" How God in Acts x. 38, the Holy Spirit. We read (continued)
Work of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ 259 captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke iv. 18, 19, R. V.). All these passages contain the one lesson, that it was by the especial anointing with the Holy Spirit that Jesus
Christ was qualified for the service to which God had called Him. As He stood in the Jordan after His baptism, " The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him/' and It was then and there that He was anointed with the Holy Spirit, baptized with the Holy Spirit, and equipped for the service that lay before Him. Jesus Christ received
His equipment for service in the same way that we receive ours by a definite baptism with the Holy Spirit.
4. Jesus Christ was led by the Holy Spirit in His movements here upon earth. We read in Luke iv. I, R. V., u And Jesus full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness."
Living as a man here upon earth and setting an example for us, each step of His life was under the Holy
Spirit's guidance.
5. Jesus Christ was taught by the Spirit who rested upon Him. The Spirit of God was the source of His wisdom in the days of His flesh. In the Old Testament prophecy of the coming Messiah we read in Isa. xi.
2, 3, u And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD : and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after