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025 - Love One Another · True Vine

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty four, Love one Another from the True Vine
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  Speaker 1: by Andrew Murray. This Librivok's recording is in the public
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  Speaker 1: domain recording by Phil Snyder, Love one Another. This is
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  Speaker 1: my commandment that ye love one another. John fifteen twelve.
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  Speaker 1: God is love. His whole nature and perfection is love,
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  Speaker 1: living not for himself, but to dispense life and blessing
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  Speaker 1: in his love. He begat the sun that he might
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  Speaker 1: give all to him in his love. He brought forth
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  Speaker 1: creatures that he might make them partakers of his blessedness.
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  Speaker 1: Christ is the son of God's love, the bearer, the revealer,
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  Speaker 1: the communicator of that love. His life and death were
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  Speaker 1: all love. Love is his life and the life he gives.
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  Speaker 1: He only lives to love, to live out his life
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  Speaker 1: of love in us, to give himself in all who
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  Speaker 1: will receive him. The very first thought of the True
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  Speaker 1: Vine is love, living only to impart his life to
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  Speaker 1: the branches. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of love.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot impart Christ's life without imparting his love. Salvation
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  Speaker 1: is nothing but love conquering and entering into us. We
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  Speaker 1: have just as much of salvation as we have of love.
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  Speaker 1: Full salvation is perfect love no wonder that Christ said
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  Speaker 1: a new commandment, I give unto you. This is my commandment,
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  Speaker 1: the one, all inclusive commandment, that ye love one another.
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  Speaker 1: The branch is not only one with the vine, but
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  Speaker 1: with all its other branches. They drink one spirit, they
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  Speaker 1: form one body, They bear one fruit. Nothing can be
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  Speaker 1: more unnatural than that Christians should not love one another,
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  Speaker 1: even as Christ loved them. The life they received from
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  Speaker 1: their heavy vine is nothing but love. This is the
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  Speaker 1: one thing He asks above all others. Hereby shall all
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  Speaker 1: men know that ye are my disciples. Love one another.
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  Speaker 1: As the special sort of vine is known by the
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  Speaker 1: fruit it bears. The nature of the heavenly vine is
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  Speaker 1: to be judged of by the love His disciples have
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  Speaker 1: to one another. See that you obey this commandment. Let
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  Speaker 1: your obey and abide be seen in this love your brethren,
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  Speaker 1: as the way to abide in the love of your Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Let your vow of obedience begin here love one another.
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  Speaker 1: Let your intercourse with the Christians in your own family
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  Speaker 1: be holy, tender, christ like love. Let your thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: the Christians round you be before everything in the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Christ's love. Let your life and conduct be the
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice of love. Give yourself up to think of their
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  Speaker 1: sins or their needs, to intercede for them, to help
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  Speaker 1: and to serve them. Be in your church or circle
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  Speaker 1: the embodiment of Christ's love. The life Christ lives in
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  Speaker 1: you is love. Let the life in which you live
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  Speaker 1: it out be all love. But man, you write as
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  Speaker 1: if all this was so natural and simple and easy.
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  Speaker 1: Is it at all possible thus to live and thus
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  Speaker 1: to love? My answer is Christ commands it. You must obey.
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  Speaker 1: Christ means it. You must obey or you cannot abide
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  Speaker 1: in His love. But I have tried and failed. I
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  Speaker 1: see no prospect of living like Christ. Ah. That is
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  Speaker 1: because you have failed to take in the first word
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  Speaker 1: of the parable. I am the true Vine. I give
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  Speaker 1: all you need as a branch. I give all I
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  Speaker 1: myself have. I pray you let the sense of past
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  Speaker 1: failure and present feebleness drive you to the Vine. He
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  Speaker 1: is all love. He loves to give, He gives love.
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  Speaker 1: He will teach you to love, even as He loved
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  Speaker 1: love one another. Dear Lord, Jesus, thou art all love.
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  Speaker 1: The life thou gavest us is love, thy new commandment,
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  Speaker 1: and thy badge of discipleship is love one another. I
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  Speaker 1: accept the charge with the love with which thou lovest me,
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  Speaker 1: and I love THEE. I will love my brethren. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter twenty four.