A. B. Simpson was an author, hymn writer, conference speaker, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He founded The Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College.
The following is from his book Wholly Sanctified:
"In the indwelling of the Holy Spirit He has given us the very same spirit that dwelt in Him [the Lord Jesus].
"On the banks of the Jordan He first received the Holy Spirit, and as He was leaving the world He breathed upon them and communicated to them with the sweetness of His own life and love the same Spirit in which He had wrought all His miracles and spoken all His words. And so Peter says in connection with the gift of Pentecost that Christ 'having received the promise of the Spirit has shed forth this which ye now see and hear.'
"Therefore, the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Christ and sometimes even Christ, because He brings to us the presence of Jesus and enables us to realize our oneness with Him.
"This is the secret of the love that casts out fear; to be filled with the Spirit of Jesus until we are lost in the consciousness of our union with our beloved Lord.
"''He gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.' Therefore, if we have Him we have the Spirit that dwelt in Him without measure.
"Have we? Then, indeed, we are 'filled with all the fullness of God and have received exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think according to the power that works in us.'"
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