When He Is Come - Media Sabda Org

y D. Y. Schultz in his book, The Paraclete. He relates that a farmer raised sheep. In the spring of
the year when the lambs came, there was a ewe which lost her lamb, and a lamb which lost its
mother. There was a lambless mother and a motherless lamb. Each was lonely and kept bleating for
its own. An idea occurred to the farmer, which was to bring the motherless lamb to the lambless
mother. His repeated efforts were all in vain. The lambless mother would not accept the motherless
lamb, for sheep own their own by scent. The lambless mother acknowledged, "You are not my lamb,
neither do I know you." Finally another idea occurred to the farmer. He took the dead lamb, skinned
it, and placed the skin upon the living lamb, then, again brought it to the lambless mother. This time
he succeeded, for the sheep accepted the lamb because it was robed in the clothes of her own lamb.
Oh, that we might get this inspiring truth and see the blessed comforting Holy Spirit robed in the
nature, virtues, and likeness of the meek, lowly, gentle Lamb of God, and give Him a welcome even
as we would Christ, should He appear to us! If we love Christ, how can we help but love the Holy
Spirit also! Could we see how much Christ wants us to be possessed with the Spirit, and how much
the Spirit desires to dwell in us, then see the need for our experiential good, also for the sake of
others, and the good we can do, it would not require any urging to seek the baptism with the Holy
Spirit.
Some day the saints of God will be glorified. Their bodies will become like the glorious body of
Christ (Phil. 3:21; I John 3:2). The holiness in believers then will shine out and be glory on the
outside (Rom. 8:18). The glorification of the saints most certainly will be in heaven and be wrought
through Christ and the indwelling Spirit in the presence of the Father. As the Spirit resided in Christ
until He was glorified, so He, too, must dwell in believers to make possible their glorification.
On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit was released from the Person of Christ and sent into the world
in the name of Christ. In explaining Pentecost, Peter employed a beautiful expression, saying, Christ
"hath shed" the Holy Ghost and sent Him into the world and He now dwells in us (Acts 2:32, 33).
As a man sheds his coat and another slips into it, so the Spirit Who dwelt in Christ was dismissed
by Him, and then came into the world to dwell in the believers. Since then, the Spirit has been in the
world in His personality, gifts, and graces. He is in the world for the specific purpose of gathering
the people for Christ's name the church. When this purpose is fulfilled, He will leave as suddenly
as He came. When He leaves this world to go up, He will take the church and present her to Christ
in the air. Of course, if He dwells in any person, He will not leave him, but take him up with Him,
for Christ promised He would abide with the believer forever.
Oh, that every sinner would yield to the conviction of the Spirit; believe in Christ, and be born
of the Spirit; then be baptized with the Spirit; walk in the Spirit; live in the Spirit; labor in the Spirit;
live a life of sacrifice and self-denial by the power of the Spirit; then to be caught up by the Spirit
and carried into heaven, where glorification will take place and salvation will be consummated. Then
he will forever be like the Lord and with the Lord.
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