The New Life

The New Life.
obey, to trust, and He will take and make known to
you all that there is in Jesus. He will make Jesus
very glorious to you and in you.
O my Father, I thank thee for this gift which
Jesus sent me from Thee, the Father. I thank Thee
that I am now the temple of Thy Spirit, and that He
dwells in me.
Lord, teach me to believe this with the whole
heart, and to live in the world as one who knows
that the Spirit of God is in him to lead him. Teach
me to think with deep reverence and filial awe on
this, that God is in me. Lord, in that faith I have
the power to be holy.
Holy Spirit, reveal to me all that sin is in me.
Holy Spirit, reveal to me all that Jesus is in me.
Amen.
1. The knowledge of the person and the work of the Holy
Spirit is for us ofjust as much importance as the knowledge of
the person and the work of Christ.
2. Concerning the Holy Spirit, we must endeavor especially to
hold fast the truth that He is given as the fruit of the work of
Jesus for us, that he is the power of the life of Jesus in us, and
that through Him, Jesus Himself, with his full salvation, dwells
in us.
3. In order to enjoy all this, we must be filled with the Spirit.
This simply means, emptied of all else and full of Jesns. To
deny ourselves, to take up the cross, to follow Jesus this is the
:
way to be filled with the Spirit of Jesus. Or rather, this is the
way in which the Spirit leads us to His fulness. No one has the
power to enter fully into the death of Jesus but he who is led by
the Spirit. But He takes him that desires this by the hand and
brings him.
4. As the whole of salvation, the whole of the new life is by
fidth, so is this also true of the gift and the working of the Holy
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