upon all flesh; and your sons and your
daughters shall prophecy, and your young men shall see visions, and your
old men shall dream dreams; and on my servants and on my handmaidens I
will pour out in those days of my spirit; and they shall prophesy." Jesus
gave his disciples the great commission to go into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature, but said, "Tarry ye in Jerusalem
until ye be endued with power from on high." After the Savior ascended it
is said that he received the promise of the Father and shed forth that
which was seen and heard on the day of Pentecost. What was the result?
They spake with tongues. They prophesied. They healed the sick. They
raised the dead. They bestowed spiritual gifts. They were guided into all
truth. They "preached the gospel with the Holy Spirit sent down from
heaven;" and in this fact we have the beautiful figure of rivers of living
water flowing out of their hearts, for Jesus said, "He that believeth on
me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly (From the Heart, inward
part) shall flow rivers of living water." This, the historian says, "He
spake of the spirit which they that believed on him were to receive,
because the Holy Spirit was not yet given, for Jesus was not yet
glorified." Hence, we are authorized to look for its fulfillment at
Pentecost, and also in the preaching of the gospel of Christ. Paul says,
"My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should
not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." Here is the
basis of our faith.

All those who believe on Christ through the words of the apostles have a
faith that stands in the power of God. The apostle further adds, "Now we
have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Spirit teacheth, comparing spiritual things with
spiritual." Before the Savior left the world he breathed upon his apostles
and said, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit," adding, "Whosesoever sins ye remit
they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain they are
retained." So it pleased the Father to "save men through the foolishness
of preaching." And Paul said, "We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
the Lord; and ourselves your servants for