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041 - Note I On the Presence of the Spirit in the Church Chap 14 · Spirit of Christ

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  Speaker 1: Section I of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This librivoce recording is in the public domain. Note I
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  Speaker 1: on the presence of the Spirit in the Church, chapter fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: This is a quote from the Paraclet, page one hundred
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  Speaker 1: seventy three. The present enjoyment of the Spirit is but
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  Speaker 1: an earnest, a gift beforehand, a pledge of the coming fullness.
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  Speaker 1: Saint Paul speaks in Romans chapter eight, verse twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: of those which have the first fruits of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and in his other epistles he uses equivalent expressions Ephesians
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  Speaker 1: one thirteen, chapter four, verse thirty, second Corinthians one, verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, and Chapter five, verse five. What can be
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  Speaker 1: meant by such words but that the spiritual life is
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  Speaker 1: a continual progression recips with its widening capacities richer gifts
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  Speaker 1: of the wisdom and holiness of God. The Church is
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  Speaker 1: in its infancy as to valuation of spiritual blessing. It
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  Speaker 1: is too so much engaged in controversy that it can
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  Speaker 1: hardly be preparing itself for the completion of the Holy promise.
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  Speaker 1: By mistaking the path for the whole it is in
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  Speaker 1: danger of settling itself into premature satisfaction, as if it
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  Speaker 1: had exhausted the possibilities of prayer. Will it be uncharitable
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  Speaker 1: to suggest that the Church is too much engaged in
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  Speaker 1: that worst and most cankering of all worldliness, the elevation
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  Speaker 1: of one sect above another, and the angry defense of
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  Speaker 1: forms which are but transient conveniences. What is delaying the
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  Speaker 1: outpouring of the fullness of the spirit. There is indeed
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  Speaker 1: a still sterner inquiry which cannot be put without emotion,
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  Speaker 1: Yet it may not be honestly suppressed. Is not the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the Holy Ghost in the Church less distinct
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  Speaker 1: to day than in the Apostolic age? Certainly there is
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  Speaker 1: not much appearance of Pentecostal inspiration in contemporary Christianity. Why
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  Speaker 1: has not a church eighteen hundred years old a fuller
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  Speaker 1: realization of the witness of the Holy Ghost than had
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  Speaker 1: the Church of the first century? Has the Church accomplished
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  Speaker 1: all the purpose of God and passed forever the zenith
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  Speaker 1: of her light and beauty? End of quote, end of
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  Speaker 1: note I