When He Is Come - Media Sabda Org

esurrected life of Christ and impart it to us, and take the virtues and graces of Christ and exemplify
them through us. Then He can give us such a vision of Christ and make Him so real to our hearts that
we will never cease to love Him. It is then that He will become the fairest of ten thousand to us, and
the Lover of our souls, so that we, like Paul, will press toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus, and be faithful unto death.
V. "When He Is Come" He Will Capacitate the Believer
"I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot hear them now. Howbeit when he, the
Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" (John 16:12, 13).
The disciples would have been very lonely, limited, and powerless, and at a loss to know what
to do without the coming of the Comforter. The coming of the Holy Spirit did not merely relieve
them of loneliness, but He did much more for them, even capacitating them for a greater ministry.
Man is very limited in himself. Christ said, "Without me ye can do nothing." There are many
vacancies, inabilities, limitations, and deficiencies in every unsanctified heart. Nevertheless, at the
same time, man has a great capacity for abilities, possibilities, and efficiencies. The capacity in man
is so great that it requires the Holy Spirit to fill that capacity. When we consider the negative
inabilities of the heart and mind, the positive hindrances of carnality, the good influences of purity,
the great possibilities of holiness, and the power of divine enduement, the heart is made to cry out,
"Come, Holy Spirit; take up Thy abode; cleanse my heart; endue my being; utilize every faculty;
develop every possibility, and make me a blessing." "When He is come," this is what He will do;
however, the heart, life, will, and time, must be yielded to Him. He must have a surrendered will,
and the full right-of-way, so that He may operate in an unhindered manner.
VI. "When He Is Come" He Will Abide for Ever
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever" (John 14:16).
The Holy Ghost was incorporated in the church at Pentecost. When He came, He came to "abide
for ever." Abide is a term which is rich in its meaning. According to the Greek usage it means, to be
with you, at your side, at home with you, in you, in your heart; to be present, to continue, to remain,
to dwell, to make His home with you. "For ever," is timeless present tense. It is comforting to know
that He is with us wherever we are, in all of our labors, every minute, hour, day, week, month, year,
our entire life, and "for ever" He will be with us in joy, in sorrow, in trials, when we are passing
through the tunnel, when all joy has fled, when all good feelings are gone, He is with us. When the
body of Christ, the church, will be completed, and the Spirit ascends, He will not leave it behind, but
in it ascend to present that body to the Head to be united with Him. His abiding will be "for ever"
which extends through the eternal ages.
VII. How To Treat Him "When He Is Come"
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (Rev. 2:7).