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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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