The Holy Spirit then does three things. He cleanses and coordinates and consecrates the subconscious drives and brings harmony within. He helps us to react to the things that happen to us -- helps us to react in a Christian way.
The sum total of that means that there is now power in our lives. We are not now pushed around by circumstances -- a push-over for temptation and evil. We know where we want to go, and we have power to move on to that goal. We have moved out of the seventh chapter of Romans into the eighth. "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath set me free from the law of sin and death."
This higher law of "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" has cancelled the lower law of sin and death. Just as a bird flying takes advantage of the law of the elasticity of air and thereby rises about the law of gravitation, so we live by this higher law which overcomes the law of sin and death.
I quoted Freud as saying: "Dark, unfeeling, and unloving powers determine human destiny." He discovered the subconscioius and fell into its fatalisms. Christ made the subconscious ("All things were made by him") and provided for its remaking -- provided that nothing less than the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Creation, and the Spirit of Re-creation should dwell within us and remake us, not by commands and exhortations, but by companionship and experience.
It works, for He works it -- from within.
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E. Stanley Jones (1884 - 1973)
Was a 20th-century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian. He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century. According to his and other contemporary reports, his friendship for the cause of Indian self-determination allowed him to become a friend of leaders of the up-and-coming Indian National Congress party. He spent much time with Mohandas K. Gandhi, and the Nehru family. Gandhi challenged Jones and, through Jones' writing, the thousands of Western missionaries working there during the last decades of the British Raj, to include greater respect for the mindset and strengths of the Indian character in their work.His work became interdenominational and world-wide. He helped to re-establish the Indian “Ashram” (or forest retreat) as a means of drawing men and women together for days at a time to study in depth their own spiritual natures and quest, and what the different faiths offered individuals. In 1930, along with a British missionary and Indian pastor and using the sound Christian missionary principle of indigenization. (God’s reconciliation to mankind through Jesus on the cross. He made Him visible as the Universal Son of Man who had come for all people. This opening up of nations to receiving Christ within their own framework marked a new approach in missions called "indigenization") Dr. Jones reconstituted the “Ashram” with Christian disciplines. This institution became known as the ”Christian Ashram.”