopher for for Israel's sake that was Paul but I don't know we don't seem to have it much these these days much of our Christianity is social instead of spiritual we should be a spiritual body with social overtones instead of that most of our churches our social bodies with spiritual overtones the heart of the church hall was ought to be Christ in the Holy Spirit the heart of the church always ought to be heaven and God and righteousness and they that love the Lord's broke off and one to another and what they spoke about with spiritual things I have met men I have met men that you couldn't talk to about anything but God you had a Canadian right here in this city so the name of Jeffrey I wrote his life I called it let my people go Robert Jeffrey used to be part owner of your golden mail and he became a Christian pulled away from his family at that over their protest they got over later and everybody was happy but but first he pulled away and went to the mission field that man who brought that that would godly man and after a few years of searching for the lost and winning them and reading maps and going where no man and his condition should ever have gone because he was overweight and he had diabetes so that was difficult for him to eat right and yet we went and went and went and lived on whatever he could find eat and lived among the poor and the miserable peoples of the world always saying to the God let my people go and winning them well that man got to a place where you couldn't talk to him i sat beside him in a in a home in Chicago and I tried to discuss his common things with liquid and good he looked down and the answer and then begin to talk about God missions I have met Saints like that people who who were so interested in the things of God - nothing else mattered and I my brother and sister the Holy Spirit loves people like that who loves that kind of spirit and he's quick to come and fulfill and to take over and to take charge I'd hoped that at least an olive leaf that we might find at least an olive leaf but I don't know I don't know I thought I could come to Toronto and the guy could perhaps spend my time riding during the week and then spend Saturday getting ready for Sunday preach on Sunday and then go back but I find I can't do it I carry the burden of it and the load of it on my heart and the people aren't going to aren't going to obey if they're not going to follow God if they're not going to surrender why should I waste much time God's looking for a people of people who want to be right you looking for a little spot at least where the waters of his displeasure are dried up where there's no more judgement no no no more death where the silt and flotsam zall been cleaned away and where the Blessed Holy Spirit can come and come down in power we watch to do that of Admiral Church he wants to do that beginning with with we were on the platform maybe I don't know you didn't always and going to ever everybody in the church she wants to do that for us now I close by telling you an honest story this a man was on the train once I don't remember who I was traveling from but he got on and he sat down with me and I knew the man he was a missionary from one of from India and he seemed very tender and broken and then he said that I'd like to ask you something mr. Tolar I'm troubled I'm bothered and I'd like to ask you something and I said I'm so used to it and just another one I thought but he said this isn't a problem now he said about he named a number of years back he said a strange thing happened on our mission compound in India he said we had been having blessing and and people were breast and everything was going alright but he said the missionaries got together for a little conference in this field in India and the native Christians were there and we were all sitting around together and he said a Presbyterian preacher a missionary got up to preach to us and we preached then he sat down and he said mister total I'll never be able to describe what happened and I don't know why it happened but he said suddenly there came down on that assembly something might be like like like a like a wave of love and light and he said it broke us up completely and he said one missionary ran to another one said forgive me forgive me and another one ran for the other and they wept and hugged each other now he said a strange result has been this has had a strange result it is this he said in my home it's been completely transformed now he said my wife and I were getting on perfectly well normal Christian home but he said oh the difference since that time home is heaven now he said but he said now that didn't bother me but here's what bothered we said since that time I am so tender and I weep so easily but it bothers me he said when I got up to preach I'm just as likely as not to break down and cry now I said never was that way before but he said since the coming down that day that sudden wonderful visitation in India he said I just cry so easily as in my heart's tender and he said there I get up to speak in there goes again so now coming across on this ship I had this experience so they asked me to take Chapel on shipboard one morning and I did and he said they told me there were some communists who would be present in the service when he said I put my text then there came again he said with memory of all the glory came down on him he said I just began to cry I couldn't finish my sermon I said what the Communists think of it did they make fun of you oh no he said he said they were very reverent about it he said I'm not saying anything good about economists I can't but at least in this case the Holy Ghost that sucked from a feeling the Communists and then I said to my friend Bert you asked me for advice how can you overcome your tender heart is it for God's sake mother don't try it we got so many dry preachers in the United States now it is down there we got some inning of course you have them here we got so many dry preachers we got so many men who couldn't get it here I said if you can keep the tears of gob onion keep your heart tender keep it brother you've got a treasure I'd never give up but you know how he got that way they're coming down the lighting down now I don't think that pristine preacher had anything do as you might have you know God using but they got right with each other they've got cleaned up they got the trouble out of their heart and they got their sin put away even missionaries got their sin put away and when when there was no more evidence of the displeasure of Almighty God the Holy Ghost came down do you know what I believe I believe that this church and you who are now in this building I believe that we could have and enjoy a sense of the divine presence so sweet so beautiful so tender that it would change our only personality that it would change our attitude toward each other that it would clear up a lot of things some of you are troubled with inside of it that it would be like the coming of spring to a landscape sweet and fresh and warm with birdsong and sunshine and there be no fanaticism and there would be no wild doctrines and be no imported Wonder there would just be a coming down of the doll he could find the little place for the soles of his feet but I wonder if that isn't the trouble now with Moses you want to be filled and blessed but you're not willing to pay the price of letting your life get cleaned up so you're not only a Christian you're not only accepted Christ but you've gotten right so God can do it for your concern are you interested next time tonight I want to talk about how to be filled with the spirit but unless unless the impurities and the things that God hates our friends out of our lives we won't be able to do anything about it you say are you charging this church with with wrongdoing no I just know people I know people you're just people you're nice people but you're people and I don't sense too much of the Holy Ghost maybe that's the reason it just isn't at home he's here you'll always be here well I'm with you always where did not free and he's not happy in her midst as he could be and would be if we'd all personally decide to put away lying in dishonest and impurity and spike in jealousy and envy and hate an unforgiving spirit and pride and egotism and vanity and all of the things or any other thing and say come come Lord Jesus

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Length: 41min 37sec (2497 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 05 2011