The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 613

LOVE

IN

THE OLD COVENANT To

saints sustain different relations to their Lord.

see the atone-

typified in the promises of the ceremonial sacrifice is one

ment

thing, to look at

it

as finished on Calvary is quite another

The same

difference creates a modified relation.

To walk

before or after the Incarnation. to

573

know Him

who

are in different relations; in

a

;

and the

true of living

with Jesus on earth, or

Our Lord

in heaven, puts the saints in a different position.

departed friends and those

changed

is

moment when

shall live at the return of the

for the

not die, but be be swallowed up of

shall

latter

this mortal shall

life.

The

He

subject of Christ's conversation before

semane was

this

change of the mutual position and

strongly emphasizes the

new fact of He Himself

the

coming

entered Geth-

He

relation.

of the

Holy

Spirit

will depart, but their treasure be their Comforter. be even richer and more glorious. Hence they need not fear. They will receive the Holy Spirit whom He will send them from

to

will

Not as tho the Holy Spirit had not wrought already and in Israel's saints; for then faith and salvation would have been impossible. In fact, His work in the souls of men is as old as the generation of the elect, and originates in Paradise. But to the saints under the Old Covenant this operation came from without; while now, being freed from the fetters of Israel, the body of the Church itself becomes the bearer of the Holy Spirit, who descends upon it, dwells within it, and thus works upon its members from the Father.

for

within.

This is the new thing. This is Pentecost. This is all the difference between the dispensation before and after Christ's Resurrection. This is His promise to and for His disciples and for all His saints.

And

new commandment, The same love commanded

in this connection Christ speaks of the

that they should love one another.

them by Moses was now His departure they were a rare occurrence

when

to affect

them

in a different

way, since by

to enter into a different relation.

the children of the

same

It is

not

family, suddenly

were a more intimate relation to each other and at their parents' grave pleage one another a new love. As they stand at the open sepulcher and look at each other, they suddenly feel a sensation in their hearts hitherto unknown it is the realization of a new relation. It is the old, and orphaned, feel as

than they ever

it

felt before,

;

yet a

new

love, with a

new

conception, a

new

motive, a

new

con-

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