When He Is Come - Media Sabda Org

Amid the many trials which came from the angry mob, the high priest, the council, the multitude,
the governor, the soldiers, and Satan, Christ opened not His mouth, made no complaint, uttered no
unkind word, made no unwise step, but was a silent Sufferer. He was so loving and kind that He
prayed to the Father in the hour of His greatest suffering that He would forgive them.
Every believer is greatly incapacitated without the baptism with the Spirit. The Spirit of Truth can
guide and give a revelation of the unseen and future things to the one who is filled in a measure that
He cannot to the one who is not filled (John 16:12, 13). The believer needs to be filled with the Spirit
in order to live a life of sacrifice and self-denial. The Spirit helps the believer to be taken up with
the heavenly, the future, the spiritual, and the unseen things. He also is greatly aided in living the
objective life for Christ and others and not for self.
VI. The Holy Spirit in Relation to the Resurrection of Christ
When the fullness of time came, the Holy Spirit took the spirit of Christ and united it with His
body that was lying in the tomb. Then the Spirit quickened the body of Christ which had died on the
cross and remained in an uncorrupted state. This body was resurrected, changed, and spiritualized.
He came forth without disturbing the grave clothes or rolling the stone away. Most certainly Christ
was alive and out of the tomb, and the soldiers were guarding an empty tomb for a while before the
angel appeared to frighten the soldiers and roll away the stone. The stone was not rolled away to let
Christ out, but to let the women in, and the news out that He was alive. It was the Spirit Who raised
Christ from the dead (Rom. 8:11).
Even so, the Spirit needs to dwell in man, that when he dies, he will be resurrected in the likeness
of Christ, or if he lives when Christ returns, he will be changed and caught up. The only power that
can do this is the Holy Spirit. We read, "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you" (Rom. 8:11). The power of the Holy Spirit Who raised Christ from the
dead will be the same power that will raise the dead in Christ.
The Spirit resided in Christ during His post resurrection life. For forty days He showed Himself
alive by many infallible proofs. The Spirit was the motive power in His body. The words He uttered
and the commandments He gave, such as the command to tarry in Jerusalem until they were endued
with the power of the Holy Spirit and the going forth to evangelize, were given through the Holy
Ghost (Acts 1:2).
VII. The Holy Spirit in Relation to the Glorification of Christ
At the end of the first forty days of Christ's life after He was born, He was presented to the Lord.
The first forty days after His anointing, and preceding His ministry, He spent in conflict with Satan
in the wilderness, and forty days were spent on earth after the resurrection before the ascension.
Christ was born in the fullness of time, died in the fullness of time, arose in the fullness of time, and
ascended in the fullness of time. He will come again in the fullness of time. Concerning the
ascension we read, "He was received up into heaven" (Mark 16:19), "He was parted from them and
carried up into heaven" (Luke 24:51), "He was taken up" (Acts 1:9), and "He was taken up from us"