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  Speaker 1: Section thirty nine of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note h
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  Speaker 1: The Glory of Christ Chapter eleven. The glory of God
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  Speaker 1: does not consist in his surroundings or the circumstances amid
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  Speaker 1: which he dwells. His glory is the perfection and power
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  Speaker 1: of his divine will, the divineness of the mode of
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  Speaker 1: his being and working. When God glorified Christ in himself,
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  Speaker 1: he not only exchanged the circumstances of his earthly life
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  Speaker 1: for those of the heavenly world, but entered upon an
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  Speaker 1: entirely new mode of existence. Instead of being limited by flesh,
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  Speaker 1: by time and space, he passed as man into the
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  Speaker 1: life of God, who is a spirit on earth. He
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  Speaker 1: could only work on his disciples as men next himself,
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  Speaker 1: and separate from himself through means of words and exit example,
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  Speaker 1: reaching only their mind and affections, but not renewing their
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  Speaker 1: very spirit from heaven. He could, as out of his
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  Speaker 1: divine glory in the power of the Spirit, begin and
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  Speaker 1: work in them in a very different way, entering their
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  Speaker 1: hidden life and through him coming to dwell in their heart.
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  Speaker 1: It is as the glorified one the one that has
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  Speaker 1: exchanged the limited life of external effort and influence for
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  Speaker 1: the inner life of power, by which he fileth all
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  Speaker 1: things that he gives the Spirit, the Spirit of Glory,
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  Speaker 1: and the work of this spirit is to glorify Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: That does not mean to give us some sense of
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  Speaker 1: His glory in heaven, no, but to communicate to us
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  Speaker 1: personally that presence and power of Jesus, which, in virtue
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  Speaker 1: of his divine glory he can now manifest within us.
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  Speaker 1: But it is only the soul wholly yielded to the
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  Speaker 1: teaching of the Holy Spirit, who thus knows the Lord
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  Speaker 1: of Glory. The thought of the Lord of Glory being
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  Speaker 1: glorified within us by the Spirit of Glory looks very
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  Speaker 1: simple when once understood, and yet it is a deep
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  Speaker 1: spiritual mystery, only reached in the way Christ reached his
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  Speaker 1: glory through conformity to his sufferings and the fellowship of
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  Speaker 1: his cross. Each new impartation out of the glory must
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  Speaker 1: be according to the riches of God's glory and the
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  Speaker 1: mighty strengthening of his Holy Spirit, a most real and
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  Speaker 1: direct act of God's ineffable grace, continuing and increasing to
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  Speaker 1: the soul the gift of his love. To understand the
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  Speaker 1: way in which this glory works, we must notice carefully
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  Speaker 1: the connection between suffering and glory. Behooved. It not the
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  Speaker 1: Christ to suffer and to enter into his glory on earth.
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  Speaker 1: Christ was the Lord of glory John chapter one, verse
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  Speaker 1: fourteen vers. Corinthians Chapter two, verse eight. But that glory
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  Speaker 1: was hidden under the lowliness of the human manifestation. And
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  Speaker 1: so when the spirit of the glorified Lord enters us
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  Speaker 1: to glorify him in us, the glory is hidden amid
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  Speaker 1: the feebleness and humiliation of our nature. And it is
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  Speaker 1: often only as we suffer in the flesh that the
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  Speaker 1: quickening of the spirit is experienced. The fatal error of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews was that they looked for the glory of
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah as something visible and in accordance with their
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  Speaker 1: worldly conceptions. Even the Disciples suffered from this and were
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  Speaker 1: all offended at their Lord. The glory of the spirit
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  Speaker 1: life into which Christ has now entered and in which
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  Speaker 1: he now works, is a hidden mystery, the mystery of Godliness,
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  Speaker 1: working not in that which is outward or sensible, but
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  Speaker 1: in the unseen, the inner life. When we read of
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  Speaker 1: Christ manifesting himself of his dwelling in the heart. We
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  Speaker 1: almost always form some conception of joy and triumph, as
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  Speaker 1: at the entrance of a king into his capital. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, the Kingdom of Heaven is as a seed.
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  Speaker 1: A seed is something that contains life hidden in the
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  Speaker 1: most dead, unlikely looking form possible. Who that had never
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  Speaker 1: heard of a seed growing could imagine the oak or
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  Speaker 1: the pine contained in its seed. And this seed, with
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  Speaker 1: its hidden life, must itself again be hidden under the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Kingdom of Heaven comes to us in
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  Speaker 1: the seed of the Word, so small and dead looking
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  Speaker 1: that no one expects such mighty power from it. And
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  Speaker 1: it must be hidden not in the thoughts or feelings
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  Speaker 1: that we can recognize or watch over, but deeper down
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  Speaker 1: in the mysterious depths of the spirit. There, Christ, who
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  Speaker 1: is in the unseen spirit life of the Father, finds
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  Speaker 1: the unseen depths of our spirit life and enters there.
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  Speaker 1: He is himself the living Word, the living Seed. The
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is the life of the seed. False views of
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  Speaker 1: what glory is have been the great stumbling block of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews and disciples of the Church and individual believers.
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  Speaker 1: God's glory is his holiness revealed in his good and
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  Speaker 1: perfect will. Christ's glory is that, having glorified God by
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  Speaker 1: entering into, doing and suffering that will, he was taken
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  Speaker 1: up into the fellowship of the Father's glory, of that
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  Speaker 1: life of holiness and power in which God dwells. Christ
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  Speaker 1: is glorified in us as we enter into His will
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  Speaker 1: in obeying and doing it, and have his presence revealed
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  Speaker 1: within us in divine power. That which in Christ was
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  Speaker 1: feeble and despised, the very opposite of human glory, the
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  Speaker 1: lowliness and suffering of the Cross, was the hidden seed
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  Speaker 1: of His divine glory. In loneliness and obedience, in poverty
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  Speaker 1: of spirit and the absence of what can be seen
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  Speaker 1: or felt, in the death of the flesh and the
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  Speaker 1: patient waiting on God is the seed of Christ glorified
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  Speaker 1: within us by the spirit. End of note age