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044 - Note L On Conscience Chap 21 · Spirit of Christ

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  Speaker 1: Note l of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note L
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  Speaker 1: on Conscience, Chapter twenty one. If man be the antetype
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  Speaker 1: of the Temple and his spirit the most holy place
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  Speaker 1: where God dwells, it is not difficult to fix the
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  Speaker 1: place and the meaning of that part of its furniture
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  Speaker 1: which typifies conscience. This is none other but the Ark
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  Speaker 1: of the Covenant. The marks of identification are three. The
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  Speaker 1: ark was that in which the law of God was
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  Speaker 1: contained and carried. Conscience is that power which has God's
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  Speaker 1: Law as its contents. As far as the law, whether
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  Speaker 1: as written in the heart of the heathen or as
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  Speaker 1: transcribed in the heart of the believer by the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: is present there, so far Conscience is able to do
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  Speaker 1: its work. As the ark. It is the receptacle or
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  Speaker 1: holder of the Law. And then it was on the
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  Speaker 1: Ark that the mercy seat rested, that the sprinkling of
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  Speaker 1: blood was effected, and the throne of grace then set
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  Speaker 1: up for God to be worshiped. And so it is
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  Speaker 1: specially to the conscience that the blood is applied within us,
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  Speaker 1: and that the Spirit witnesses of our being well pleasing
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  Speaker 1: to God. The ark was called the ark of the testimony,
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  Speaker 1: containing God's law or his testimony to Israel, and so
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit as writing the living law in the
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  Speaker 1: heart is God's testimony to his redeemed people, the witness
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  Speaker 1: both of His will and of his favor and conscience
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  Speaker 1: sprinkled with the blood and keeping watchful God over the
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  Speaker 1: childlike life of obedience is the spiritual organ within our
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  Speaker 1: spirit to which and through which the Holy Spirit gives
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  Speaker 1: his witness my conscience, bearing me with whillness in the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. With what care was the ark treasured in Israel?
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  Speaker 1: With what confidence followed by the hosts when passing through
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  Speaker 1: Jordan to conquer Canaan and its hosts, With what quiet
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  Speaker 1: expectancy borne around Jericho? With what joy? A place was
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  Speaker 1: prepared for it, and God's presence with it, claimed Psalm
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two. Christian treasure above everything, the
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  Speaker 1: ark of the testimony within thee. The law of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is within it, the Blood is upon it. It
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  Speaker 1: is the place where Thy God dwells and rests and
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  Speaker 1: communes with thee. It is the meeting place, the point
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  Speaker 1: of contact between God and the soul. The Seat of
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  Speaker 1: Faith and the Seat of God above everything. Bow in
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  Speaker 1: fear and reverence before the Holy Presence which rests above
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  Speaker 1: the ark. Keep a conscience void of offense. End of
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