The following is from J. Rufus Moseley as recorded in the book Ineffable Union With Christ: Living in the Kingdom (Selected Writings of J. Rufus Moseley, 1927-1937) compiled and edited by Gregory S. Camp:
"As the inner side of Pentecost is living union with the living Christ through the power, gift, and life of the Spirit, leading us on to full Christlikeness and glorification; the outer side is a life of love and service to the whole of creation. The first fruit of the Spirit, including all the other fruit, is perfect love and this love not only makes abiding union with God possible, but also makes union with one another inevitable.
"As Jesus said on the last night when His disciples received the other Comforter [the Holy Spirit], they would know that He was in the Father and the Father in Him, and that He was in them and they in Him, He prayed not only for the little group around Him, but for all who would believe on Him later, to be one as He and the Father were One, that the love wherewith the Father had loved Him might be in them and He in them.
"For a time the early church had so much love that all things were held in common, and when the church again comes to this much love and then moves on to the fullness of Christ's love, everything we have will be at the service not only of Christians, but of all.
". . . The secret of abiding and increasing is to live in the love and joy of God and in perpetual thanksgiving. We are to behold and rejoice in the glory of the Lord, and as we do this we are changed from glory to glory into His likeness. This is to continue until we have put on the wedding garment, until we are prepared for the full manifestation of Christ, which will change us into the likeness of the body of His glory."
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