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The Holy Spirit and Jesus

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 The Holy Spirit and Christ

Abstract

This chapter deals specifically with the relation between the last two persons of the Trinity , the Son and the Spirit . The reality is that there is no knowledge or understanding of the Son except through the Spirit , and hence , to know one is to know the other

The relation between the Holy Spirit and the mission , person and work of Christ is the subject of this chapter . However , the itself is so huge , so central to the Christian life that only

a smattering of an outline can be presented here . The literature on this subject is vast and again , only a small amount of this can be presented . Nevertheless this chapter seeks at least to make some suggestive comments about the role of the Spirit in the life and work of Christ

One of the main areas of cooperation between the Spirit and the work of Christ is the act of baptism . The real purpose of baptism , according to like Alexander Campbell , is to bring the Christian to an experience of the Holy Spirit and his gifts (Campbell 1840 , 267 . But like all acts of receiving the Spirit , the reception is mediated by the sacrifice of Christ on the cross . Hence , Christ is the cause of the Spirit resting upon the Christian after baptism , but is not the source of the Spirit . IN other words , the Father alone is the source of the Spirit , but Christ is...

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