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From Heaven With Love
His mysteries to us personally. Our hearts will often burn within
us as One draws nigh to commune with us as He did with Enoch.
Those who decide to do nothing in any line that will displease God,
will know, after presenting their case before Him, just what course
to pursue. And power for obedience, for service, will be imparted to
them, as Christ has promised.
How the Holy Spirit Makes Christ’s Work for Us Effective
Before offering Himself as the sacrificial victim Christ sought
for the most essential gift to bestow on His followers. “I will pray the
Father,” He said, “and He shall give you another Comforter, that He
may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but
ye know Him; for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will
not leave you orphans: I will come to you.”
John 14:16-18
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While Christ was on earth, the disciples had desired no other helper.
Not until deprived of His presence would they feel their need of the
Spirit, and then He would come.
The Holy Spirit is Christ’s representative, but divested of the
personality of humanity, and independent thereof. Cumbered with
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humanity, Christ could not be in every place personally. It was
for their interest that He should go, and send the Spirit to be His
successor on earth. No one could then have any advantage because
of his location. By the Spirit the Saviour would be accessible to all.
Jesus read the future of His disciples. He saw one brought to the
scaffold, one to the cross, one to exile among the lonely rocks of the
sea, others to persecution and death. But in every trial He would be
with them. When for the truth’s sake the believer stands at the bar
of unrighteous tribunals, Christ stands by his side. The reproaches
that fall on him, fall on Christ. When one is incarcerated in prison
walls, Christ ravishes the heart with His love.
At all times and in all places, when we feel helpless and alone,
the Comforter will be sent in answer to the prayer of faith. Circum-
stances may separate us from every earthly friend, but no circum-
stance can separate us from the heavenly Comforter. He is always at
our right hand to sustain and cheer.