The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 150

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who dwelt in Him without measure, who continued with through Bis death, and in whose work His 07vn spirit fully concurred. the Spirit

Him

The work

of the

Holy

The

easily defined.

Spirit in the exaltation of Christ is not so

Scripture never speaks of

it in connection with His ascension, His sitting at the right hand of the Father, nor with the Lord's second coming. Its connection with the descent at

Pentecost will be treated in its proper place. Light upon these points can be obtained only from the scattered statements concerning the work of the Holy Spirit upon human nature in general. According to Scripture, the Holy Spirit belongs to our nature as the light to the eye

;

not only in

From

less state.

this

we

its sinful condition,

infer that

Adam

but also in the

before he

fell

sin-

was not

without His inworking; hence that in the heavenly Jerusalem our human nature will possess Him in richer, fuller, more glorious

For our

measure. the Spirit

— Ephes.

sanctified nature is a habitation of ii.

God through

22.

therefore, our blessedness in

heaven consists in the enjoyand it is the Holy Spirit who comes into contact with our innermost being, it follows that in heaven He can not leave us. And upon this ground we confess, that not only If,

ment

of the pleasures of God,

the elect, but the glorified Christ also,

man

who

continues to be a true

must therefore forever continue to be filled with the Holy Spirit. This our churches have always confessed in the Liturgy " The same Spirit which dwelleth in Christ as the Head and in us as His members." The same Holy Spirit who performed His work in the concepin heaven,

:

tion of our Lord,

who brought

who attended

the unfolding of His

into activity every gift

and power

in

human

nature,

Him, who conse-

Him to His ofiice as the Messiah, who qualified Him for every conflict and temptation, who enabled Him to cast out devils, crated

and who supported Him in His humiliation, passion, and bitter death, was the same Spirit who performed His work in His resurrection, so that Jesus was justified in the Spirit (i Tim. iii. 16), and

who

dwells

now

in the glorified

human

nature of the Redeemer in

the heavenly Jerusalem.

In this connection

body: "Destroy

it

should be noticed that Jesus said of His and in three days I will raise it up."

this temple,

The Temple was God's habitation on Zion; hence it was a symbol of that habitation of God that was to be set up in our hearts.

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