The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 136

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lay in Mary's lap, or as a boy looked around in his stepfather's

He was

shop,

a child not only in appearance with the wisdom of a

venerable, hoary head, but a real child, whose impressions, feelings,

and thoughts kept step with His years. No doubt His development was quick and beautiful, surpassing anything ever seen in other children, so that the aged rabbis in the Temple were astonished when they looked upon the Boy only twelve years old; yet it always remained the development of a child that first lay upon His mother's lap, then learned to walk, gradually became a boy and youth, until He attained the fulness of man's stature. sensations,

And

as the

Holy

Spirit with every increase of

enlarged the exercise of

its

powers and

with reference to the relation of the

He

His human nature

He did also God and men,

faculties, so

human

nature to

to the unfolding

God and men. Favor has reference and development of the inward life, and may

manifest

a twofold way, either pleasing or displeasing to

for

increased in favor with

itself in

God and men. and

Of Jesus

it

is

said that in His development such

and

powers and

qualifi-

cations manifested themselves from the inward life of His

human

gifts

faculties, dispositions

attributes,

nature that God's favor rested upon them, while they affected those

around

Him

in

a refreshing and helpful way.

Even apart from His Messiahship Jesus

stood, with reference to His human nature, during all the days of His humiliation, under the constant and penetrating operation of the Holy Spirit. The Son, who lacked nothing, but as God in union with the Father and the Holy Spirit possessed all things, compassionately adopted our human nature. And inasmuch as it is the peculiarity of that nature to derive its gifts, powers, and faculties not from itself, but from the Holy Spirit, by whose constant operation alone they can be exercised, so did the Son not violate this peculiarity, but, altho He was the Son, He did not take its preparation, enriching, and operation into His own hand, but was willing to receive them from the hand of the

Holy

The

tism, altho tion,

Spirit.

fact that the

He had

Holy

Spirit

received

descended upon Jesus at His Bapwithout measure at His concep-

Him

can only be explained by keeping in view the difference

between

iho.

personal and

official life

of Jesus.

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