life--a divine Person, wielding the truth, who is sent by Christ as
His Representative, and in some sense a continuance of His personal
Presence--a divine, personal Spirit coming from the Father, wielding
the truth, sent by Christ, and at the side of all the persecuted and
the weak, all world-hated and Christian men, as their Champion, their
Combatant, their Ally, their Inspiration, and their Power. Is not
that enough to make the weakest strong? Is not that enough to make us
'more than conquerors through Him that loved us'? All nations have
legends of the gods fighting at the head of their armies, and through
the dust of battle the white horses and the shining armour of the
celestial champions have been seen. The childish dream is a
historical reality. It is not we that fight, it is the Spirit of God
that fighteth in us.

II. And so note, secondly, the witness of the Spirit which fortifies
against the world.

'He shall bear witness of Me.' Now we must especially observe here
that little phrase, 'unto you.' For that tells us at once that the
witness which our Lord has in mind here is something which is done
within the circle of the Christian believers, and not in the wide
field of the world's history or in nature. Of course it is a great
truth that long before Jesus Christ, and to-day far beyond the limits
of His name and knowledge, to say nothing of His faith and obedience,
the Spirit of God is working. As of old He brooded over the chaotic
darkness, ever labouring to turn chaos into order, and darkness into
light, and deformity into beauty; so today, all over the field of
humanity, He is operating. Grand as that truth is, it is not the
truth here. What is spoken of here is something that is done in and
on Christian men, and not even through them on the world, but in them