The Life-Giving Spirit
Rev. Cornelius Hanko expounds Romans 8:11 to present the Holy Spirit as the life-giving power who raised Christ and indwells believers, securing the promise of bodily resurrection in the last day. This meditation develops three key themes: the identity of the Spirit as the Third Person of the Trinity, His present indwelling in believers, and His guarantee of future glorification, making it a devotional yet theologically substantive treatment of the Spirit's work in salvation history.
Rev. Cornelius Hanko (28 May, 1944) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you (Rom. 8:11). Pentecost is the crowning point, for on Pentecost Christ returns to us to dwell and abide with us forever, and to bestow all His blessings upon us, which He merited for us in the flesh. That is the remarkable beauty of the words of our text. This whole eighth...