Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

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THE WILL OF GOD, THE SALVATION OF THE
PERISHING
" Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in
heaven, that one of these little
ones should perish."
Matt.
xviii. 14.
OUR
Lord Jesus here uses the words, little ones,
both of the children of whom He spoke in
verses 2 and 3, and also of the feeble and simple
ones among His people :
" the little ones who believe
in Me '' (verse 6). He says that just as surely as a
man rejoices over one lost
sheep, that he has found
again, so the Father does not will that any one, even
of the feeblest and most despised, should perish.
When our Lord spoke elsewhere of His doing the
Father's will, it was specially the will of God to save
the lost that He meant '' : I am come down from
heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the mil of Him
that sent Me, And this is the will of Him that sent
Me^ that of all that which He giveth Me I should
lose nothing.
For this is the will of My Father, that
every one that beholdeth the
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Son, and believeth on