The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 161

HOLY

SPIRIT IN

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

121

fied Son of God, He sat down at the right hand of the Father. Only then the perfect Man was given, who on the one hand could be the temple of the Holy Ghost without hindrance, and on the

other unite the spirits of the elect into one body. And when, by His ascension and sitting down at the right hand of God. this had become a fact, when thus the elect had become one body, it was perfectly natural that from the Head the indwelling of the Holy

was imparted to the whole body. And thus the Holy Spirit was poured out into the body of the Lord, His elect, the Church. In this way everything becomes plain and clear clear why the saints of the Old Testament did not receive the promise, that withSpirit

:

out us they should not be

made

until the formation of the

body of

to be incorporated

Holy

;

perfect, waiting for that perfection

Christ, into which they also were clear that the tarrying of the outpouring of the

Spirit did not prevent saving grace

from operating upon the

individual souls of the saints of the Old Covenant; clear the of John, that the Holy Spirit was not yet given because

word

Jesus was

not yet glorified; clear that the apostles were born again long before Pentecost and received official gifts on the evening of the day of the resurrection, altho the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the body thus formed did not take place until Pentecost. It becomes clear how Jesus could say, " If I go not away the Comforter will not

come unto you," and again, " But if I go I will send Him unto you"; Holy Spirit was to flow into His body from Himself, who is the Head. It becomes clear also that He would not send Him from

for the

Himself, but from the Father; clear

body of Christ

Spirit into the

but once

;

and

is

why this outpouring of the never repeated, and could occur

lastly, clear that the

ing in the midsi of Israel

from without, while in the

New

Holy

Spirit was indeed standworking upon the saints Testament He is said to be wit/iin

(Isa. Ixiii.

12),

them.

We

arrive, therefore, at the following conclusions:

must constitute one body. Second, they were not so constituted during the days of the Old Covenant, of John the Baptist, and of Christ while on earth. First, the elect

Third, this body did not exist until Christ ascended to heaven and, sitting at the right unity, in that

Church

hand

God gave Him

— Ephes.

of God, bestowed to

be Head over

upon all

this

body

its

things to the

iv. 12.

Lastly, Christ as the glorified Head, having

formed His

spiritual

j

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