EXTRACT

There was a time with most of us when we had no sense at all of the Spirit as dwelling, and when the truth was brought to us that the Spirit was here in the absence of Christ, it affected our pathway greatly. We began to see that the sects and systems around would not do at all. The Spirit was shut out by human arrangements. Nothing has affected me more than the fact that my body is the temple of the Spirit of God. We have been accustomed to regard the Spirit rather as an influence under which a man could do remarkable acts, as we see in men in Old Testament times. The consequences of an indwelling Spirit are momentous. It involves the complete displacement of the flesh in the believer. "They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts", Gal.5:24 (AV). The contrast between Christ and the Spirit is this, that Christ did all the work for us, the Spirit does all in us.

F.E. Raven Vol.19 p.430