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12 - Christ Liveth in Me - The Spiritual Life - Andrew Murray · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Christ liveth in me. I want to speak this evening
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  Speaker 1: about the life that Christ lives in us. You have
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  Speaker 1: it here in the parable of the vine. What can
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  Speaker 1: be closer or more intimate than the union between the
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  Speaker 1: vine and the branch. How the very same sap that
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  Speaker 1: is in the vine is to be found in the branch.
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  Speaker 1: We have very many kinds of grapes, but in each
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  Speaker 1: case the juice that is in the vine is the
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  Speaker 1: very same juce that is in the branch. And so
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  Speaker 1: the very same life and spirit which is in Christ
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  Speaker 1: is to be in us. This is the great lesson
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  Speaker 1: we want to learn to night. Read John chapter fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: verses one to twelve. Our life is to be a
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  Speaker 1: life of perfect union with Jesus. Let us join in
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  Speaker 1: prayer and ask God to reveal to us something of
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  Speaker 1: the wonderful glory of the life that we have in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus, and let us believe that He can even
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  Speaker 1: now give us definite blessing. We want to have a
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  Speaker 1: clear idea of what we in our Christian life aim at.
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  Speaker 1: The question is what is the work that Christ does
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  Speaker 1: to bring us nigh to God? In what way does
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  Speaker 1: He enable us to live as God wants us to live.
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  Speaker 1: I said this morning that we too often think of
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  Speaker 1: Christ as an outward person here on earth who hears
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  Speaker 1: and helps us. A man may come and give me
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars, and so be my helper, but there
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  Speaker 1: is no further union between him and me. The man
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  Speaker 1: may be a great benefactor, that there is no organic
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  Speaker 1: union between him and me. I may never see him again.
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  Speaker 1: Many people look upon Christ as such a separate outward savior,
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  Speaker 1: they never can fully enjoy his salvation. I must believe
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  Speaker 1: that even as Christ is in heaven, so he is
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  Speaker 1: here in me his branch. He comes into my inmost life.
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  Speaker 1: He occupies that life, he lives there, and by living there,
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  Speaker 1: he enables me to live as a child of God.
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  Speaker 1: Some think that when Christ dwells within us, he comes
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the region of the heart, and he lives there.
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  Speaker 1: We are two separate persons, Christ one and I one,
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  Speaker 1: and somehow he works in me at times. No, that
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  Speaker 1: is not the way Christ comes into me and becomes
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  Speaker 1: my very life. He comes into the very root of
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  Speaker 1: my heart and being. He comes into my willing and
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  Speaker 1: thinking and feeling and living, and lives in me in
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  Speaker 1: the power which the omnipresent God alone can exercise. When
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  Speaker 1: I understand this, my soul bows down in adoration and
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  Speaker 1: confidence toward God. I live in the flesh, the life
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  Speaker 1: of flesh and blood. But Christ dwelling in me is
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  Speaker 1: the true life of my life. The words which I
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  Speaker 1: want to speak are very simple and well known. Galatians
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two, Verse twenty. Christ liveth in me. I am
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  Speaker 1: crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but
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  Speaker 1: Christ liveth in me. Now the point to which I
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  Speaker 1: want to direct attention this evening is that if Christ
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  Speaker 1: is to live in me, he does not live in
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  Speaker 1: me by a blind force, nor without my knowing it.
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  Speaker 1: He calls me to come and see what his life is.
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  Speaker 1: And so if I desire his life, I must give
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  Speaker 1: up mine. I must also give up all wrong ideas
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  Speaker 1: about what the life of Christ really is. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: have the life of Christ in power in me unless
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  Speaker 1: I seek to know truly what the life is that
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  Speaker 1: he lived. Oh, come and let the living Christ live
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  Speaker 1: in you, and to that end, seek to know the
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  Speaker 1: life He has set before you in his example. Not
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  Speaker 1: that we are able to imitate Christ, but because Christ
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  Speaker 1: lived his life for us and imparts it to us.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore we can do it. What folly it would be
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  Speaker 1: for a child of three years to say all that
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  Speaker 1: my father can do, I can do? And how can
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  Speaker 1: I say? I can live as the Mighty Christ did?
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  Speaker 1: What folly to attempt to walk as Christ did? And
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  Speaker 1: yet the Bible tells me I must do it. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible also tells me I can do it because Christ
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  Speaker 1: liveth in me. If I allow the living Christ to
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  Speaker 1: take possession of my will and desires, I can walk
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  Speaker 1: even as He walked. Let us come to the life
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  Speaker 1: of Christ and try and find out what is that
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  Speaker 1: life that he lived on earth with his father. That
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  Speaker 1: is exactly the Christ who liveth in us. There are
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  Speaker 1: not two Christs, only one. The Christ that lived on
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  Speaker 1: earth is the Christ that lives in my heart. The
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  Speaker 1: great mark of Christ is that he lived in the
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  Speaker 1: deepest humility and dependence upon the Father. He said, I
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  Speaker 1: can do nothing of myself in everything. He had his
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  Speaker 1: life from God note five points in his life. Take
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  Speaker 1: his birth there he received his life from God. Take
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  Speaker 1: his life and walk on earth. He always waited upon God.
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  Speaker 1: He lived his whole life in dependence upon God alone.
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  Speaker 1: Take his death. He gave up his life to God,
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  Speaker 1: even unto the very death, Take his resurrection. He received
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  Speaker 1: his life back again from God the second time, take
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  Speaker 1: his ascension. He was taken up to heaven to find
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  Speaker 1: his glory with God. Don't you see from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: to the end, God was everything in that life. If
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  Speaker 1: I understand that that the Christ who is going to
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  Speaker 1: live in me is the Christ that honored God in everything,
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  Speaker 1: he will work that same disposition in me. And that
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  Speaker 1: will be the beauty, blessedness and strength of my life.
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  Speaker 1: When I learn like Christ to know that in everything
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  Speaker 1: God is all, and when the motto of his life
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  Speaker 1: becomes mine for God, to God, through God are all things.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the birth of Christ, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: God gave the power of the Holy Spirit in the
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Mary, and it was by the almighty power of
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  Speaker 1: God that Christ was born as a child in Bethlehem.
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  Speaker 1: He was the workmanship of God. God sent the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to form him and to work everything in connection
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  Speaker 1: with his birth in the Virgin Mary. Christ always remembered
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  Speaker 1: that he always told the people his Father sent him.
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  Speaker 1: He was not his own master. He acknowledged that he
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  Speaker 1: had been sent by God. He always acknowledged that he
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  Speaker 1: had his life from God. The Father hath given all
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  Speaker 1: things into the hands of the Son. The Father hath
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  Speaker 1: given unto the Son to have life in himself. That
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  Speaker 1: was Christ's starting point. My life comes from God. I
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  Speaker 1: come from God. I have nothing of myself, and everything
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  Speaker 1: I get I must get from God. Now, if Christ
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  Speaker 1: took that stand, I wish that we could be brought
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  Speaker 1: to take that stand and to say, in deep truth,
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  Speaker 1: this new life is a life that I have from God.
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  Speaker 1: God gave it me. I have got a work of
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  Speaker 1: God right in my heart by the Holy Ghost in regeneration.
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  Speaker 1: I have got a new life from God. And what
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  Speaker 1: will you then think of that life that God has given?
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  Speaker 1: Who is going to maintain it? God alone can maintain
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  Speaker 1: what he has begun. He must work it out to completion.
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  Speaker 1: He must perfect it to the very end. So my
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  Speaker 1: life is given by God. The life of Christ and
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  Speaker 1: the life of my soul are both given from God
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  Speaker 1: in Heaven, received from Him, and must be kept day
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  Speaker 1: by day. In deep consciousness, it belongs to God. God
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  Speaker 1: alone can keep it right, maintain it. It is the
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  Speaker 1: highest folly for me to think I can keep it myself.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever studied that I have received from the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, the Living Christ in me? And I am
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  Speaker 1: not to try and live out that life, but I
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  Speaker 1: am to take it to God and acknowledge my God,
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast planted it in me, Thou alone canst keep it.
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  Speaker 1: Do this if you want to realize what that dependence is.
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  Speaker 1: How Christ lived his whole life in dependence upon God's
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  Speaker 1: will and God's strength and God's might. He said, regarding
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  Speaker 1: that question of strength, the son can do nothing of himself.
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  Speaker 1: Was that really true? Yes? He said the words I
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  Speaker 1: speak I speak not of myself, but as the Father
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  Speaker 1: showeth the works them I do. He said, in regard
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  Speaker 1: to his will, I came not to do my own will.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot trust my will. I do not know what
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  Speaker 1: I ought to do. I wait fully that the Everlasting
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  Speaker 1: God might work out what is right. If Christ the
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  Speaker 1: Holy One needed to say that, don't you think you
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  Speaker 1: and I need it ten thousand times more? And that
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  Speaker 1: is what we want Christ to come in to us
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  Speaker 1: for to breathe in us that very disposition, And that
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  Speaker 1: is what I speak of, the very highest virtue of
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  Speaker 1: any Christian life is only to let God have his
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  Speaker 1: way only to give God the opportunity of doing His
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  Speaker 1: work in us, and coming day by day, hour by hour,
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  Speaker 1: to the place of absolute dependence upon God, and to
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  Speaker 1: learn one lesson, O God, I have nothing, I do
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  Speaker 1: not know anything. I am nothing nothing, and I can
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  Speaker 1: only do what God God makes me. And now how
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  Speaker 1: is Christ to bring me near to God? He cannot
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  Speaker 1: bring me near to God in any other way than
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  Speaker 1: the way he came himself. What was that way? The
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  Speaker 1: way of the deepest self abnegation, the way of the
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  Speaker 1: most entire surrender to God. He was forever expecting God
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  Speaker 1: to work in him, to look to God for strength.
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  Speaker 1: He prayed to God for guidance. He cried to God
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  Speaker 1: in his trouble. God was everything everything to him, and
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  Speaker 1: Christ was content to be nothing. Are you willing to
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  Speaker 1: have this Christ to come into your life? Dear friends?
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  Speaker 1: I cannot speak it out plain enough in words. The
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  Speaker 1: great reason why our Christian life does not advance more
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  Speaker 1: is we try to do too much ourselves. We are
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  Speaker 1: far too self active and self confident. We perhaps never
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  Speaker 1: learned the simple elementary lesson that the only place for
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  Speaker 1: me before God is just to be nothing, and God
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  Speaker 1: will work in me. Look at the angels in heaven,
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  Speaker 1: the Seraphim and Cherubim. Why are they such bright flames
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  Speaker 1: before the throne of God? Because they are nothing, nothing
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  Speaker 1: in them to hinder God, and he can let the
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  Speaker 1: glory of His presence burn right through them. And why
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  Speaker 1: was Christ so perfect? And why did Christ gain such victory?
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  Speaker 1: And why did Christ please God so? It is this
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  Speaker 1: one reason? He allowed God to work in him from
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  Speaker 1: morning until night, And every step was just in dependence
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  Speaker 1: upon God. He said, Father, guide me, Father, I wait
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  Speaker 1: upon thee Father work in me. And when Christ comes
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  Speaker 1: to live in us, do believe me and God's word,
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  Speaker 1: The first and chief thing he wants to work in
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  Speaker 1: you is an absolute dependence upon your God. Christians, have
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  Speaker 1: you not to confess I have never seen that right,
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  Speaker 1: I have not lived it out. I have not understood
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  Speaker 1: that from morning to night, I must let God work
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  Speaker 1: in me. I must do nothing. You may say, how
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  Speaker 1: can we do our work? What was Christ? Also? Inactive?
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  Speaker 1: Was the apostle inactive? With a restless activity. He traversed
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  Speaker 1: the world. And yet all the time he says, I
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  Speaker 1: am nothing. Waiting upon God won't make us inactive. It
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  Speaker 1: will give us a higher activity. Pray to God to
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  Speaker 1: teach us that Christ in us needs a life of
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  Speaker 1: absolute entire dependence upon God. Look at the death of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean? It means that the life that
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  Speaker 1: God had given, he gave that up entirely to God.
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  Speaker 1: And that means this. He said, I have no wish
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  Speaker 1: to regard my life as my own property. If God
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  Speaker 1: wants it, however much suffering, however much shame and death
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  Speaker 1: it cost me. If God wants it, I give it
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  Speaker 1: up to God. That is fair, that is right. If
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  Speaker 1: I have everything from God, then everything ought to return
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  Speaker 1: to God. Thus with Christ, that had been his whole
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  Speaker 1: life through for his death was nothing but the completion
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit that had indicated all his life. When
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  Speaker 1: he was only twelve years old, Remember he said to Mary,
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  Speaker 1: know ye not, I must be about my father's business.
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  Speaker 1: And time after time he said, it is my meat
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  Speaker 1: and drink to do the will of him that sent me.
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  Speaker 1: I am not come to do my own will, but
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  Speaker 1: the will of Him that sent me. And so he
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  Speaker 1: went down to Gethseemine, where he said to the Father,
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  Speaker 1: not my will, but thine be done. I am afraid
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  Speaker 1: that we have never acknowledged the right that God has,
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  Speaker 1: and that we have never understood. Every power I have
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  Speaker 1: comes straight from God. My whole life life comes from God.
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  Speaker 1: And every moment of my life ought to go back
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  Speaker 1: to God. And every strength I get in the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: life comes from God, just as the sunlight comes from
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  Speaker 1: the Sun, and everything ought to go back to God,
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  Speaker 1: and every action will be to the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: A Christian who has Christ in him will be a
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  Speaker 1: man truly sacred and given up wholly to God. Is
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  Speaker 1: that easy? No? Why? Because self is in us so strong.
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  Speaker 1: The curse of sin has brought us into that fearful
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  Speaker 1: condition that instead of considering it an honor and a
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  Speaker 1: privilege to be nothing and to do His will, we
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  Speaker 1: have come to look upon it as hard. We have
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  Speaker 1: come to look upon it as a high attainment, indicating
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  Speaker 1: that we cannot attain to it. If a man gives
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  Speaker 1: up himself and will come to God, he can live
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  Speaker 1: this life of Christ living in him, or else the
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  Speaker 1: Bible cannot be true. Paul, writing in the Epistle to
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  Speaker 1: the Colossians, prayed for the Colossians that they might stand
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  Speaker 1: perfect and complete in all the will of God. Colossians
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  Speaker 1: four twelve. Beloved, listen, Christ only lived for God's will?
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  Speaker 1: And do you want that Christ in your hearts? Or
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  Speaker 1: do you want to try and live a little for
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  Speaker 1: your own will? Do you want the living Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: Christ that reveals God, the living Christ who gave up everything?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want that Christ? Oh? Come now, If there
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  Speaker 1: is any man who has a right to say it,
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  Speaker 1: it is Christ. This is what I want. Such a
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  Speaker 1: Christ to live in me, a Christ that will enable
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  Speaker 1: me to live in dependence upon God and in surrender
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  Speaker 1: to God. God gives you this Christ. If from the
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  Speaker 1: heart you give up your life, time and will to
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  Speaker 1: God to do that very special thing in me, What
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  Speaker 1: does it mean? It means a great deal. There was
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  Speaker 1: that beautiful, perfect life of Christ without one sin. Was
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  Speaker 1: it necessary to give up that life? Yes, because that
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  Speaker 1: life of Christ was connected with Us and Adam, who
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  Speaker 1: were in the power of sin. And God said, if
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  Speaker 1: you wanted a life of everlasting glory, the life with us,
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  Speaker 1: connected with Adam and sin, must be laid down in death.
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  Speaker 1: Christ said, what shall I do? I want to be
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  Speaker 1: glorified with the Father. He had prayed, Father, glorify thy son.
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  Speaker 1: He felt, I cannot have the two lives. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: take this life that I got from the flesh, that
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  Speaker 1: is in the likeness of the flesh to heaven. It
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  Speaker 1: cannot be so. The question came, will you give up
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  Speaker 1: this life that you have from Adam under the curse
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  Speaker 1: of sin? Will you give it up if God will
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  Speaker 1: give you a life of everlasting glory? Christ said yes.
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  Speaker 1: Christ says, if you want me to live in you,
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  Speaker 1: you must do what I did. Your own life must
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  Speaker 1: be given up to the very death, unto the death
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  Speaker 1: of the cross, to be crucified. I must die to self.
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  Speaker 1: I must die to the world. I must be an
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  Speaker 1: actual partaker of the death of Christ. If we are
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  Speaker 1: planted in the likeness of his death, we shall be
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  Speaker 1: raised in the likeness of his resurrection. I must say
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  Speaker 1: to God, I must seek to lose my life. I
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  Speaker 1: want to die to self, and I want him to
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  Speaker 1: come into me with his death and to take me
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  Speaker 1: down into it. Fourth step resurrection. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: It means that when Christ laid down his life into
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  Speaker 1: the grave, that God gave it back to him in
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  Speaker 1: double glory. When Christ had gone down into the grave
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  Speaker 1: and into death, God lifted him up and gave him
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  Speaker 1: a newly infinitely higher and better than the life he
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  Speaker 1: laid down. That teaches me this that if I am
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  Speaker 1: willing to lay down my evil life, my evil will,
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  Speaker 1: my heart and its affections, all my power in this world,
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  Speaker 1: to give it all up to God, to die to it,
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  Speaker 1: and to give up myself wholly to trust and wait
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  Speaker 1: upon God. God will give the new and resurrection life
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  Speaker 1: of Christ in my heart here on earth. Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: living one who was raised from the dead, will come
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  Speaker 1: and live in my heart as he was dead and
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  Speaker 1: is alive for evermore. Study the grave of Jesus. What
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  Speaker 1: does it mean? Christ gave himself up unto death, utter helplessness,
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  Speaker 1: to be nothing before God. And there he lay just,
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  Speaker 1: allowing God to take his time to do his work.
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  Speaker 1: When he was in the grave, in darkness, in death,
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  Speaker 1: he left it to God to do what my might
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  Speaker 1: please him. What did God do? God fulfilled his promise
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  Speaker 1: and gave him a life a thousand times more glorious
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  Speaker 1: than the life sacrificed on Calvary. Listen, if you want
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  Speaker 1: Christ to really live in your heart, you want that
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  Speaker 1: Christ who went down into the grave. He had trusted
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  Speaker 1: God and was raised by God again you want Christ,
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  Speaker 1: with the resurrected life, to come into you and be
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  Speaker 1: one with you. The Christ who was dead and is
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  Speaker 1: alive for evermore and comes and brings the power of
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  Speaker 1: his death in me, so that everything dies to self
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  Speaker 1: and sin, and brings the power of his life, so
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  Speaker 1: that everything in me can live with a new life
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  Speaker 1: from God. Even Jesus Christ that wants to live in me.
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  Speaker 1: I do beseech you do not let yourselves be deceived
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  Speaker 1: with some thoughts about the presence of Jesus. Just think
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  Speaker 1: of him, specially in me. Trust in him. Let it
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  Speaker 1: become a reality. Let him become a live presence. Who
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  Speaker 1: is this Christ who lives in me. He is a
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  Speaker 1: man who received his life from God, who lived that
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  Speaker 1: life in intimate dependence upon God. A man who gave
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  Speaker 1: up his whole life and will to God. The man
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  Speaker 1: raised from the dead by the almighty power of God.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Christ to live in you. Last, after
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  Speaker 1: his resurrection, he ascended up into heaven. It means that
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  Speaker 1: God took him up into the place of power to
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  Speaker 1: share with him in his throne of glory, to make
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  Speaker 1: him partaker of that divine power by which the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is to become a blessing to the world. There
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  Speaker 1: are some who cry, how can I be a blessing
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  Speaker 1: to my fellow men? How did Christ become a blessing
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  Speaker 1: to the world. He gave himself up to God, and
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  Speaker 1: he died to himself and to his own natural life,
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  Speaker 1: and waited for God to raise him up. And because
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  Speaker 1: he did so, God lifted him up to the place
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  Speaker 1: of blessing. He gave him the fullness of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to give you. You want Christ, he is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: But o, my brother, you cannot have Christ until you
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  Speaker 1: have learned the lesson of depending upon God to die.
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  Speaker 1: And then you must learn by faith to claim Christ
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  Speaker 1: in the resurrection and in the ascension. And thus, as
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ lives in you in your earthly life, you
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  Speaker 1: will become a sharer of the glory of His heavenly love.
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  Speaker 1: The whole Christ life in you, the Christ dependence upon God,
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  Speaker 1: the Christ given up to God, the Christ raised up
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  Speaker 1: by God, and the Christ exalted above with God. This
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  Speaker 1: Christ wants to come and live in you. If Christ
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  Speaker 1: is to bring me near to God, then it cannot
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  Speaker 1: be as an outward person. He up in heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: he dwelling and living in me. How is Christ going
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  Speaker 1: to bring me near to God? Only one way? Christ
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  Speaker 1: must live in my heart. He must live in me
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  Speaker 1: by united harmony and oneness of faith towards that God.
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  Speaker 1: This is a spiritual mystery. But God is a holy,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual being, and I cannot draw nigh to Him by
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  Speaker 1: my thought nor by thinking about a certain locality of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Being brought to God means that Christ comes into me
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  Speaker 1: and lives his life in me and leads me up
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  Speaker 1: into personal fellowship with the Living God. Now, the great
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  Speaker 1: question that stirs the Church is this, why are Christians
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  Speaker 1: so feeble? And the great question with many is what
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  Speaker 1: can we do to get the full Christian life? To
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  Speaker 1: live as God promises we can live? What can we
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  Speaker 1: do to become just such children of God as the
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  Speaker 1: Father is able to make us branches of the living
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  Speaker 1: vine to the glory of God. My beloved Christians, let
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  Speaker 1: me bring you to the point, what have you to do?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, we must look upon this Christ and
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  Speaker 1: ask ourselves, am I willing to give up everything that
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  Speaker 1: this Christ can live in me? You saw and know
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  Speaker 1: how Christ lived in Paul. Why it was as if
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  Speaker 1: Christ had become incarnated in Paul. The same zeal for God,
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  Speaker 1: the same love for souls, and the same readiness to
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice everything Everything great in Paul was the complete Christ
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  Speaker 1: life in him. There have been Christians since that day
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  Speaker 1: that you could see the very form of Christ in them.
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  Speaker 1: Now are you willing to have such a Christ? Suppose
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  Speaker 1: this were possible, if God were to offer any one
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  Speaker 1: of us that were willing for it. Suppose you were
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  Speaker 1: to be as poor as Christ was, as persecuted as
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  Speaker 1: he was. And suppose God were to say, my children,
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  Speaker 1: I am giving the highest glory to man to allow
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  Speaker 1: the Christ to come and live in him and live
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  Speaker 1: this suffering life that he lived. How many of us
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  Speaker 1: would say, yes, Lord, I would give anything that Christ
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  Speaker 1: might take possession of me. How many would say, here
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, I cannot do it. It would cost too much
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  Speaker 1: in business to take Him in me that way, O, friends,
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  Speaker 1: God comes to us with that question, are you willing
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  Speaker 1: to have my son Jesus as you find him in
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  Speaker 1: the Word, in his humility, in his dependence, in his
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  Speaker 1: submission and obedience, in his surrender to death and the grave,
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  Speaker 1: in his waiting upon God to raise him. Are you
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  Speaker 1: willing to have that Christ live in your heart. Some
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  Speaker 1: men want life to study, They never get enough wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: They long for knowledge. Are there none willing to night
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  Speaker 1: to ask God to make them willing? I feel that
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  Speaker 1: it is time to be trusting Jesus. My life is
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  Speaker 1: so unlike Jesus, and yet he gave his blood for it.
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  Speaker 1: Are there not here some who are willing to say, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: God help me. I do desire to have this life
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  Speaker 1: and this Christ in me. Is there some one trembling? Perhaps?
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  Speaker 1: I had a note from someone this morning. They said
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  Speaker 1: they were afraid, they were not willing to take the
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  Speaker 1: step God requires. They said, would I pray that they
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  Speaker 1: might be willing? Well? I do not know whether the
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  Speaker 1: writer is here, but I know that there is some
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  Speaker 1: one that feels I am afraid. I am not willing
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  Speaker 1: to let the real Christ, just as he lived on earth,
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  Speaker 1: live in me. I am not ready to live a
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  Speaker 1: life of real dependence upon God every minute in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of God. I am not willing to give up
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  Speaker 1: all my pleasure and will Are you willing? It looks hard,
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  Speaker 1: But are you willing to come? If you cannot say that?
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  Speaker 1: Are you willing to say that you are willing to
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  Speaker 1: be made? Willing to come? I say, do you will
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  Speaker 1: to be made? Willing? Very well? Do it? Say we
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  Speaker 1: can come? I would to God that every one here
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  Speaker 1: were willing. Oh, come, though your heart is so feeble, say,
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  Speaker 1: I do want that Christ to live completely his own
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  Speaker 1: life in me, and just reproduce his own life and
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  Speaker 1: make me exactly like himself to live for man in him.
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  Speaker 1: He is ready belived. You have often and often heard
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  Speaker 1: the gospel and heard the gospel of sanctification and consecration
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  Speaker 1: and obedience. But have you understood and have you accepted
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  Speaker 1: this truth that it just means letting go of everything
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  Speaker 1: and letting Christ have all? Are you willing? Are you
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  Speaker 1: willing to pray? God make me willing to night your
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  Speaker 1: life can be changed? And then comes the second question.
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  Speaker 1: If you are willing, are you going in fully to
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  Speaker 1: trust God to night to take you and to begin
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  Speaker 1: this great work in you by letting the life of
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  Speaker 1: Christ have perfect dominion? Are you willing to say? I
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  Speaker 1: want to become all Christ can make me. I want
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  Speaker 1: to please God in everything. I do want Christ to
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  Speaker 1: do his best in me. I want to give myself
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  Speaker 1: to Christ and let him have everything. Will you not
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  Speaker 1: to night believe an everlasting, almighty Christ is waiting and willing,
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  Speaker 1: ready and able to take possession of you. Yes, shall
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  Speaker 1: I not to night claim Christ as my indwelling Lord,
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  Speaker 1: And say, Son of God, why wilt thou not take
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  Speaker 1: me wholly for thyself? It looks hard and dark and impossible,
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  Speaker 1: But I am going to trust thee Thou Lamb of God.
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  Speaker 1: O man and woman you are Christians. Do not be
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  Speaker 1: contented any longer with a half hearted Christianity, saying I
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  Speaker 1: am safe and pardoned. I have got a little of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I do my best. Oh, come to the full life
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  Speaker 1: that God offers you. Let Christ take entire possession. Let
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  Speaker 1: Christ come in the humble one, the obedient one, the
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  Speaker 1: suffering one, the dying one, the one who lived in
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  Speaker 1: dependence upon God. And say that shall be my life
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  Speaker 1: if Christ will live in me, O God, Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: am willing, and I know thou art willing. I can
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  Speaker 1: trust THEE. O God. Come and may it please God
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  Speaker 1: now in prayer to help some soul to touch Christ,
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  Speaker 1: and bend the heart of God to come in. And
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  Speaker 1: may some souls come to lay this life on Christ.
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  Speaker 1: At Calvary, And say, O, God given up to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. Is that blasphemy. No, it is given
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  Speaker 1: up in Christ, and Christ lives in me. God will
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  Speaker 1: make it a truth and a reality. Let us pray