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  Speaker 1: Twenty fifth Day of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Twenty fifth
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  Speaker 1: Day the ministry of the Spirit. Our sufficiency is of God,
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  Speaker 1: who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant.
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  Speaker 1: Not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the
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  Speaker 1: letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. But if the
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  Speaker 1: ministration of death came with glory, how shall not rather
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  Speaker 1: the ministration of the Spirit be with glory? Second Corinthians, three,
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  Speaker 1: Verses six and seven. In none of his epistles does
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  Speaker 1: Paul expound his conception of the Christian ministry so clearly
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  Speaker 1: and fully as in the Second to the Corinthians. The
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  Speaker 1: need of vindicating his apostleship against detractors, the consciousness of
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  Speaker 1: divine power and glory working in him in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of weakness, the intense longing of his loving heart to
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  Speaker 1: communicate what he had to impart stirs his soul to
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  Speaker 1: its very depths, as he lays open to us the
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  Speaker 1: inmost secrets of the life that makes one a true
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  Speaker 1: minister of Christ and his Spirit. In our text we
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  Speaker 1: have the central thought he finds his sufficiency of strength,
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  Speaker 1: the inspiration and rule of all his conduct in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he has been made a minister of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: If we take the different passages in which mention is
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  Speaker 1: made of the Holy Spirit in the first half of
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  Speaker 1: the epistle, we shall see what in his view the
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  Speaker 1: place and work of the Holy Spirit in the ministry is,
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  Speaker 1: and what the character of the ministry under his leading
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  Speaker 1: and in his power. In the epistle, Paul will have
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  Speaker 1: to speak with authority. He begins by placing himself on
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  Speaker 1: a level with his readers. In his first mention of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit, he tells them that the Spirit that is
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  Speaker 1: in him is no other than is in them. Now.
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  Speaker 1: He which stablisheth us with you in Christ and anointed us,
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  Speaker 1: is God, who also sealed us and gave us the
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  Speaker 1: earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. Chapter one, verses
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  Speaker 1: twenty one and twenty two. The anointing of the believer
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  Speaker 1: with the Spirit, bringing him into fellowship with Christ the
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  Speaker 1: anointed One, and revealing what he is to us, the sealing,
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  Speaker 1: marking him as God's own and giving him assurance of it,
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  Speaker 1: the earnest of the Spirit, securing at once the foretaste
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  Speaker 1: and the fitness for the heavenly inheritance, in glory. All
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  Speaker 1: of this He and they are together pass acres. However
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  Speaker 1: much there was among the Corinthians that was wrong and unholy,
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  Speaker 1: Paul speaks to them, thinks of them, and loves them
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  Speaker 1: as one in Christ. He that stablisheth us with you
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  Speaker 1: in Christ and anointed us. This deep sense of unity
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  Speaker 1: fills his soul, comes out throughout the epistle, and is
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  Speaker 1: the secret of his power. See Chapter one, verses six
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  Speaker 1: and ten, and Chapter two, verse three. My joy is
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  Speaker 1: the joy of you all. Chapter four, verse five. Ourselves
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  Speaker 1: your servants, Chapter four, verses ten to twelve. Death worketh
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  Speaker 1: in us, life in you. Chapter four, verse fifteen. All
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  Speaker 1: things are for your sakes. Chapter six, verse eleven, Chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: verse three. You are in our hearts to live and
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  Speaker 1: die with you. If the unity of the spirit, the
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of being members while an another be necessary in
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  Speaker 1: all believers, how much more must it be the mark
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  Speaker 1: of those who are ministers. The power of the ministry
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  Speaker 1: to the saints depends upon the unity of the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the full recognition of believers as partakers of the anointing.
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  Speaker 1: But to this end, the minister must himself live as
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  Speaker 1: an anointed and sealed one, making manifest that he has
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  Speaker 1: the earnest of the Spirit in his heart. The second
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  Speaker 1: passage is Chapter three, verse three. Ye are an epistle
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  Speaker 1: of Christ ministered by us, written with the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God, not in tables of stone, but in
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  Speaker 1: tables that are hearts of flesh. As distinct an act
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  Speaker 1: of God, as was the writing of the Law on
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  Speaker 1: the tables of stone, is the writing of the Law
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit in the New Covenant, and of the
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  Speaker 1: name of Christ on the heart. It is a divine
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  Speaker 1: work in which, as truly as God wrote of old,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit uses the tongue of his minister as
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  Speaker 1: his pen It is this truth that needs to be
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  Speaker 1: restored in the ministry, not only that the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is needed, but that he waits to do the work
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  Speaker 1: and will do it when the right relation to him
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  Speaker 1: is maintained. Paul's own experience at corinth Acts eighteen, verse
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  Speaker 1: is five to eleven. First Corinthians two, verse three teaches
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  Speaker 1: us what conscious weakness, what fear and trembling, what sense
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  Speaker 1: of absolute helplessness may be or rather is needed if
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  Speaker 1: the power of God is to rest upon us. Our
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  Speaker 1: whole epistle confirms this. It was as a man under
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  Speaker 1: sentence of death, bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: that the power of Christ wrought in him. The Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God stands in contrast to the flesh, the world
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  Speaker 1: and self, with its life and strength. It is as
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  Speaker 1: these are broken down, and the flesh has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: glory in that the Spirit will work. Oh, that every
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  Speaker 1: minister's tongue might be prepared for the Holy Spirit to
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  Speaker 1: use it as a pen wherewith he writes, Then come
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  Speaker 1: the words of our text Chapter three, verses six and seven,
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  Speaker 1: to teach us what the special characteristic is of this
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  Speaker 1: new covenant ministry of the Spirit. It giveth life. The
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  Speaker 1: antithesis the letter Killeth applies not only to the law
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  Speaker 1: of the Old Testament, but according to the teaching of Scripture,
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  Speaker 1: to all knowledge which is not in the quickening power
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit. We cannot insist upon it too earnestly
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  Speaker 1: that even as the Law, though we know it was spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: so the Gospel too has its letter. The Gospel may
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  Speaker 1: be preached most clearly and faithfully, it may exert a
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  Speaker 1: strong moral influence, and yet the faith that comes of
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  Speaker 1: it may stand in the wisdom of men and not
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  Speaker 1: in the power of God. If there is one thing
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  Speaker 1: the Church needs to cry for on behalf of its
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  Speaker 1: ministers and students, it is that this ministry of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit may be restored in its full power. Pray that
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  Speaker 1: God may teach them what it is personally to live
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  Speaker 1: in the sealing, the anointing, the earnest of the indwelling Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: What it is to know that the letter killeth, What
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  Speaker 1: it is that the Spirit in very deed giveth life,
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  Speaker 1: And what above all, the personal life is under which
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  Speaker 1: the ministry of the Spirit can freely work. Paul now
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  Speaker 1: proceeds to contrast to two dispensations and the different characters
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  Speaker 1: of those who live in them. He points out how
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  Speaker 1: as long as the mind is blinded, there is a
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  Speaker 1: veil on the heart which can only be taken away
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  Speaker 1: as we turn to the Lord. And then he adds
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses seventeen and eighteen. Now the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: there is liberty. But we all with unveiled face beholding
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  Speaker 1: as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are
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  Speaker 1: transformed into the same image, from glory to glory. Even
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  Speaker 1: as from the Lord the Spirit It is because God
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  Speaker 1: is a spirit that he can give the spirit. It
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  Speaker 1: was when our Lord Jesus was exalted into the life
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit, that he became the Lord the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: could give the New Testament spirit, and in the spirit
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  Speaker 1: come himself to his people. The disciples knew Jesus long
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  Speaker 1: without knowing him as the Lord the Spirit. Paul speaks
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  Speaker 1: of this too with regard to himself. Second Corinthians, Chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: verse sixteen. There may in the ministry be much earnest
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  Speaker 1: gospel preaching of the Lord Jesus as the crucified one,
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  Speaker 1: without the preaching of him as the Lord the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It is only as the latter truth is apprehended and
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  Speaker 1: experienced and then preached, that the double blessing will come
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  Speaker 1: that Paul speaks of. Here, where the Spirit of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is is liberty. Believers will be led into the
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  Speaker 1: glorious liberty of the children of God. Romans eight two,
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  Speaker 1: Galatians five one and eighteen. We are transformed into the
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  Speaker 1: same image. Even as from the Lord the Spirit, then
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  Speaker 1: will he do the work for which he will sent,
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  Speaker 1: to reveal the glory of the Lord in us. And
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  Speaker 1: as we behold it, we shall be changed from glory
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  Speaker 1: to glory of the time before Pentegost, it was written,
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit was not yet because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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  Speaker 1: But when he had been justified in the Spirit and
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  Speaker 1: received up in glory, the Spirit came forth from the
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  Speaker 1: excellent glory into our hearts, that we, with unveiled face
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  Speaker 1: beholding the glory of the Lord might be changed into
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  Speaker 1: his likeness. What a calling the ministry of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to hold up the glory of the Lord to his
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  Speaker 1: redeemed and to be used by his Spirit in working
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  Speaker 1: their transformation into His likeness, from glory to glory. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: seeing we have this ministry, we feint not it is
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  Speaker 1: as the knowledge and acknowledgment of Christ as the Lord
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit, and of the Spirit of Christ as changing
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  Speaker 1: their levers into His likeness, lives in the Church, that
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  Speaker 1: the ministry among believers will be in life and power,
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  Speaker 1: in very deed, a ministry of the Spirit. The power
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  Speaker 1: of the ministry on the divine side is the spirit
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  Speaker 1: on the human It is here as everywhere faith. The
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  Speaker 1: next mention of the spirit is in chapter four, verse thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: having the same spirit of faith, after having in chapter
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  Speaker 1: three set forth the glory of the ministry of the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and in chapter four vers Is one to six, the
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  Speaker 1: glory of the gospel it preached. He turns to the
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  Speaker 1: vessels in which this treasure is. He has to vindicate
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  Speaker 1: his apparent weakness, but he does far more. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: apologizing for it, he expounds its divine meaning and glory.
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  Speaker 1: He proves how just this constituted his power, because in
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  Speaker 1: his weakness divine power could work. It has been so
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  Speaker 1: ordained that the excellence of the power may be of
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  Speaker 1: God and not of us. So his perfect fellowship with
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was maintained. As he bore about the putting to
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  Speaker 1: death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: also might be manifested in his mortal body. So there
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  Speaker 1: was even in his sufferings something of the vicarious element
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  Speaker 1: that marked his lords. So then death worketh in us,
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  Speaker 1: but life in you. And then he adds as the
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  Speaker 1: expression of the animating power that sustained him through all
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  Speaker 1: endurance and labor. But having the same spirit of faith
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  Speaker 1: of which we read in the scripture. According to that
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  Speaker 1: which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak.
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  Speaker 1: We also believe, and therefore we also speak knowing that
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  Speaker 1: He which raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up
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  Speaker 1: us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is the evidence of things not seen. It sees
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  Speaker 1: the invisible and lives in it. Beginning with trust in Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: in whom, though ye see him not yet believing ye rejoice.
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  Speaker 1: It goes on through the whole of the Christian life.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever is of the spirit is by faith the great
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  Speaker 1: work of God in opening the hearts of his child.
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  Speaker 1: To receive more of the Spirit is to school his
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  Speaker 1: faith into more perfect freedom from all that is seen,
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  Speaker 1: and the more entire repose in God, even to the
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  Speaker 1: assurance that God dwelleth and worketh mightily in his weakness.
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  Speaker 1: For this end, trials and sufferings are sent. Paul uses
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  Speaker 1: very remarkable language in regard to his sufferings in the
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  Speaker 1: first chapter, verse nine. We ourselves had the sentence of
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  Speaker 1: death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: but in God which raiseth the dead. Even Paul, what
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  Speaker 1: was in danger of trusting in himself. Nothing is more natural.
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  Speaker 1: All life is confident of self, and nature is consistent
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  Speaker 1: with itself till it dies. For the mighty work he
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  Speaker 1: had to do. He needed a trust in none less
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  Speaker 1: than the Living God, who raiseth the dead. To this
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  Speaker 1: God led him by giving him, in the affliction which
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  Speaker 1: came upon him in Asia, the sentence of death in himself.
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  Speaker 1: The trial of his faith was its strength. In our context.
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  Speaker 1: He returns to this thought. The fellowship of the dying
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus is to him the means and the assurance
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  Speaker 1: of the experience of the power of Christ's life. In
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of this faith, he speaks, knowing that he
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  Speaker 1: which raised up Jesus shall raise up us also. It
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  Speaker 1: was not until Jesus had died that the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: life could break forth from him. The life of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was born out of the grave. It is a life
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  Speaker 1: out of death. It is as we daily die and
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  Speaker 1: bear about the dying of Jesus, as flesh and self
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  Speaker 1: are kept crucified and mortified, as we have in ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: God's sentence of death on all that is of self
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  Speaker 1: and nature, that the life and the spirit of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: will be manifest in us. And this is the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of faith, that in the midst of weakness and apparent death,
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  Speaker 1: it counts on God that raiseth the dead, and this
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  Speaker 1: is the ministry of the Spirit. When faith glories in
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  Speaker 1: infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon it.
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  Speaker 1: It is as our faith does not stagger at the
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  Speaker 1: earthiness and weakness of the vessel, as it consents that
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  Speaker 1: the excellency of the power shall be not from ourselves
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  Speaker 1: or in anything we feel, but of God alone, that
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit will work in the power of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: We have the same thought in the two remaining passages.
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  Speaker 1: In Chapter five, verse five, he speaks again of the
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  Speaker 1: earnest of the Spirit in connection with our groaning and
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  Speaker 1: being burdened. And then in chapter six, verse six, the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is introduced in the midst of the mention of
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  Speaker 1: his distresses and labors as the mark of his ministry
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  Speaker 1: in everything, commending ourselves as the ministers of God, in
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  Speaker 1: much patience, in afflictions, in the Holy Ghost, as dying,
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  Speaker 1: and yet behold we live as chastened and not killed,
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  Speaker 1: as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich.
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  Speaker 1: The power of Christ in the Holy Spirit was to
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  Speaker 1: Paul such a living reality that the weakness of the
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  Speaker 1: flesh only led him the more to rejoice and to
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  Speaker 1: trust it. The Holy Spirit's dwelling and working in him
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  Speaker 1: was consciously the secret spring and the divine power of
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  Speaker 1: his ministry. We may well ask, does the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: take the place in our ministry he did in Paul's.
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  Speaker 1: There is not a minister or member of the church
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  Speaker 1: who has not a vital interest in the answer. The
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  Speaker 1: question is not whether the doctrine of the absolute need
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit's working is admitted, but whether there
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  Speaker 1: is given to the securing of his presence and working
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  Speaker 1: that proportion of the time and life of the thought
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  Speaker 1: and faith of the ministry which his place, as the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of the Lord Jesus on the Throne demands. Has
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit the place in the Church which our
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus would wish him to have. When our hearts
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  Speaker 1: open to the inconceivably glorious truth that he is the
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  Speaker 1: mighty Power of God, that in him the Living Christ
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  Speaker 1: works through us, that he is the presence with us
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  Speaker 1: of the glorified Lord on the Throne, we shall feel
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  Speaker 1: that the one need of the ministry and the Church
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  Speaker 1: is this to wait at the footstool of the Throne
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  Speaker 1: without ceasing for the clothing with the power that comes
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  Speaker 1: from on high. The Spirit of Christ in his love
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  Speaker 1: and power in his death and life. Is the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the ministry. As it possesses this, it will be
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  Speaker 1: what the head of the Church Church meant it to be,
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  Speaker 1: the ministry of the Spirit. Blessed Father, we thank THEE
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  Speaker 1: for the institution of the Ministry of the Word as
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  Speaker 1: the great means through which our Exalted Lord does his
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  Speaker 1: saving work by the Holy Spirit. We thank THEE that
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  Speaker 1: it is a ministry of the Spirit, and for all
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  Speaker 1: the blessing Thou hast wrought through it in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Our prayer is most blessed God, that thou wouldst increasingly
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  Speaker 1: and manifestly make it throughout thy Church. What thou wouldst
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  Speaker 1: have it be a ministry of the Spirit and of power.
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  Speaker 1: Give Thy servants and people everywhere a deep sense of
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  Speaker 1: how much it still comes short of Thy purpose. Reveal
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  Speaker 1: how much there is in it of trust, in the
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  Speaker 1: flesh of man's zeal and strength of the wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: this world. Teach all thy true servants the holy secret
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  Speaker 1: of giving place to the Spirit of Christ, that He
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  Speaker 1: may use them. May the presence of Christ in their
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  Speaker 1: hearts by the Holy Spirit give them great boldness of speech.
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  Speaker 1: May the power of the Holy Spirit in their whole life,
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  Speaker 1: make them fit vessels for Him to use in teaching. Others,
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  Speaker 1: may divine power in the midst of weakness be the
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  Speaker 1: mark of their public ministry. Teach thy people to wait
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  Speaker 1: on their teaching, to receive it, to plead with THEE
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  Speaker 1: for it as a ministry of the Spirit. And may
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  Speaker 1: the lives of believers increasingly be in the power of
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  Speaker 1: such a ministry, those of men led and sanctified by
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. Amen One. Christ needed to be made
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  Speaker 1: perfect through suffering. It was through suffering he entered the
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  Speaker 1: glory out of which the Spirit was sent. He was
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  Speaker 1: crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: Paul could not exercise his ministry of the Spirit in
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  Speaker 1: power without the content in your experience of the same weakness.
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  Speaker 1: So death worketh in us, but life in you. We
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  Speaker 1: are also weak in Him, but we shall live with
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  Speaker 1: Him through the power of God toward you with martyrs
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  Speaker 1: and missionaries. Persecution and tribulation have been the fellowship of
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  Speaker 1: Christ's suffering and weakness his power and spirit. We may
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  Speaker 1: invite neither persecutions nor suffering. How can in our days
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  Speaker 1: this fellowship of Christ's suffering and dying, the rending of
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, so indispensable to the ministry of the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: be maintained in a deep entering into the needs and
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  Speaker 1: the sorrows of the suffering humanity around us, and in
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  Speaker 1: that self denial, which in nothing allows the flesh, the
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  Speaker 1: self life to have its way, but increasingly seeks in
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  Speaker 1: utter weakness to make way for Christ's power to work,
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  Speaker 1: and depends upon his spirit. Two. The standard of the
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  Speaker 1: ministry and the standard of the life of believers will correspond,
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  Speaker 1: as in the life of the Church, the spirit is
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  Speaker 1: known and honored. The need of a spiritual ministry will
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  Speaker 1: be felt. As the ministry becomes more deeply spiritual, the
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  Speaker 1: tone of the church will be raised. The two act
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  Speaker 1: and react on each other. But how solemn the thought
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  Speaker 1: that an earnest, a learned, and eloquent ministry is not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a ministry of the spirit. Three. Let us make
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  Speaker 1: the ministry a matter of unceasing prayer. Let us remember
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  Speaker 1: how much the Church depends upon it. Let us plead
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  Speaker 1: with God for a ministry of the spirit. When this
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  Speaker 1: becomes the demand of the church, the supply will not
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  Speaker 1: be withheld. Four. What will be the mark of a
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  Speaker 1: ministry of the spirit, a sense of something supernatural, a
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  Speaker 1: holy fear of God's presence resting on men, the self
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  Speaker 1: evidencing power of the actual presence of the Spirit. Five.
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  Speaker 1: Our abilities lie in our being made instruments by whom
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost is pleased to communicate himself from Goodwin
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  Speaker 1: end of twenty fifth day,