Fragment: The Privileges and Glories of Ephesians 1

Ephesians 1:4  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 8
 
Remark how the Holy Ghost completely answers in us to the privileges and glories of Ephesians z; how He makes them good down here. First, answering to verse 4, the power of holiness is His very character, and the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by Him given to us. He is the Spirit of Sonship, so that we cry: " Abba, Father." He is the earnest of the inheritance, and the transforming Revealer of the glory. Even as to the body of Christ, we are baptized by Him into One Body, united to Christ, One Spirit. It shows us greatly how the Holy Ghost, as the Paraclete (Comforter) fills up now in power the whole scope of God's counsels in which we have part.