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given according to the riches of the grace of Christ, and He is ready to
supply every soul according to the capacity to receive.
The impartation of the Spirit is the impartation of the life of Christ.
Those only who are thus taught of God, those only who possess the
inward working of the Spirit, and in whose life the Christ-life is mani-
fested, can stand as true representatives of the Saviour.
The Holy Spirit as an Educator
God takes men as they are, and educates them for His service, if
they will yield themselves to Him. The Spirit of God, received into the
soul, quickens all its faculties. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
the mind that is devoted unreservedly to God, develops harmoniously,
and is strengthened to comprehend and fulfil the requirements of God.
The weak, vacillating character becomes changed to one of strength
and steadfastness. Continual devotion establishes so close a relation
between Jesus and His disciples that the Christian becomes like his
Master in character. He has clearer, broader views. His discernment is
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more penetrative, his judgment better balanced. So quickened is he by
the life-giving power of the Sun of Righteousness, that he is enabled
to bear much fruit to the glory of God.
Christ promised that the Holy Spirit should abide with those who
wrestle for victory over sin, to demonstrate the power of divine might
by endowing the human agent with supernatural strength and instruct-
ing the ignorant in the mysteries of the kingdom of God. Of what
avail would it be to us that the only begotten Son of God humbled
Himself, endured the temptations of the wily foe, and died, the just
for the unjust, if the Spirit had not been given as a constant, working,
regenerating agent, to make effectual in each individual case what has
been wrought out by the world’s Redeemer?
The Holy Spirit enabled the disciples to exalt the Lord alone, and
guided the pens of the sacred historians, that the record of the words
and works of Christ might be given to the world. Today this Spirit is
constantly at work, seeking to draw the attention of men to the great
sacrifice made upon the cross of Calvary, to unfold to the world the
love of God to man, and to open to the convicted soul the promises of
the Scriptures.