The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 145

HOLY

SPIRIT IN

THE PASSION OF CHRIST

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do Thy will, O God; in To render that voluntary sacrifice He had with equal willingness adopted the prepared body " Who being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation; and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross"; "Who, tho He were a Son, yet learned He obedience." And to give highest proof of this obedience unto death. He inwardly consecrated Himself to death, as He Himself testified: " I sanctify Myself for them." This leads to the important question, whether Jesus rendered this obedience and consecration outside of His human nature, or in it, so that it manifested itself in His human nature. Undoubtedly Himself quite voluntarily: "Lo,

the volume of the book

it is

I

come

to

written of Me."

:

The divine nature can not learn, or be tempted; the Son could not love the Father with other than eternal love. In the divine nature there is no i?iore or less. To suppose this is to annihilate the divine nature. The statement that, " tho He were the the latter.

He

mean that as God He God can not obey. God rules, governs, commands, but never obeys. As King He can serve us only in Son, yet learned

obedience," does not

learned obedience: for

the form of a slave, hiding His princely majesty, having emptied

Himself, standing before us as one despised among men.

"

Tho He

were the Son "means, therefore: altho in His inward Being

God

the Son, yet

He

He

is

stood before us in such lowliness that noth-

ing betrayed His divinity; yea,

so lowly that

He even

learned

obedience.

Wherefore if the Mediator as man showed in His human nature such zeal for God and such pity for sinners that He willingly gave Himself in self-sacrifice unto death, then it is evident that His human nature could not exercise such consecration without the inworking of the Holy Spirit; and again that the Holy Spirit could not have effected such inworking unless the

to do

Thy

self that

it

Son willed and desired

it.

The

heard in the words of the psalmist " I delight will, O God." The Son was willing so to empty Himwould be possible for His human nature to pass through

cry of the Messiah

eternal death;

is

and

:

to this

end He

ness of the Spirit of God. the Eternal Spirit that

Hence the work

we might

of the

let it

be

Thus the Son Holy

filled

with

all

the mighti-

offered Himself

"

through

serve the living God."

work of redemption same Holy Spirit who in

Spirit in the

did not begin only at Pentecost, but the

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