Stick to the
work till He calls you out, and when He so calls you can go with
open face and a heart abounding with love, joy, and peace, and He
will still go with you.
"HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED?"
XIX.
THE SHEATHED SWORD: A LAW OF THE SPIRIT.
"Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you."
JUST as the moss and the oak are higher in the order of creation
than the clod of clay and the rock, the bird and beast than the
moss and the oak, the man than the bird and the beast, so the
spiritual man is a higher being than the natural man. The sons of
God are a new order of being. The Christian is a "new creation."
Just as there are laws governing the life of the plant, and other
and higher laws that of the bird and beast, so there are higher
laws for man, and still higher for the Christian. It was with
regard to one of these higher laws that govern the heavenly life
of the Christian that Jesus said to Peter, "Put up thy sword."
Jesus said to Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world; if My
kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight." The
natural man is a fighter. It is the law of his carnal nature. He
fights with fist and sword, tongue and wit. His kingdom is of
this world, and he fights for it with such weapons as this world
furnishes. The Christian is a citizen of Heaven, and is subject
to its law, which is universal, wholehearted love.
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