There has been one promise of Scripture which the Lord Jesus Christ has been bringing to my remembrance repeatedly over the last few months. It is found in John 8:31-32, where He tells us . . . “You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free !” And then I remember […]
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“Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for (as) righteousness . . . Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham !” “And if children, then heirs . . . heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ . . . !” Galatians
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“Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious (blood bought) Promises ! that by these promises ye might be partakers of the Divine Nature,* having escaped the corruption (death and decay) which is in the world through lust (carnal desire) !” II Peter 1:4 “In contemplating the incarnation of Christ in humanity, we
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The special thought to which attention is called in this reading is the idea that an indwelling Christ is the Life and Power of the gospel, and the Life and Power of our experience in the gospel. To many minds this is simply a theoretical idea, something that is talked about; but to have
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“In that day . . . will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean, yea, from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you . . .
Then the heathen (unbelieving) that are left round about you shall know . . . that I the LORD build the ruined places, and I the LORD plant that which was desolate . . . For I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it !”
– Ezekiel 36:25-56*