“The blight of the Pharisee’s heart in olden times was doctrine without love. With the teachings of the Pharisees Christ had little quarrel, but with the phairisaic spirit he carried on unceasing warfare to the end.
It was religion that put Christ on the cross, religion without the indwelling Spirit. It is no use to deny that Christ was crucified by the persons who would today be called fundamentalists.This should prove most disquieting if not downright distressing to us who pride ourselves on our orthodoxy. An unblessed soul filled with the letter of truth may actually be worse off than a pagan kneeling before a fetish.
We are safe only when the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, only when our intellects are indwelt by the loving Fire that came at Pentecost.For the Holy Spirit is not a luxury, not something added now and again to produce a deluxe tye of Christian once in a generation.No, He is for every child of God a vital necessity, and that he fill and indwell His people is more than a languid hope.
It is rather an inescapable imperative.”
- A.W. Tozer: The Holy Spirit as Fire “God’s Pursuit of Man”
