Dispensation or the Spirit

The dispensation of the Spirit has now come. The Son Himself has been manifested. He was "made of a woman, made under the law... that we might receive the adoption of sons." Gal. 4:4, 5. The elect are now put on the ground of His accomplished redemption, and in the acceptableness of His loved Person.
This condition of things is the Father's delight. There was a need of the schoolmaster for a season, but that need has been answered, and the Father has His child home again. This is not the age of the infant, the child that cannot speak, but the age or dispensation of the son, the elect who have the Spirit, the Spirit of adoption that cries Abba, Father, filling the house with that music. It is the time of the weaned Isaac, and all that appertains to the bondwoman must leave the house.
This again I say is the Father's delight. The affection of the Father finds occasion to indulge itself to the full.