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To be near unto God - pagina 557
Not from lack of will, but from shame. We knew that we must get back to God, but we postponed it. We wanted to pray, but we allowedfear.welltime to intervene.Wekeptsilent.Andin thisoppressive silence, which so sorely weighed upon the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 558
andit is good for you, unspeakably good, to be near again unto God.And what the soul?isthe secret of this healing work of not stated in Jeremiah's words:Is it"Lord, thou knowest me, thou seest me, thou triest mine heart that it is with thee" (Jer. 12:3 Du ...
To be near unto God - pagina 559
God, and that in co-operation with Satan we oppose God. And if this be the case what is it to make confession of sin, save that so soon as you realize this, you at once step out from among the ranks of Satan and return to the battle lines of God, imploring mercy, that you may be counted worthy ag ...
To be near unto God - pagina 560
of Satan by dragging him, as it were, rightly or wrongly, into everything. But does it not seem that now we rather incline to the other extreme, and forget, if not deny, the very existence of the Evil One? With this denial, self-conceited freedom in matters of belief makes singular shifts with th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 561
hesitate to dismiss this whole matter of Satan's influences, part and parcel, from their Gospel.And with respect to this it is evident again, that every such effort aims not at forming the mind and thought after the Gospel, but at moulding the Gospel after their own world of thought. With ...
To be near unto God - pagina 564
The conflict was in the open. Altogether different from now. Even in those days, however, Satan tried to hide himself. We refer to this for our instruction. Peter, with his sensitive nature and excitable mind, was used as instrument. ''His Jesus to die on the Cross! Never!" Love for Jesus was the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 562
that the world of men is not the only world of There are myriads of other conscious beings. spiritual beings who are known as spirits, angels, cherubim, seraphim, etc. It is also certain that this world of spirits is not separated from our world of men, that it exists by the side of it, and is in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 568
and that for those many days he forewent the glory which awaited him on God's throne. But this could not last. The end must follow. It was an holy pause in his glorification, entered upon from love, but which of necessity had to be as short as possible. It could not, and was not, permitted to be ...
To be near unto God - pagina 569
of our soul to look for God's throne not in ournor yet underneath, but above us. The heavens are God's throne and the earth is his footstool. We look up to the heavens, from whence light comes to us, where God's stars twinkle in the firmament, from whence rain descends to us proximitj'', ...
To be near unto God - pagina 563
This much, however, working severally delineates itself with sufficient clearness. There are workings from the unholy spirit world, which, without definite attack, of themselves find a direction to our thoughts.iscertain, that a threefoldvehicle observable by us, in public op ...
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