The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 131

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HOLY

SPIRIT IN

MYSTERY OF INCARNATION

The disordered

taken into account.

blood inclines and incites to

sin,

condition of our flesh and

a fact that has been observed in

the victims of certain terrible diseases as their effect.

could not result in sin to

if

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But

this

there were no personal ego to allow itselt

Again, tho the unbalanced powers of the soul which

be excited.

cause the darkening of the understanding, the blunting of the sensibilities,

and the weakening of the

will arouse the passions, yet

even this could not result in sin if no personal ego were affected by this working. Hence sin puts its own mark upon this corruption only when the personal ego turns away from God, and in that disordered soul and diseased body stands If

unclean, and

by

condemned before Him.

according to established law the unclean brings forth the

sinful

if

God has made our

men,

it

birth to depend upon generation must follow that by nature we are bom first,

—

without original righteousness; secondly, with an impaired body; thirdly, with a soul out of harmony with itself, lastly, with a personal ego which

is

turned away from God.

All of which would apply to the Person of the Mediator

if,

like

one of us, He had been born a human person by the will of man and not of God. But since He was not born a human person, but took our human nature upon Himself, and was conceived not by the will of man, but by an operation of the Holy Spirit, there could not be in Him an ego turned away from God, nor could the weakness of His human nature for a moment be a sinful weakness. Or to put it in the concrete Altho there was in that fallen nature some:

Him

it never became desire. There a difference between the temptations and conflicts of Jesus and those of ourselves; while our ego and nature desire against God, His holy Ego opposed the incitement of His adopted nature and was never overcome. Hence the proper work of the Holy Spirit consisted in this First, the creation not of a new person, but of a human nature, which the Son assumed into union with His divine nature in one

thing to incite

to desire, yet

is

Person.

Second,

that

according to His

the

divine-human Ego of the Mediator, who,

human

nature, also possessed spiritual

life,

was

kept from the inward defilement which by virtue of our birth

and personality. Hence regeneration, which affects not our nature but our person, out of the question with reference to Christ. But what Christ

affected our ego

is

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