Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... When Christ, therefore, sends his Spirit, not to speak of himself, but to take of what is Christ’s and show it unto us; to create us again in Christ and like Christ; to dwell in us as in a living temple, as ourselves living spirits to which he has given a new and Christ-like life; – can we fail to see that there is something here which in no respect falls short even of the great marvel of our text, “Christ living in us?” Christ, the eternal Son, liveth in us, when the Spirit liveth in us; for the Spirit and the Son with the Father are inseparable in their joint possession of the all-fulness of the Godhead. And Christ, as God-man, the Son of man, the very Christ that tabernacled with men upon the earth, liveth in us, when the Spirit living in us confines himself to revealing Christ as the God-man, whose glory his disciples saw in human flesh, as the glory of the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
It is as the agent and ambassador of the God-man that the Spirit is given in the Church; it is the God-man whom the Spirit reveals and glorifies in the Church; it is within the limits of what he himself revealed and wrought in the God-man that he restricts himself in working in the Church or body of the faithful. He lives in them as he lived in him. He works to reveal in them progressively the truth which he implanted and developed in unclouded spiritual splendour in the mind of the Man Christ Jesus; to establish in them progressively the grace with which he replenished the heart of the Man Christ Jesus; – to conform them, in a word, to the “Firstborn of many brethren.” And how then can his in-dwelling, in-working, in-living in them be other than most adequately expressed by the doctrine that “Christ liveth in them?” ...
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It is as the agent and ambassador of the God-man that the Spirit is given in the Church; it is the God-man whom the Spirit reveals and glorifies in the Church; it is within the limits of what he himself revealed and wrought in the God-man that he restricts himself in working in the Church or body of the faithful. He lives in them as he lived in him. He works to reveal in them progressively the truth which he implanted and developed in unclouded spiritual splendour in the mind of the Man Christ Jesus; to establish in them progressively the grace with which he replenished the heart of the Man Christ Jesus; – to conform them, in a word, to the “Firstborn of many brethren.” And how then can his in-dwelling, in-working, in-living in them be other than most adequately expressed by the doctrine that “Christ liveth in them?” ...
For more, see:
https://reformedcovenanter.wordpres...ng-of-the-holy-spirit-to-reveal-Christ-to-us/
