HIS NAME IS THE HOLY SPIRIT

The word “vicar” means deputy – one who has been sent to take another’s place. The Lord Jesus Christ, knowing the need for an infallible Vicar for His church, speaks of the coming of the Holy Spirit and His office as Vicar of Christ.

St. John 14:26 – “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

St. John 15:26 – “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.”

St. John 16:7 – “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.”

St. John 16:13,14 – “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” Continue reading →

Arthur Pink
July, 1946

“For this is what the high and lofty One says—He who lives forever, whose name is holy: I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit.” Isaiah 57:15

Here we have a distinct, though brief, description of those whom the high and lofty One inhabits. Contrition and humility are the identifying marks of the particular characters in whom the Holy One dwells.

That description applies to and is common to all the regenerate. “Him who is of a contrite and humble spirit” is not a delineation of a few exceptionally eminent saints who constitute a special class all to themselves—but depicts all who are truly saved. So far from those marks belonging only to certain highly favored souls that have far out-stripped their fellows in spiritual attainments, they are found in every one who has been born again. That is clear from Romans 8:9-11: God indwells all the regenerate, for “if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ—he does not belong to Him”; and compare Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:22. Continue reading →