The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 74

THE CREATION

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when he meets the stem we accustom ourselves to see facts and history flesh and record the of our own blood, of our own this in human nature and life, and acknowledge that by human generation we spring from Adam, and therefore were in Adam when he was created— then we shall also know that when God formed Adam out of the dust He also formed us; that we also were in Paradise; that has no hold of him in the days of

But

realities of life.

Adam's

fall

was

conflict,

if

In a word, the

also ours.

first

own

relates the history not of an alien, but of our

breath of the Almighty gave us

life,

when

page of Genesis real selves.

the Lord formed

The

man

of

and made him a living soul. The root of our life lies in our parents; but through and beyond them the tender fiber of that root goes back through the long line of generations, and received its earliest beginning when Adam first the dust,

and breathed into

his nostrils

breathed God's pure air in Paradise.

And

yet, tho in Paradise

we

received the

first

being, there is also a second beginning of our

the race, by conception and birth, each of us

And

individually.

hath given

And ning,

me

of this also Job testifies: "

it

when from

was called into being The Spirit of the Lord

life."

again, in the life of sinful

when

inception of our

life, viz.,

pleases

God

the soul testifies within us

man

there comes a third begin-

and of this also Lord hath given me

to convert the wicked " ;

The

Spirit of the

;

life."

Leaving this new birth out of the question, the testimony of Job shows us that he was conscious of the fact that he owed his existence as a man, as a person, as an ego, hence his creation in Adam as well as his personal being, to God.

And what

does the Scripture teach us concerning the creation

man? This that the dust of the ground out of which Adam was formed was so wrought upon that it became a living soul, which indicates the human being. The result was not merely a moving, of

:

creeping, eating, drinking, that

came

breathed into the dust. life

and sleeping creature, but a

into existence at the It

moment when

was not

first

the dust, and then

within the dust, and after that the soul with

ties in that

human

life

;

living soul

the breath of

all its

life

was

human

higher facul-

went forth into Adam, were natural endowments.

nay, as soon as

life

he was a man, and all his precious gifts Sinful man being born from above receives gifts that are above nature. For this reason the Holy Spirit merely dwells in the quick-

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