0380. The Witness of the Spirit

The Witness of the Spirit

"And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father" (Gal_4:6).

An evident token of salvation is the still small voice within, which speaks to us in the quiet of our worship.

Believers are children of God, and believers will find, ever and anon, something deep within them, which looks upward and cries "Abba, Father."

It is not the mere saying, "Our Father, Who art in Heaven," that is a token of salvation: it is the cry of the heart.

Children of God are indwelt by the Spirit of God. The indwelling Spirit does not say, "I am here," but He says: "Christ is here."

The Holy Spirit takes of the things of Christ, and shows them unto us. He magnifies the Lord Jesus.

Illustration: When Eliezer, Abraham’s aged servant, was bringing Rebecca across the sands, that she might become the wife of Isaac, and a daughter in the home of Abraham, can you imagine of what they talked by the way?

During many days their camels traveled along side by side, and Eliezer was cheering and comforting Rebecca. He talked of Isaac, and he talked of Abraham.

Are you a child of God, traveling o’er the desert sands, and is the Holy Spirit the one at your side? Then of what will He be speaking? Of Christ and of God. And you may know that you are saved, when you hear His voice. "For the Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God."

Are there days in your life when your whole soul seems groaning within you, as you are reaching upward in your intercession and your prayers? In such an hour, have you not known what it was for the Spirit to join you, and to help you, as He made intercession within you, with groaning which could not be uttered? If you have had an experience like this, remember that the Spirit only intercedeth thus with saints, according to the will of God. You have, therefore, a token of your salvation.

Young Christians may not comprehend this token, but as their Christian life deepens, and as they walk with God, this assurance of salvation will become more and more prominent in their lives.

An evident token of perdition is the utter lack of the witness of the Spirit. The unsaved are living in the far country, they are aliens from the life of God, they walk in the flesh and not in the Spirit, they are doing the pleasures of the mind and know nothing of the will of God.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR