The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 584
LOVE544and with all his evil powers of selfishness opposed Love. Then Love had to fight, not because it was in its nature, but in self-defense. Indeed, it may not cease to fight until all selfishness is under perAnd when Love's rule is safe, Love does not recline fect control. in ev ...
The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 587
LOVE Eveninheavenit isINTHE BLESSED ONESmore orless hindered,Christ and His people against Satan.Butowing547to the conflict ofjudgment, these and external conflicts being ended forever, the Holy Spirit's wo ...
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THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS549it is evident that the fathers had a thorough grasp thought that the Spirit's real, characteristic, and magnificent of the the shedding abroad of love j and they have exwork is perpetualFrom whichThe Holy Spirit was whom they looked Godhead, t ...
The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 588
—XXV. The Communionof Saints." Thereisone body and oneSpirit;evenas ye are called in one hope of your Ephes.calling."iv. 4.To classify Love among the works of the Holy Spirit is not a new invention. In this connection, t ...
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THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS551windows; but, throwing doors and windows wide open,it walks through the four corners of the earth, searches the ages of the past, and looks forward into the ages to come.Communion of saints opens its arms as wide as possible. O God how can I e ...
The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 590
;LOVE550ion of all God's saints on earth— ofthe present, the past, and thefuture.To oneliving in an obscure hamlet faith in thesaints is theconsciousnesscommunionofthat he belongs to an exceedingly-w ...
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THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS For, whatever the differences, thisnations.the553same languagewe notice, that it is of love spoken at the ends of the earth that ;amongallmenitissinner; one blessed,same casting down and ra ...
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LOVE552when God'schildren, active in whatever part of heaven, shall en-and intimate communion, one in Imraanuel, all parsame Love. Why is the communion of saints an article of the creed of the Church on earth? (i) Because in the invisible world it is even nowjoy ...
The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 594
—:XXVI.The Communion "of Goods. we walkIfin the light,we havefellowship one with another." 1The communion Eveni.of saints is in the Light.the halls of the eternal Light, ness.Johnon earthits ...
The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 595
THE COMMUNION OF GOODS555ner of monks, as members of one family while others have disapproved of it as an extravagance of Christian fanaticism. Both extremes are untenable. It appears from Scripture that this generous and enthusiastic effort to escape from the plague of poverty was ...