The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 158

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THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY

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SPIRIT

be understood as tho the Holy Spirit came to a place where not before, which

He was

impossible.

is

—

However and this is the first distinction which will throw light upon the matter David's description of omnipresence applies to

—

but not to the world of spirits. not what spirits are, nor what our own spirit

local presence in space,

We know

In

is.

we can distinguish between nerves and blood, bones and muscles, and we know something of their functions in the organism but how a spirit exists, moves, and works, we can not tell. We only know that it exists, moves, and works in an entirely different way from that of the body. When a brother dies nobody opens a door or window for the exit of the soul for we know that neither the body

;

wall nor ceiling can hinder

we whisper

it

in its

so as not to be overheard

Jesus Christ hears every word. that of electricity.

The

heavenward ;

yet

we

flight.

In prayer

believe that the

man

swiftness of a thought exceeds

In a word, the limitations of the material world

seem to disappear in the realm of spirits. Even the working of spirit on matter is wonderful. The average weight of an adult is about one hundred and sixty pounds. It takes three or four men to carry a dead body of that weight to the top of a high building; yet when the man was alive his spirit had the power to carry this weight up and down those flights of stairs easily and quickly. But where the spirit takes hold of the body, how it moves it, and where it obtains that swiftness, is for us a perfect mystery. Yet this shows that spirit is subject to laws wholly from those that govern matter. emphasize the word law. According to the analogy of faith, there must be laws that govern the spiritual world as there are in the natural; yet owing to our limitations we can not know them. But in heaven we shall know them, and all the glories and particulars of the spiritual world, as our physicians know the nerves and

different

We

tissues of the body.

This we know, however, that that which applies to matter does spirit. God's omnipresence has reference

not therefore apply to

to all space, but not to every spirit.

does not follow that

He

Since

God

is

omnipresent,

also dwells in the spirit of Satan.

it

Hence

Holy Spirit can be omnipresent without dwelling and that He can descend without changing place, and yet enter a soul hitherto unoccupied by Him; and that He was present among Israel and among the Gentiles, and yet

it is

clear that the

in every

human

soul;

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