The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 307

SIN

A POWER

IN

REVERSED ACTION

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without a trace of the anxiety necessarily springing from the task of restraining a dangerous monster. And in the heavenly glory it will not be an endless desire to restrain desire, but a complete deliverance from desire not the suction of a great deep in our bottomless heart, but all its depths filled with the love divine success

;

;

of God.

The commandment

"

Thou

shalt not covet" is absolute.

The

Lord Jesus was a total stranger to covetousness. He never desired what God withheld. In Gethsemane's terrible denouement He desired,

yet not to receive a

gift,

but to retain His own,

tinder the curse not to be forsaken of His God.

i.e.,

when

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