Section 9
For thirty years the Lord Jesus lived on earth by the Holy Spirit as the intrinsic essence of His Person. Then at the age of thirty He came forth to work, to minister, to fulfill His office. For His ministry He needed the Holy Spirit in a further way, not essentially but economically. After He was baptized, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form as a dove. This was the Holy Spirit coming upon the Lord economically for the carrying out of God's economy through the Lord's ministry.
TWO ASPECTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
It is very important that we see these two as pects of the Holy Spirit—the essential aspect and the economical aspect. The essential aspect of the Holy Spirit is for the Person, the being, the existence, of the Lord Jesus. The economical as pect of the Spirit is for the Lord's work, ministry, and office.
I can testify that for more than fifty years I have been studying the Bible for the purpose of understanding these aspects of the Holy Spirit. However, only in recent years have I seen clearly that the inward aspect of the Holy Spirit, which we may call the indwelling of the Spirit, is a mat ter of the essential Spirit, the Spirit for essence,