The Biola Orchestra, under the direction of music faculty member, Ray Lutke, played for College Day recently.
nify the Son and He is deeply grieved when the Spirit's work it self is glorified. How strange is our intoxication with the gifts over the Giver! It is Christ and His redeem ing work, not the Holy Spirit and His ministry of gifting the body, which is to be lifted up. The blessed Holy Spirit will not be exalted over the Son, and this book comes perilously close to doing that. But there is a second thing. Sen sitivity to other cultures is not a quality for which we Americans are noted. We crash ahead with our programs and schemes, often
17:4) while the Father honors the Son (Philippians 2:9-11) and the Holy Spirit reveals and glorifies Him (John 16:14-15). Even the gifts of the Spirit are meant to bring about, not the ful ness of the Spirit, but the "fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:11-13) in the believer. St. Paul's admonition to "be filled with the Spirit" is an imperative plea for the appropria tion of the Spirit's presence, not a reference to His gifts. In some mysterious way, any ex altation of the gifts and manifesta tions of the Holy Spirit quenches His power. His purpose is to mag
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