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If religion is an opiate to the people, it is not the religion of Jesus. On the cross he refused to
drink the deadening drug, and his spirit, poured out upon all flesh, is a mighty world influence
which leads man upward and urges him onward. The spiritual forward urge is the most powerful
driving force present in this world; the truth-learning believer is the one progressive and
aggressive soul on earth.
On the day of Pentecost the religion of Jesus broke all national restrictions and racial fetters. It is
forever true, ―Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.‖ On this day the Spirit of Truth
became the personal gift from the Master to every mortal. This spirit was bestowed for the
purpose of qualifying believers more effectively to preach the gospel of the kingdom, but they
mistook the experience of receiving the outpoured spirit for a part of the new gospel which they
were unconsciously formulating.
The coming of the Spirit of Truth on Pentecost made possible a religion which is neither radical
nor conservative; it is neither the old nor the new; it is to be dominated neither by the old nor the
young. The fact of Jesus‘ earthly life provides a fixed point for the anchor of time, while the
bestowal of the Spirit of Truth provides for the everlasting expansion and endless growth of the
religion which he lived and the gospel which he proclaimed. The spirit guides into all truth; he is
the teacher of an expanding and always-growing religion of endless progress and divine
unfolding. This new teacher will be forever unfolding to the truth-seeking believer that which
was so divinely folded up in the person and nature of the Son of Man.