The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 143

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HOLY

SPIRIT IN

THE PASSION OF CHRIST

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righteousness was the work and fruit of the Holy Spirit as truly as new life in the regenerate is to-day. The shining-in of the

the

Holy

Spirit is as essential to holiness as the shining of light into

the eye is essential to seeing.

Second, the work of the Son according to the distinction of is other than the work of the Holy Spirit with reference to the human nature. The Holy Spirit could not become three divine Persons

flesh; this the all

Son alone could

things to the Holy Spirit.

do. The Father has not delivered The Holy Spirit works from the Son

but the Son depends upon the Holy Spirit for the application of redemption to individuals. The Son adopts our nature, thus relating Himself with the whole race but the Holy Spirit alone can so enter into individual souls as to glorify the Son in the children ;

of God.

Applying these two principles to the Person of that His

Christ,

we

see

human

nature could not dispense with the constant inshining of the Holy Spirit. For which reason Scripture declares: " He gave Him the Spirit without measure." Nor could the Son according to His own nature take the place of the Holy Spirit; but in

by virtue of His union with the human nature, ever depended upon the Holy Spirit. As to the question, whether the Godhead of Christ did not supthe divine economy,

we answer Undoubtedly but never independHoly Spirit. We faint because we resist, grieve, and repel the Holy Spirit. Christ was always victorious because His divinity never relaxed His hold upon the Holy Spirit in His humanity, but embraced Him and clave unto Him with all the love and energy of the Son of God. port His humanity,

:

;

ently of the

Human

nature

is limited.

susceptible of receiving the Holy But that susceptibility has its limits. Opposed by eternal death, it loses its tension and falls away from the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Hence we have no unlosable good in ourselves, but only as members of the body of Christ. Apart from Him, eternal death would have power over us, would separate us from the Holy Spirit and destroy us. Wherefore all Spirit so as to be

our salvation

As

to the

It is

His temple.

lies in Christ.

human nature of

He

is

our anchor cast within the

Christ, it encountered

eternal death. This could not be otherwise. through temporal death, eternal death would

To

the question

how His human

If

veil.

and passed through He had passed only

still

be unvanquished.

nature could pass through

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