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  Speaker 1: Twenty seventh Day of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Twenty seventh Day.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit through faith Christ hath redeemed us from the curse,
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  Speaker 1: that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham
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  Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit through faith. Galatians three thirteen and fourteen. The
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  Speaker 1: word faith is used the first time in scripture in
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  Speaker 1: connection with Abraham his highest praise, the secret of his
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  Speaker 1: strength for obedience. And what made him so pleasing to
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  Speaker 1: God was that he believed God. And so he became
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  Speaker 1: the Father of all them that believe, and the great
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  Speaker 1: example of the blessing which the divine favor bestows and
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  Speaker 1: the path in which it comes. Just as God proved
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  Speaker 1: himself to Abraham, the God who quicken the dead, he
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  Speaker 1: does to us too, in full a measure in giving
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  Speaker 1: us the spirit of his own divine life to dwell
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  Speaker 1: in us. And just as this quickening power came to
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  Speaker 1: Abraham through faith, so the blessing of Abraham has now
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  Speaker 1: made manifest in Christ. Even the promise of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is made ours by faith. All the lessons of Abraham's
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  Speaker 1: life center in this we received the promise of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit through faith. If we want to know what the
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  Speaker 1: faith is through which the spirit is received, how that
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  Speaker 1: faith comes and grows, we must study what God has
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  Speaker 1: taught us of it in Abraham's story. In Abraham's life
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  Speaker 1: we see what faith is, the spiritual sense by which
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  Speaker 1: man recognizes and accepts the revelation of his God, a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual sense called forth and awakened by that revelation. It
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  Speaker 1: was because God had chosen Abraham and determined to reveal
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  Speaker 1: himself that Abraham became a man of faith. Each new
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  Speaker 1: revelation was an act of the Divine will. It is
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  Speaker 1: the divine will and the revelation in which it carries
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  Speaker 1: out its purpose that is the cause and the life
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  Speaker 1: of faith. The more distinct the revelation or contact with God,
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  Speaker 1: the deeper is faith stirred in the soul. Paul speaks
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  Speaker 1: of trust in the living God. It is only as
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  Speaker 1: the living One, in the quickening power of the divine life,
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  Speaker 1: draws nigh and touches the soul that the living faith
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  Speaker 1: will be called forth. Faith is not an independent act
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  Speaker 1: by which, in our own strength we take what God says,
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  Speaker 1: nor is it an entirely passive state in which we
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  Speaker 1: only suffer God to do to us what he will.
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  Speaker 1: But it is that receptivity of soul, in which as
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  Speaker 1: God comes near, and as his living power speaks to
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  Speaker 1: us and touches us, we yield at and accept his
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  Speaker 1: word and his working. It is thus very evident that
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  Speaker 1: faith has two things to deal with, the presence and
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. It is only the living
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  Speaker 1: presence that makes the living word, so that it comes
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  Speaker 1: not in word only, but in power. It is on
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  Speaker 1: this account that there is so much reading and preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the Word that bears so little fruit, so much
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  Speaker 1: straining and praying for faith with so little result. Men
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  Speaker 1: deal with a word more than with the living God.
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  Speaker 1: Faith has very truly been defined as taking God at
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  Speaker 1: his word. With many, this is only meant taking the
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  Speaker 1: word as God's. They did not see the force of
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  Speaker 1: the thought taking God at his word. A key or
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  Speaker 1: a door handle has no value until I use it
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  Speaker 1: for the lock and the door I want to open.
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  Speaker 1: It is alone in direct and living contact with God
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  Speaker 1: himself that the Word will open the heart to believe.
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  Speaker 1: Faith takes God at his word. It can only do
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  Speaker 1: this when and as He gives himself. I may have
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  Speaker 1: in God's book all his precious promises, most clear and full.
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  Speaker 1: I may have learnt perfectly to understand how I have,
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  Speaker 1: but to trust the promise, to have it fulfilled, and
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  Speaker 1: yet utterly fail to find the longed for blessing. The
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  Speaker 1: faith that enters on the inheritance is the attitude of
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  Speaker 1: soul which waits for God himself, first to speak his
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  Speaker 1: word to me, and then to do the thing he
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  Speaker 1: hath spoken. Faith is fellowship with God. Faith is surrender
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  Speaker 1: to God, the impression made by his drawing nigh, the
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  Speaker 1: possession he takes of the soul by his word, holding
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  Speaker 1: and preparing it for his work. When once it has
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  Speaker 1: been awakened, it watches for every appearing of the divine will.
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  Speaker 1: It listens for and accepts every indication of the divine presence.
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  Speaker 1: It looks for and expects the fulfillment of every divine promise.
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  Speaker 1: Such was the faith through which Abraham inherited the promises.
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  Speaker 1: Such is the faith by which the blessing of Abraham
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  Speaker 1: comes upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, and by which
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  Speaker 1: we thus receive the promise of the Spirit in all
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  Speaker 1: our study of the work of the Holy Spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: of the way in which He comes from his first
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  Speaker 1: sealing us to his full indwelling and streaming forth. Let
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  Speaker 1: us hold fast this word. We receive the promise of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit by faith. Whether the believer be striving for
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  Speaker 1: the full consciousness that the Spirit dwells within, for a
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  Speaker 1: deeper assurance of his shedding abroad, of God's love in
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  Speaker 1: the heart, for a larger growth of all his fruits,
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  Speaker 1: for the clear experience of his guiding into all truth,
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  Speaker 1: or for the enduement of power to labor and to
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  Speaker 1: bless Let him remember that the law of faith on
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  Speaker 1: which which the whole economy of grace is grounded here,
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  Speaker 1: demands its fullest application according to your faith. Be it
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  Speaker 1: unto you. We receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Let us seek for Abraham's blessing in Abraham's faith. Let
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  Speaker 1: in this matter our faith begin where his began, in
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  Speaker 1: meeting God and waiting on God. The Lord appeared unto Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: and Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him.
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  Speaker 1: Let us look up to our God and Father as
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  Speaker 1: the living God, who is himself by his omnipotent, quickening
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  Speaker 1: power to do this wonderful thing for us, to fill
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  Speaker 1: us with His Holy Spirit. The blessing he has for
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  Speaker 1: us is the same he gave to Abraham, but only larger, fuller,
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  Speaker 1: more wonderful to Abraham, both when his own body was
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  Speaker 1: now as dead, and later on when his son was
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  Speaker 1: already bound on the altar, the prey of death. He
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  Speaker 1: came as the life giving God. He believed, God who
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  Speaker 1: quickeneth the dead. He offered up Isaac, accounting God able
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  Speaker 1: to raise him up to us. He comes, offering to
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  Speaker 1: fill spirit, soul, and body with the power of a
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  Speaker 1: divine life through the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. Let
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  Speaker 1: us be like Abraham. Looking at the promise of God.
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  Speaker 1: He wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith,
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  Speaker 1: giving glory to God and being fully assured that what
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  Speaker 1: he had promised he was able also to perform. Let
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  Speaker 1: us have our souls filled with the faith of Him
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  Speaker 1: who has promised our hearts fixed on him who is
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  Speaker 1: able to perform. It is faith in God opens the
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  Speaker 1: heart for God and prepares to submit to and receive
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  Speaker 1: his divine working. God waits on us to fill us
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  Speaker 1: with his Spirit. Oh, let us wait on him. It
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  Speaker 1: is God mus do it all with a divine doing,
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  Speaker 1: most mighty and most blessed. Let us wait on him,
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  Speaker 1: to read and think, to long and pray, to consecrate ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and grasp the promise, to hold fast the blessed truth
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  Speaker 1: that the Spirit dwells within us. All this is good
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  Speaker 1: in its place, but does not bring the blessing. The
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  Speaker 1: one thing needful is to have the heart filled with
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  Speaker 1: faith in the Living God. In that faith, to abide
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  Speaker 1: in living contact with Him, in that faith, to wait
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  Speaker 1: and worship before His holy presence. In such fellowship with God,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit fills the heart. When we have taken
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  Speaker 1: up this position, let us keep in it. We are
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  Speaker 1: then in the right state for the Spirit in such
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  Speaker 1: measure as he already has access to us, further revealing
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  Speaker 1: what God has prepared for us. Footnote see on trusting
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit note O in the footnote. As we then
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  Speaker 1: think of some special manifestation of the Spirit of which
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  Speaker 1: the conviction of need has been wrought, or go to
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  Speaker 1: the promises of the Word, to be led into all
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  Speaker 1: the will of God concerning the life of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: in us, we shall be kept in that humbling sense
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  Speaker 1: of dependence, out of which childlike trust is most surely begotten.
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  Speaker 1: We shall be preserved from that life of strain and
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  Speaker 1: effort which has so often led to failure, because in
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  Speaker 1: the very attempt to serve God in the spirit, we
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  Speaker 1: were having or seeking confidence in the flesh in something
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  Speaker 1: we felt or did or wished to do. The deep
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  Speaker 1: undertone of our life in listening to the Word, or
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  Speaker 1: asking God to listen to us, in silent meditation or
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  Speaker 1: public worship, in work for God or daily business, will
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  Speaker 1: be the assurance that overtowers every other certainty. How much
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  Speaker 1: more will the Heavenly Father give he has given, and
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  Speaker 1: will he always be giving the Holy Spirit to them
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  Speaker 1: that ask him. Such a faith will not be without
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  Speaker 1: its trials. Isaac, the God given faith accepted life of
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  Speaker 1: Isaac had to be given up to death that it
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  Speaker 1: might be received back in resurrection type as life from
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  Speaker 1: the dead. The God given experience of the spirit's working
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  Speaker 1: many a time passes away and leaves the soul apparently
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  Speaker 1: dull and dead. This is only until the double lesson
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  Speaker 1: has been fully learnt, that a living faith can rejoice
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  Speaker 1: in a living God even when all feeling and experience
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  Speaker 1: appear to contradict a promise, and that the divine life
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  Speaker 1: only enters as the life of the flesh is given
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  Speaker 1: to the death. The life of Christ is revealed as
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  Speaker 1: his death works in us, and as in weakness and
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  Speaker 1: nothingness we look to him. We receive the promise of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit through faith. As faith grows larger and broader,
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  Speaker 1: the receiving of the promised spirit will be fuller and deeper.
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  Speaker 1: Each new revelation of God to Abraham made his faith
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  Speaker 1: stronger and his acquaintance with God more intimate. When his
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  Speaker 1: God drew near, he knew what to expect. He knew
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  Speaker 1: to trust him even in the most unlikely appearances, when
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  Speaker 1: asking the death of his son. It is the faith
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  Speaker 1: that waits every day on the living God to reveal himself.
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  Speaker 1: The faith that, in ever increasing tenderness of ear and
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  Speaker 1: readiness of service, yields fully to Him and his presence.
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  Speaker 1: The faith that knows that only as He wills to
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  Speaker 1: reveal himself can the blessing come, but that because He
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  Speaker 1: always does love to reveal himself, it will surely come.
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  Speaker 1: This faith receives the promise of the Spirit. It was
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  Speaker 1: in God's presence that this faith was wakened and strengthened
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  Speaker 1: in Abraham and the saints of old. It was in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus presence on earth that unbelief was cast out and
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  Speaker 1: that little faith became strong. It was in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the glorified One that faith received the blessing of Pentecost.
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  Speaker 1: The throne of God is now opened to us in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: It is become the throne of God and the Lamb.
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  Speaker 1: As we tarry in humble worship and walk in loving
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  Speaker 1: service before the throne, the river of the water of
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  Speaker 1: life that flows from under it will flow into us
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  Speaker 1: and throw us, and out of us. He that believeth
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  Speaker 1: rivers of water shall flow out of him. Ever blessed God,
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  Speaker 1: who dost in thy divine love and power, reveal thyself
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  Speaker 1: to each of thy children, as far as he can
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  Speaker 1: possibly bear it increase within us. We pray the faith
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  Speaker 1: through which alone we can know or receive thee. Whether
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  Speaker 1: thou comest as the Almighty or the Redeeming or the
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  Speaker 1: indwelling God, it is ever faith thou seekest, and according
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  Speaker 1: to faith we receive. O. Father, convince us deeply that
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  Speaker 1: we have just as much of the spirit as we
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  Speaker 1: have of faith, Our Holy God. We know that it
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  Speaker 1: is Thy presence wakens and works the faith in the
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  Speaker 1: soul that yields to thee draw us mightily. We pray
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  Speaker 1: thee yea irresistibly into Thy holy presence and keep us
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  Speaker 1: waiting there. Oh, deliver us from the terrible fascination of
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  Speaker 1: world and flesh, that Thy divine glory may be our
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  Speaker 1: all absorbing desire and our whole heart emptied to receive
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit's revelation of Christ within. We desire to
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  Speaker 1: take Thy words and let them dwell richly in us.
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  Speaker 1: We desire, in stillness of soul to be silent unto
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  Speaker 1: God and wait for him to trust and believe that
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  Speaker 1: the Father hath given us his spirit within us, and
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  Speaker 1: is in secret working to reveal His Son, O God,
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  Speaker 1: we do live the life of faith. We do believe
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  Speaker 1: in the Holy Spirit. Amen One. Faith is the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that pleases God in all worship and work that
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  Speaker 1: is acceptable to God in Christ Jesus. It is faith
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  Speaker 1: that receives the testimony that we are well pleasing to Him.
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  Speaker 1: And why because faith goes out of self gives God alone.
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  Speaker 1: The glory only looks to God's Son and is a
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  Speaker 1: receptive of God's spirit. Faith is not merely the positive
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  Speaker 1: conviction that God's word or promises true. This confidence there
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  Speaker 1: may be even in the power of the flesh. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is the spiritual organ of the soul, through which it
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  Speaker 1: waits on the Living God, listens to him, takes his
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  Speaker 1: words from himself, has communion with him. It is as
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  Speaker 1: this habit of soul is cultivated, as the whole life
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  Speaker 1: we live is by faith that the Spirit can enter
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  Speaker 1: freely and flow fully. He that believeth rivers shall flow
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  Speaker 1: out of him. Two. The Spirit is called first Peter
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  Speaker 1: one twenty one the incorruptible seed, because he is cast
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  Speaker 1: into the soul with the Word as its prolific value.
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  Speaker 1: The Word is the seed materially, but the Spirit is
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  Speaker 1: the seed virtually. From Goodwin three, you long for the
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  Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit to keep you ever looking
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, to reveal Jesus as ever present as a
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  Speaker 1: savior from sin. Only believe. Begin each day with a
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  Speaker 1: quiet act of meditation and faith. In quiet self collectedness.
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  Speaker 1: Turn inward not to see the work the Holy Spirit does,
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  Speaker 1: but to yield your spirit to him who dwells there
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  Speaker 1: in secret. Say in deep humility. I have within me,
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  Speaker 1: small and hidden, the seed of the Kingdom, the seed
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life. I have found the seed of the
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  Speaker 1: Living Word, the Seed of God within me. I know
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  Speaker 1: now where it dwells before God in fear and trembling,
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  Speaker 1: because He worketh in you, and let faith take time
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  Speaker 1: before him to become confident and fully conscious. I have
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit within me this day. Four. His seed
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  Speaker 1: abideth in him, and he cannot sin. Go out into
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  Speaker 1: daily life in the strength of the faith that the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit dwells within, and that the Father will grant
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  Speaker 1: that he works effectually to keep you from sinning. Pause
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  Speaker 1: frequently in holy self recollection, to let the Spirit remind
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  Speaker 1: you that you are God's Holy temple, and say, with
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  Speaker 1: holy trembling, I bear within me the living seed of
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  Speaker 1: the Life of God. Five. As individual believers enter into
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  Speaker 1: this life of faith and walk in it, there will
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  Speaker 1: be the power to pray for the Spirit coming from
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  Speaker 1: above in power on all flesh. End of twenty seventh
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  Speaker 1: day