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 />
to surrender the heart entire and undivided for the new life, to hold it alone in possession and to fill it,<br />
so that it may grow free and unhindered. (Son. 2:15; Heb. 12;1)<br />
So 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.<br />
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let<br />
us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience<br />
the race that is set before us<br />
<strong>The</strong> husbandman can also bring forward what the plant requires in the way of food or drink: he can<br />
manure or moisten the soil as it may be needful. So must the believer see to it that for the new life<br />
there is brought forward nourishment out of the word, the living water of the Spirit, <strong>by</strong> prayer. It is in<br />
Christ that the new life is planted: from Him it increases with divine increase: abide rooted in Him <strong>by</strong><br />
the exercise of faith: the life will grow of itself. (John 15:4,5; Col. 2:6,7)<br />
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in<br />
the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.<br />
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same<br />
bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.<br />
Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:<br />
Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught,<br />
abounding therein with thanksgiving.<br />
Give it what it must have: take away what can hinder it: the life will grow and increase of itself.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n comes in the second lesson of the parable: the gradualness of the growth: 'first the blade, then<br />
the ear, then the full corn in the ear.' Do not expect everything at once. Give God time. By faith and<br />
endurance we inherit the promises: the faith that knows that it has everything in Christ: the endurance<br />
that expects everything in its time according to the rule and the order of the divine government. Give<br />
God time. Give the new life time. It is <strong>by</strong> continued abiding in the earth that the plant grows: it is <strong>by</strong><br />
continuous standing in grace, in Christ Himself, in whom God has planted us, that the new life grows.<br />
(Heb. 3:13; 6:12,15; Jas. 5:7)<br />
Heb 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened<br />
through the deceitfulness of sin.<br />
Heb 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit<br />
the promises.<br />
Heb 6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.<br />
Jas 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman<br />
waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early<br />
and latter rain.<br />
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