Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-25
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Text-GaL 2;2O-"Nevertheless live; yet
not ]. but Christ. lveth in me"
i The incarnation whereby God presented
and revealed Himself through Jesus Christ
was a long step forward in the Father
plans of helpfulness TO man.
Through Jesus Christ. knowledge of His
character and a. knowledge OF His life as
seen through His gracious ministry we
come to know the Father. HE that hath
seen me hath seen the Father" said Jesus
to Philip.
Helpful as is knowledge of the
Father. there is still further thing need
full in order to have consummated God $
great plan for US. Another incarnation is
needed one wherein God incarnates Him
self within us; that as God lived, worked
and revealed Himself through Jesus Christ,
so He may live. work and reveal Himself
through us to the full extent OF our capa-
city to receive and communicate Him-a
condition wherein Gods mind is thinking
in our brain. wherein God is manlfesting
Himself through us, wherein God Is con-
tinuing His work by us.
Such a goodly condition in grace did Paul
claim to have attained; Nevertheless
1t puts cheer and heart within us to
know that it is the purpose of God to in
carnate Himself within u.s. that He would
clothe Himself with our form, our body,
reveal Himself in us and through us: not
to the same degree of fullness and power
that He did in Jesus Christ, but in de-
gree proportionate to our capacity to re-
ceive, to reveal and to communicate Him;
a real incarnation and indwelling Of God
within us, swaying our wills, purifying our
characters, bringing us into perfect har-
mony with His own will, making our char
acters to reveal and exhibit His.
When the disciples were sorrowful over
the fact of the going away Of their Master
Jesus attempted TO encourage and comfort
them with this promise: And 1 will pray
the Father and He shall give you another
comforter that He may abide with you for
ever; even the spirit of truth. whom the
world cannot receive because 1t seeth Him
not neither knoweth Him; but ye know
Him. for He dwelleth with you and shall
be in you" Jesus would depart, but God
would continue to abide with men in the
person of the holy spirit, which would be
the third step in the process of Gods rev.
elation of Himself In Old Testament times
God manifested Himself through prophet
and heavenly messenger, from which man
got only vague conception Of His char
acter, knew Him only as Creator and
Father. In Jesus Christ He gave a clearer
and fuller manifestation of Himself, whom
man came to know Him as a God of COM
passion and love.
Then with His coming to incarnate Him
self within US through the holy spirit, do
we have personal and conscious revela-
ton of God and a one frought with great
activity and glorious results. He that be-
lieth in me. the works that I do shall he
do also. and greater works than these
shall he do" said Jesus. How can this
be. except God incarnate Himself in the be-
lever and work with His power and grace
through him? Whatever else the disciples
were conscious of on the day of Pentecost
this one thing they must have clearly rec
ognized: that God was incarnate within
them, that while they lived and spoke and
wrought, yet 1t was not they themselves
but God, that lived and spoke and wrought
through them.
Paul, in pointing out to the Corinthians
the great wrong Of injuring Gods people,
said: ''Ye are the temple of God and the
spirit of God dwelleth in you"-teaching
that the believer is the holy place where
God would dwell and from which emf
mates that which reveals His power and
goodness.