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Does this begin with you, so that you love and that afterwards God loves you? Far from it. Love never begins with you. Back offirst,thefirststirringsoflove that evermovedthewas God who put it there. Neither can you ever forgive from y ...
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;forever in the Father-house above, this and this alone is the mighty problem of life which immediately touches our relation to God and our knowledge of the Eternal. Thus the riddle of the world and that of our soul always comes down again to this one inquiry: Is there grace for me also, a ...
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:isthat?Whenitsays:Hethat loveth not,itmeans: He who does not hve by love; he who is not governed by love; he who does not rejoice in love, and has no love that can endure the test of fire. And love is put to this fiery test, not with ...
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trained, observeshow Godas hisgood shepherdgoes before him in the way, hears the sound of God's rod and staff on the ground, and is comforted thereby. All this is not for the sake of giving us a poetic, vivid view of nature. Heathen poets have done this. In nature also ...
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wisdom has been christened with the name of Evohition and Darwin is called the prophet of thisnewevangel.This whole system is nothing more than selfinfatuation of unbelieving thought. But there is this tiTith in it, that the whole creation seems to have been built up as a tem ...
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He comes a second time and shows his image in man, the portrait of himself. Not in one individual. This is impossible. But in man, as in the course of centuries, he was born, has lived and has died by the millions. Among these millions there was the hyssop and the cedar. In these occasional insta ...
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humanandmagnificent revelareconciles us again unto man. There is the picture gallery of history, of the heroes in common life and of the heroes of faith, as the Apostle declares: (Hel. 13) "we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses," wherefore we should laj^ aside ev ...
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Image of God. But the Spirit Love for man must be like God. There must be no differencecreated after the purifiesthislove.the love for between these two, or else the love for man will detract from the love for God in the heart. Thus it becomes more and more a process o ...
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of nature. In man, who is created after his Image, he becomes more transparent. He is fully seen in Christ, who is the express Image of his Person,the Image of the Invisible God (Col. 1:15). Image and not picture. What has been sculptured conveys more reality, than what has been picured in ...
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alongside of him see God, but he shall see God in Christ. In the imregenerate. sin has made the image of God unrecognizable. In Christ God gives his image in all its fullness and perfect clearness. This was possible in our human nature, because the Son was the Image of the Father from all eternit ...