Heaven's Throne Gift

When Duane and Iris Blue were with us last year, they told me about a book Heaven's Throne Gift by James A. Stewart as a book that changed Manley Beasley and them. So I have read it several times and I'm going to share some insights with you in several posts.

It is not for an instance that the disciples are to have the Presence of the Spirit instead of the Son, for to have the Spirit is to have the Son. The Holy Spirit does not supersede the work of Christ in the sense that Christ ceases to work, and the Spirit takes His place, but the work of Christ Himself is continued in the Spirit's work, under new conditions, both outward and inward. (page 18)

All that the Lord Jesus had done for the disciples, the Holy Spirit would continue to do. (pg. 19)

The vital truth in the Upper Room discourse is, that just as the Lord Jesus is able to meet every need of the sinner, so the Holy Spirit is able to meet every need of the believer. (pg. 19-20)

He meets the need of our ignorance. It is not possible for every one of us to go to a Bible school or Seminary, but even so, we may have an anointing from the Spirit that we may know the things of God. As a boy preacher, beginning to evangelize at fourteen years of age,...I was cast upon the Holy Spirit for the knowledge of divine truth. (page 21)

The best way to know the Bible is to read it on our knees under the Spirit's anointing. You can know Hebrew and Greek, and yet not be taught of the Spirit. (pg. 22)

The reason why so many believers' lives are a grief and disappointment to them is that they are seeking to live the Christian life apart from the Spirit. (pg. 24)