Post by Eli Brayley on Jul 3, 2008 9:23:24 GMT -7
"The Spirit's work is beyond nature, but it is not against nature. He displaces no faculty; He disturbs no mental process; He does violence to no part of our moral framework; He creates no new organ of thought of feeling. His office is to "set all to rights" within you; so that you never feel so calm, so true, so real, so perfectly natural, so much yourself - as when He has taken possession of you in every part, and filled your whole man with His heavenly joy. Never do you feel so perfectly free - less constrained and less mechanical - in all your faculties, as when He has "brought into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." The heavenly life imparted is liberty, and peace; it is the removal of bondage, and darkness, and pain. So far from being a mechanical constraint, it is the removal of the iron chain with which guilt had bound us. It acts like an army of liberation to a downtrodden country; like the warm breath of spring to the frost-fettered tree. For the entrance of true life, or living truth, into man's soul must be liberty, not bondage. 'The truth shall set you free.'"