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The Big Compelling of God Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. – Luke 18:31 Jerusalem stands in the life of Our Lord as the place where He reached the climax of His Father’s will. “I seek not Mine own will,…

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The Discipline of Difficulty In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. – John 16:33 An average view of the Christian life is that it means deliverance from trouble. It is…

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The discipline of disillusionment Jesus did not commit Himself unto them. . . for He knew what was in man. John – 2:24 Disillusionment means that there are no more false judgments in life. To be undeceived by disillusionment may…

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What Do You See in Your Clouds? Behold, He cometh with clouds. – Revelation 1:7 In the Bible clouds are always connected with God. Clouds are those sorrows or sufferings or providences, within or without our personal lives, which seem…

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After Obedience – What? And straightway He constrained His disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side… .” – Mark 6:45-52 We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us, and we obey…

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The way to know If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine. . . – John 7:17 The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual…

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The account with purity Out of the heart proceed. . . – Matthew 15:18 We begin by trusting our ignorance and calling it innocence, by trusting our innocence and calling it purity; and when we hear these rugged statements of…

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Sanctification Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us … sanctification. – 1 Corinthians 1:30 The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfections of Jesus Christ are imparted to me, not…

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SANCTIFICATION This is the will of God, even your sanctification. – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 The Death Side. In sanctification God has to deal with us on the death side as well as on the life side. Many of us spend…

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The gateway to the kingdom Blessed are the poor in spirit. – Matthew 5:3 Beware of placing Our Lord as a Teacher first. If Jesus Christ is a Teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize me by…

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Dependent on God’s presence They that wait upon the Lord . . . shall walk and not faint. – Isaiah 40:31 There is no thrill in walking; it is the test of all the stable qualities. To “walk and not…

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MASTERY OVER THE BELIEVER Ye call Me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. – John 13:13 Our Lord never insists on having authority; He never says – Thou shalt. He leaves us perfectly free –…

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THE SPIRITUAL SOCIETY Till we all come . . unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. – Ephesians 4:13 Rehabilitation means the putting back of the whole human race into the relationship God designed it to…

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THE SPIRITUAL SLUGGARD Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. – Hebrews 10:24-25 We are all capable of being spiritual sluggards; we do not want to mix…

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The great probing Ye cannot serve the Lord. Joshua 24:19. Have you the slightest reliance on any thing other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on…

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