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An Unfailing Ally
And the third one is the Holy Spirit His place of activity just now is this earth. He represents our Lord Jesus, and is clothed with full power as His representative. When Jesus was on the earth He yielded Himself wholly to the Holy Spirit, and was entirely under His control. When He finished his work on earth, and went back home again, the Holy Spirit yielded Himself wholly to the control of our Lord Jesus. And now He is here on the earth, the messenger and representative of our Lord Jesus, clothed with absolute power. He is the Lord Jesus' other self, sent down to carry out His plans, and to make real and actual in your life and mine the victory which Jesus won for us when He was here.
This is the great third One of this trinity of action. It is He that so lovingly and persistently lays siege to human hearts. He works wholly through our wills. He will come into our lives; he will take supervision of our temptations; he will be the general on our side in every fight. He gives us all the victory of Jesus over Satan. That victory, won years ago, He will make a present victory in your life and mine.
All this experience, and skill, and power, and the enormous prestige of a victory already won, He puts at our disposal. We can be as sure of victory as we are sure that our Lord is actually Victor. This Holy Spirit is our personal friend. He is always alongside, inside, to help. He devotes Himself to us. And in His presence we have all the power of God, and all the victory of Jesus, at our disposal in our life-fight.
This is the trinity of action—a real devil to be resisted and fought, a real Holy Spirit devoting Himself to us, and we men in between deciding the fight by our choices. We know that we men are real. We have no doubt about that. We know the conflict of life is a real thing. The earnest man has no question about that. Well, these other two are just as real, though unseen. We want to look not so much at the things that are seen, but through and beyond these, at the things and persons unseen. For these are the real forces.
There is a devil to be fought. And a keen tough fighter he is, too, but he has the enormous disadvantage of having known a crushing defeat.
There is a Holy Spirit, too, to take charge of our fight, to fight with us and through us. He has never known defeat. He is the Spirit of Jesus, the Victor over the devil. He is with us. He will make real in us the victory of Jesus. His presence assures victory. But it is victory through fighting. The fighting is real, and the victory is just as real.
And in between these two we men decide the issue. The devil is the tempter. He is the aggressor. He has great power and subtlety. The Holy Spirit is the Helper. He is the Victor-Spirit. He has far greater power than the tempter. He never fails. He is our personal friend. The result depends upon us. We are the tempted. We may be the helped. We must recognize and resist the tempter. We must recognize and claim the power of the Holy Spirit. Through Him there is unfailing victory for us. That is the trinity of action in the fight of life.