hat He took." Brother, do you
want a better place than Jesus had? Are you seeking a higher place than
Jesus? Or will you say: "Down, down, as deep as ever I can go. By the help
of God I will be nothing before God; I will be where Jesus was."

And now comes the third thought,--This is the salvation the Holy Ghost
brings. You know what a change took place in those disciples. Let us praise
God for it; the Holy Spirit means this: the life, the disposition, the
temper, and the inclinations of Jesus, brought down from heaven into our
hearts. That is the Holy Ghost. He has His mighty workings to bestow as
gifts; but the fullness of the Holy Ghost is this: Jesus Christ in His
humility coming to dwell in us. When Christ was teaching His disciples, all
His instructions may have helped in the way of preparation, breaking them
down, and making them conscious of what was wrong, and awakening desire;
but the instruction could not do it, and all their love to Jesus and their
desire to please Him could not do it, until the Holy Ghost came. That is
the promise Christ gave. He says, in connection with the coming of the Holy
Ghost: "I will come again to you." Christ said to His disciples: "I have
been three years with you, and you have been in the closest contact with
me, and I have done the utmost to reach your hearts; I have sought to get
into your hearts, yet I have failed; but fear not, I will come again. In
that day ye shall see me, and your hearts shall rejoice, and no man shall
take your joy from you. I will come again to dwell in you, and live my life
in you." Christ went to heaven that He might get a power which He never had
before. And what was that? The power of living in men. God be praised for
this! It was because Jesus, the humble One, the Lamb of God, the meek, the
lowly and gentle One, came down in the Holy Spirit into the hearts of His
disciples, that the pride was expelled, and that the very breath of Heaven
breathed through Him in the love that made them one heart and one soul.

Dear friends, Christ is yours. Christ as He comes in the power of the Holy
Spirit is yours. Are you longing to have Him, to have the perfect Christ
Jesus? Come, then, and see how, amid the glories of His Godhead--His
having been in the form of God, and equal to God; amid the glories of
His incarnation--His having become a man; amid the glories of His
atonement--His having been obedient to death; and amid the glories of His
exaltation, which is th