"It pleased God... to reveal His Son in me," wrote Paul (Gal. i.
15, 16); and again, "Christ liveth in me" (Gal. ii. 20); and
again, "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again
until Christ be formed in you" (Gal. iv. 19); as though Christ is
to be spiritually formed in the heart of each believer by the
operation of the Holy Spirit, as He was physically formed in the
womb of Mary by the same Spirit (Luke i. 35); and again, "The
mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but
now is made manifest to His saints,... which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory" (Col. i. 26, 27); "That Christ may dwell in
your hearts by faith" (Eph. iii. 17); "Examine yourselves,
whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not
your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates" (2 Cor. xiii. 5)?
"At that day," said Jesus, when making His great promise of the
Comforter to His disciples, "At that day ye shall know that I am
in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you" (John xiv. 20); and
again, in His great prayer, He said: "I have declared unto them
Thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast
loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
It is this ever-recurring revelation to penitent, believing
hearts, by the agency of the ever-present Holy Spirit, that makes
faith in Jesus Christ living and invincible. "I know He is Lord,
for He saves my soul from sin, and He saves me now," is an
argument that rationalism and unbelief cannot answer nor
overthrow, and so long as there are men in the world who can say
this, faith in the divinity of Jesus Christ is secure; and this
experience and witness come by the Holy Ghost.
"I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost,
I love to worship Thee;
My risen Lord for aye were lost
But for Thy company."
And so it is by the guidance and teaching of the Holy Spirit that
all saving truth becomes vital to us.
It is He that makes the Bible a living Book; it is He that
convinces the world of judgment (John xvi. 8-11); it is He that
makes men certain that there is a Heaven of surpassing and
enduring glory and joy, and a Hell of endless sorrow and woe for
those who sin away their day of grace and die in impenitence.
Who have been the mightiest and most faithful preachers of the
gloom and terror and pain of a perpetual Hell? those who have
been the mightiest and most effective preachers of God's
compassionate love.
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