the indwelling of God in the soul
. THE PRIVILEGE. It is the indwelling of God in the soul — His "abiding in us." The sentiment is not peculiar to John, but the frequency of it is. Let us look at this "abiding." There was a time when the persons here referred to were without God in the world; when another being had possession of them — "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience." But God hath delivered them from the power of darkness, and translated them into the kingdom of His dear Son. God has entered, and taken possession of the heart. Perhaps, too, after the parent had pleaded to no purpose; perhaps after the minister had long laboured for nought; perhaps after he had been wooed and awed, blest and chastised, in vain. Then, God says, "I will work, and who shall let it?" His abiding in us supposes not only entrance, but continuance. But how does He abide in them? If I should answer this question negatively, I should say, ...