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045 - Note M The Light of the Spirit Chap 22 · Spirit of Christ

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  Speaker 1: Note m of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note m.
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  Speaker 1: The Light of the Spirit, Chapter twenty two from Doctor A. Saphir,
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  Speaker 1: Christ Crucified, page one hundred nine. Quote. But it may
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  Speaker 1: be asked, God revealed himself and his purpose in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: why is another light another teacher needed? The necessity is
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  Speaker 1: obvious from history. The heathen world, by wisdom, knew not God,
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  Speaker 1: And when Christ came, he was rejected. They who received
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  Speaker 1: him confessed it was owing to a supernatural illumination to
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of God. Israel taught by holy men inspired
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  Speaker 1: of God, in possession of the scriptures, the perfect portrait
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  Speaker 1: of Him that was to come. Israel, thus highly favored
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  Speaker 1: and fully instructed, was not able to discern the divine
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  Speaker 1: features of that countenance of which Moses and the prophets
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  Speaker 1: of which all their institutions testified. He came to his own,
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  Speaker 1: but his own received him, not they crucified him. What
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  Speaker 1: greater proof can we have that Christ himself remains unseen
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  Speaker 1: light unless the Spirit reveals him. But look at the
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  Speaker 1: very disciples of our Lord. They were drawn to Jesus
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  Speaker 1: by the Father, their knowledge that Jesus was the Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: the Son of God. Came not by nature, by flesh
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  Speaker 1: and blood, but it was from above. They loved Jesus
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  Speaker 1: with all their hearts, cleaving unto him with all the
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  Speaker 1: pities of their affection. And yet while he was here
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  Speaker 1: they understood not the scriptures. Even the instructions of the
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  Speaker 1: Blessed Master, received with intensest admiration and affection, were not sufficient.
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  Speaker 1: They stood at the threshold of truth. The Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: alone can lead us into the truth. God is in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: But the Holy Ghost alone reveals him who is God manifest.
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  Speaker 1: But let us go higher than the proof of actual
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  Speaker 1: history and experience. God, in his love, reveals himself. It
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  Speaker 1: is his gracious will that I should know him in Christ. Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: He reveals himself perfectly. Jesus is light, full of brightness
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  Speaker 1: and sweet tenderness. And yet I require another light to
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  Speaker 1: see the true light. How is this? Simply because there
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  Speaker 1: is no other God but the Triune Father, Son and
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. God knows himself in his spirit. It is
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit of God that God is light in himself,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore by the Spirit he sends forth light into
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  Speaker 1: the world and into the hearts of his children. God
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  Speaker 1: reveals himself. But who is God revealed? Who else but
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  Speaker 1: the Son? And by whom does the Father know and
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  Speaker 1: love the Son? By that very Spirit, by whom he
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  Speaker 1: reveals himself to man. Scripture is of the Father. Its
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  Speaker 1: substance is Christ, and it is revealed by the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: A revealing God. A revealed God is the true God, Father, Son,
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  Speaker 1: and Holy Ghost. Sir. It is in redemption we do
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  Speaker 1: not exalt the Lord Jesus Christ or approach him more
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  Speaker 1: closely when we forget the Father and the Spirit. It
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  Speaker 1: is the glory of Christ that he reveals the Father
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  Speaker 1: and baptizes with the Holy Ghost. Father, Son and Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost are one in majesty and glory, and one in
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  Speaker 1: love and grace. Remember there is no bridge from this
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  Speaker 1: world unto the land of Glory. Remember there is no
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  Speaker 1: ladder from this earth unto Heaven, unless from yonder shore
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  Speaker 1: and from yonder height, God the Triune himself comes down
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  Speaker 1: and brings us salvation. Amor descended, was a saying of
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  Speaker 1: the ancients. Love descends from Heaven. What God, in his
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  Speaker 1: infinite love, wisdom and power hath treasured up in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself must give us by the power of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. And thus we know and assuredly believe that
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  Speaker 1: nothing shall separate us from the love of God which
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  Speaker 1: is in Christ Jesus, because Christ is ours, not by
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  Speaker 1: our own reason, nor by our own energy, nor by
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  Speaker 1: our own fruitfulness, but by the Holy Ghost himself, who
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  Speaker 1: is very God and eternal God, who rings us unto
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ, to be his For evermore, the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost, who is in essential and perfect communion with
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  Speaker 1: the Father and the Son, reveals unto us eternal realities.
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  Speaker 1: He alone knows the infinite love of God with which
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  Speaker 1: He has loved us, for he alone can fathom the
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  Speaker 1: depth out of which this love proceeds. Thus, what the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost reveals and imparts is the knowledge of realities
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  Speaker 1: which are eternal. In God. He brings us a living knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: His light is the light of life. It is not information,
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  Speaker 1: an insight into the connection of truths and an appreciation
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  Speaker 1: of their beauty and grandeur. Men may have such knowledge
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  Speaker 1: vast and deep, and yet be destitute of the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God and uninhabited by the Divine Spirit. To know
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  Speaker 1: God and Jesus Christ, whom he has sent is life eternal.
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  Speaker 1: This knowledge of God beholding Him and Christ is the spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: never ending life which the Spirit creates within us. Dead
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  Speaker 1: knowledge is not the work of the Holy Spirit, knowledge
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  Speaker 1: which remains quiescent, silent, and loathly. For the knowledge which
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit gives is communion. We see the Father and
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  Speaker 1: the Son as seeing us when we behold them by
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  Speaker 1: the revelation of the Spirit. It is as beholding us
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  Speaker 1: with infinite love and bestowing upon us the blessings of grace.
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  Speaker 1: We know because we are known Thou Father, Thou Son
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  Speaker 1: seest me is the immediate consciousness of the soul. When
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  Speaker 1: there is a spiritual perception of God. In other words, adoration, love, petition,
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  Speaker 1: listening to God's voice, receiving the love and peace of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Communion is invoked in this knowledge. This knowledge is therefore
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  Speaker 1: also an experience of God. When we know, we possess
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  Speaker 1: and receive God and his gifts. We know the Father
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  Speaker 1: and he is our father. We know Christ, we see
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  Speaker 1: his mediation. We have come to the blood of the
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  Speaker 1: New Covenant, and we possess Christ and experience the power
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  Speaker 1: and efficacy of His death and resurrection. We know the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual blessings in heavenly places, and knowing them we possess them.
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  Speaker 1: We have not merely the picture or image, but the
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  Speaker 1: substance of divine realities. It is the Spirit himself who
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  Speaker 1: teaches and enlightens the truth itself. The preaching of the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: the reading of the scriptures, has no inherent power to
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  Speaker 1: bring knowledge into the soul. These are only the instruments.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit is the agent. They are only the sword.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit is the energy, the hand that wields it.
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  Speaker 1: They shall be taught of God. God causes the light
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  Speaker 1: of the Gospel to shine into our hearts. How little
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  Speaker 1: we realize this truth, so comforting and full of encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: How apt are we to forget the living Spirit in
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  Speaker 1: the gifts and channels which He uses. How fond we
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  Speaker 1: are of placing ourselves in God's place, if not in
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  Speaker 1: the Fathers, in Christ's, if not in Christ's, in that
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit. End of quote, end of note M