The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 140

THE MEDIATOR

lOO temptation lee,

He

returned in the power of the Holy Spirit into Gali-

thus entering upon the public ministry of His prophetic

It is

office.

evidently the purpose of the Scripture to emphasize the fact

human nature which Christ had adopted to accomplish the work of the Messiah without the constant operaof the inability of the

tion

and powerful leading of the Holy

strengthened that

it

Spirit,

whereby

it

could be the instrument of the Son of

was so

God

for

the performance of His wonderful work.

Jesus was conscious of

this,

and

at the beginning of His ministry

He turned to Isa. Ixi. and read to them: " The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me"; then added: " This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears." The Holy Spirit did not support His human nature in the temptation and in the opening ministry only, but in all His mighty deeds, as Christ Himself testified " If I cast out devils by the Spirit ot God, then the Kingdom of God is come unto you" (Matt. xii. 28), Moreover, St. Paul teaches that the gifts of healing and miracles proceed from the Holy Spirit, and this, in connection with the statement that these powers worked in Jesus (Mark vi. 14), convinces us that these were the very powers of the Holy Spirit. Again, it is expressly indicated

it.

In their synagogue

I,

:

He rejoiced in the Spirit or was troubled in the may be interpreted as a rejoicing or being troubled in Spirit, which His own spirit; but this is not a complete explanation. When it refers to His own spirit it reads " And He sighed deeply in His spirit" (Mark viii. 12). But in the other cases we interpret the exfrequently said

:

more glorious emotions which our human nature is susceptible only when abiding in the Holy Spirit. For altho St. John states that Jesus groaned in Himself (chap. xi. 38), this is not contradictory, especially with reference to Jesus. If the Holy Spirit always abode in Him, the same emotion may be attributed both to Him and to the Holy Spirit. Apart, however, from these passages and their interpretations, we have said enough to prove that that part of Christ's work of mediation, beginning with His Baptism and closing in the upper chamber, was marked by the operation, influence, and support of the Holy Spirit. According to the divine counsel, human nature is adapted in creation to the inworking of the Holy Spirit, without which it can not unfold itself any more than the rosebud without the light and pressions as pointing to those deeper and of

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