“He that would be chiefest among you, let him be the servant of all.”  This should be our one cry before God:  “Let the power of the Holy Ghost come upon me, with the humility of Jesus, that I may take the place that He took.”  Brother, do you want a better place than Jesus had?  Are you seeking a higher place than Jesus?  Or will you say:  “Down, down, as deep as ever I can go.  By the help of God I will be nothing before God; I will be where Jesus was.”

And now comes the third thought,—­This is the salvation the Holy Ghost brings.  You know what a change took place in those disciples.  Let us praise God for it; the Holy Spirit means this:  the life, the disposition, the temper, and the inclinations of Jesus, brought down from heaven into our hearts.  That is the Holy Ghost.  He has His mighty workings to bestow as gifts; but the fullness of the Holy Ghost is this:  Jesus Christ in His humility coming to dwell in us.  When Christ was teaching His disciples, all His instructions may have helped in the way of preparation, breaking them down, and making them conscious of what was wrong, and awakening desire; but the instruction could not do it, and all their love to Jesus and their desire to please Him could not do it, until the Holy Ghost came.  That is the promise Christ gave.  He says, in connection with the coming of the Holy Ghost:  “I will come again to you.”  Christ said to His disciples:  “I have been three years with you, and you have been in the closest contact with me, and I have done the utmost to reach your hearts; I have sought to get into your hearts, yet I have failed; but fear not, I will come again.  In that day ye shall see me, and your hearts shall rejoice, and no man shall take your joy from you.  I will come again to dwell in you, and live my life in you.”  Christ went to heaven that He might get a power which He never had before.  And what was that?  The power of living in men.  God be praised for this!  It was because Jesus, the humble One, the Lamb of God, the meek, the lowly and gentle One, came down in the Holy Spirit into the hearts of His disciples, that the pride was expelled, and that the very breath of Heaven breathed through Him in the love that made them one heart and one soul.

Dear friends, Christ is yours.  Christ as He comes in the power of the Holy Spirit is yours.  Are you longing to have Him, to have the perfect Christ Jesus?  Come, then, and see how, amid the glories of His Godhead—­His having been in the form of God, and equal to God; amid the glories of His incarnation—­His having become a man; amid the glories of His atonement—­His having been obedient to death; and amid the glories of His exaltation, which is the chief and brightest glory, He humbled Himself from Heaven down to earth and on earth down to the cross.  He humbled Himself to bear the name and show the meekness, and die the death of the Lamb of God.  And what is it we now need to do?  How are we to be saved by this humility