Section 8
according to the condition of need for it. It was in this economical way that God forsook Jesus and left Him when He was carrying the sinners' sin in dying for them on the cross (Matt. 27:46). Before the Holy Spirit in power descended upon Him, He already had the Holy Spirit in essence from His birth. Furthermore, while the Holy Spirit in power was descending upon Him, He was existing with the Holy Spirit in essence.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN RELATION TO THE LORD'S PERSON AND WORK
At this point I would like to say a further word concerning the Person of the Lord Jesus and His work. The Lord's Person is His being, His exis tence, and His work is His ministry or His office. Therefore, with the Lord Jesus there is the mat ter of His Person and the matter of His ministry. For His Person He had the Holy Spirit as His in trinsic essence from the time of His conception. This is the Spirit for the Lord's being, for His ex istence. He was constituted of the Holy Spirit as the intrinsic essence of His being when He was conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary. Hence, He was born with the Holy Spirit as His essence. In other words, He was born with the essential Spirit for His Person, being, existence.