ATTRACTING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
By B. E. Tefft
B. E. TEFFT
(Davenport, Iowa) The Father and Son are in perfect union. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are in perfect union. In the plan of salvation it has been ordained that this union should not be complete without the human agent—the union of Spirit with flesh. The Son is subject to the Father, the Holy Spirit to the Son, and thus to the Father, and likewise the human agent, in being subject to the Holy Spirit, is subject to the Father and Son. If the Son should cease to be subject to the Father, or the Holy Spirit to the Father or the Son, the union would be broken, and the power derived from the Father would be lost. While this condition will never exist, a condition no less disastrous to man often exists. When the human agent ceases to be subject to the Holy Spirit, and tries to subject the Spirit to himself, the perfect grade of control is changed, the union is broken, and the power lost to the man. By refusing to be controlled by the Spirit, he places himself outside of that union in which is all power. Satan is constantly seeking, by every strategem and artifice known to his experience, cunning, and power, to break323this union; for he knows that so long as man is in the union, and thus connected with “all power,” his efforts against him are useless. The mind of God is revealed through the Spirit by “the Word,” and thus disobedience to the Word destroys the union. But when man from the heart obeys the Word, it is his privilege to pray for the Holy Spirit, and to believe that he receives the Spirit. Physically, he may seem to be the same man he was before, but he now has a power that he did not have before,—the power to do something for the Lord. Here is a magnet and a piece of iron. Bring the iron in contact with the magnet. The iron does not look any different from what it was before; it weighs no more, nor is it in any physical or chemical sense changed; and yet it has a new power; namely, that of attracting other pieces of iron. So the human agent, brought under control and in vital contact with the Holy Spirit, will have the power of attracting other souls to Christ.