When He Is Come - Media Sabda Org

second Person of the Trinity out of the bosom of the first Person of the Trinity and brought Him into
this world. He entered mysteriously through sealed doors and the Holy Spirit placed Him in the
womb of the virtuous virgin Mary. This was as virtuous an act as is the new birth. The Holy Spirit
could do this as well as He in the new birth can take Christ and in some mysterious manner enthrone
Him in our hearts. In Luke 1:15, Gabriel foretold that John would be filled with the Holy Ghost
before his birth. In verse 41, we learn that when Mary, the prospective mother of Jesus, and
Elisabeth, the prospective mother of John the Baptist met, the Holy Ghost filled John in a prenatal
state and that he leaped for joy. In this instance the Spirit Who filled Elisabeth, entered through
sealed doors to fill the unborn child also. If the Spirit can take a sinner who is a child of the devil,
and dead in trespasses and sins, and make a son of God out of him, with eternal life abiding in him,
certainly He took the eternal Son of God Who did not have any beginning and made Him the Son
of Man, that is, gave Him a physical birth and a human body in which He could live on earth and die.
There never was another birth like the birth of Christ. He was born by the Spirit. His birth was
a new creation (John 3:6, 8; II Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:24). Jesus, as a Man, was begotten in generation by
the Holy Spirit, so that man could be begotten in regeneration by the same Holy Spirit. There was
no sin (carnal or fallen nature) born in Him, for He was not conceived in sin, nor of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, even as everyone born again is not born of
blood, of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. He was the new Man and a holy
creation (I John 3:9; 5:18).
In the incarnation, the Spirit wrought a miracle and a new creation, even a sinless body to enable
Christ to dwell in human garb. The Holy Spirit constructed a human tabernacle for the second Person
of the Trinity in which He was to dwell, live, labor, suffer, die, be buried, resurrected, ascend, and
be glorified; then in heaven represent the saints and intercede for them. He as the last Adam will
come again in His glorified human body to dethrone Satan, set up the kingdom and rule. How
precious and glorious is this thought!
II. The Holy Spirit in Relation to the Anointing of Christ
After the incarnation, the Spirit ascended and for thirty years the second Person of the Trinity
(Christ) resided on earth while the Father and the Spirit resided in heaven. Though Christ was born
of the Spirit, He was not indwelt by the Spirit prior to His baptism.
Christ was a perfect Man, was obedient, and remained at home until He was thirty years of age,
at which time He became )f age, according to Jewish custom. It was then that He left His home at
Nazareth to begin His life's work. In order to accomplish redemption and become the Saviour and
Substitute for all men, He must be qualified to do this as a Man. The only weapons and power which
He could employ were those eligible to any man. These were the Holy Spirit and the Scriptures.
Christ must overcome man's enemy as a Man, and He could only employ man's weapons in doing
this. It was typified and prophesied that Christ would be anointed by the Spirit. The anointing of
Aaron, the high priest, before he as initiated into the ministry, and also before he received the
application of the blood was highly typical of the anointing of Christ with the Holy Spirit before He
began His life's work and that before He shed His blood. It is not stated how much oil was poured
upon Aaron by Moses. Moses was a type of God the Father; Aaron, the high priest, was a type of