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 />
Ps 119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.<br />
Lu 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and<br />
ordinances of the Lord blameless.<br />
Lu 1:75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.<br />
1Th 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved<br />
ourselves among you that believe<br />
He takes not the rules of human action; he asks not what man considers lawful. As a man who stands<br />
right with God, who walks uprightly with God, he dreads above all things even the least<br />
unrighteousness. He is afraid, above all, of being partial to himself, of doing any wrong to his<br />
neighbour for the sake of his own advantage. In great and little things alike, he takes the Scriptures as<br />
his measure and line. As the ally of God, he knows that the way of righteousness is the way of<br />
blessing, and life, and joy.<br />
Consider, further, the promises of blessing and joy which God has for the righteous, and then live as<br />
one who, in friendship with God, and clothed with the righteousness of His Son through faith, has no<br />
alternative but to do righteousness.<br />
O Lord, who hast said, '<strong>The</strong>re is no God else beside Me: a just God and a Saviour,' Thou art my God.<br />
It is as a righteous God that Thou are my Saviour, and hast redeemed me in Thy Son. As a righteous<br />
God Thou makest me also righteous, and sayest to me that the righteous shall live <strong>by</strong> faith. O Lord, let<br />
the new life in me be the life of faith, the life of a righteous man. Amen.<br />
1. Observe the connection between the doing of righteousness and sanctification in Rom. 6:19,22;<br />
'Present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.' 'Having become servants to<br />
God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification.' <strong>The</strong> doing of righteousness, righteousness in conduct and<br />
action, is the way to holiness. Obedience is the way to become filled with the Holy Ghost. And the<br />
indwelling of God through the Spirit -- this is holiness.<br />
2. 'Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. It was when the Lord Jesus had<br />
spoken that word that He was baptized with the Spirit. Let us set aside every temptation not to walk in<br />
full obedience towards God, even as He did, and we too shall be filled with the Spirit. 'Blessed are<br />
they that hunger and thirst after righteousness.'<br />
3. Take pains to set before yourselves the image of a man who so walks that the name of 'righteous; is<br />
involuntarily given to him. Think of his uprightness, his conscientious care to cause no one to suffer<br />
the least injury, his holy fear and carefulness to transgress none of the commands of the Lord --<br />
righteous, and walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; and then say<br />
to the Lord that you should so live.<br />
4. You understand now the great word, '<strong>The</strong> righteous shall live <strong>by</strong> faith.' By faith the godless is<br />
justified, and becomes a righteous man; <strong>by</strong> faith he lives as a righteous man.<br />
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