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 />
be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.<br />
Ga 5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness <strong>by</strong> faith.<br />
Have a great reverence for the work of the Spirit in you. Seek Him every day to believe, to obey, to<br />
trust, and He will take and make known to you all that there is in Jesus. He will make Jesus very<br />
glorious to you and in you.<br />
O my Father, I thank <strong>The</strong>e for this gift which Jesus sent me from <strong>The</strong>e, the Father. I thank <strong>The</strong>e that I<br />
am now the temple of Thy Spirit, and that He dwells in me. Lord, teach me to believe this with the<br />
whole heart, and to live in the world as one who knows that the Spirit of God is in him to lead him.<br />
Teach me to think with deep reverence and filial awe on this, that God is in me. Lord, in that faith I<br />
have the power to be holy. Holy Spirit, reveal to me all that sin is in me. Holy Spirit, reveal to me all<br />
that Jesus is in me. Amen.<br />
1. <strong>The</strong> knowledge of the person and the work of the Holy Spirit is for us of just as much importance<br />
as the knowledge of the person and the work of Christ.<br />
2. Concerning the Holy Spirit, we must endeavour especially to hold fast the truth that He is given as<br />
the fruit of the work of Jesus for us, that He is the power of the life of Jesus in us, and that through<br />
Him, Jesus Himself, with His full salvation, dwells in us.<br />
3. In order to enjoy all this, we must be filled with the Spirit. This simply means, emptied of all else<br />
and full of Jesus. To deny ourselves, to take up the cross, to follow Jesus. Or rather, this is the way in<br />
which the Spirit leads us to His fulness. No one has the power to enter fully into the death of Jesus but<br />
he who is led <strong>by</strong> the Spirit. But He takes him that desires this <strong>by</strong> the hand and brings him.<br />
4. As the whole of salvation, the whole of the new life is <strong>by</strong> faith, so is this also true of the gift and the<br />
working of the Holy Spirit. By faith, not <strong>by</strong> works -- not in feeling, do I receive Him, am I led <strong>by</strong><br />
Him, am I filled with Him.<br />
5. As clear and definite as my faith is in the work that Jesus only and alone finished for me, so clear<br />
and definite must faith be in the work that the Holy Spirit accomplishes in me, to work in me the<br />
willing and the performing of all that is necessary for my salvation.<br />
XXIII. THE LEADING OF THE SPIRIT<br />
'As many as are led <strong>by</strong> the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. <strong>The</strong> Spirit Himself beareth witness<br />
with our spirit, that we are children of God.' -- Rom. 8:14,16<br />
It is the very same Spirit that leads us as children who also assures us that we are children. Without<br />
His leading there can be no assurance of our filiation. True full assurance of faith is enjoyed <strong>by</strong> him<br />
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