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To be near unto God - pagina 266
about God, we worship him, andhis spiritual in the inner life of the soul. But is an altogether different matter when the it power of God is seen in the material, outward life. For it is in this that affliction makes a breach. It breaks it, and you see and feel and handle thepower ...
To be near unto God - pagina 269
is so sharp, that for the moment takes a violent effort on the part of the soul to understand that a deep way of sin can be one that leads to richer knowledge of God. And it behooves us to treat this aspect of the subject in hand the more humbl}', because of those who, even in our land, in a sata ...
To be near unto God - pagina 268
"WITH THEE THERE IS FORGIVENESS, •THAT THOU MAYEST BE FEARED." There is still another way that leads to knowledge of God. It is one that cannot be dealt with save with most delicate care. We mean the awfal way that leads through the depths of sin. Aword of Jesus indicates it at once. To Si ...
To be near unto God - pagina 271
Love for God apart from sin operates most purely with the angels. And yet, however glorious their love for God may be, it is a different and a lesser love than that of the redeemed sinner for his God and Savior. It is not for us to say, how revelation would have unfolded itself, had not Adam fall ...
To be near unto God - pagina 270
know no forgiveness. Hence again thej^ have no knowledge of the tender love which springs from forgiveness received, nor of the richer knowledge of God which is born from this tenderer affection. It is foreign to them, and therefore the apostle writes regarding this mytery that they are desirous ...
To be near unto God - pagina 272
And according to the greater measure of their sin, they enter into a far richer measure of fellowship with the Father who is in heaven, and of the knowledge of his holy Name. A more brutal outbreak in sin is not at all the necessary background of this experience. As in the case of Luther, a deepe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 273
There are two ways that here present themOne man minimizes ihis sin. He ia offended when he is told of his guilt. He will not hear it said that he is guilty in all sorts of ways. He holds himself erect, and deems himself a saint. This is the way to cover up one's sin, and not to thirst after reco ...
To be near unto God - pagina 275
but also among the redeemed. In Christ has come to us a knowledge of God's name and being, such as has never been known outside of him, but Bethlehem as well as Golgotha tures,therefind their cause alone in the salvation of sinners. Even the knowledge of the Almighty powerGod ...
To be near unto God - pagina 276
Howruns it now? Two here be kept apart.of sin in their case run? classes of persons shouldThose who broke out into sin in an offensive way, and the others who remained withm the bounds of an ordinary sinful existence. Mary of Magdala and Salome do not stand in one line. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 277
as fruit of their faith the^' unfold a much richer Christain life. The conveil from gross sins frequently counts all his life long with the weight of pounds alone, while the quiet convert weighs with the assay-balance.This is not true of all. Alas, there are not a few who turn the fact its ...
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