“HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY.”
21st Day.
“Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said”—
“He shall glorify me: for He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.”—John xvi. 14.
The Divine Glorifier.
The Holy Spirit glorifying Jesus in the unfoldings of His person, and character, and work, to His people! The great ministering agent between the Church on earth and its glorified Head in Heaven,—carrying up to the Intercessor on the throne, the ever-recurring wants and trials, the perplexities and sins, of believers; and receiving out of His inexhaustible treasury of love,—comfort for their sorrows—strength for their weakness—sympathy for their tears—fulness for their emptiness,—and this the one sublime end and object of His gracious agency,—“He shall glorify Me.” “He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak.” My words of sympathy—My omnipotent pleadings—the tender messages sent from an unchanged Human Heart,—all these shall He speak. “He shall tell you,” says an old divine, commenting on this passage, “He shall tell you nothing but stories of My love” (Goodwin). He will have an ineffable delight in magnifying Me in the affections of My Church and people, and endearing Me to their hearts; and He is all worthy of credence, for He is “the Spirit of truth.”
How faithful has He been in every age to this His great office as “the glorifier of Jesus!” See the first manifestation of His power in the Christian Church at the day of Pentecost. What was the grand truth which forms the focus-point of interest in that unparalleled scene, and which brings three thousand stricken penitents to their knees? It is the Spirit’s unfolding of Jesus—glorifying Him in eyes that before saw in Him no beauty? Hear the key-note of that wondrous sermon, preached “in demonstration of the Spirit, and with power,”—“Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to His people, and forgiveness of sins.”