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 />
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XVI. LOVE<br />
'A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye<br />
also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to<br />
another.' -- John 13:34,35 'Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: love therefore is the fulfilling of the<br />
law.' -- Rom. 13:10<br />
'Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. If we love one another, God abideth<br />
in us, and His love is perfected in us.' -- 1 John 4:11,12<br />
In the word of Micah, in the previous section, righteousness was the first thing, to love mercy the<br />
second, that God demands. Righteousness stood more in the foreground in the Old Testament: it is in<br />
the <strong>New</strong> Testament that it is first seen that love is supreme. Utterances to this effect are not difficult to<br />
find. It is in the advent of Jesus that the love of God is first revealed; that the new, the eternal life, is<br />
first given; that we become children of the Father, and brethren of one another. On this ground the<br />
Lord can then, for the first time, speak of the <strong>New</strong> Commandment -- the commandment of brotherly<br />
love. Righteousness is required not less in the <strong>New</strong> Testament than in the Old. (Matt 5:6,17,20; 6:33)<br />
Mt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.<br />
Mt 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy,<br />
but to fulfil.<br />
Mt 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of<br />
the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.<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 />
Yet the burden of the <strong>New</strong> Testament is, that power has been given us for a love that in early days was<br />
impossible. (Rom. 5:5; Gal. 5:22; 1 <strong>The</strong>ss. 4:9; 1 John 4:11; 3:23)<br />
Ro 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts <strong>by</strong><br />
the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.<br />
Ga 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,<br />
1Th 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are<br />
taught of God to love one another.<br />
1Jo 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.<br />
1 Jo 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus<br />
Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.<br />
Let every Christian take it deeply to heart, that in the first and the great commandment, the new<br />
commandment given <strong>by</strong> Jesus at His departure, the peculiar characteristic of a disciple of Jesus is<br />
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