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 />
must serve him; he seeks his life in the visible. This is the spirit of the world: to seek one's self and the<br />
visible. (John 5:44)<br />
Joh 5:44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour<br />
that cometh from God only?<br />
And the Spirit of Jesus: to live not for one's self and not for the visible, but for God and the things that<br />
are invisible. (2 Cor. 4:18; 5:7,15)<br />
2Co 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen:<br />
for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.<br />
2Co 5:7 (For we walk <strong>by</strong> faith, not <strong>by</strong> sight:)<br />
2Co 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto<br />
themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.<br />
It is a very terrible and serious thought that once can carry on a busy fashionable life, free from<br />
manifest sin or unrighteousness, and yet remain in the friendship of the world, and there<strong>by</strong> in enmity<br />
against God. (Jas. 4:4)<br />
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity<br />
with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.<br />
Where the care for the earthly, for what we eat and what we should drink, for what we possess or may<br />
still get into possession, for what we can have brought forth in the earth and made to increase, is the<br />
chief element in our life, there we are conformed to this world. It is a terrible and a very serious<br />
thought that one can maintain to all appearance a Christian life and think that one is trusting in Christ,<br />
while yet one is living with the world for self and the visible. (Matt. 6:32,33)<br />
Mt 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that<br />
ye have need of all these things.<br />
Mt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall<br />
be added unto you.<br />
For this reason the command comes to all Christians with great emphasis: Be conformed, not to this<br />
world, but to Jesus.<br />
And how can I, for this end, come to be not conformed to the world? Read our text over again with<br />
consideration: we read there two things. Observe what goes before. It is those that have presented<br />
their bodies to God as a sacrifice on the altar that have it said to them: Be not conformed to the world.<br />
Offer yourself to God -- that is conformity to Jesus; live every day as one that is offered up to God,<br />
crucified in Christ to the world: then you shall not be conformed to the world. (Gal. 6:14)<br />
Ga 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, <strong>by</strong> whom<br />
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