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026 - Even As I Have Loved You · True Vine

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty five, Even as I have loved you from
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  Speaker 1: the True Vine by Andrew Murray. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain recording by Phil Snyder. Even as
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  Speaker 1: I have loved you. This is my commandment that ye
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  Speaker 1: love one another, even as I have loved you, John
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  Speaker 1: fifteen twelve. This is the second time our Lord uses
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  Speaker 1: the expression even as I. The first time it was
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  Speaker 1: of his relation to the Father, keeping his commandments and
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  Speaker 1: abiding in his love, even so we are to keep
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  Speaker 1: Christ's commandments and abide in his love. The second time
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  Speaker 1: he speaks of his relation to us as the rule
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  Speaker 1: of our love to our brethren, love one another as
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  Speaker 1: I have loved you. In each case, his disposition and
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  Speaker 1: conduct is to be the law for ours. It is
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  Speaker 1: again the truth we have more than once insisted on
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  Speaker 1: perfect life between the vine and the branch, even as I.
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  Speaker 1: But is it not a vain thing to imagine that
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  Speaker 1: we can keep His commandments and love the brethren even
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  Speaker 1: as he kept his fathers, and as he loved us?
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  Speaker 1: And must not the attempt end in failure and discouragement. Undoubtedly,
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  Speaker 1: if we seek to carry out the injunction in our
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  Speaker 1: strength or without a full apprehension of the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the Vine and its branches. But if we understand that
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  Speaker 1: the even as I is just the one great lesson
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  Speaker 1: of the Parable, the one continual language of the Vine
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  Speaker 1: to the branch, we shall see that it is not
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  Speaker 1: the question of what we feel able to accomplish, but
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  Speaker 1: of what Christ is able to work in us. These
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  Speaker 1: high and holy commands obey even as I love even
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  Speaker 1: as I, are just meant to bring us to the
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of our impotence, and through that to waken us
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  Speaker 1: to the need and the beauty of the sufficiency of
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  Speaker 1: what is provided for us in the Vine. We shall
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  Speaker 1: begin to hear the Vine speaking every moment to the branch,
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  Speaker 1: even as I, even as I my life is your life,
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  Speaker 1: and have a share in all my fullness. The spirit
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  Speaker 1: in you and the fruit that comes from you is
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  Speaker 1: all just the same as in me. Be not afraid,
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  Speaker 1: but let your faith grasp each even as I as
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  Speaker 1: the divine assurance that because I live in you, you
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  Speaker 1: may and can live like me. But why, if this
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  Speaker 1: really be the meaning of the parable, if this really
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  Speaker 1: be the life a branch may live, do so few
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  Speaker 1: realize it because they do not know the heavenly mystery
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  Speaker 1: of the Vine. They know much of the parable and
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  Speaker 1: its beautiful lessons. But the hidden spiritual mystery of the Vine,
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  Speaker 1: in his divine omnipotence and nearness, bearing in supple applying
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  Speaker 1: them all the day, This they do not know, because
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  Speaker 1: they have not waited on God's Spirit to reveal it
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  Speaker 1: to them. Love one another, even as I have loved you, ye,
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  Speaker 1: even as I. How are we to begin, if we
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  Speaker 1: are really to learn the mystery with the confession that
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  Speaker 1: we need to be brought to an entirely new mode
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  Speaker 1: of life, because we have never yet known Christ as
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  Speaker 1: the Vine, in the completeness of his quickening and transforming power,
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  Speaker 1: with the surrender to be cleansed from all that is
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  Speaker 1: of self and detached from all that is of the world,
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  Speaker 1: to live only and holy as Christ lived for the
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  Speaker 1: glory of the Father. And then with the faith that this,
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  Speaker 1: even as I is, in very deed, what Christ is
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  Speaker 1: ready to make true, the very life the Vine will
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  Speaker 1: maintain in the branch wholly dependent upon Him, even as
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  Speaker 1: I ever again it is my blessed Lord as the Vine.
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  Speaker 1: So the branch, one life, one spirit, one obedience, one joy,
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  Speaker 1: one love. Lord Jesus, in the faith that thou art
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  Speaker 1: my vine and that I am thy branch. I accept
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  Speaker 1: thy command as a promise, and take thy even as
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  Speaker 1: I as a simple revelation of what thou dost work
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  Speaker 1: in me. Yea Lord, as thou hast loved, I will love.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter twenty five.