"And the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a
dove." Luke 3:22
After the Flood, Noah’s dove failed to find a resting-place,
but after Christ’s baptism the dove of the Spirit rested and remained on him.
Notice—it rests on him and not on us apart from him. Our experience of the
Spirit comes through Christ, for he is the only One who has fully pleased the
Father.
Apart from the Lord Jesus, we should never come up again
from the waters of baptism. He it is who carries us safely through the flood
and raises us up from the tomb into newness of life. In ourselves we can never
please the Father, but we are accepted in him. And we could never be anointed
by the Holy Spirit unless it were by our being found in Christ, the Anointed
One. With Christ as our Head, we know the anointing power of the Spirit.
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