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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty seven, Christ's Friendship Its Evidence from the True
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  Speaker 1: Vine by Andrew Murray. This Librivok's recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Recording by Phil Snyder. Christ's Friendship Its Evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which
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  Speaker 1: I command you, John fifteen fourteen. Our Lord has said
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  Speaker 1: what he gave us as proof of his friendship. He
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  Speaker 1: gave his life for us. He now tells us what
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  Speaker 1: our part is to be, to do the things which
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  Speaker 1: he commands. He gave his life to secure a place
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  Speaker 1: for his love in our hearts to rule us. The
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  Speaker 1: response his love calls us to and empowers us for,
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  Speaker 1: is that we do what he commands us. As we
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  Speaker 1: know the dying love, we shall joyfully obey its commands.
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  Speaker 1: As we obey the commands, we shall know the love
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  Speaker 1: more fully. Christ had already said, if ye keep my commandments,
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  Speaker 1: ye shall abide in my love. He counts it needful
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  Speaker 1: to repeat the truth again. The one proof of our
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  Speaker 1: faith in his love, the one way to abide in it,
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  Speaker 1: the one mark of being true Branches, is to do
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  Speaker 1: the things which he commands us. He began with absolute
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  Speaker 1: surrender of his life for us. He can ask nothing
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  Speaker 1: less from us. This alone is a life in his friendship.
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  Speaker 1: This truth of the imperative necessity of obedience doing all
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  Speaker 1: that Christ's commands us has not the place in our
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  Speaker 1: Christian teaching and living that Christ meant it to have.
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  Speaker 1: We have given a far higher place to privilege than
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  Speaker 1: to duty. We have not considered implicit obedience as a
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  Speaker 1: condition of true discipleship. The secret thought that it is
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  Speaker 1: impossible to do the things He commands us, and that
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  Speaker 1: therefore it cannot be expected of us, and a subtle
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  Speaker 1: and unconscious feeling that sinning is a necessity, have frequently
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  Speaker 1: robbed both precepts and promises of their power. The whole
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  Speaker 1: relation to Christ has become clouded and lowered. The waiting
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  Speaker 1: on his teaching, the power to hear and obey his voice,
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  Speaker 1: and through obedience to enjoy his love and friendship, have
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  Speaker 1: been enfeebled by a terrible mistake. Do let us try
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  Speaker 1: to return to the true position. Take Christ's words as
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  Speaker 1: most literally true, and make nothing less the law of
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  Speaker 1: our life. Ye are my friends, If ye do the
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  Speaker 1: things that I command you, surely our Lord asks nothing
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  Speaker 1: less than that. We heartily and truthfully say, yea Lord,
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  Speaker 1: what thou dost command that will I do. These commands
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  Speaker 1: are to be done as a proof of friendship. The
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  Speaker 1: power to do them rests entirely on the personal relationship
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus. For a friend I could do, I would
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  Speaker 1: not for another. The friendship of Jesus is so heavenly
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  Speaker 1: and wonderful. It comes to us so as the power
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  Speaker 1: of a divine love, entering in and taking possession the
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  Speaker 1: unbroken fellowship with Himself is so essential to it that
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  Speaker 1: it implies and imparts a joy and a love which
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  Speaker 1: make the obedience a delight. The liberty to claim the
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  Speaker 1: friendship of Jesus, the power to enjoy it, the grace
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  Speaker 1: to prove it in all its blessedness, all come as
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  Speaker 1: we do the things he commands us. Is not the
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  Speaker 1: one thing needful for us that we ask our Lord
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  Speaker 1: to reveal himself to us in the dying love in
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  Speaker 1: which he proved himself our friend. And then listen as
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  Speaker 1: he says to us, ye are my friends. As we
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  Speaker 1: see what our friend has done for us, and what
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  Speaker 1: an unspeakable blessedness it is to have him call us friends.
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  Speaker 1: The doing his commands will become the natural fruit of
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  Speaker 1: our life and his love. We shall not fear to say,
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  Speaker 1: yea Lord, we are thy friends, and do what thou
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  Speaker 1: dost command us. If ye do yes, it is in
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  Speaker 1: doing that we are blessed, That we abide in his love,
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  Speaker 1: that we enjoy his friendship. If ye do what I
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  Speaker 1: command you, O, my Lord, let thy holy friendship lead
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  Speaker 1: me into the love of all thy commands. And let
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  Speaker 1: the doing of thy commands lead me ever deeper into
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  Speaker 1: thy friendship. End of Chapter twenty seven.