Hope Spiritual Power is lost
Any discussion of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit , and the power which results from it would be incomplete if attention were not called to the fact that spiritual power may be lost. One of the strangest and saddest stories of the Old Testament history is that of Samson . It is also one of the most instructive. He was by far the most remarkable man of his day. The grandest opportunities were open to him, but after striking temporary victories, his life ended in tragic failure, all through his own inexcusable folly. Time and again it is said of him that “the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him,” and in the power of that Spirit he wrought to the astonishment of his people and the discomfiture of the enemies of the Lord; but in Judges 16:19, 20, we see him deserted of the Lord, though unconscious of it, his strength gone from him, and he about to be taken into wretched captivity, the sport of the godless, and to die with the enemies of the Lord a violent and dishonored death