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 />
understand: in that way you lose all delight in it. Receive it with trust in the love of the living God.<br />
With a tender motherly love will the Spirit of God teach and help you in your weakness. Believe<br />
always that the Spirit will make the word in you life and joy, a blessed fellowship with your God.<br />
Precious Saviour, Thou hast taught me to believe Thy word, and Thou hast made me <strong>by</strong> that faith a<br />
child of God. Through that word, as the milk of the new-born babes, wilt Thou also feed me. Lord, for<br />
this milk shall I be very eager: every day will I long after it. Teach me, through the Holy Spirit and the<br />
word, to walk and hold converse every day in living fellowship with the love of the Father. Teach me<br />
always to believe that the Spirit has been given me with the word. Amen.<br />
1. What texts do you consider the best for proving that the Scriptures teach us that we must know we<br />
are children of God?<br />
2. What are the three points in which the sucking child is to us a type of the young child in Christ in<br />
his dealing with the word?<br />
3. What must a young Christian do when he has little blessing in the reading of God's word? He must<br />
set himself through faith in fellowship with Jesus Himself: he must reckon that Jesus will teach him<br />
through the Spirit and so trustfully continue in the reading.<br />
4. One verse chosen to meet our needs, read ten times and then laid up in the heart, is better than ten<br />
verses read once. Only so much of the word as I actually receive and inwardly appropriate for myself,<br />
is food for my soul.<br />
5. Choose out for yourselves what you consider one of the most glorious promises about making<br />
progress and becoming strong; learn it <strong>by</strong> heart, and repeat it continually as the language of your<br />
positive expectation.<br />
6. Have you learned well to understand what the great means for growth in grace is?<br />
III. GOD'S WORD IN OUR HEART<br />
"<strong>The</strong>refore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in your soul.' -- Deut. 11:18<br />
"Son of man, all My words that I shall speak unto thee, receive in heart.' -- Ezek. 3:10<br />
"Thy word have I laid up in mine heart, that I might not sin against <strong>The</strong>e.' - Ps. 119:11<br />
Long for the milk, that ye may grow there<strong>by</strong>. This charming word taught every young Christian that,<br />
if he would grow, he must receive the word as milk, as the living participation of the life and the love<br />
of God. On this account is it of so great importance to know well how we must deal with the word.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lord says that we must receive it and lay it in our heart. (Deut. 30:14; Ps. 1:2; 119:34,36; Is. 51:7;<br />
John 5:38; 8:31; 15:7; Rom. 10:8-9; Col. 3:16)<br />
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