BY THE LATE REV. JOHN ROSS, BRUCEFIELD, ONTARIO.
“FOR He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak” (John xvi. 13). (1) The Spirit is God and fills heaven and earth. He is omnipresent and omniscient. He is in Christ and He is in His people. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him and the Spirit of His Son is sent forth into their hearts crying, Abba, Father. He is in all the sons of God as the Spirit of His Son. He is not the less present with Christ in heaven that He is in the hearts of His people on earth. (2) He hears the voice of Christ—all His intercession in heaven—what He asks for His people, what He obtains for them, what He grants to them, and whatsoever He hears that He speaks to them and can speak in the very instant of time that He hears it of Christ speaking in heaven. At the very moment that Christ is speaking in heaven He speaks the same on earth in the ear of the believer’s soul. He does not speak of Himself, He speaks what He hears. He is Christ’s mouth and tongue and mind and heart to the Church. Through the Spirit there is instantaneous communication between the Head in heaven and the members on earth. And all that He in heaven wills to communicate to them is actually communicated the instant He wills it—the very thing in the very measure and to the very persons and to none other. He is just Christ’s Spirit to them—the seven horns and seven eyes of the slain Lamb.