JOTTINGS FROM PREVIOUS LECTURE

JOTTINGS FROM PREVIOUS LECTURE

In chapter 3 we get light; in chapter 4 the formative power of the Spirit. It would be of no avail to me to be brought into the light unless there were a corresponding power to form me according to the light.

God has sent forth His Son that we may have the light of His purpose, and He has sent forth the Spirit of His Son that we may be blessed in the reality of it. Then at the end of the chapter we get the system by which we are formed — Jerusalem above — Christ in glory; Man entirely according to God’s pleasure, and that Man loves us and we are formed by Him.

In chapter 5 the great point is walk, but first you get liberty.

The power of the Spirit is to maintain us in liberty; the instant the flesh begins to work we get into bondage, and bondage belongs to the flesh — to Ishmael.