The New Life

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XXXVII.
UNDIVIDED CONSECRATION.
"And Ittai answered, As the Lord liveth, surely in wha
place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life,
even there also will thy servant be."—2 Sam. xv. 21.
" Whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he
hath, he cannot be My disciple." I,uke xiv. 33.
" Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
the Lord, and touch no unclean thing ;
and I will receive you,
and will be to you a Father."—2 Cor. vi. 17, 18.
"Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for Christ Jesus
my lyord."—Phil. iii. 8.
WB
have already said that surrender to the Lord
is something that for the Christian always
obtains newer and deeper significance. When this
takes place, he comes to understand how this surrender
involves nothing less than a complete and
undivided consecration to live only, always, wholly
for Jesus. As entirely as the temple was dedicated to
the service of God alone, so that every one knew that
it existed only for that purpose; as entirely as the
offering on the altar could be used only according to
the command of God, and no one had a right to dispose
of one portion of it otherwise than God had
said : so entirely do you belong to your Lord, and so
undivided must your consecration to Him be, God
continually reminded Israel that He had redeemed
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