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029 - Christ's Friendship Its Intimacy · True Vine

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight, Christ's Friendship Its Intimacy from the True
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  Speaker 1: Vine by Andrew Murray. This Librivoks recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Recording by Phil Snyder. Christ's Friendship Its Intimacy.
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  Speaker 1: No longer do I call you servants. For the servant
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  Speaker 1: knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But I have called
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  Speaker 1: you friends. For all things that I heard from my
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  Speaker 1: Father I have made known unto you John fifteen fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: The highest proof of true friendship, and one great source
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  Speaker 1: of its blessedness, is the intimacy that holds nothing back
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  Speaker 1: and admits the friend to share our inmost secrets. It
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  Speaker 1: is a blessed thing to be Christ's servant, his redeemed
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  Speaker 1: one's delight to call themselves his slaves. Christ had often
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  Speaker 1: spoken of the disciples as his servants in his great love.
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  Speaker 1: Our Lord now says, no longer do I call you servants.
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  Speaker 1: With the coming of the Holy Spirit, a new era
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  Speaker 1: was to be inaugurated. The servant knoweth not what his
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  Speaker 1: Lord doeth. He has to obey without being consulted or
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  Speaker 1: admitted into the secret of all his master's plans. But
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  Speaker 1: I have called you friends for all things I heard
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  Speaker 1: from my Father, I have made known unto you, Christ's
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  Speaker 1: friends share with him in all the secrets the Father
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  Speaker 1: has entrusted to him. Let us think what this means.
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  Speaker 1: When Christ spoke of keeping his father's commandments, he did
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  Speaker 1: not mean merely what was written in holy scripture, but
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  Speaker 1: those special commandments which were communicated to him day by
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  Speaker 1: day and from hour to hour. It was of these,
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  Speaker 1: he said. The Father loveth the son, and showeth him
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  Speaker 1: all things that he doeth, and he will show him
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  Speaker 1: greater things. All that Christ did was God's working. God
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  Speaker 1: showed it to Christ so that he carried out the
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  Speaker 1: Father's will and purpose, not as man often does, blindly
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  Speaker 1: and unintelligently, but with full understanding and approval. As one
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  Speaker 1: who stood in God's counsel. He knew God's plan. And
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  Speaker 1: this now is the blessedness of being Christ's friends. That
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  Speaker 1: we do not as servants, do His will without much
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  Speaker 1: spiritual insight into its meaning and aim, but are admitted
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  Speaker 1: as an inner circle into some knowledge of God's more
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  Speaker 1: secret thoughts. From the day of Pentecost on by the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, Christ was to lead his disciples into the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual apprehension of the mysteries of the Kingdom of which
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  Speaker 1: he had hitherto spoken only by parables. Friendship delights in fellowship.
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  Speaker 1: Friends hold counsel, Friends dare to trust to each other
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  Speaker 1: what they would not, for anything have others know. What
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  Speaker 1: is it that gives a Christian access to this holy
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  Speaker 1: intimacy with Jesus, that gives him the spiritual capacity for
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  Speaker 1: receiving the communications Christ has to make of what the
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  Speaker 1: Father has shown him. Ye are my friends, if ye
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  Speaker 1: do what I command you. It is loving obedience that
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  Speaker 1: purifies the soul, that refers not only to the commandments
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  Speaker 1: of the Word, but to that blessed application of the
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  Speaker 1: Word to our daily life, which none but our Lord
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  Speaker 1: himself can give. But as these are waited for in
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  Speaker 1: dependence and humility, and faithfully obeyed, the soul becomes fitted
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  Speaker 1: for ever closer fellowship, and the daily life may become
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  Speaker 1: a continual experience. I have called you friends. For all
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  Speaker 1: things I have heard from my Father I have made
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  Speaker 1: known unto you. I have called you friends. What an
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  Speaker 1: unspeakable honor, What a heavenly privilege, O, Savior, speak the
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  Speaker 1: word with power into my soul. I have called you
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  Speaker 1: my friend, whom I love, whom I trust, to whom
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  Speaker 1: I make known all that passes between my father and me.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter twenty eight,