The New Life

John xvi. 9, 14.
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XXII.
THE HOI.Y GHOST.
•'And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His
Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father."—Gal. iv. 6.
THE
great gift of the Father, through whom He
obtained salvation and brought it near to us, is
the Son. On the other hand, the great gift of the
Son, whom He sends to us from the Father, to apply
to us an inner and effectual salvation, is the Holy
Spirit.^ As the Son reveals and glorifies the Father,
so the Spirit reveals and glorifies the Son.^ The
that are prepared in Jesus, and to make them
Spirit is in us to transfer to us the life and the salvation
wholly ours.^
Jesus who is in heaven is made present
in us, dwells in us, by the Spirit. We have seen that
in order to become partaker of Jesus there are always
two things necessary : the knowledge of the sin that
is in us, and of the redemption that is in Him. It is
the Holy Spirit who continually promotes this double
work in believers. He reproves and comforts. He
convinces of sin and He glorifies Christ.*
The Spirit convinces of sin. He is the light and
J John vii. 38, xiv. 16, 26 ;
Acts i. 4, ii. 33
; 1 Cor. iii. 16.
2 John XV. 26, xvi. 14, 15 ; i Cor. ii. 8, 12, xii. 3.
'Job xiv. 17, 21 ;
Rom. viii. 2 ;
Kph. iii. 17, 19.