FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST.

The needs of spiritual men are very great, but they are not greater than the power of the Divine Trinity to meet. We have one God-Father, Son and Holy Ghost,-One in Three and Three in One, and that blessed Trinity in unity gives Himself to sinners that they may be saved. In the first place, every good thing that a sinner wants is in The Father. The prodigal son was wise when he said, " I will arise and go to my father." Every good and perfect gift comes from God The Father, the first Person of the blessed Trinity, because every good and perfect gift can only be found in Him. But the needy soul says, " how shall I reach The Father? He is infinitely above me, how shall I get to Him?" In order that you may obtain the blessings of grace, God was in Christ Jesus, the second ever-blessed Person of the sacred Trinity. Jesus said " All things that The Father hath are Mine." So you see that everything is in The Father first, and The Father puts all things into Christ, for, " it pleased The Father, that in Him should all fulness dwell." Now you can get to Christ because He is man as well as God. He is " over all, God blessed forever." But He came into this world, was born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, was buried. He is the conduit-pipe, conveying to us all the blessings from The Father. In the gospel of John we read, " of His fulness have all we recieved, and grace for grace." Thus you see The Father, with every good thing in Himself, putting all fulness into the mediator, the Man Christ Jesus who is also the Son of God.
Now I hear a poor soul say, " but I cannot even get to Christ, I am lame and blind. If I could get to Him , He would open my eyes, but I am so lame that I cannot run or even walk to Him. If I could get to Him, He would give me strength, but I lie as one dead. I cannot see Christ or tell where to find Him." Here comes the work of The Holy Spirit, the third Person of the blessed Trinity. It is His office to take the things of Christ, and show them to saints and sinners alike. We cannot see them, but we shall see them fast enough when He shows them unto us. Our sins put a veil between ourselves and Christ. The Holy Spirit comes and takes the veil away from our hearts, and then we see Christ. It is The Holy Spirits office to come between us and Christ, even as the Son of God comes between us and The Father, to lead us to The Father. So that we have the whole Trinity uniting to save a sinner, the Triune God bowing down out of heaven for the salvation of rebellious men.
Every time we dismiss you from this house of prayer, we pronounce upon you the blessing of The Sacred Trinity. " May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of The Holy Ghost be with you." And you want all that to make a sinner into a saint, and to keep the saint from going back to being a sinner again. The whole blessed Godhead, Father, Son and Holy Ghost must work upon every soul that is to be saved. See how divinely they work together, how The Father glorifies The Son, how The Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus, how both The Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus glorify The Father? These Three are One, sweetly uniting in the salvation of the holy seed.