The New Life by Andrew
Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ. The New Life aids Christians in their examination of the scripture and offers valuable information to believers who want to overcome sin and live the Christian life. While Murray's book is specifically designed for young converts, the text is useful to all Christians. Murray's chapters cover a variety of different topics that Christians, particularly those new to the faith, will find remarkably helpful. Murray discusses how Christians should approach the tasks of missionary work, prayer, confession, and baptism. The text also provides practical guidance regarding money, self-denial, discretion, and the temptations of worldly evil. New Life is a personal devotional, but it is also a resourceful tool for large congregations, small groups, and prayer meetings. The text is simply and easy to understand, and while each individual entry is rather short, Murray supplies substantial scriptural reference for further exploration.
Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ. The New Life aids Christians in their examination of the scripture and offers valuable information to believers who want to overcome sin and live the Christian life. While Murray's book is specifically designed for young converts, the text is useful to all Christians. Murray's chapters cover a variety of different topics that Christians, particularly those new to the faith, will find remarkably helpful. Murray discusses how Christians should approach the tasks of missionary work, prayer, confession, and baptism. The text also provides practical guidance regarding money, self-denial, discretion, and the temptations of worldly evil. New Life is a personal devotional, but it is also a resourceful tool for large congregations, small groups, and prayer meetings. The text is simply and easy to understand, and while each individual entry is rather short, Murray supplies substantial scriptural reference for further exploration.
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<strong>Andrew</strong> Murray on <strong>The</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>Life</strong>: Words of God for Young Disciples Text<br />
we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.<br />
1Co 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking <strong>by</strong> the Spirit of God calleth<br />
Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but <strong>by</strong> the Holy Ghost.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spirit is in us to transfer to us the life and the salvation that are prepared in Jesus, and to make<br />
them wholly ours. (Job 14:17,21; Rom. 8:2; Eph. 3:17,19)<br />
Job 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.<br />
Job 14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he<br />
perceiveth it not of them.<br />
Ro 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin<br />
and death.<br />
Eph 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts <strong>by</strong> faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in<br />
love,<br />
Eph 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with<br />
all the fulness of God.<br />
Jesus who is in heaven is made present in us, dwells in us, <strong>by</strong> the Spirit. We have seen that in order to<br />
become partaker of Jesus there are always two things necessary: the knowledge of the sin that is in us,<br />
and of the redemption that is in Him. It is the Holy Spirit who continually promotes this double work<br />
in believers. He reproves and comforts, He convinces of sin and He glorifies Christ. (John 16:9,14)<br />
Joh 16:9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;<br />
Joh 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spirit convinces of sin. He is the light and the fire of God, through whom sin is unveiled and<br />
consumed. He is 'the Spirit of judgment and of burning,' <strong>by</strong> whom God purifies His people. (Isa. 4:4;<br />
Zech. 12:10,11; Matt. 3:11,12)<br />
Isa 4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have<br />
purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof <strong>by</strong> the spirit of judgment, and <strong>by</strong> the spirit<br />
of burning.<br />
Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the<br />
spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and<br />
they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him,<br />
as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.<br />
Zec 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of<br />
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.<br />
Mt 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is<br />
mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost,<br />
and with fire:<br />
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