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  Speaker 1: Note OH of the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Note OH
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  Speaker 1: on Trusting the Spirit, Chapter twenty seven in a little
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  Speaker 1: book entitled Reminiscences of the Keswick Convention eighteen seventy nine,
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  Speaker 1: with addresses by Pastor Stockmire, I find some most suggestive
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  Speaker 1: thoughts in regard to the work of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: as he enables us to die to our own life
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  Speaker 1: and to take Christ as our life. For the sake
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  Speaker 1: of preserving these and introducing them to readers who may
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  Speaker 1: otherwise not have access to them, I give somewhat lengthy
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  Speaker 1: extracts here. The only way in which the blessing of
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  Speaker 1: conference and spiritual revival can become permanent, can flow ever
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  Speaker 1: fuller and deeper, is that each individual believer should know
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  Speaker 1: that what he has received in the Fellowship of the
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  Speaker 1: Saints can be secure, cured, and increased to him personally
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  Speaker 1: through the blessed ministry of that Holy Spirit, whom he
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  Speaker 1: has dwelling in him, but whom he knows all too little.
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  Speaker 1: Open Philippians two, verses twelve and thirteen. Work out your
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  Speaker 1: own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God
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  Speaker 1: that worketh in you, both to will and to do
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  Speaker 1: of His good pleasure. We shall fear to disobey, because
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  Speaker 1: we are not in the presence of human work or
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  Speaker 1: human persons, but in the presence of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: It is not we who are working in us. It
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  Speaker 1: is the Holy Ghost. When Moses came before the burning bush,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said to him, put off thy shoes, from
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  Speaker 1: off thy feet, For the place whereon thou standest is
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  Speaker 1: holy ground. This is holy ground. For it is God,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, who works the willing and the doing
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  Speaker 1: in all questions of sanctification or service. We are in presence,
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  Speaker 1: not of ourselves, but of our God, on holy ground,
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  Speaker 1: not on human ground, not on ground of human persons,
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  Speaker 1: but on ground of the Holy Ghost. And for that reason,
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  Speaker 1: because it is God that works in us to will
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  Speaker 1: and to do. Work out your own salvation with fear
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  Speaker 1: and trembling, And what is it to work out our
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  Speaker 1: own salvation? The apostle tells us in the same verse, wherefore,
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  Speaker 1: my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, I think that
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  Speaker 1: word wherefore brings us back to verse eight to Christ's work.
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  Speaker 1: Christ had become obedient unto death. In verses five to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: We have the work of Christ abasement, and then because
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  Speaker 1: he was abased, he was exalted so high. Therefore ye
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  Speaker 1: also obey. In verses twelve and thirteen, we have the
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  Speaker 1: work of the Holy Spirit working on the work of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had been obedient unto death. Death is contrary to
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  Speaker 1: our nature. We do all we can to keep our
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  Speaker 1: own life. But as Christ, through the Eternal Spirit, offered
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  Speaker 1: himself without spot to God, and by his death brought
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  Speaker 1: to an end his work of immolation, so does the
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  Speaker 1: work of the Holy Ghost bring us into fellowship with
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  Speaker 1: a dying Christ. He makes us willing to die by
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  Speaker 1: the power of Christ. He makes us take the position
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  Speaker 1: in which the death of Christ has placed us. He
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  Speaker 1: died that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves,
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  Speaker 1: but unto Him that died for them and rose again.
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  Speaker 1: Such a position as is given to us by Christ,
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  Speaker 1: no man is willing to enter into. It is the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost who takes us by the hand and brings
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  Speaker 1: us out of our own life and makes us willing
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  Speaker 1: to like and seek the fellowship of the dead and
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  Speaker 1: of the risen Christ. Now also, in my absence go
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  Speaker 1: on yielding to the Holy Ghost, who will teach you
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  Speaker 1: to follow the Lamb, making you willing to die with Christ,
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  Speaker 1: that you may serve and love and walk in newness
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  Speaker 1: of life. And all this in fear and trembling, because
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  Speaker 1: it is God who works. The only fear we want
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  Speaker 1: is to follow the Holy Ghost in all his operations,
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  Speaker 1: flying from self and yielding to him, that he may
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  Speaker 1: have us in his hand, that he may be able
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  Speaker 1: to work for God's glory, to leave all the matter
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  Speaker 1: in his hands. And so soon as our fears are
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  Speaker 1: concentrated on that point, to grieve not the Savior, we
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  Speaker 1: have nothing more to fear. We can then seek first
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other
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  Speaker 1: things shall be added unto us. Because as a heaven
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  Speaker 1: surrounds our earth on all sides, so the work of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost leaves none out of its reach in
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  Speaker 1: our being and brings all under his action and transforming power.
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  Speaker 1: We must come back to our holy ground from which
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  Speaker 1: we sprang. God ought to have what is his. We
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  Speaker 1: came from him and were made for him. We must
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  Speaker 1: learn to honor the Holy Ghost and to consider his
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  Speaker 1: working the most precious thing we have. Fearing to lose
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  Speaker 1: even one hint of his because all that He works
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  Speaker 1: involves infinite labor, and in loving any work of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost, we love more infinite labor than we know.
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  Speaker 1: It is a matter of experience that in measure, as
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  Speaker 1: we know more of the love of God, we learn
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  Speaker 1: also more to fear him. One involves the other and
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  Speaker 1: regulates the other. There is no opposition. In James four,
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  Speaker 1: verse one, we read of lusts which war in your members.
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  Speaker 1: But in the same passage, verse five, we read of
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  Speaker 1: the lust of the space. So you cannot put quite
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  Speaker 1: the same signification on the word which we generally put
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  Speaker 1: upon it. The word here does not mean sinful lust.
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  Speaker 1: The Spirit of God cannot have sinful lust. We see
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  Speaker 1: here two tendencies, two powers, two worlds that have nothing
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  Speaker 1: in common, separated as completely as Heaven from earth, the
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  Speaker 1: flesh and the Spirit. And we are responsible moral beings,
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  Speaker 1: having our responsibility through the work of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: responsibility as to which of these two adversaries we will
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  Speaker 1: give movement and action in our interior and exterior life.
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  Speaker 1: I know a position in which no rising from impure
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  Speaker 1: feeling can take place in the heart or take form,
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  Speaker 1: even as a flash in a second of time. Such
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  Speaker 1: a Christian has learnt to let himself be kept by
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  Speaker 1: Christ from such risings, and they no more appear. And
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  Speaker 1: yet these same Christians have a consciousness of the tendency
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  Speaker 1: of the flesh to form such risings. There are infinite
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  Speaker 1: degrees from impurity to full purity, And only after we
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  Speaker 1: have been fully delivered from such impure risings can the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost go deeper and deeper in his purifying work.
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  Speaker 1: This cannot be expressed, It must be realized. And we
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  Speaker 1: are not easily conscious of how much our experience and
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  Speaker 1: the experience of others the level of Christian life in
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  Speaker 1: the Church influence our explanations of scripture. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: attended such meetings as those of Keswick and Oxford without
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  Speaker 1: experiencing that in measure, as God the Holy Ghost draws
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  Speaker 1: nearer and nearer, your interior atmosphere is modified, and there
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  Speaker 1: comes a moment in which you breathe the mountain air.
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  Speaker 1: And in measure, as we come under the shadow of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, the power of the Holy Ghost on
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  Speaker 1: our life is different to ordinary. When we come back
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  Speaker 1: to the first days of the Church at Jerusalem, then
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  Speaker 1: we shall fully experience the power of the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: to keep us sheltered against the tendencies of our flesh.
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  Speaker 1: But we are a family and we cannot experience individually
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of Jesus Christ our head without the rest
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  Speaker 1: following us. We want the life of the members in
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  Speaker 1: order to realize the life of the Holy Ghost. It
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to abide under the shadow of the Almighty
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  Speaker 1: when you are surrounded by sick Christians, slumbering Christians, Christians
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  Speaker 1: who do not fully trust their Savior. Our daily life,
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  Speaker 1: our conversation, our very countenance must testify that we have
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  Speaker 1: found life abundantly in our good Shepherd. Oh dear Christians,
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  Speaker 1: cease from keeping your own life, defending your own life,
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  Speaker 1: when the Holy Ghost works to bring to die every
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  Speaker 1: portion of your own life. Oh beloved brethren, we are
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  Speaker 1: so worldlike. Our worldlike life is the great hindrance to conversions,
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  Speaker 1: the great reason why the Gospel has so little success. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: remember every Christian has had a time when he has
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  Speaker 1: given up all to his Lord. Then you are happy.
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  Speaker 1: And the very reason of your unhappiness now is that
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  Speaker 1: you have not given up all your life. And that
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  Speaker 1: in daily life, in daily conversation, in daily occurrences. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you are hesitating between your will and God's will. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my brethren, I would no more open my heart to
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  Speaker 1: any human wish or human desire, because it would hinder
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  Speaker 1: my seeing the countenance of God. Never would I take
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  Speaker 1: in my own hands an afternoon, an hour, because I
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  Speaker 1: know it would be an unhappy day and unhappy hour.
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  Speaker 1: I am too happy not to put every day, every
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  Speaker 1: hour in the hands of my heavenly Father, too happy
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  Speaker 1: ever again to take into my hands the threads of
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  Speaker 1: my life. John sixteen, verses seven to eleven. Then in
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  Speaker 1: Acts two thirty six and following verses, we have the
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  Speaker 1: fulfillment of the promise. Now, dear brethren, there are in
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  Speaker 1: the text from the Gospel of John two distinct offices
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost put forth by our divine Master.
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  Speaker 1: His name for the disciples is Comforter, and he has
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  Speaker 1: also the office of convincing the world. But before he
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  Speaker 1: may convince the world through the disciples, more disciples must
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  Speaker 1: be filled with the Holy Ghost. And so at Pentecost
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  Speaker 1: that promise was just fulfilled. The disciples were filled with
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, and having the Comforter dwelling in them,
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  Speaker 1: they were the instruments of God's hands of convincing the
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  Speaker 1: world of the sin of unbelief. How few disciples there
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  Speaker 1: are who know the Holy Ghost in his office of comforter.
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  Speaker 1: And what is his comfort? The Holy Ghost will bring
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  Speaker 1: into our hearts above all the consciousness that we are
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  Speaker 1: pleasing the Father by the power of the Sun, that
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  Speaker 1: we are reconciled children pleasing our Father. Oh how long
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  Speaker 1: will Christians introvert the offices of the Holy Ghost and
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  Speaker 1: oblige him to be in their daily walk more convincing
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  Speaker 1: than comforting. For I have a deep feeling in these days,
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  Speaker 1: and I must tell it out in the presence of God,
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  Speaker 1: that the Holy Ghost has to do among us, generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: more the work of convincing than of comforting. Convincing of sin?
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  Speaker 1: What sin? The sin of unbelief? It is only the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of unbelief that so many Christians, looking back a day,
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  Speaker 1: or a week or a year, have not the testimony
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  Speaker 1: in their souls that they have lived the life which
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  Speaker 1: pleased their God. And so again and again the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost is obliged to take up his office of convincing
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  Speaker 1: of sin, And at last the children of God lose
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  Speaker 1: the very cap to believe that they may come to
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  Speaker 1: a life which pleases their Father in Heaven. Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: meeting that Kezikh cannot have the approval of God unless
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  Speaker 1: they have this fruit. That a week after, a month,
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  Speaker 1: after a year after the meeting, there will be at
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  Speaker 1: least some Christians who have learned by faith to please
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  Speaker 1: their God, not coming back a year after telling the
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  Speaker 1: power of Jesus. And yet when they are asked if
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  Speaker 1: they have proved the power of Christ in their lives,
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  Speaker 1: having to confess that they have not habitually pleased God
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  Speaker 1: and have not habitually the presence of the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: as the comforter. Remember, we are on holy ground, and
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  Speaker 1: we have no right to speak of the power of
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  Speaker 1: our God if we are not realizing it. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: would not go forward one step if I could for
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  Speaker 1: one moment not know that I realize all things that
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  Speaker 1: I believe. And now one passage more in First Peter two,
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  Speaker 1: verses five and nine, O, beloved friends, may you fulfill
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  Speaker 1: that glorious mission which our God has given us. Only
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  Speaker 1: after having been convinced of the sin of unbelief, and
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  Speaker 1: having left forever the sin of unbelief? Can we know
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost acting in our souls as the comforter.
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  Speaker 1: Those three thousand men on the day of Pentecost, how
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  Speaker 1: they saw their sins, What shall we do repent? That
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  Speaker 1: is to say, leave your sin, the sin of unbelief
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  Speaker 1: in regard to Jesus Christ. They did so, and in
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  Speaker 1: that very moment they received the Jesus they had crucified
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  Speaker 1: as Lord and Christ. So I would beseech you leave
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  Speaker 1: that frightful sin of unbelief, that you may know Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as the anointed Lord, who is waiting for children of God,
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  Speaker 1: whom he may anoint as priests. And let us begin
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  Speaker 1: by believing that He is able to keep us trusting
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  Speaker 1: during our daily life, to keep us in faith and
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  Speaker 1: in a walk that pleases our God. Can we go
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  Speaker 1: on any longer living a life that pleases not our Father?
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  Speaker 1: Philippians two, verses twelve and thirteen. I think if there
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  Speaker 1: is not a more practical realization of the glorious truth
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  Speaker 1: brought before us, it is because the children of God
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  Speaker 1: have a definite trust in the work of Jesus, a
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  Speaker 1: definite standing place on Calvary before God. But they have
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  Speaker 1: not the same definite trust in the Holy Ghost. Not
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  Speaker 1: as a power that will work in us some day,
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  Speaker 1: but which is working continually in the soul of every
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  Speaker 1: believer to will and to do all that concerns our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: This moment I know that I have air to breathe,
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  Speaker 1: and that my God will continue to give it me
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  Speaker 1: every minute, so the Holy Ghost will not interrupt his
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  Speaker 1: work in the inmost parts of my soul. I am
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  Speaker 1: his temple, and he is working in me. For it
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  Speaker 1: is God, the Holy Ghost, who worketh in you both
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  Speaker 1: to will and to do of his life good pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Now you are asking how to trust? How can I
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  Speaker 1: be sure I am now trusting Jesus to keep me
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  Speaker 1: from sin, that this afternoon and this evening I shall
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  Speaker 1: be kept in communion with my God, that I shall
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  Speaker 1: abide in Jesus, that I shall go on trusting. Dear brother,
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  Speaker 1: the moment you put such a question, you are disbelieving
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, and so long as you ask it,
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  Speaker 1: you will never continue in communion with your God, because
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  Speaker 1: you are seeking in yourself the secret of going on trusting,
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  Speaker 1: And it is the Holy Ghost who worketh in you
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  Speaker 1: both to will and to do the reason so few
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  Speaker 1: Christians realize these things is that children of God have
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  Speaker 1: not the same definite trust in the work of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost that they have in the work of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We must be Trinity believer, realizing all that Christ has
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  Speaker 1: provided for us by his work. But we are in
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  Speaker 1: the economy of the Holy Ghost, and so long as
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  Speaker 1: we do not honor the Holy Ghost, we cannot be
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  Speaker 1: practical Christians. Let us come to the Holy Ghost in
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  Speaker 1: all the details of our daily life. The Father, the Son,
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  Speaker 1: and the Holy Ghost are all working together. The Father
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  Speaker 1: is working hand in hand with the Holy Ghost. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost has his work in my soul, and he
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  Speaker 1: can work freely in my soul only so long as
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  Speaker 1: I am looking to Jesus. The moment I begin to
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  Speaker 1: look at the work of the Holy Ghost, that moment
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  Speaker 1: I interrupt it. The beginning and the end of the
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  Speaker 1: work of the Holy Ghost is to make me look
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus. When I am looking to Jesus, I am
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  Speaker 1: in the true position in which the Holy Ghost can
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  Speaker 1: work in me. And the Father is working with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost from morning to evening. If he did not work,
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  Speaker 1: there would be temptation beyond my spiritual age. I could
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  Speaker 1: not remain under the state described in First Corinthians ten thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: There can be no temptation beyond what we are able
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  Speaker 1: to bear, because the Father is preparing every evening the
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  Speaker 1: details of the following day for his child. And I
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  Speaker 1: know he will never permit a storm from without or
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  Speaker 1: from within beyond the spiritual strength I have by looking
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus. There are no hairs falling from your head
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  Speaker 1: without the permission of your heavenly Father. And so the
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  Speaker 1: work of the Holy Ghost can go on in our
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  Speaker 1: souls freely, fully, gradually, by the watching power of the Father,
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  Speaker 1: who so arranges all details of the exterior life that
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  Speaker 1: it may work together hand in hand with the work
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost. Question the sanctification. Does the believer
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  Speaker 1: receive the Holy Ghost as spoken of in John seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven to thirty nine and fourteen Verses sixteen and seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: or is the Holy Ghost a distinct gift from sanctification?
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  Speaker 1: Beloved friends, what is sanctification? In one word, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: by justification, you are brought by the Holy Ghost into
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. God takes away the burden of your sin,
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  Speaker 1: and he takes you and places you in a new
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  Speaker 1: world in Jesus Christ. And sanctification is for me nothing
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  Speaker 1: else than to dwell in Jesus Christ, to remain in
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  Speaker 1: the place where the Holy Ghost has put me. From
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  Speaker 1: the moment we first receive the Holy Ghost, we have
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  Speaker 1: nothing else to do but respect the Holy Ghost within us.
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  Speaker 1: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For
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  Speaker 1: it is God which worketh in you, both to will
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  Speaker 1: and to do of His good pleasure. And if so
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  Speaker 1: many children of God are not truly living waters, and
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  Speaker 1: if the living waters are not flowing out from them,
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  Speaker 1: the reason is that they have not practically honored the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost in all things work out because we must
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  Speaker 1: obey the Holy Ghost working within with fear and trembling,
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  Speaker 1: fearing to disobey the Holy Ghost in anything, and then
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  Speaker 1: we shall begin to become living waters to others. God
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  Speaker 1: will subdue our nature and will act in us as
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  Speaker 1: the sap acts in the branches. From the moment we
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  Speaker 1: give up our being to the Holy Ghost working in
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  Speaker 1: us in all things. Question, how will this life of
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  Speaker 1: faith in Christ help us in common daily temptations, such
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  Speaker 1: for instance, as the difficulty of getting up in the
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  Speaker 1: morning so as to secure time for reading and prayer
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  Speaker 1: before breakfast. The secret of realizing in daily experience. What
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  Speaker 1: we teach here is just to learn to yield in
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  Speaker 1: all things to the hints of the Holy Ghost. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost is not working in us as a master
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  Speaker 1: with his slave, but he will make us become the
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  Speaker 1: spouse of Christ. And the true relation of a husband
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  Speaker 1: and wife is that in which the wife is the
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  Speaker 1: equal of the husband. And in our relations with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost, we must learn to yield to the slightest
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  Speaker 1: hints to the still small voice. Oh, that is a
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  Speaker 1: precious lesson to learn during all our life, to have
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  Speaker 1: our ears more and more open to that still small
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  Speaker 1: voice of our God. At first, for those Christians who
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  Speaker 1: have no appetite, there is much trouble because the voice
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  Speaker 1: of bad example of teaching not according to the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and other voices are filling the understanding and the soul,
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  Speaker 1: and they must learn to be deaf to all other
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  Speaker 1: voices and to listen only to that still small voice. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it is a holy thing to learn to distinguish that voice,
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  Speaker 1: and you will distinguish it as your soul, your imagination,
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  Speaker 1: your wishes are on the side of your God, trusting
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  Speaker 1: in the goodness and kindness and tenderness and delicacy, of
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  Speaker 1: our good Shepherd, we shall learn to listen. Listening to
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  Speaker 1: other voices, we are sure to go wrong. In Romans eight,
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven, and First Thessalonians five twenty three, you see
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  Speaker 1: the end of the ways of God is corporal. The
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  Speaker 1: work of God must end by being manifested in our bodies.
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  Speaker 1: You may read in the faces of Christians, in the
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  Speaker 1: look of their eyes, that they are not young Christians,
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  Speaker 1: that they have long lived with God. And in proportion,
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  Speaker 1: as you learn to listen to the still small voice,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the
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  Speaker 1: dead will also begin to act in your mortal bodies
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  Speaker 1: and quicken them. There is a time when we are
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  Speaker 1: striving and struggling to rise early to overcome our bodies,
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  Speaker 1: and we cannot, but in measure. As we learn to
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  Speaker 1: yield to the Holy Ghost, the quickening power of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of God will manifest itself also in our bodies,
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  Speaker 1: and they will gain their primitive elasticity for all that
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  Speaker 1: is best for God's service. We shall learn to know
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  Speaker 1: from the voice of God what he would have us
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  Speaker 1: to do. The Spirit of God will never quicken our bodies,
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  Speaker 1: for what our natural energies can perform, but I know
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  Speaker 1: and I realize it daily are after that my God
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  Speaker 1: quickens this mortal body for every service he gives me.
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  Speaker 1: My English may be very bad, but I could not
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  Speaker 1: speak five minutes if the Spirit of God did not
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  Speaker 1: give it me. And so for early rising or anything else,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit will give every minute just the strength
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  Speaker 1: that is needed, and no more. The man who is
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  Speaker 1: living in this way cares no more whether he is
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  Speaker 1: tired or strong, if he feels healthy or sick. He
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  Speaker 1: has learned to receive from his God. Hence for service
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  Speaker 1: and in seeing he must rise early that it is
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  Speaker 1: the will of God necessary in order that he may
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  Speaker 1: go safely through the day. He will childlike go to
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  Speaker 1: his father, saying, give me, from the moment I rise
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  Speaker 1: my daily bread. And that includes the Spirit of God
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  Speaker 1: working in the mortal body, so that body, soul, and
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  Speaker 1: spirit become moment by moment what the Lord wants them
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  Speaker 1: to be for his service. In Philippians, too, you read
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ became obedient unto death, and some verses
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  Speaker 1: farther down you will find the apostle saying, as ye
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  Speaker 1: have obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now
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  Speaker 1: much more in my absence, work out your own salvation
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  Speaker 1: with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh
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  Speaker 1: in you, both to will and to do, to will
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  Speaker 1: what and to do what. To become like minded with Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who was obedient unto death. The Holy Ghost makes us
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  Speaker 1: willing to die and to be in every respect from
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  Speaker 1: mornings evening a living sacrifice on the altar of our
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  Speaker 1: Holy God, to go freely in the glorious law of
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  Speaker 1: the New Covenant. That we can only have life in
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  Speaker 1: measure as we forsake our own life. Oh, what glorious
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  Speaker 1: life Christ has brought us, and what glorious life the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost works out in us? If ye believe that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ's life is infinitely more precious than our own life.
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  Speaker 1: Why are so many Christians so often exhausted in their
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  Speaker 1: work for Christ? Because they are seeking their own life
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  Speaker 1: in their work. Our work can only be fruitful when
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  Speaker 1: we are not seeking our own life or our own
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in our work, but seeking the glory the interest
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. We have resurrection life as long as we
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  Speaker 1: remain buried with Christ and live only in His life.
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  Speaker 1: In John five twenty nine you read search the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus showed the disciples of Amaeus that all scripture was
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  Speaker 1: filled with the name of Jesus. Why so few fully
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  Speaker 1: trust Jesus is because so few know the real Jesus
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  Speaker 1: as we find him in the Bible. We must come
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  Speaker 1: out from a Christ of imagination, a Christ of feeling,
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  Speaker 1: and come back to the Christ given us in the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: a true living Savior, dying for our sins and living
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  Speaker 1: that we may live his own life of righteousness. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: search the scriptures, and let the Holy Ghost lift up
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  Speaker 1: before your eyes the person of Jesus, living, dying, risen
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  Speaker 1: and in measure. As the Holy Ghost answering our prayer
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  Speaker 1: brings new light on the person of Jesus, you will
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  Speaker 1: no more ask how to trust him. Become better acquainted
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  Speaker 1: with this friend, and you will no more ask how
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  Speaker 1: shall I trust him? You cannot do otherwise. Only remember
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  Speaker 1: this one thing. It is through faith Jesus does not
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  Speaker 1: discover at the first step all his loveliness. He asks
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  Speaker 1: us to trust him. Can you believe that my life
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  Speaker 1: is more precious than all thy life? Then give me
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  Speaker 1: thy life, and I will give thee another life. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is waiting the Holy Ghost is throwing light on the
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  Speaker 1: person of Jesus. You are so wicked to look back
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  Speaker 1: on yourself when the Holy Ghost has put Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: your sight, Oh beloved, this is life abundant to whom,
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  Speaker 1: to those who let the living Savior guide them on
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  Speaker 1: the understanding of his work on Calvary, that is his
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  Speaker 1: work of breaking the chains and the lynks by which
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  Speaker 1: we were entangled in our own life. We could not die.
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  Speaker 1: We shrank from the thought of going with our divine shepherd,
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  Speaker 1: not only in the green pastures, but through the valley
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  Speaker 1: of the shadow of death. In the Gospels, Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: says of Mary, this also that this woman has done,
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  Speaker 1: shall be told for a memorial of her. She hath
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  Speaker 1: done it for my burial. Mary accepted the dying Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Woman is the receptive one. She received what Simon Peter
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  Speaker 1: could not accept, that Christ should go to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: She poured forth her best to anoint Christ for his burial. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let us fully accept a dying Christ, no longer claiming
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  Speaker 1: to live ourselves. Jesus Christ died and came to resurrection
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  Speaker 1: through death. Keep under the shadow of the life of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Want rest peace, Oh, don't seek it only in green
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  Speaker 1: pastures and by still waters. The deepest comfort is in
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  Speaker 1: the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear
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  Speaker 1: no evil. Where in the valley of the shadow of death.
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  Speaker 1: I preach life through death, life in death. I know
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  Speaker 1: no other life than that. If Jesus is all, my
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  Speaker 1: life must yield before his life, his life must have
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  Speaker 1: right over my whole life. Just go deeper in searching
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures. Follow Christ in all his steps, and remember
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  Speaker 1: by death he has taken away the power and the
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  Speaker 1: fear of death, that we might no longer be in bondage.
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  Speaker 1: And now the dying to self is no longer dreadful.
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  Speaker 1: It is life. It is the only life that may
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  Speaker 1: satisfy all my being to be nothing and to have Christ. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: trust Jesus to bring you into full fellowship with his
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  Speaker 1: dying trust. Don't look to your nature, to your feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the valley of death, there is abundance of life,
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  Speaker 1: and the moment you give up all things, letting yourself
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  Speaker 1: go in the arms of Jesus, death will lose its terror.
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  Speaker 1: I have the experience, and everyone who fully leaves himself
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus has the experience that there is the only
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  Speaker 1: true life. If you want unity in your daily life,
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  Speaker 1: don't seek life. Never will you find life if you
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  Speaker 1: are seeking it. Life is only when you have your
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  Speaker 1: own life. We will always find power in Christ to
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  Speaker 1: die to ourselves if that is the very thing we
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  Speaker 1: are seeking. And unless we have died, we cannot bring
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  Speaker 1: forth fruit. You want me to say what I have
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  Speaker 1: seen and felt to be the result of this entire trust.
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  Speaker 1: It is just this. I let my Savior, knowing him
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  Speaker 1: better than before, bring me through every experience that he would.
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  Speaker 1: He brought me through deep waters. And there is no
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  Speaker 1: servant of God who will not be purified through fire.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord brings the sons of Levice through the fire,
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  Speaker 1: and there he is purifying them for service. Because our
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  Speaker 1: Lord uses only pure vessels for fruitful service, God will
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  Speaker 1: not use habitually unclean vessels. I have also experienced that
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  Speaker 1: in the deep valley of the Shadow of Death, I
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  Speaker 1: knew my Savior and he comforted me as never before.
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  Speaker 1: So I assure you never would I go to still
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  Speaker 1: waters or green pastures when my divine shepherd chooses to
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  Speaker 1: lead me through deep waters and dark valleys. There are
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  Speaker 1: green valleys on one side, and dark valis on the other,
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  Speaker 1: and he is just leading each sheep according to its
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  Speaker 1: special needs. Learn to look on Jesus, and in doing that,
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  Speaker 1: by and by, more and more you will find that Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: by his look, is taking your wondering look under the
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  Speaker 1: direction of the Holy Ghost. And by and by it
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  Speaker 1: will become the very attitude of your soul. And you
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  Speaker 1: could do anything more easily than distrust Jesus. Question is
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  Speaker 1: a life of practical holiness compassible with an earnest, active
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  Speaker 1: business life, a business life in which the mind is
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  Speaker 1: occupied with mercantile affairs six days in the week, from
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  Speaker 1: nine in the morning till seven in the evening, and
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  Speaker 1: say nine out of ten transactions are made with unconverted men.
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  Speaker 1: Let me bring you before a business man. In the
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  Speaker 1: first verses of Daniel six, you read that there were
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of Dorias one hundred and twenty princes
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  Speaker 1: and three presidents, and there was one man, Daniel, who
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  Speaker 1: was preferred above all the princes. Now this man went
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  Speaker 1: exposing his life three times a day into his chamber,
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  Speaker 1: and opened his window toward heaven to breathe heavenly air.
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  Speaker 1: The more business we have, the more we want heavenly air.
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  Speaker 1: Take a man in whom is incorporated the spirit of avarice,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of covetousness. This man, in every part of
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  Speaker 1: daily life, will never lose out of sight the great
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  Speaker 1: business of his life to get money. Now a child,
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  Speaker 1: A man in whom is incorporated the spirit of God,
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  Speaker 1: will never lose out of sight the great purpose of
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  Speaker 1: his daily life to glorify his God. But you must
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  Speaker 1: be dead to self in order to live such a life.
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  Speaker 1: The Christian business man and father does not work for
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  Speaker 1: his children, but for his God, and God gives him
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  Speaker 1: bread for his children. Believe me, our father in heaven
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  Speaker 1: can understand business and will never let one of his
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  Speaker 1: children go through a day without the needed supply. Only
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  Speaker 1: he must be ready to stop as soon as his
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  Speaker 1: father gives him a hint. Child, Come to me. I
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  Speaker 1: have something to say to THEE. There is some cloud
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  Speaker 1: overhanging THEE. Come aside with me that I may prepare
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  Speaker 1: THEE to meet it. Go in peace. You can go
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  Speaker 1: in rest leaning on the arm of your divine shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: Do not ask how you may abide in rest. Remember
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  Speaker 1: it is the Holy Ghost who will keep you trusting
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  Speaker 1: every day and every hour on one condition that you
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  Speaker 1: seek the power of trusting not in your own wicked heart,
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  Speaker 1: but in the Holy Ghost, so guided by the mind
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  Speaker 1: and mighty hand of your Father, standing on the holy
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  Speaker 1: ground of the work of the Trinity. Go in peace, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in joy about work and service. Let us apply the
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  Speaker 1: great lesson of heavenly life, the lesson of love. Let
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  Speaker 1: us learn to rejoice in the work of others, and
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  Speaker 1: not in our own work. Let us learn to rejoice
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  Speaker 1: with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep,
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  Speaker 1: and not weep all our own tears of sorrow, nor
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  Speaker 1: rejoice only with our own personal joy. But let us
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  Speaker 1: come under the hand of our Lord, covered by his hand,
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  Speaker 1: with only one purpose, to have all our work covered
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  Speaker 1: in the hand of our God. Oh, there is the
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  Speaker 1: secret of life. The Holy Ghost never looked for his
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  Speaker 1: own glory, never spoke of his own. His only purpose
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  Speaker 1: is to glorify Christ. This my joy is fulfilled. That
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  Speaker 1: was heavenly joy. He must increase, But I must decrease.
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  Speaker 1: I must. It was not obligation, but the yearning of
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  Speaker 1: the heart. This decrease. End of note O