p. 9 | A Real Experience

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1902

A Real Experience

Jesus breathed upon his disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” The reception of the Holy Spirit is not for our own pleasure, but is a preparation for service. The flesh that Christ bore is the same that we bear, but “the flesh profiteth nothing.” It was not in the flesh to do the work God would have done in the earth; it must be by the power of his own life; so Christ took his place with us, and was an example to us of what God can do by his own power in just such flesh as we bear, when opportunity is given for him to have his way. When we think of Jesus, we must not put him so far away from us as we are wont to do, because what God wrought through Jesus Christ in his ministry, he will do through us by the same power. So if we would receive the greatest benefit, we must take his experience as a real one, offered to us, which we may have if we will but accept it.—Selected.