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037 - Note E The Spirit of Truth Chap 9 · Spirit of Christ

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  Speaker 1: Note e of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note e.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit of Truth, Chapter nine. We are so accustomed
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  Speaker 1: to think of the word truth as meaning doctrine that
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  Speaker 1: it is only by a distinct and oft repeated effort
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  Speaker 1: that we can realize that it is in a very
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  Speaker 1: different and very much higher sense that our Lord uses it.
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  Speaker 1: When John speaks of Christ as full of grace and truth,
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  Speaker 1: and then explains this by saying the law came by Moses,
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  Speaker 1: grace and truth by Jesus Christ, we notice at once
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  Speaker 1: that he contrasts the powerless shadows and forms of the
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  Speaker 1: Law with the living substance and reality of what Christ
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  Speaker 1: brought as the real communication of the eternal life of
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  Speaker 1: God from heaven. The following extract from Beck may help
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  Speaker 1: to lay hold of the thought that truth has indeed
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  Speaker 1: a life and kingdom of its own. Quote. Man's creative power,
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  Speaker 1: both spiritual and bodily, can never attain to any true
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  Speaker 1: and real life, except as there is something already given
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  Speaker 1: and received to work on and to work out. It
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  Speaker 1: always supposes an objective external creation. So in nature we
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  Speaker 1: must always have the real matter with its own life
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  Speaker 1: power in it formed for us. Before we can with
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  Speaker 1: our powers secure any product in the real sense, whether
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  Speaker 1: spiritual or physical, we never produce, we only reproduce. Nature
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  Speaker 1: is an independent kingdom within which we live and work,
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  Speaker 1: but in which we call into existence or create nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And just so truth, the spiritual world is an independent
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  Speaker 1: kingdom which we do not bring forth out of our spirit,
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  Speaker 1: but which must, in its self existence reveal itself to us,
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  Speaker 1: that out of it we may receive the substance and
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  Speaker 1: elements of a real life before we can produce aught spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: An actual existence must, in its own original power reveal
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  Speaker 1: itself to us, and with its creative energy, enter into
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  Speaker 1: us before we can produce aught from within. And where
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  Speaker 1: is now this actual existence, this life kingdom of truth?
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  Speaker 1: This question compels every honest thinker to come out of
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  Speaker 1: his own isolated self. And in this objective world, it
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  Speaker 1: may be the inner one, as far as it has
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  Speaker 1: an actual objective existence, to seek for the revelation of truth,
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  Speaker 1: that he may open to it his spirit and reproduce
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  Speaker 1: what it has set before him. And so faith is
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  Speaker 1: the substance of Christian truth, which enters into man as
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  Speaker 1: his spiritual property, and in living power becomes imminent within
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  Speaker 1: him as a faith. Christianity is neither idea, nor law
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  Speaker 1: nor feeling, but a life, a deep, penetrating and all
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  Speaker 1: pervading life. End of quote. It is of this life, kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: of divine truth, of actual divine life, that Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: to earth as the embodiment. It is of this truth
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  Speaker 1: that the Holy Spirit is the animating principle, the very life.
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  Speaker 1: And when he comes out of Christ, who has said
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  Speaker 1: I am the Truth, he comes as the bearer of
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  Speaker 1: all there is in Christ, to make him truth within
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  Speaker 1: us an actual, living possession. It is only as we
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  Speaker 1: thus possess Christ the Truth, that our knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: doctrine truth will be living and profitable. The Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: Truth gives us life truth in the inmost part. Hence
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  Speaker 1: he leads it into truth of conduct and character. And
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  Speaker 1: only as we yield to him in this is the
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  Speaker 1: doctrinal truth we hold really the truth of God. To us.
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  Speaker 1: The church or the individual has only so much of
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  Speaker 1: the truth of God as we have of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God. End of note e