The Unsearchable Riches of Christ # 11

The Spirit of Grace (continued)

3. The Spirit of Life (continued)

We know how it is going to finish, it is an elevated life that we have. However, we may from time to time descend,  but we are going to ascend as many times as we descend. But, as the Lord's people, the final movement is an ascension. Although this life is that way, it must seek out and find its own Source of Life. Now where it began, it will End. It began in God, and it will in God. This is the Spirit of Grace, and the Spirit of Life.

I know, dear friends, that I have only said things with which you are familiar. But sometimes our most familiar things, because of their familiarity, lost their power and it is well to be reminded of them.

Now I have mentioned these three aspects of grace as three great and primary riches of grace and of how rich they are. What I have next to say, if the Lord wills, would take considerably longer than we would have time for this evening, because they really do take us into the depths.

So I will leave it there for now and take it up later, but you have enough to get on with what I have said this evening, or what I trust the Lord has said. You go away and let your hearts, as well as your minds, dwell upon this that has been said; because we can really miss a lot, dear friends, if we only hear and go away and do nothing with what we have heard. All is for our good. But the real value will be if, after tonight, we just recall these things, and go to the Lord very quickly and say:

"Oh, Lord, if what is said is true, if this is the truth, I look to You to make that good in me. The Spirit of Power, and the Spirit of Wisdom, and the Spirit of Life: You have said that these are features of Your grace brought in the Person of the Holy Spirit. This is the teaching of the Word of God. It must not say in the Book. It must come into reality in my own life. Lord, I count on You to make this true, to make this real, and so, more than ever, make this a reality in me. Amen"

~T. Austin-Sparks~

(continued with # 12 - (According to the Riches of His Grace: Redemption and Wisdom)