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 />
He is free in relation to the world, and in the use of what God gives: he has power to possess it or to<br />
dispense with it, to enjoy it or to sacrifice it. (1 Cor. 8:8; 9:4,5)<br />
1Co 8:8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if<br />
we eat not, are we the worse.<br />
1Co 9:4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?<br />
1Co 9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the<br />
brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?<br />
2. This freedom is no lawlessness. We are free from sin and the law to serve God in the Spirit. We are<br />
not under the law, but give ourselves, with free choice and in love, to Him who loved. us. (Rom. 6:18;<br />
Gal. 5:13; 1 Pet. 2:16)<br />
Ro 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.<br />
Ga 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to<br />
the flesh, but <strong>by</strong> love serve one another.<br />
1Pe 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of<br />
God.<br />
Not under the law, also not without law; but in the law; a new, a higher law, '<strong>The</strong> law of the Spirit of<br />
life,' 'the law of liberty,' the law written in our hearts, is our rule and measure. (1 Cor. 9:21; Jas. 1:15;<br />
2:12)<br />
1Co 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but<br />
under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.<br />
Jas 1:15 <strong>The</strong>n when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished,<br />
bringeth forth death.<br />
Jas 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged <strong>by</strong> the law of liberty.<br />
In this last passage the translation ought to be: 'bound <strong>by</strong> a law to Christ.'<br />
3. This freedom has its subsistence from the word and also in it: the more the word abides in me, and<br />
the truth lives in me, the freer I become. (John 8:31,32,36)<br />
Joh 8:31 <strong>The</strong>n said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then<br />
are ye my disciples indeed;<br />
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.<br />
Joh 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.<br />
4. Freedom manifests itself in love. I am free from the law, and from men, and from institutions, to be<br />
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