A New Spirit, and God\’s Spirit (iv)
SCRIPTURE: I will put a new spirit within you. Ezekiel 36: 26, 27
The Church has recognized in our day that the Holy Spirit is co-equal to the Father and the
Son. He is the Divine Person through whom alone the Father and the Son can be truly
possessed and known, in whom alone the Church has her beauty and her blessedness. In the
Reformation, of blessed memory, the Gospel of Christ had to be vindicated from the terrible
misapprehension which makes man\’s righteousness the ground of his acceptance, and the
freeness of Divine grace had to be maintained. To the ages that followed was committed the
trust of building on that foundation and developing what the riches of grace would do for the
believer through the indwelling of the Spirit of Jesus. The Church rested too content in what
it had received, and the teaching of all that the Holy Spirit will be to each believer in His
guiding, sanctifying, strengthening power, has never yet taken the place it ought to have in
our evangelical teaching and living.
PRAYER: Let us unite with all who are pleading that God in power may grant mighty
Spirit workings in His Church, that each child of God may prove that in him the double
promise is fulfilled: I will give a new spirit within you,