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 />
1Jo 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 />
1Jo 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And here<strong>by</strong><br />
we know that he abideth in us, <strong>by</strong> the Spirit which he hath given us.<br />
1Jo 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his<br />
commandments.<br />
2. Do not wonder that I have said to you that you must love, although you do not feel the least love.<br />
Not the feeling, but the will is your power: it is not in your feeling, but in faith, that the Spirit in you<br />
is the power of your will to work in you all that the Father bids you. <strong>The</strong>refore, although you feel<br />
absolutely no love to your enemy, say in the obedience of faith: Father, I love him; in faith in the<br />
hidden working of the Spirit in my heart, I do love him.<br />
3. Pray, think not that this is love, if you wish no evil to any one, or if you should be willing to help, if<br />
he were in need. No: love is much more: love is love. Love is the disposition with which God<br />
addressed you when you were His enemy, and afterwards ran to you with tender longing to bless you.<br />
XVII. HUMILITY<br />
'And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with<br />
thy God?' -- Micah 6:8 'Learn of me that I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto<br />
your souls.' -- Matt. 11:29<br />
One of the most dangerous enemies against which the young Christian must watch, is pride or<br />
self-exaltation. <strong>The</strong>re is no sin that works more cunningly and more hiddenly. It knows how to<br />
penetrate into everything, even into our service for God, our prayers -- yea, even into our humility:<br />
there is nothing so small in the earthly life, nothing so holy in the spiritual life, that self-exaltation<br />
does not know to extract its nutriment out of. (2 Chron. 26:5,16; 32:26,31; Isa. 65:5; Jer. 7:4; 2 Cor.<br />
12:7)<br />
2Ch 26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of<br />
God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.<br />
2Ch 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he<br />
transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense<br />
upon the altar of incense.<br />
2Ch 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and<br />
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of<br />
Hezekiah.<br />
2Ch 32:31 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Ba<strong>by</strong>lon, who sent unto<br />
him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might<br />
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