THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST

THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST

When Christ was down here He was entirely for God. Everything about Him was fragrant for God. There could be nothing so wonderful. There was a Man for God on earth, One with every feeling of a man with whom the Spirit could identify Himself. It is not that the Spirit produced the feelings, but they were all there: everything that was perfect and proper in man for God was there, and the Spirit could come down to be identified with everything that was there, otherwise the Spirit must have remained in the Deity, and we could not have had the Spirit as the Spirit of Christ.

It is wonderful that we should have the Spirit of Christ, so that Christ should be produced in us by the Spirit of Christ.

In baptism we are committed to the death of Christ; in the Lord’s supper we have communion with it.

^[p. 309] We have to carry out the law, not to speak evil one of another. We talk too much about one another; we are to speak truth with one another .. . for that tends to edify. This advice, ‘that in conversation it is better to talk about things rather than persons’, is good.. .. There is a disposition to judge one another’s motives; many things in the church which come out never would come out if there were more love and more pastoral care.