The New Life by Andrew

Andrew Murray on The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples Text
accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
1Jo 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith.
1Jo 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Let me now ask my reader to read over once again the three texts which stand above, and to find out
what is the principal thought that they teach about faith. Pray, read nothing actually beyond them, but
read first these words of God, and ask yourself what they teach you about faith. They make us see that
faith always attaches itself to what God has said or promised. When an honourable man says
anything, he also does it: on the back of the saying follows the doing. So also is it with God: when He
would do anything, He says so first through His word. When the man of God becomes possessed with
this conviction and established in it, God always does for him what He has said. With God, speaking
and doing always go together: the deed follows the word: 'Shall He say it and not do it?' (Gen. 21:1;
32:12; Num. 14:17,18,20; 23:19; Josh. 21:45; 23:14; 2 San. 7:25,29; 1 Chron. 8:15,24; Ps. 119:49)
Ge 21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had
spoken.
Ge 32:12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Nu 14:17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast
spoken, saying,
Nu 14:18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression,
and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth generation.
Nu 14:20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Nu 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:
hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Jos 21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house
of Israel; all came to pass.
Jos 23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your
hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the
LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath
failed thereof.
2Sa 7:25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and
concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
2Sa 7:29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue
for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house
of thy servant be blessed for ever.
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