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 />
may learn not to blaspheme.<br />
Satan has more than one sieve. <strong>The</strong> first is generally wordly-mindedness -- the love of the world.<br />
Many a one is pious in his time of poverty, but when he becomes rich, he again eagerly strives to win<br />
the world. Or in the time of conversion and awakening he appears very zealous, but through the care<br />
of the world he is led astray. (Matt. 4:9; 8:22; 1 Tim. 6:9,10; 2 Tim. 4:10)<br />
Mt 4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship<br />
me.<br />
Mt 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.<br />
1Ti 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and<br />
hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.<br />
1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have<br />
erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.<br />
2Ti 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto<br />
<strong>The</strong>ssalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.<br />
A second sieve is self-love and self-seeking. Whenever any one does not give himself undividedly to<br />
serve his Lord and his neighbour, and to love his neighbour in the Lord, it soon appears that the<br />
principal token of a disciple is lacking in him. It will be manifest that many a one, with a fair<br />
profession of being devoted to the service of God, fails utterly on this point, and must be reckoned<br />
with the chaff. Lovelessness is the sure token of the power of Satan. (John 8:44; 1 John 3:10,15; 4:20)<br />
Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a<br />
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When<br />
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.<br />
1Jo 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth<br />
not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.<br />
1Jo 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal<br />
life abiding in him.<br />
1Jo 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his<br />
brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?<br />
Yet another sieve, a very dangerous one, is self-confidence. Under the name of following the Spirit,<br />
one may listen to the thoughts of his own heart. He is zealous for the Lord, but with a carnal zeal, in<br />
which the gentleness of the Lamb of God is not seen. Without being observed, the movements of the<br />
flesh mingle with the workings of the Spirit, and while he boasts that he is overcoming Satan, he is<br />
being secretly ensnared <strong>by</strong> him. (Gal. 3:3; 5:13)<br />
Ga 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect <strong>by</strong> the flesh?<br />
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