# “A triumph of the Holy Spirit” by Herman Bavinck

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- Published: 2025-10-14T06:00:00-05:00
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“In the Spirit and through the Spirit Christ gives of Himself and His benefits to
the church.

It is not by might or violence, therefore, that Christ rules in the kingdom given
Him by the Father.

He did not do this in His humiliation, and He does not do it in His exaltation.

His entire prophetic, priestly, and kingly activity He continues to carry on in 
a spiritual way from His place in heaven.

He fights only with spiritual weapons.

He is a king of grace and a king of might, but in both kinds He leads His regiment
out through the Holy Spirit, who, in turn, makes use of the Word as a means of grace.

By that Spirit He instructs, comforts, and leads His church, and dwells in it.

And by the same Spirit He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment(**
John 16:8–11**).

The eventual victory which Christ will gain over all His enemies will be a triumph
of the Holy Spirit.”

–Herman Bavinck, [_The Wonderful Works of God_ ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733627227?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
trans. Henry Zylstra; Glenside, PA: Westminster Seminary Press, 1909/2019), 369.

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