Address to Young Converts & Counsel to Christians by George Muller

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Address to Young Converts A sermon preached at Mildmay Conference Hall by Mr George Müller of Bristol As one who for fifty years has known the Lord, and has labored in word and doctrine, I ought to be able, in some little measure, to lend a helping hand to these younger believers. And if God will only condescend to use the acknowledgment of my own failures to which I refer, and of my experience, as a help to others in walking on the road to heaven, I trust that your coming here will not be in vain. This was the very purpose of my leaving home – that I might help these dear young brethren. THE MANNER OF READING THE WORD One of the most deeply important points is that of attending to the careful, prayerful reading of the Word of God, and meditation thereon. I would therefore ask your particular attention to one verse in the Epistle of Peter (1 Peter 2.2), where we are especially exhorted by the Holy Ghost through the apostle, regarding this subject. For the sake of the connection, let us read the first verse, “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evilspeakings, as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby; if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” The particular point to which I refer is contained in the second verse, “as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word.” As growth in the natural life is attained by proper food, so in the spiritual life, Page 6
if we desire to grow, this growth is only to be attained through the instrumentality of the Word of God. It is not stated here, as some might be very willing to say, that “the reading of the Word may be of importance under some circumstances.” Nor is it stated that you may gain profit by reading the statement which is made here; it is of the ‘Word,’ and of the Word alone, that the apostle speaks, and nothing else. CLEAVE TO THE WORD OF GOD You say that the reading of this tract or of that book often does you good. I do not question it. Nevertheless, the instrumentality which God has been specially pleased to appoint and to use is that of the Word itself; and just in the measure in which the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ attend to this, they will become strong in the Lord; and in so far as it is neglected, so far will they be weak. There is such a thing as babes being neglected, and what is the consequence? They never become healthy men or women, because of that early neglect. Perhaps – and it is one of the most hurtful forms of this neglect – they obtain improper food, and therefore do not attain the full vigor of maturity. So with regard to the divine life. It is a most deeply important point, that we obtain right spiritual food at the very beginning of that life. What is that food? It is “the sincere milk of the Word;” that is the proper nourishment for the strengthening of the new life. Listen, then, my dear brethren and sisters, to some advice with regard to the Word. James 1:21 …receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Page 7
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But let us never trust in self, els
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purpose to be made to know your own
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THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. It is,
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of great service in the war, as the
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when old, and when sick, even as in
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It is this that keeps us up. The wa
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This word, the word of God is also
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May God help us so to live as to br
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around the person of Job, and not u
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that nothing was too hard for God t
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“Gird thyself.” There is no nee
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