“Ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of
His” (Rom. viii. 9).
A spiritual man is not so much a man possessing a strong spiritual
character as a man filled with the Holy Spirit. So the apostle said: “Ye
are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you.”
The glory of the new creation, then, is not only that it recreates the
human spirit, but that it fits it for the abode of God Himself, and makes
it dependent upon the sun, as the child upon the mother. The highest
spirituality, therefore, is the most utter helplessness, the most entire
dependence and the most complete possession of the Holy Spirit. Therefore,
the beautiful act of Christ in breathing upon His disciples, and imparting
to them from His own lips the very Spirit that was already in Him,
expressed in the most vivid manner the crowning glory of the new creation.
And when the Holy Spirit thus possesses us, He fills every part of our
being.