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 />
bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.<br />
Ps 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.<br />
Ps 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.<br />
Ps 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for<br />
us. Selah.<br />
Ps 144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in<br />
whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.<br />
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.<br />
By faith we are in Him: <strong>by</strong> faith we know that the enemy can make no progress against our fortress.<br />
<strong>The</strong> wiles of Satan all go forth on the line of enticing us out of our fortress, of engaging us in conflict<br />
with him on the open plain. <strong>The</strong>re he always overcomes. But if we only strive in faith, abiding in<br />
Christ <strong>by</strong> faith, then we overcome, because Satan then has to deal with Him, and because He then<br />
fights and overcomes. (Ex. 14:14; Josh 5:14; 2 Chron. 23:15; John 6:33; Rom. 8:37; 2 Cor. 2:14)<br />
Ex 14:14 <strong>The</strong> LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.<br />
Jos 5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua<br />
fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his<br />
servant?<br />
2Ch 23:15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate<br />
<strong>by</strong> the king's house, they slew her there.<br />
Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the<br />
world.<br />
Ro 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.<br />
2Co 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh<br />
manifest the savour of his knowledge <strong>by</strong> us in every place.<br />
'This is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.' Our first and greatest work is thus to<br />
believe. As Paul said before he mentions the warlike equipment of the Christian: 'From henceforth be<br />
strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.'<br />
<strong>The</strong> reason why the victory is only <strong>by</strong> faith, and why the fight of faith is the good fight, is this: it is the<br />
Lord Jesus who purchased the victory, and who therefore alone gives power and dominion over the<br />
enemy. If we are, and abide, in Him, and surrender ourselves to live in Him, and <strong>by</strong> faith appropriate<br />
what He is, then the victory is in itself our own. We then understand: '<strong>The</strong> battle is not yours, but<br />
God's. <strong>The</strong> Lord your God shall fight for you, and ye shall be still.' Just as we in opposition to God<br />
can achieve nothing good of ourselves, but in Christ please Him, so also is it in opposition to Satan: in<br />
ourselves we achieve nothing, but in Christ we are more than conquerors. By faith we stand in Him<br />
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