The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 147

XXIII.

The Holy

Spirit in the Glorified Christ. " Declared to be the

Sou of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dea.d."—/?om.

From

the foregoing studies

it

i.

4.

appears that the Holy Spirit per-

formed a work in the human nature of Christ as He descended the several steps of His humiliation to the death of the cross.

The question now arises, whether He had also a work in the several steps of Christ's exaltation to the excellent glory. />., in His resurrection, ascension, royal dignity, and second coming.

we answer this question, let us first consider the nature work in the exaltation. For it is evident that it must greatly from that in His humiliation. In the latter His human

Before of this differ

nature

suffered violence.

His sufferings antagonized not only His divine nature, but also His human nature. To suffer pam, insult, and mockery, to be scourged and crucified, goes against human nature. The effort to resist such sufferings and to escape from them is perfectly natural.

Christ's groaning in

utterance of the

human

feeling.

Gethsemane

He was burdened

is

the natural

with the curse

and wrath of God against the sin of the race. Then human nature struggled against the burden, and the cry, " Father, let this cup pass from Me," was the sincere and natural cry of horror which human nature could not repress.

And

not in Gethsemane alone through His whole humiliation experienced the same, tho in less degree. His self-emptying was not a single loss or bereavement, but a growing poorer and poorer, until at last nothing was left Him but a piece of ground where He could weep and a cross whereon He could die. He renounced all that heart and flesh hold dear, until, without friend or brother, without one tone of love, amid the mocking laughter of His slanderers. He gave up the ghost. Surely He trod the wine;

He

press alone.

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