HOLY SPIRIT-LEADING
When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as
to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.
Lewis Sperry Chafer
The Spirit
does not take His pupils beyond the cross, but ever more deeply into it.
Paul and
the Self: Apostolic Teaching for Personal Wholeness, Baker, 1993, p. 117.
Watch out for
any ministry or person who claims to be led by the Holy Spirit but acts
contrary to the Word of God. And beware
of any movement or group whose focus is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit points not to Himself but to
Jesus Christ.
George Sweeting
Who Said
That? Moody Press, 1995, p. 236.
Leading
implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the
Divine Spirit are most assuredly children of God, for the Lord ever leads His
own children. If, then, you are following the lead of God’s Spirit, you have
one of the evidences of Sonship.
C.H.
Spurgeon
Guidance of
the Spirit through the mind toward a life of obedience and toward truth is
propounded in Scripture as essential Christianity. Nowhere though does the
Bible teach that direct guidance by means of impressions must be the experience of the believer. Those who argue that such
experiences are to be regular fare for the Christian virtually always make
their case on the basis of the narrative or story sections of the Bible and not
on those that are didactic or teaching sections. I have not been told by God in
His Word that divine visitations of unusual nature constitute authentic
Christianity. I have not been commanded to have them or seek them.
Interestingly enough, Christ Himself said that it is an evil and adulterous
generation that seeks a sign (Matthew 12:39).
Jim Elliff
Led by the Spirit, Joshua Press, 1999, p. 25-26, http://www.solascriptura.ca/shop/store.php?crn=215.
There’s
no mechanism that we possess that tells us at the moment when the Holy Spirit
is leading us and in some supernatural way. But that in retrospect we will be
able to discern by the providences of God that unfold.
John MacArthur
Practical Concerns in the Local Church, http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/GTY135/Practical-Concerns-in-the-Local-Church-An-Interview-with-John-MacArthur.
What a sad
difference is there in the same person, as to what he is when the Spirit leads
him, and as to what he is when the Spirit leaves him!
Thomas Jacombe
A Puritan
Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by
permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 144.
There is a
way in which the Spirit leads the sons of God, a way that others do not know;
and that is by inclining them to do the will of God, to go in the path of truth
and Christian holiness from a holy, heavenly disposition which the Spirit of
God gives them. The Spirit inclines and leads them to those things that are
excellent and agreeable to God. He enlightens them with respect to their duty,
by making their eye single and pure, whereby the whole body is full of light.
The purifying influence of the Spirit corrects the taste of the soul; thereby
He savors those things that are holy and agreeable to God. Like one with a
discriminating taste, He chooses those things that are good and wholesome, and
rejects those that are evil. And thus the Spirit of God leads and guides; He
enables men to understand the commands and counsels of God's Word, and rightly
to apply them.
Jonathan
Edwards