2. The _present_ Coming, "in the spirit and in power"--His Coming in grace to the soul, to dwell with it by His Spirit. "In _power_"--because only He Who is omnipotent could work such a stupendous miracle as the miracle of grace. This miracle could never have been worked, had it not been for the first Coming. "The Word was made Flesh" that He might by His death redeem His people and restore to them the kingdom of grace which they had lost in Adam. This second Coming is to prepare us for the third. 3. The _future_ Coming, in "glory and in majesty" when He shall "come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead," and when all will be forced to _rise_ and go to meet Him whether they will or not. It is those, who have _risen_ voluntarily to meet their God in His second Coming, who will have no fear of the third. The second Coming, then, the Coming in grace, is the most practical one for us as we begin our Advent, and upon it we will meditate in our third point. POINT III. THE DWELLING OF THE BLESSED TRINITY WITHIN US. This is what God's Coming in grace means--a soul in the state of grace is the host of the Blessed Trinity, neither more nor less. "_We_ will come to Him and will make our abode with him," (St. John XIV. 23) and from the moment that grace enters, the soul becomes the abode of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. It was at the moment of Baptism that our souls were raised to the dignity of being hosts of God Himself. What happened then? God added to the natural gifts with which He had endowed man _super_natural ones, summed up in the gift of grace. What is that? A participation in His own life, something which makes us "partakers of the _Divine_ nature." (2 Pet. I. 4). He created man thus in the beginning, for He meant man always to possess supernatural as well as natural gifts. He meant always to live with man and talk and walk with him in the paradise of his soul; but Adam chased out the Divine Guest and lost this miraculous privilege for all his children. God, however, could not rest content to be outside the souls which He had created solely that He might live in them, and He devised a way (the first Coming of Christ) by which He might get back to the dwelling which He cherished so much. We need not follow the beautiful story of the Redemption through all its wondrous steps, we know it well enough; we will take it up at Baptism, when the divine gift of life which Adam lost was restored to the soul, when God came back to His chosen dwelling, and the soul regained its responsible position of host to the Blessed Trinity. When Satan had noticed that the soul was left exposed, that it was a human soul only, with nothing divine about it, he naturally had taken possession, as he does of all empty houses; (St. Matt. XII. 44) so at Baptism the Priest said: "Depart from him, thou unclean spirit, and give place to the Holy Ghost." Where the Holy Ghost is, there are also the Father and the Son.