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 />
which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.<br />
Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the<br />
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:<br />
Eph 1:18 <strong>The</strong> eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope<br />
of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints<br />
Let us for this end earnestly examine the Scriptures in order to know what God says and desires about<br />
our conformity to Christ. (John 13:15; 15:10,12; 27:18; Eph. 5:2; Phil. 2:5; Col. 3:18)<br />
Joh 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.<br />
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my<br />
Father's commandments, and abide in his love.<br />
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.<br />
Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an<br />
offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.<br />
Phil 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:<br />
Col 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.<br />
Let us unceasingly ponder such words of Scripture, and keep our heart in contact with them. Let it<br />
remain fixed with us that we have given ourselves wholly to the Lord, to be all that He desires. And<br />
let us trustfully pray that the Holy Spirit would inwardly enlighten us and bring us to a full view of<br />
the life of Jesus so far as that can be seen in a believer. (1 Cor. 11:1; 2 Cor. 3:18)<br />
1Co 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.<br />
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed<br />
into the same image from glory to glory, even as <strong>by</strong> the Spirit of the Lord.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spirit will convince us that we, no less than Jesus, are absolutely called to live only for the will<br />
and glory of the Father: to be in the world even as He is. <strong>The</strong> other thing that we have need of is the<br />
belief that it is really possible for us with some measure of exactness to bear the image of our Lord.<br />
Unbelief is the cause of impotence. We put this matter otherwise. Because we are powerless, we think<br />
we dare not believe that we can be conformed to our Lord. This thought is in conflict with the word of<br />
God. We do not have it in our own power to carry ourselves after the image of Jesus. No: He is our<br />
head and our life. He dwells in us, and will have His life work from within, outwards, with divine<br />
power, through the Holy Spirit. (John 14:23; 2 Cor. 13:3; Eph. 3:17,18)<br />
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my<br />
Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.<br />
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