Studies on the Sermon on the Mount by Oswald Chambers

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60 STUDIES IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
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Concentrated Consecration, w. 33-34.
Seek ye first the Kingdom ofGod and His righteousness
and all these things shall be added unto you."
Seek ye
first the Kingdom of God But, supposing I do, what
about this thing and that who ? is going to look afterme ?
I would like to obey God, but don t ask me to take a step
We enthrone our common sense as almighty
in the dark."
God and treat Jesus Christ as a spiritual appendage to it.
Jesus Christ hits desperately hard at every one of the
institutions we bank all our faith in naturally. The
sense of property and of insurance is one of the greatest
hindrances to development in the spiritual life.
You
cannot lay up for a rainy day
if
you are trusting Jesus
Christ.
Our Lord teaches thatthe one great secret of the spiritual
life is concentration on God and His purposes. We talk
a lot about consecration, but it ends in sentimentalism
because there is
nothing
definite about it. Consecration
over as a
ought to mean my definite yielding of myself
saved soul to Jesus and concentrating on that. There are
things in actual life thatlead to perplexity, and I say Iam
in a quandary and I don t know which way to take.
Be renewed in the spirit of your mind," says Paul,
make out what is His will.
concentrate on God, so that you
Concentration on God is of more value than personal holi
ness. God can do what He likeswith the man who is aban
doned to Him. God saves us and sanctifies us, then He
expects us to concentrate on Him in every circumstance we
are in.
Immediately I conferred not with fleshand blood."
When in doubt, haul yourself up short and concentrate
on God, and every time you do, you will find that God
engineers your circumstances and opens the way perfectly