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04 - The Fruit of the Spirit is Love - The Spiritual Life - Andrew Murray · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: The fruits of the Spirit. Last night I tried to
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  Speaker 1: put before you what a life filled with the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit may be, but more from the doctrinal side. These
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  Speaker 1: expressions were found in Romans eighth chapter. Walk in the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: being made free by the Spirit from the law of
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  Speaker 1: sin and death, being in the Spirit, having the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: dwelling in us through the Spirit, mortifying the deeds of
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  Speaker 1: the body being led by the Spirit, having the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of adoption. All these are truths which have to be
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  Speaker 1: appropriated and assimilated and worked out in actual life. I
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  Speaker 1: want this morning to look at the matter more from
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  Speaker 1: the practical side, and to show you how this life
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  Speaker 1: will show itself in our daily walk and conduct. Under
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament, you know, the Holy Spirit often came
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  Speaker 1: upon men as a divine spirit of revelation to reveal
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  Speaker 1: the mysteries of God, or for power to do the
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  Speaker 1: work of God. But He did not then dwell in them. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as I said yesterday morning, many just want the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament gift of power for work, but know very little
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  Speaker 1: of the New Testament gift of the indwelling Spirit, animating
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  Speaker 1: and renewing the whole life. We saw last night that
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  Speaker 1: when God gives the Holy Spirit. His great object is
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  Speaker 1: the formation of holy character. We saw that it was
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  Speaker 1: a gift of a holy mind and spiritual disposition, and
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  Speaker 1: that we need above everything else to say, I must
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  Speaker 1: have the Holy Spirit sanctifying my whole inner life if
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  Speaker 1: I am really to live for God's glory. You might
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  Speaker 1: say that when Christ promised the Spirit to the disciples,
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  Speaker 1: he did so that they might have power to be
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  Speaker 1: witnesses true. But then they received the Holy Ghost in
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  Speaker 1: such heavenly power and reality that he took possession of
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  Speaker 1: their whole being at once, and so fitted them as
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  Speaker 1: holy men for doing the work with power as they
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  Speaker 1: had to do it. Christ spoke of power to the disciples,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the Spirit filling their whole being that
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  Speaker 1: worked the power. I wish to speak this morning upon
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  Speaker 1: the passage found in Galatians five twenty two. The fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit is love. We read that love is
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  Speaker 1: the fulfilling of the whole law. And my desire is
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  Speaker 1: to speak to you this morning on love as a
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the spirit, with a twofold object one is
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  Speaker 1: that this word may be a search light in our
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  Speaker 1: hearts and give us a test by which to try
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  Speaker 1: all our thoughts about the Holy Spirit and all our
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  Speaker 1: experience of the Holy life. Let us try ourselves by
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  Speaker 1: this word. Has this been your daily habit to seek
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  Speaker 1: the being filled with the Holy Spirit as the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of love. The fruit of the Spirit is love. Has
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  Speaker 1: it been your experience that the more you have of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, the more loving you become. In claiming
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, you should make this the first object
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  Speaker 1: of your expectation. The Holy Spirit comes as a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of love. Oh, if this were true in the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, how different her state would be. May God
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  Speaker 1: help us this morning to just get hold of this
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  Speaker 1: simple heavenly truth that the fruit of the Spirit is
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  Speaker 1: a love which appears in the life, and that just
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  Speaker 1: as the Holy Spirit gets real possession of the life,
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  Speaker 1: the heart will be filled with real divine universal love.
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  Speaker 1: To understand this fully, let us remember that God, from
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  Speaker 1: whom the Spirit comes is love. Love is not a
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  Speaker 1: mere attribute of God, but God is Love. And because
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  Speaker 1: this Holy Spirit comes as the Spirit of God, he
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  Speaker 1: comes as the spirit of love. What does it mean
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  Speaker 1: that God is love? You have in the thirteenth chapter
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  Speaker 1: of First Corinthians the most perfect definition of love. Love
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  Speaker 1: seeketh not its own it goes out of itself and
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  Speaker 1: lives in its object, et cetera. Love longs to commend
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  Speaker 1: itself too, and bless the object of its love. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it was an absolute necessity in the idea of a
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  Speaker 1: perfect God that he should have a son to whom
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  Speaker 1: he could communicate himself. We cannot conceive of God, who
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  Speaker 1: is love alone. He must have a son to whom
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  Speaker 1: he can communicate himself and with whom we can have fellowship.
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  Speaker 1: So God is love, and in the everlasting intercourse of
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  Speaker 1: the Trinity, the Spirit is the bond of fellowship between
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  Speaker 1: the Father and Son. The Holy Spirit is the overflowing
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  Speaker 1: and interchange of the love between Father and son. He
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  Speaker 1: is the very life of Deity. If that spirit comes
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  Speaker 1: to us, he comes in no other way than as
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of love. God is love, not only to Christ,
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  Speaker 1: but in Christ. God created the world that he might
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  Speaker 1: pour out his love upon it, and that he might
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  Speaker 1: give to all his creatures just as much of his
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  Speaker 1: love as they are capable of receiving. God is love.
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  Speaker 1: God created angels and men that they might enjoy fellowship
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  Speaker 1: with him, his love permeating and filling their whole being.
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  Speaker 1: When man had fallen. When sin had darkened this love
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  Speaker 1: of God in man, what did he do? He gave
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  Speaker 1: his own son to the death to restore it to
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  Speaker 1: that fallen world. God gave his son in a new way,
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  Speaker 1: in the flesh, to prove to man the power of
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  Speaker 1: his love. And with his son he gave his life,
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  Speaker 1: his joy, his glory, his holiness, his power, his blessedness.
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  Speaker 1: In Christ, he gives it all. God is love, ever
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  Speaker 1: delighting to give and communicate himself. Love is the essential
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  Speaker 1: nature of God, with the Holy Spirit coming from this God.
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  Speaker 1: Must we not expect that he will fill us with love.
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  Speaker 1: Sin has robbed us of love. You know that God
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  Speaker 1: created man male and female, that they might live a
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  Speaker 1: life of love, even as God lives in love, and
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  Speaker 1: they might be happy in love. When sin came, it
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  Speaker 1: destroyed the love. You know how easily Adam puts the
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  Speaker 1: blame upon his wife, how speedily Cain killed Abel, How
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  Speaker 1: soon the world became filled with wickedness. How true it
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  Speaker 1: is that since that time the world is full of
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  Speaker 1: divisions and strife, of sin and unrighteousness. Love vanished from
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  Speaker 1: the world. There may have been beautiful examples of love,
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  Speaker 1: even among the heathen but only as a little remnant
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  Speaker 1: of what has been lost. The worst thing sin ever
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  Speaker 1: did was it made men selfish, and selfishness cannot love.
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  Speaker 1: Selfishness can do something that is called love. It can
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  Speaker 1: lead me to love someone who pleases me or makes
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  Speaker 1: me happier. But that is not real love. The true,
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  Speaker 1: unselfish love that loves the unworthy or unlovable. Sin destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: To bring this love back to us, Jesus came. He
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  Speaker 1: came as the manifestation of divine love. We read before
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  Speaker 1: he went to be crucified that having loved his own
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  Speaker 1: that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
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  Speaker 1: Christ's life with his disciples was one of love. His
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  Speaker 1: influence was personal. His whole intercourse with them was one
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  Speaker 1: of love. In the thirteenth chapter of John, you will
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  Speaker 1: remember Christ said unto them a new commandment. I give
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  Speaker 1: unto you, that ye love one another. This commandment differed
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  Speaker 1: from all other commandments, and yet it contained them all.
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  Speaker 1: It was a new commandment Christ alone could give because
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  Speaker 1: he had revealed a new love and would give it
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  Speaker 1: to the heart by giving his speak it bear. I
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  Speaker 1: tell you love one another. By this, shall men know
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  Speaker 1: that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.
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  Speaker 1: In the fifteenth chapter, he says again this commandment have
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  Speaker 1: I given unto you, that ye love one another. In
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  Speaker 1: the seventeenth chapter, he prayed that they may be one
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  Speaker 1: as we are one, that the world may know that
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  Speaker 1: thou hast loved me and has sent me, and hast
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  Speaker 1: loved them as thou hast loved me. The world is
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  Speaker 1: to know the love of God through Christ by our
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  Speaker 1: love to one another. So we are taught that the
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  Speaker 1: great mark of the believer is that he is to
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  Speaker 1: be a man of love. Dear friends, how little the
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  Speaker 1: world understands that, how little the Church understands that, how
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  Speaker 1: little it is preached or proved in practice, that love
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  Speaker 1: is actually the chief thing for every believer to set
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  Speaker 1: his heart upon. How little can believers say before God,
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  Speaker 1: Thou knowest I pray for one thing, fill me with love.
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  Speaker 1: I study one thing? How can I be filled with love?
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  Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus came to bring love back to the world.
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  Speaker 1: He did so when he died on Calvary. It was
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  Speaker 1: the triumph and the revelation of love. And now he
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  Speaker 1: calls us to dwell and to walk in love. He
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  Speaker 1: demands that though a man hates you, you still love him.
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  Speaker 1: True love cannot be conquered by anything in heaven or
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  Speaker 1: upon the earth. The more hatred there is, the more
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  Speaker 1: love triumphs through it all and shows its true nature.
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  Speaker 1: This is the love that Christ commanded his disciples to exercise.
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  Speaker 1: John in his epistle says that Christ laid down his
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  Speaker 1: life for us. Therefore we ought to lay down our
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  Speaker 1: life for the brethren. How little men understand that. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the disciples. How often there were dissensions among them.
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  Speaker 1: More than once they disputed as to who should be
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  Speaker 1: chief in the kingdom. There was pride ma because of
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  Speaker 1: their want of love. Love is humility. Love says, I
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  Speaker 1: only exist to be a blessing to others. Love cannot
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  Speaker 1: be selfish. It loves as Jesus loved. The disciples, whom
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  Speaker 1: Christ had chosen had to be taught many things, but
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  Speaker 1: one chief object was to let us see what human
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  Speaker 1: nature is, and how incapable it is of the higher
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  Speaker 1: life of love like Christ's. Until the Holy Spirit comes second.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus Christ had revealed love on earth and had
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  Speaker 1: done the work of redeeming love, the Holy Spirit came
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  Speaker 1: from heaven to bring his love down into our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: We ought to think of Pentecost as it brought the
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  Speaker 1: very life and love of Jesus into the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: his disciples. So it was that Peter could speak out
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  Speaker 1: of the very spirit of Jesus. The disciples learned not
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  Speaker 1: only to love each other, but even their enemies. We
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  Speaker 1: talk of their bold because that comes out in contrast
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  Speaker 1: to their cowardice. It was the redeeming love of Christ
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  Speaker 1: that came to take possession of them, which the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit brought down from heaven. In the second and the
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  Speaker 1: fourth chapters of Acts, we read that they were of
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  Speaker 1: one heart and one soul. During the three years they
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  Speaker 1: had walked with Christ, they never had one heart and
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  Speaker 1: one soul. All Christ's teaching could not make them of
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  Speaker 1: one heart and one soul. But the Holy Spirit comes
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  Speaker 1: from Heaven and sheds the love of God in their hearts,
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  Speaker 1: and they are of one heart and one soul. The
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  Speaker 1: same Holy Spirit that brought the love of Heaven into
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  Speaker 1: their hearts must fill us too. Nothing less will do,
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  Speaker 1: even as Christ did. One might preach love for three
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  Speaker 1: years with the tongue of an angel, that would not
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  Speaker 1: teach any man to love unless the power of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit come upon him to bring the love of
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  Speaker 1: Heaven into his heart. If we wait upon the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and yield ourselves to him, he will fill us
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  Speaker 1: with the love of God. Look at this as we
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  Speaker 1: have it here in our text. It is in our
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  Speaker 1: daily life and conduct that the fruit of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is love. From that there comes all the graces and
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  Speaker 1: virtues in which love is manifested. Joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness,
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  Speaker 1: no sharpness or hardness in your tone, no unkindness or selfishness,
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  Speaker 1: meekness before God and man. You see that all these
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  Speaker 1: are the gentler virtues. I have often thought as I
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  Speaker 1: read those words in Collossis, put on therefore as the
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  Speaker 1: elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness,
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  Speaker 1: humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering. That if we had written,
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  Speaker 1: we should have put in the foreground the manly virtues zeal, courage,
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  Speaker 1: and diligence. But we need to see how the gentler,
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  Speaker 1: the most womanly virtues are specially connected with dependence upon
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. These are indeed heavenly graces. They never
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  Speaker 1: were found in the heathen world. Christ was needed to
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  Speaker 1: come from heaven to teach us. Your blessedness is long suffering, meekness, kindness,
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  Speaker 1: Your glory is humility before God. The fruit of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that He brought from Heaven out of the heart
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  Speaker 1: of the crucified Christ, and that he gives in our
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  Speaker 1: heart is first and foremost love. Don't you see that
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  Speaker 1: if this is really true, our great desire in asking
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  Speaker 1: to be filled with the Holy Spirit our great study.
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  Speaker 1: Now that we are talking about the filling of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and how to be filled with power by the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: our great aim and study must be to get hold
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  Speaker 1: of this thought. If we are to have the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: we must give up ourselves, give up self to live
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  Speaker 1: the life of love. How sadly has this been wanting?
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  Speaker 1: What shall I say about the divisions throughout the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, How the most precious truths given by Christ
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  Speaker 1: to unite us had been made barriers of separation. Take
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's Supper. What terrible quarrels between Reformed Lutherans about
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of the simple words this is my body.
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  Speaker 1: What was meant as a bond of union is a
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  Speaker 1: badge of separation. Alas, how little the divine beauty, the
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  Speaker 1: divine supremacy of love has been seen, our doctrines, our
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  Speaker 1: creeds have been more important than love. In these later times.
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  Speaker 1: Even the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a cause
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  Speaker 1: of separation. Let us learn not to expect that everyone
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  Speaker 1: should think the same or express themselves in the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Let our first care be to exercise love, gentleness, kindness.
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  Speaker 1: We often think that we are valiant for the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and we forget that God's word commands us to speak
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  Speaker 1: the truth in love. How often one hears that even
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  Speaker 1: a way out among the heathen or mission stations, there
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  Speaker 1: are too often divisions and coldness among those who are
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  Speaker 1: working for God because of differences of temperament or opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Estrangements and jealousies come in, and love waxes cold. What
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  Speaker 1: a sad thing in the church that earnest Christians who
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  Speaker 1: have given up all for Christ have never learned the
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  Speaker 1: mystery of love? Is it any different at home? Is
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  Speaker 1: there not often in the circles where we meet together
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  Speaker 1: in church councils and committees, in missions and associations a
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  Speaker 1: want of that love among fellow workers, which is the
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  Speaker 1: true mark of the presence of the Holy Ghost? Is
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  Speaker 1: there not often harsh judgment, evil speaking, et cetera. Or
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  Speaker 1: because the love of Christ has not been allowed to
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  Speaker 1: take complete possession. Is there not often even in the
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  Speaker 1: family the outburst of temper and haste alas we have
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  Speaker 1: not learned to love, have not even learned to count
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  Speaker 1: love the chief fruit of the spirit. We must learned
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  Speaker 1: to take this word as the true test of life
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit. All our desire to be filled with
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  Speaker 1: the spirit must center here, to have self sunk down
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  Speaker 1: in willingness, in humility, and to have the love of
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  Speaker 1: God and Jesus become the life of our life. I
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  Speaker 1: want to lead you to the life in which love
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  Speaker 1: is supreme, in which love shall bow you down in
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  Speaker 1: such deep humility that go where you will, and let
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  Speaker 1: man do what they will. You shall say, by the
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  Speaker 1: help of God, I must love. Let us bring our
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  Speaker 1: whole life to the looking glass of this Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Let us think of the Church and Christians around us.
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  Speaker 1: When you have looked around, well, then look at yourself
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  Speaker 1: and say, O, God, I ask THEE so often to
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  Speaker 1: fill thy church with the Holy Spirit. Have I been
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  Speaker 1: filled with the spirit of love? You know what John says,
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  Speaker 1: No man hath seen the Father at any time. If
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  Speaker 1: we love one another, God dwells in us. That is,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot see God, but as a compensation, I can
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  Speaker 1: see my brother, and if I love him, God dwells
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  Speaker 1: in me. Is that really true? That I cannot see God,
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  Speaker 1: but I must love my brother and God will dwell
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  Speaker 1: in me. Loving my brother is the way to real
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  Speaker 1: fellowship with God. You know what John further says in
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  Speaker 1: that most solemn test First John, chapter four, verse twenty.
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  Speaker 1: If a man says he loves God and hates his brother,
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  Speaker 1: he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother,
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  Speaker 1: whom he hath seen, How can he love God whom
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  Speaker 1: he hath not seen? There is a brother, a most
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  Speaker 1: unlovable man. He worries you every time you meet him.
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  Speaker 1: He is of the very opposite disposition to yours. You
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  Speaker 1: are a careful business man, and you have got to
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  Speaker 1: do with him in your business. He is most untidy,
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  Speaker 1: unbusinesslike you say, I cannot love him. Oh, friends, you
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  Speaker 1: have not learned the lesson that Christ wanted to teach.
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  Speaker 1: Above everything, Let a man be what he will. You
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  Speaker 1: are to love him. Love is to be the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit all the day and every day. Yes, listen,
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  Speaker 1: if a man loves not his brother, whom he hath seen.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't love that unlovable man whom you have seen,
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  Speaker 1: how can you love God, whom you have not seen.
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  Speaker 1: You can deceive yourself with beautiful thoughts about loving God.
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  Speaker 1: You must prove your love to God by your love
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  Speaker 1: to your brother. That is the one standard. God will
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  Speaker 1: judge your love to him by. If the love of
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  Speaker 1: God is in your heart, you will love your brother.
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  Speaker 1: The fruit of the Spirit is love. The first thing
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  Speaker 1: you need. If you want to be filled with the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit in any real, full sense of the word, you
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  Speaker 1: must not only have him take possession of your will,
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  Speaker 1: but you must yield up your heart and life to
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  Speaker 1: be filled with the spirit of love. Nothing can enable
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  Speaker 1: you to live such a life of love but the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of the Holy Spirit. The two texts are inseparably connected.
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  Speaker 1: Be filled with the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is love. If a man wants to have the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of an apple tree, he must plant the apple tree.
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  Speaker 1: You must have the tree if you want the fruit.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be filled with the love of God,
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  Speaker 1: you must be filled with the spirit. You must come
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  Speaker 1: with the humble confession of how little you have loved
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  Speaker 1: or even desired to be full of love. You have
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  Speaker 1: sought for the power of the Holy Spirit in your
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  Speaker 1: work in pride and selfishness. You have not given up
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  Speaker 1: yourself to Him to be filled first of all with love,
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  Speaker 1: with gentleness, in humility and meekness. Oh, come and make confession,
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  Speaker 1: and let Christ cleanse you from the selfishness and pride
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  Speaker 1: and unlovingness. Seek to be filled with the Spirit for
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  Speaker 1: a daily life of humility and love. And the power
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit for service will come. Brother, Do you
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  Speaker 1: want to be filled with the Spirit of God? Is
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  Speaker 1: it true? Do you really want to be filled with love?
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  Speaker 1: That you may be the humblest, gentlest of men, so
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  Speaker 1: that every one may know that you are a disciple
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  Speaker 1: by the love you have. Brethren, if we love one another,
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  Speaker 1: God dwelleth in us and we in God, and then
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  Speaker 1: we can be perfected in love. Is that an attainment
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  Speaker 1: of ours? It is a gift, a bestowment of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. I hope in the evening to speak about
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  Speaker 1: the hindrances to this life. How it comes that this
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  Speaker 1: life in the spirit, this love of the Spirit, walking
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  Speaker 1: after the Spirit, made free by the Spirit, in dwelt
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  Speaker 1: by the Spirit, having the witness of the Spirit. What
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  Speaker 1: it is that hinders these in our life? How it
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  Speaker 1: is that Christ has given the Spirit, that the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is in the Church, and her life is so feeble.
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  Speaker 1: But meantime, let us, first in confession, ask God to
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  Speaker 1: forgive us our shortcomings. Let us, in prayer and faith
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  Speaker 1: yield ourselves and let God fill us with the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of love. Let us even now absolutely and entirely give
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to be just vessels filled with the love of God.
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  Speaker 1: Let us even now say to God that we accept
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  Speaker 1: the lesson, that the Spirit comes to fill us with
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  Speaker 1: the love of Heaven, with a love that makes loving
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  Speaker 1: others the one joy of our life, that we yield
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to it, and that by His grace we will
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  Speaker 1: make this our one object and desire. May God write
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  Speaker 1: it in our hearts. The Holy Spirit's fruit and chief
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  Speaker 1: work is to give Christ and the Love of God
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  Speaker 1: in us for our every day life. By His grace,
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  Speaker 1: we can live lives of unceasing love.