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the hearing of His ears." Further on in Isa. xlii. i, R. V., we read, " Behold My servant, whom I uphold ; My chosen in whom My soul delighteth ; / have put My Spirit upon Him ; He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles, etc." Matthew tells us in Matt. xii. 17, 1 8, that this prophecy was fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth.
6. The Holy Spirit abode upon "Jesus in all His fullness and the words He spoke in consequence were the very words of God. We read in John iii. 34, R. V., " For He whom God hath sent spcaketb the words of God : for He giveth not the Spirit by measure."
7. After His resurrection Jesus Christ gave commandment unto His Apostles whom He had chosen through the Holy Spirit. We read in Acts i. 2, " Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandment unto the Apostles whom He had chosen." This relates to the time after His resurrection and so we see Jesus still working in the power of the Holy Spirit even after His resurrection from the dead.
8. Jesus Christ wrought His miracles here on earth in the power of the Holy Spirit. In Matt. xii. 28, we read, " I cast out devils by the power of the Spirit of God." It is through the Spirit that miracle working power was given to some in the church after our Lord's departure from this earth (i Cor. xii. 9, 10), and in the power of the same Spirit, Jesus Christ wrought His miracles.
9. // was by the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. We read in Rom*
Work of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ 261 vili. II, " But if the Spirit of Htm that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you. He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you."
The same Spirit who is to quicken our mortal bodies and is to raise us up in some future day raised up
Jesus.
Several things are plainly evident from this study of the work of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ : First of all, we see the completeness of His humanity. He lived and He thought, He worked, He taught, He conquered sin and won victories for God in the power of that very same Spirit whom it is our privilege also to have.
In the second place, we see our own utter dependence upon the Holy Spirit. If it was in the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, lived and worked, achieved and triumphed, how much more dependent are we upon Him at every turn of life and in every phase of service and every experience of conflict with Satan and sin.
The third thing that is evident is the wondrous world of privilege, blessing and victory and conquest that is open to us. The same Spirit by which Jesus was originally begotten, is at our disposal for us to be begotten again of Him. The same Spirit by which Jesus offered Himself without spot, to God is at our disposal that we also may offer ourselves without spot to Him. The same Spirit by which Jesus was anointed for service is at our disposal that we may be anointed for service. The same Spirit who led Jesus Christ in
His movements here on earth is ready to lead us today. The same Spirit who taught Jesus and imparted to Him wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, and knowledge and the fear of the Lord is here to teach us, Jesus Christ is our pattern (i John ii. 6), " the first born among many brethren " (Rom. viii. 29). Whatever He realized through the Holy Spirit is for us to realize also to-day.
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