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12 - Asking to Give - Christ's Object Lessons · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve, asking to give Christ was continually receiving from
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  Speaker 1: the Father, that he might communicate to us. The word
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  Speaker 1: which ye hear, he said, is not mine, but the
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  Speaker 1: fathers which sent to me. The son of Man came
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  Speaker 1: not to be ministered unto, but to minister, not for himself,
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  Speaker 1: but for others. He lived in thought and prayed. From
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  Speaker 1: hours spent with God, he came forth morning by morning
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  Speaker 1: to bring the light of Heaven to men. Daily he
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  Speaker 1: received a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit. In the
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  Speaker 1: early hours of the new day. The Lord awakened him
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  Speaker 1: from his slumbers, and his soul and his lips were
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  Speaker 1: anointed with grace that he might impart to others. His
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  Speaker 1: words were given him fresh from the heavenly courts, words
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  Speaker 1: that he might speak in season to the weary and oppressed.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord God hath given me, He said, the tongue
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  Speaker 1: of the learned, that I should know how to speak
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  Speaker 1: a word in season to him that is weary. He
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  Speaker 1: wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear
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  Speaker 1: as the learned. Christ's disciples were much in pressed by
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  Speaker 1: his prayers and by his habit of communion with God.
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  Speaker 1: One day after a short absence from their Lord, they
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  Speaker 1: found him absorbed in supplication. Seeming unconscious of their presence,
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  Speaker 1: he continued praying aloud. The hearts of the disciples were
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  Speaker 1: deeply moved. As he ceased praying, They exclaimed, Lord, teach
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  Speaker 1: us to pray. In answer, Christ repeated the Lord's prayers
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  Speaker 1: he had given it in the Sermon on the Mound. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in a parable he illustrated the lesson he desired to
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  Speaker 1: teach them. Which of you, he said, shall have a friend,
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  Speaker 1: and shall go unto him at midnight and say unto him, friend,
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  Speaker 1: lend me three loaves. For a friend of mine in
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  Speaker 1: his journey has come to me, and I have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to set before him. And he from within shall answer
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  Speaker 1: and say, trouble me not. The door is now shut,
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  Speaker 1: and my children are with me in bed. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: rise and give thee I say unto you, though he
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  Speaker 1: will not rise and give him because he is his friend.
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  Speaker 1: Yet because of his importunity, he will rise and give
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  Speaker 1: him as many as he needeth. Here Christ represents the
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  Speaker 1: petitioner as asking that he may give again. He must
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  Speaker 1: obtain the bread, else he cannot supply the necessities of
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  Speaker 1: a weary belated wayfarer. Though his neighbor is unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: be troubled, he will not desist his pleading. His friend
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  Speaker 1: must be relieved, and at last his importunity is rewarded.
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  Speaker 1: His wants are supplied. In like manner, The disciples were
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  Speaker 1: to seek blessings from God in the feeding of the multitude,
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  Speaker 1: and in the Sermon on the Bread from Heaven. Christ
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  Speaker 1: had opened to them their work as his representatives. They
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  Speaker 1: were to give the bread of life to the people.
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  Speaker 1: He who had appointed their work, saw how often their
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  Speaker 1: faith would be tried. Often they would be thrown into
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  Speaker 1: unexpected positions and would realize their human insufficiency. Souls that
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  Speaker 1: were hungering for the bread of life would come to them,
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  Speaker 1: and they would feel themselves to be destitute and helpless.
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  Speaker 1: They must receive spiritual food or they would have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to impart. But they were not to turn one soul
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  Speaker 1: away unfed. Christ directs them to the source of supply.
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  Speaker 1: The men whose friend came to him for entertainment, even
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  Speaker 1: at the unseasonable hour of midnight, did not turn him away.
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  Speaker 1: He had nothing to said before him, but he went
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  Speaker 1: to one who had food and pressed his request until
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor supplied his need, and would not God, who
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  Speaker 1: had set his servants to feed the hungry, supply their
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  Speaker 1: need for his own work. But the selfish neighbor in
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  Speaker 1: the parable does not represent the character of God. The
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  Speaker 1: lesson is drawn not by comparison, but by contrast. A
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  Speaker 1: selfish man were grant an urgent request in order to
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  Speaker 1: rid himself of one who disturbs his rest. But God
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  Speaker 1: delights to give. He is full of compassion, and he
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  Speaker 1: longs to grant the requests of those who come unto him.
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  Speaker 1: In faith. He gives to us that we may minister
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  Speaker 1: to others and thus become like himself. Christ declares, ask,
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  Speaker 1: and it shall be given. You seekin ye shall find knock,
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  Speaker 1: and it shall be opened unto you. For every one
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  Speaker 1: that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth. Unto him
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  Speaker 1: that knocketh, it shall be opened. The Savior continues. If
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  Speaker 1: a son shall ask bread of any of you that
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  Speaker 1: is a father, will he give him a stone? Or
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  Speaker 1: if he asks a fish, will he for a fish
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  Speaker 1: give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg,
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  Speaker 1: will he offer to him a scorpion? If ye, then,
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  Speaker 1: being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children,
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  Speaker 1: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to them that ask him. In order to strengthen
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  Speaker 1: our confidence in God, Christ teaches us to address him
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  Speaker 1: by a new name, a name entwined with the dearest
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  Speaker 1: associations of the human heart. He gives us the privilege
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  Speaker 1: of calling the infinite God our father. This name, spoken
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  Speaker 1: to him and of him, is a sign of our
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  Speaker 1: love and trust toward him, in a pledge of his
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  Speaker 1: regard and relationship to us, spoken when asking his favor
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  Speaker 1: or blessing. It is his music in his ears that
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  Speaker 1: we might not think it presumption to call him by
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  Speaker 1: this name. He has repeated it again and again. He
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  Speaker 1: desires us to become familiar with the appellation. God regards
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  Speaker 1: us as his children. He has redeemed us out of
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  Speaker 1: the careless world and has chosen us to become members
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  Speaker 1: of the royal family, sons and daughters of the heavenly King.
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  Speaker 1: He invites us to trust in Him, with the trust
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  Speaker 1: deeper and stronger than that of a child in his
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  Speaker 1: earthly father. Parents love their children, but the love of
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  Speaker 1: God is larger, broader, deeper than human love can possibly be.
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  Speaker 1: It is immeasurable. Then if earthly parents know how to
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  Speaker 1: give good gifts to their children, how much more shall
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  Speaker 1: our Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those
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  Speaker 1: who ask him. Christ's lessons in regard to prayer should
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  Speaker 1: be carefully considered. There is a divine science in prayer,
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  Speaker 1: and his illustration brings to view principles that all need
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  Speaker 1: to understand. He shows what is the true spirit of prayer.
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  Speaker 1: He teaches the necessity of perseverance in presenting our requests
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  Speaker 1: to God, and assures us of his willingness to hear
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  Speaker 1: and answer prayer. Our prayers are not to be a
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  Speaker 1: selfish asking merely for our own benefit. We are to
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  Speaker 1: ask that we may give the principle of Christ's life
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  Speaker 1: must be the principle of our lives for their sakes.
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  Speaker 1: He said, speaking of his disciples, I sanctify myself that
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  Speaker 1: they also might be sanctified. This same devotion, this same
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  Speaker 1: self sacrifice, this same subjection to the claims of the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God that were manifest in Christ, must be
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  Speaker 1: seen in his servants. Our mission to the world is
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  Speaker 1: not to serve or please ourselves. We are to glorify
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  Speaker 1: God by cooperating with him to save sinners. We are
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  Speaker 1: to ask blessings from God that we may communicate to others.
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  Speaker 1: The capacity for receiving is preserved only by imparting. We
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  Speaker 1: cannot continue to receive heavenly treasure without communicating to those
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  Speaker 1: around us. In the parable, the petitioner was again and
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  Speaker 1: again repulsed, but he did not relinquish his purpose. So
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  Speaker 1: our prayers do not always seem to receive an immediate answer.
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  Speaker 1: But Christ teaches that we should not cease to pray.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer is not to work any change in God. It
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  Speaker 1: is to bring us into harmony with God. When we
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  Speaker 1: make request of him, he may see that it is
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  Speaker 1: necessary for us to search our hearts and repent of sin.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore He takes us through tests and trial. He brings
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  Speaker 1: us through humiliation that we may see what hinders the
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  Speaker 1: working of His Holy Spirit through us. There are conditions
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  Speaker 1: to the fulfillment of God's promises, and prayer can never
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  Speaker 1: take the place of duty. If ye love me, Christ says,
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  Speaker 1: keep my commendments. He that hath my commendments and keepeth them.
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  Speaker 1: He it is that loveth me, and he that loveth
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  Speaker 1: me shall be loved of my Father. And I will
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  Speaker 1: love him and will manifest myself to him. Those who
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  Speaker 1: bring their petitions to God claiming his promise, while they
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  Speaker 1: do not comply with the conditions, insult Jehovah. They bring
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  Speaker 1: the name of Christ as their authority for the fulfillment
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  Speaker 1: of the promise, but they do not those things that
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  Speaker 1: would show faith in Christ and love for him. Many
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  Speaker 1: are forfeiting the condition of acceptance with the Father. We
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  Speaker 1: need to examine closely the deed of trust wherewith we
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  Speaker 1: approach God. If we are disobedient, we bring to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord a note to be cashed when we have not
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled the conditions that would make it payable to us.
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  Speaker 1: We present to God his promises and ask him to
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  Speaker 1: fulfill them, when by deday doing so he would dishonor
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  Speaker 1: his own name. The promise is, if ye abide in
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  Speaker 1: Me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
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  Speaker 1: what ye will, and it should be done unto you.
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  Speaker 1: And John declares hereby we do know that we know
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  Speaker 1: him if we keep his commandments. He that saith I
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  Speaker 1: know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar,
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  Speaker 1: And the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth
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  Speaker 1: his word in him verily is the love of God perfected.
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  Speaker 1: One of Christ's last commands to his disciples was love
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  Speaker 1: one another as I have loved you. Do we obey
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  Speaker 1: this command? Or are we indulging in un christ like
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  Speaker 1: traits of character? If we have in any way grieved
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  Speaker 1: or wounded others, it is our duty to confess our
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  Speaker 1: fault and seek for reconciliation. This is an essential preparation
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  Speaker 1: that we may come before God in faith to ask
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  Speaker 1: his blessing. There is another matter, too often neglected by
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  Speaker 1: those who seek the Lord in prayer. Have you been
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  Speaker 1: honest with God? By the prophet Malachi, the Lord declares,
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  Speaker 1: even from the days of your father's you are gone
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  Speaker 1: away from mine ordinances and have not kept them. Return
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  Speaker 1: unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Hosts. But ye say wherein shall we return?
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  Speaker 1: Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me?
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  Speaker 1: But ye say wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes
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  Speaker 1: and offerings? As the giver of every blessing, God claims
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  Speaker 1: a certain portion of all we possess. This is his
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  Speaker 1: provision to sustain the preaching of the Gospel, and by
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  Speaker 1: making this return to God we are to show our
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  Speaker 1: appreciation of his gifts. But if we withhold from him
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  Speaker 1: that which is his own, how can we claim his blessing?
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  Speaker 1: If we are unfaithful stewards of earthly things, how can
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  Speaker 1: we expect him to entrust us with the things of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: It may be that here is the secret of unanswered prayer.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord, in his great mercy, is ready to forgive.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
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  Speaker 1: that there may be meet in mine house, and prove
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  Speaker 1: me now herewith If I will not open you the
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  Speaker 1: windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing, that
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  Speaker 1: there shall not be room enough to to receive it.
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  Speaker 1: And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes. And
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  Speaker 1: he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground. Neither
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  Speaker 1: shall your vine cast your fruit before the time in
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  Speaker 1: the field. And all nations shall call you blessed, for
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  Speaker 1: ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
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  Speaker 1: So it is with every other one of God's requirements.
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  Speaker 1: All his gifts are promised on condition of obedience. God
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  Speaker 1: has a heaven full of blessings for those who will
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  Speaker 1: cooperate with him. All who obey him may with confidence
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  Speaker 1: claim the fulfillment of his promises. But we must show
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  Speaker 1: a firm, undeviating trust in God. Often he delays to
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  Speaker 1: answer us in order to try our faith or test
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  Speaker 1: the genuineness of our desire. Having asked according to his word,
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  Speaker 1: we should believe his promise and press our petitions with
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  Speaker 1: a determination that will not be denied. God does not say,
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  Speaker 1: ask once, and ye shall receive. He bids us ask
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  Speaker 1: unwearyingly persist in prayer. Persistent asking brings the petitioner into
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  Speaker 1: a more earnest addayitude and gives him an increased desire
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  Speaker 1: to receive the things for which he asks. Christ said
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  Speaker 1: to Martha the Grave of Lazarus, if thou wouldst believe,
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  Speaker 1: thou should see the glory of God. But many have
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  Speaker 1: not a living faith. This is why they do not
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  Speaker 1: see more of the power of God. Their weakness is
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  Speaker 1: the result of their unbelief. They have more faith in
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  Speaker 1: their own working than in the working of God. For
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  Speaker 1: them they take themselves into their own keeping. They plan
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  Speaker 1: and devise, but pray little, and have little real trust
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  Speaker 1: in God. They think they have faith, but it is
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  Speaker 1: only the impulse of the moment. Failing to realize their
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  Speaker 1: own need or God's willingness to give, they do not
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  Speaker 1: persevere in keeping their requests before the Lord. Our prayers
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  Speaker 1: are to be as earnest and persistent as was the
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  Speaker 1: petition of the needy friend who ask for the loaves
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  Speaker 1: at midnight. The more earnestly and steadfastly we ask, the
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  Speaker 1: closer will be our spiritual union with Christ. We shall
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  Speaker 1: receive increased blessings because we have increased faith. Our part
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  Speaker 1: is to pray and believe, watch unto prayer, watch and
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  Speaker 1: co operate with the prayer hearing God. Bear in mind
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  Speaker 1: that we are laborers together with God. Speak and act
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  Speaker 1: in harmony with your prayers. It will make an infinite
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  Speaker 1: difference with you whether trials to prove your faith to
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  Speaker 1: be genuine or show that your prayers are only a form.
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  Speaker 1: When perplexities arise and difficulties confront you look not for
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  Speaker 1: help to humanity, trust all with God. The practice of
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  Speaker 1: telling our difficulties to others only makes us weak and
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  Speaker 1: brings no strength to them. It lays upon them the
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  Speaker 1: burden of our spiritual infirmities, which they cannot relieve. We
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  Speaker 1: seek the strength of erring finite man, when we might
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  Speaker 1: have the strength of the unerring, infinite God. You need
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  Speaker 1: not to go to the ends of the earth for wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: for God is near. It is not the capabilities you
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  Speaker 1: now possess, or ever will have, that will give you success.
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  Speaker 1: It is that which the Lord can do for you.
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  Speaker 1: We need to have far less confidence in what man
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  Speaker 1: can do, and far more confidence in what God can do.
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  Speaker 1: For every believing soul, He longs to have you reach
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  Speaker 1: after him by faith. He longs to give you understanding
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  Speaker 1: in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can
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  Speaker 1: sharpen the intellect he can give tact and skill. Put
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  Speaker 1: your talents into the work. Ask God for wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: it will be given. You. Take the word of Christ
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  Speaker 1: as your assurance. Has He not invited you to come
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  Speaker 1: to him? Never allow yourself to talk in a hopeless,
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  Speaker 1: discouraged way. If you do, you will lose much By
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  Speaker 1: looking at appearances and complaining when difficulties and pressure come.
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  Speaker 1: You give evidence of a sickly enfeebled faith. Talk and
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  Speaker 1: act as if your faith was invincible. The Lord is
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  Speaker 1: rich in resources, He owns the world. Look heavenward in faith.
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  Speaker 1: Look to him who has light and power and efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: There is in genuine faith a buoyancy, a steadfastness of principle,
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  Speaker 1: and affixedness of purpose that neither time nor toil can weaken.
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  Speaker 1: Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the
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  Speaker 1: young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon
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  Speaker 1: the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall man up
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  Speaker 1: with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall walk and not faint. There are many
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  Speaker 1: who long to help others, but they feel that they
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  Speaker 1: have no spiritual strength or light to impart. Let them
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  Speaker 1: present their petitions at the Throne of Grace. Plead for
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. God stands back of every promise he
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  Speaker 1: has made. With your Bible in your hands. Say I
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  Speaker 1: have done as thou hast said. I present thy promise,
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  Speaker 1: Ask and it shall be given. You Seek and ye
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  Speaker 1: shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
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  Speaker 1: We must not only pray in Christ's name, but by
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  Speaker 1: the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This explains what is
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  Speaker 1: meant when it is said that the Spirit maketh intercession
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  Speaker 1: for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Such prayer.
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  Speaker 1: God delights to answer when with earnestness and intensity we
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  Speaker 1: breathe a prayer in the name of Christ. There is
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  Speaker 1: in that very intensity a pledge from God that He
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  Speaker 1: is about to answer our prayer exceedingly abundantly, above all
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  Speaker 1: that we ask or think. Christ has said, what things
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  Speaker 1: soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,
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  Speaker 1: and ye shall have them. Whatsoever ye shall ask in
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  Speaker 1: my name, that I will do that the Father may
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  Speaker 1: be glorified in the sun. And the beloved John, under
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  Speaker 1: the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, speaks with great plainness
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  Speaker 1: and assurance. If we ask anything according to his will,
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  Speaker 1: he heareth us. And if we know that he hear
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  Speaker 1: us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the
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  Speaker 1: petitions that we desired of him. Then press your petition
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  Speaker 1: to the Father in the name of Jesus. God will
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  Speaker 1: honor that name. The rainbow round about the throne is
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  Speaker 1: an assurance that God is true, that in him is
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  Speaker 1: no variableness, neither shadow of turning. We have sinned against
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  Speaker 1: Him and are undeserving of his favor. Yet He himself
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  Speaker 1: has put into our lips that most wonderful of Please
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  Speaker 1: do not abhor us for thy name's sake. Do not
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  Speaker 1: disgrace the throne of Thy glory. Remember, break not thy
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  Speaker 1: covenant with us. When we come to him confessing our
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  Speaker 1: unworthiness and sin. He has pledged himself to give heed
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  Speaker 1: to our cry. The honor of his throne is staked
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  Speaker 1: for the fulfillment of his word. Unto us. Like Aaron,
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  Speaker 1: who symbolize Christ, our Savior bears the names of all
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  Speaker 1: his people on his heart. In the holy Place, our
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  Speaker 1: great High Priest remembers all the words by which he
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  Speaker 1: has encouraged us to trust. He is ever mindful of
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  Speaker 1: his covenant. All who seek of him shall find. All
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  Speaker 1: who knocked will have the door open to them. The
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  Speaker 1: excuse will not be made trouble me not. The door
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  Speaker 1: is closed. I do not wish to open it. Never
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  Speaker 1: will one be told I cannot help you. Those who
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  Speaker 1: beg at midnight for loaves to feed the hungry souls
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  Speaker 1: will be successful in the parable. He who asks bread
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  Speaker 1: for the stranger receives as many as he needeth. And
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  Speaker 1: in what measure will God impart to us that we
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  Speaker 1: may impart to others according to the measure of the
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  Speaker 1: gift of Christ. Angels are watching with intense interest to
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  Speaker 1: see how man is dealing with his fellow men. When
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  Speaker 1: they see one manifest christ like sympathy for the erring,
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  Speaker 1: they press to his side and bring to his remembrance
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  Speaker 1: words to speak that will be as the bread of
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  Speaker 1: life to the soul. So God shall supply all your
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  Speaker 1: need according to His riches and glory. By Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: your testimony in its genuineness and reality, He will make
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  Speaker 1: powerful in the power of the life to come. The
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord will be your mouth as truth
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  Speaker 1: and righteousness. Personal effort for others should be preceded by
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  Speaker 1: much secret prayer, for it requires great wisdom to understand
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  Speaker 1: the science of saving souls. Before communicating with men, commune
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  Speaker 1: with Christ at the throne of heavenly grace. Obtain a
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  Speaker 1: preparation for ministering to the people. Let your heart break
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  Speaker 1: for the longing it has for God. For the living God,
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  Speaker 1: the life of Christ has shown what humanity can do
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  Speaker 1: by being partaker of the divine nature. All that Christ
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  Speaker 1: received from God. We two may have, then ask and
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  Speaker 1: receive with the persevering faith of Jacob, with the unyielding
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  Speaker 1: persistence of Elijah, claim for yourself all that God has promised.
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  Speaker 1: Let the glorious conceptions of God possess your mind. Let
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  Speaker 1: your life be knit by hidden links to the life
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. He who commanded the light to shine out
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  Speaker 1: of darkness, is willing to shine in your heart, to
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  Speaker 1: give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: In the face of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will
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  Speaker 1: take the things of God and show them unto you,
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  Speaker 1: conveying them as a living power into the obedient heart.
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  Speaker 1: Christ will lead you to the threshold of the infinite.
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  Speaker 1: You may behold the glory beyond the veil, and reveal
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  Speaker 1: to men the sufficiency of Him whoever liveth to make
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  Speaker 1: intercession for us. End of Chapter twelve.