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To be near unto God - pagina 305
Gcxl's child always prays in Jesus' name. He must do this, because irreconciled and unredeemed, he would find no listening ear with God. But even prayer in Jesus' name becomes a word withoutmeaning, when one does not first place himself before the face of the Holy One, and feels that of hi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 306
spirit and in truth. But he who knows as his Father who is in heaven, also knows that in prayer he has no deaUngs with a force that extends and spreads itself everywhere, but with his covenant God, his Lord and King, and that he can not rest content until, in order to pray, he has resumed his sec ...
To be near unto God - pagina 307
is broken, so he who prays stands at the gate of heaven, and calls upon God for a hearing, and seeks connection of fellowship, but gets no sign of life in return. This but shows, that real prayer can not begin until a hearing is obtained, and connection has been established, and we know that God ...
To be near unto God - pagina 308
&6"TOWHOMSOEVER THE SONWILL REVEAL HIM" When weRomans 1 :20 that "The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the thingsread inthat are made," and in Matthew 11:27 that "no one knoweth the Father, save the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 309
pulse from which it proceeds, is never anything mistaken interpretation of the else, then the speech of God in nature and in the conscience. This is the seed of religion of which Calvin bore witness, the increated knowledge of God and the given knowledge of God, which was ever confessed by our fa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 310
trembles. The knowledge of the Father maketh rich, gives peace and eternal rest. The knowledge which Satan has of God makes him tremble. This is the difference between Satan and a great sinner on earth. While the criminal can take a sleeping draught to quiet his conscience and to forget God, Sata ...
To be near unto God - pagina 311
learned to know God as his Father, and himself as this heavenly Father's child. There is no mention here of a doctrine, which is committed to memory or of a revelation that has been given in so many words, which we are to make our own, but of a knowledge which spiritual experience of personal red ...
To be near unto God - pagina 312
—imparts unto us the riches of his reconciliation, seeks us out as sinners, and makes us children of God. Only when Christ has made us children of God, does the knowledge of the Father become our blessed and glorious possession. But again, Christ does not come to us for the first time in t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 313
knowledge of God, on wiiich the knowledge the Father is built, comes to us from the Eternal Word. The knowledge of the Father is not a flower, that has been wafted down from the heavenly regions, and has been tied by Christ to the withered stem of human nature; but the withered state of our sinfu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 314
to the creation of our own nature, and to the creation of our own person. And this is the result. Thanks to our reconciliation in Christ the voice of God in nature and the voice of God in our conscience obtain a different sound. They increase in clearness and in significance. And by the opened ea ...
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