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027 - Christ's Friendship Its Origin · True Vine

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty six. Christ's Friendship Its Origin from the True
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  Speaker 1: Vine by Andrew Murray. This Liebervok's recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Phil Snyder. Christ's Friendship Its Origin.
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  Speaker 1: Greater love hath no man than this that a man
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  Speaker 1: laid down his life for his friends. John fifteen thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: In the three following verses, our Lord speaks of his
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  Speaker 1: relation to his disciples under a new aspect, that of friendship.
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  Speaker 1: He points us to the love in which it, on
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  Speaker 1: his side, has its origin verse thirteen, to the obedience
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  Speaker 1: on our part by which it is maintained verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: and then to the holy intimacy to which it leads
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  Speaker 1: verse fifteen. Our relation to Christ is one of love.
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  Speaker 1: In speaking of this previously, he showed us what his
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  Speaker 1: love was, in its heavenly glory, the same love which
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  Speaker 1: the Father had loved him. Here we have it, in
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  Speaker 1: its earthly manifestation, lay down his life for us. Greater
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  Speaker 1: love hath no man than this, that a man laid
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  Speaker 1: down his life for his friends. Christ does, indeed, long
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  Speaker 1: to have us know that the secret root and strength
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  Speaker 1: of all he is and does for us as divine
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  Speaker 1: is love. As we learn to believe this, we shall
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  Speaker 1: feel that here is something which we not only need
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  Speaker 1: to think and know about, but a living power, a
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  Speaker 1: divine life, which we need to receive within us. Christ
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  Speaker 1: and his Love are inseparable. They are identical. God is
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  Speaker 1: love and Christ is love. God and Christ and the
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  Speaker 1: Divine Love can only be known by having them, by
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  Speaker 1: their life and power working within us. This is eternal
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  Speaker 1: life that they know, Oh thee. There is no knowing God,
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  Speaker 1: but having the life, the life working in us alone
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  Speaker 1: gives us the knowledge and even so the love. If
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  Speaker 1: we know it, we shall drink of its living stream.
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  Speaker 1: We must have it shed forth by the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: in us. Greater love hath no man than this, that
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  Speaker 1: a man give his life for his friends. The life
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  Speaker 1: is the most precious thing a man has. The life
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  Speaker 1: is all he is, The life is himself. This is
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  Speaker 1: the highest measure of love. When a man gives his life,
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  Speaker 1: he holds nothing back. He gives all he has and
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  Speaker 1: is it is this our Lord Jesus wants to make
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  Speaker 1: clearer to us concerning his mystery of the Vine. With
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  Speaker 1: all he has, he has placed himself at our disposal.
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  Speaker 1: He wants us to count him our very own. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to be wholly our possession, that we may be
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  Speaker 1: wholly his possession. He gave his life for us in death,
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  Speaker 1: not merely as a passing act that, when accomplished, was
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  Speaker 1: done with no but as making himself ours for eternity,
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  Speaker 1: life for life. He gave his life for us to possess,
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  Speaker 1: that we might give our life for him to possess.
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  Speaker 1: This is what is taught by the parable of the
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  Speaker 1: vine and the branch, in their wonderful identification, in their
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  Speaker 1: perfect union. It is as we know something of this,
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  Speaker 1: not by reason or imagination, but deep down in the
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  Speaker 1: heart and life, that we shall begin to see what
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  Speaker 1: ought to be our life as branches of the heavenly vine.
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  Speaker 1: He gave himself to death. He lost himself that we
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  Speaker 1: might find life in him. This is the true Vine,
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  Speaker 1: who only lives to live in us. This is the
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  Speaker 1: beginning and the root of that holy friendship to which
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  Speaker 1: Christ invites us. Great is the mystery of Godliness. Let
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  Speaker 1: us confess our ignorance and unbelief. Let us cease from
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  Speaker 1: our own understanding and our own efforts to master it.
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  Speaker 1: Let us wait for the Holy Spirit, who dwells within us,
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  Speaker 1: to reveal it. Let us trust his infinite love, which
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  Speaker 1: gave its life for us, to take possession, and rejoice
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  Speaker 1: in making us holy its own, his life for his friends.
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  Speaker 1: How wonderful the lessons of the vine giving its very
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  Speaker 1: life to its branches, and Jesus gave his life for
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  Speaker 1: his friends, and that love gives itself to them and
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  Speaker 1: in them, my heavenly vine. O teach me how holy
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  Speaker 1: thou longest to live in me? End of Chapter twenty
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