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048 - Note P The Spirit of Christ and His Love Chap 29 · Spirit of Christ

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  Speaker 1: Section P of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note p.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit of Christ and His Love, Chapter twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Quotation from George Bowen. Love revealed. Know then that I
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  Speaker 1: am Love incarnate. I have clothed myself with flesh that
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  Speaker 1: I might reign in your hearts. Love one another as
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  Speaker 1: I have loved you, and you will no longer find
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  Speaker 1: me absent. All my life and sufferings. Have this for
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  Speaker 1: their end, that divine love should tabernacle permanently among men.
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  Speaker 1: I have been manifest in the flesh, I must be
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  Speaker 1: manifest in the church. Love one another as I have
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  Speaker 1: loved you, that earth startled to see me as ending
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  Speaker 1: on high, may turn to you and behold with glad
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  Speaker 1: surprise Christ. In you love is about to have the
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  Speaker 1: highest revelation it has ever had. But when you gaze
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  Speaker 1: upon the Cross, especially when the Holy Spirit enables you
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  Speaker 1: to look with intelligent eye upon it, understand that the
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  Speaker 1: love there revealed is your model. That which dies upon
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  Speaker 1: the cross is to live in you. By this shall
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  Speaker 1: all men know. This is that evidence that none shall
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  Speaker 1: be able to resist. Having been introduced in the person
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus into our common humanity. Love refuses to disengage
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  Speaker 1: itself and makes provision for its own perpetuation. Whatever discoveries
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  Speaker 1: the disciples were yet to make of the love of
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  Speaker 1: Christ from his death on the cross and by the
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  Speaker 1: outpouring of the Holy Spirit, were discoveries of the love
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  Speaker 1: they were required to entertain for one another. They were
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  Speaker 1: each commissioned to carry on the loving life of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But how may this thing be? It is by virtue
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  Speaker 1: of the union of the believer to Christ that the
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  Speaker 1: heart of the former becomes the depository of the Saviour's
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  Speaker 1: own love for his people. The vocation of every believer
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  Speaker 1: is this to be a revelator of the love of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: If ye abide in Me and my words abide in you,
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  Speaker 1: ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be
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  Speaker 1: done unto you. Is it difficult to see why the
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  Speaker 1: prayers of Christ's people are not more promptly fulfilled. They
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  Speaker 1: do not suffer His word to abide in them. They
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  Speaker 1: do not practically recognize their obligation to love one another
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  Speaker 1: as He has loved them. Who knows how many priceless
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  Speaker 1: expressions of the Father's love toward us are effectually repressed
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  Speaker 1: by the fact that we are inattentive to the sweet
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  Speaker 1: mandate of Jesus to give each other his love we
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  Speaker 1: profess to desire earnestly they are pouring of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: But we shall do well to note that one of
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  Speaker 1: the first things which the Holy Spirit will aim to
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  Speaker 1: produce in us will be this christ like love to
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  Speaker 1: the brethren. My Christian brethren see not the Savior with
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  Speaker 1: their bodily eye. But I have been commissioned by the
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  Speaker 1: Savior to afford them, in some sense, a compensation for
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  Speaker 1: this deficiency. I am commanded to let the love which
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  Speaker 1: found exhibition in His mortal person find now its exhibition
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  Speaker 1: in my life, a command which would be utterly idle
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  Speaker 1: and futile were it not that He, the ever loving One,
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  Speaker 1: is willing to put his own love within me. The
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  Speaker 1: command is really no more than to be a branch
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  Speaker 1: of the true vine. I am to cease from my
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  Speaker 1: own living and loving and yield myself to be the
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  Speaker 1: expression of Christ's love and quote. End of note p