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But God, in love, has freely
given
His Spirit, who reveals All He’s prepared for those, in heaven, Whom here on earth He seals. Let me ask you
how you treat this divine Guest. I am now speaking reverently of God’s
presence. How often do you think of it in the day, that your bodies are
the temples of the Holy Ghost? If the queen were to come, and for a
time take up her abode with any of us, we should think of nothing else.
… But what of the Holy Ghost who dwells in us? We think not of it half
the day, we think of it if we do all things so as to please the Lord. The effectual
presence of the Spirit crucifies egotism, and gives freedom of thought
about ourselves while on the way; it occupies us with one object—Jesus. Where the life of
the flesh ends, the life of the Spirit begins, and practically we have
power in the life of the Spirit in proportion as the flesh is dead. To have the
Spirit is one thing; to be filled with the Holy Ghost is another. When
He is the one source of my thought, I am filled with Him. When He has
possession of my heart, there is power to silence what is not of God,
to keep my soul from evil, and to guide in every act of my life and
walk. Sometime there
may be need to rebuke … but the flesh cannot rebuke the flesh, nor will
the flesh submit to it; but if you indeed walk in the Spirit, you will
have God’s authority according to your measure, and Satan will yield to
the Spirit. Habitual
unprofitable speaking I think ought to be stopped. … I never could
understand why the church of God is to be the only place where the
flesh is to have its way unrestrained. It is folly to suppose this. I
desire the fullest liberty for the Spirit, but not the least for the
flesh. The Spirit is
overflowing like “rivers of living water” from the soul of him in whom
He has entered, flowing on all around; it may be on the good soil, or
on the barren sand, but still His nature and power is ever to flow
forth. We ought to be
able to confound every enemy, not with man’s wisdom, intellect and
understanding, but in the power of the Spirit. Do others not believe in
it (the word of God)? I am not going to give up the sword of the Spirit
because you do not think it will cut. I know it will cut, and therefore
use it. When a man is not
filled with the Spirit of God, who gives force to the truth in his
heart and clearness to his moral vision, the seductive power of the
enemy dazzles his imagination. He loves the marvellous, unbelieving as
he may be with regard to the truth. He lacks holy discernment, because
he is ignorant of the holiness and character of God, and has not the
stability of a soul that possesses the knowledge of God … as his
treasure—of a soul which knows that it has all in Him and needs no
other marvels. Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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