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To be near unto God - pagina 599
108"MAKE ABODE WITH The sublime noteof joy withHIM." which the apos-tolate went out into the world, concentrated itself in the confession: ''The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." The Gospel did not first come in Bethlehem, it resounded already in Paradise, and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 600
shown, but in the New Testament the reality has appeared in the person of Christ. "The law, which is given by Moses" (John 1:17) does not refer to the ten commandments. The law here is the name of the whole Old Testament, taken as an instruction, a revelation, a word of God addressed to Israel. T ...
To be near unto God - pagina 601
declares that place,itGoddwells in the high and loftyimmediately adds thatthissame Goddown upon the children of men on earth. Heaven and earth are not intended to be sep-looksform a higher unity, so that the dwells siinultaneously bot ...
To be near unto God - pagina 603
that the reality of the flesh,when Jesus walkedAnd now, in the third place, the dwelling of God among us and in us in all parts of the earth. Our heart is made a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Our heart is the real Zion, and therefore our redeemed human heart is about on the e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 602
vealed in theamongflesh,i.e.in realityhe has dweltus.Hence Bethlehem is the real and actual return of God to earth, in order here on earth permanently to dwell with us and among us. This is the restoration of what was real in Paradise. And d ...
To be near unto God - pagina 606
evident in the case of Jacob the patriarch. But in lesser measure, occasionally such higher inspiration is still witnessed among us when it is not merely a dying in faith, not merely a falling asleep in Jesus, but when fully awake and with open eye it is a triumphant passing through the gate of e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 604
a part of your heart, till at length you throw up your hands, open your whole heart to him, and now experience with joy that he really in Christ has made his abode in you. This is the continuous Christmas gospel. Not a Christmas gospel that remains standing by the manger, but such an one as passe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 605
the nature of disease, degree of weakness, state of nerves, freedom of speech or diffidence, and upon the longer or shorter period of dying. In part, it also depends upon the physician. Whether he conceals the certainty, or at least the probability of the approaching end, or whether frankly and h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 608
to all sorts of persons on earth, and has endowed with powers to appreciate the glories of nature, and has imparted all sorts of inclinations and callings to us, which go out after visible things. The itwho withdrawsfrom all earthly about him but air he might seek after God, evades ...
To be near unto God - pagina 612
abled cries as in despair, because having at last reached the stream-bed finds that there is no water there, and which now, from the mere impulse of nature, because it is ready to succumb, and is unable longer to go without drink, breaks the air with its desperate cry for water in the dried-up be ...
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