The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 585

"

LOVE

IN

THE BLESSED ONES

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anticipation they enjoy the fulfilment of the promise that with shall sit upon His throne.

Immanuel they However, heard,

ished

!

Christ.

tion to

"

"

this condition is only provisional

and will end with day when from heaven the crj' will be It is done," as once it was heard from Calvary: " It is finThen, the last enemy destroyed, all shall be subject to

dawn

the

of that notable

Then all selfishness, all unholiness ended, and all opposiLove being vanquished, God's children shall enjoy an eter-

nal and undisturbed existence in which

and in

this

is,

as the Scripture expresses

Love it

:

"

shall reach its zenith;

That God shall

be all

all.

"

God

all in all,"

considered in connection with the Spirit's work

of shedding abroad the

Love of God in the hearts of the saints, upon the subject. If by His indwelling the Holy Spirit sheds abroad the Love of God in the hearts of the saints, and causes that Love like rivers of water to flow over the fields of their sheds

new

light

spiritual life

then this

"

;

if

God

Love is His most proper work, once flooded with light. For then

this cultivating of

all in all " is at

it means no more nor less than that the Holy Ghost, having entered the last of the elect, shall dwell in the hearts of all the saints shall ;

have pervaded the whole body of Christ in such completeness that and even the conflict with selfishness be ended, but it shall not even be remembered, nor its selfishness shall not only be cast out,

possible return be feared.

Altho

"

God

all in all " has undoubtedly reference to Satan and they shall forever abide under the anger of the Almighty and be consumed by His wrath yet in its proper and full significance it refers only to the elect. In them alone He takes up His abode personally; in them alone He became something ; in

the

lost, for

;

them alone He became gradually inore and more ; in them alone He became a//. "In all," referring to \.\iQ number of the elect, signifies that in them, not individually, but collectively as the body of Christ,

Love's triumph shall be complete. But even then the work of the Holy Spirit is not finished, but thenceforth shall continue forevermore. Then the heavenly felicity will only begin to unfold itself in a way wholly divine, and

without the slightest impediment the Rose of Love will disclose its brilliant beauty. When, as a bridegroom coming forth

from his

chamber, the sun 35

rises

from the

womb

of the

morning and causes

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