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To be near unto God - pagina 451
It is the Holy Ghost himwho, entering into the heart of God's child, sets the seal upon it of this Triune Mystery. But for this reason fellowship with the Holystillness of solitude. selfSpirit in us is exceedingly sensitive and tender. Nothing must come in between, or it is gone. It ...
To be near unto God - pagina 452
And evenin such moments, faith that is not continues to shine through. After his deep fall David felt the anxious estrangement. He realized that as long as God looked upon his sin, no restoration of fellowship was possible, and ''Hide thy face from my therefore he prayed: sins, and blot ou ...
To be near unto God - pagina 453
And then the joy of salvation returns; the meeting again between the soul that had deeply grieved the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit who rather than let go the soul of God's child, had allowed himself to be grieved. It is well with him who has experienced this with regard to his own sin. He alo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 454
had not yet taken up his abode in the church permanently, because, only after his ascension, Jesus would send the Comforter from the Father to the church.And so it must be understood when the Apostles speak of the church as of a "Temple of God" and as a "dwelling place of God in the Spirit ...
To be near unto God - pagina 455
Thus humanity is divided. There is the unregenerated world, with which the separation continues, and which has no more temple on Zion. And there are the people of the Lord, who are no longer carnal, but live their Hves in the spirit. Among this people, in this Church of the Lord, all separation h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 456
him, are derived from the Holy Ghost,is absurd. general has ever excelled, no poet has ever sung, no scholar has ever reaped the admiration of the world, no artist has ever enriched life with his creations, but it was the Holy Spirit, who caused the spark of genius to glow in him. Such and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 457
regenerating us he has enabled us to obtain personal fellowship with him; that he did not wait till we had found him, but that he made the approach to us and touched us not from without, but from within, and that in the deepest secrecy of the life of the soul he established the tie which made us ...
To be near unto God - pagina 458
.that while on one side he still sinks away in misery, yet under it all and with it all he remains conscious of the blessed presence- of the HolyGhost. That the Holy Spirit does not go away, that he does not allow himself to be sent away, that he does not give us up, but continues t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 459
With God, itdoesmean, what becoming speak of it most fre-of course, this does notwithus,when we speakaccustomed to one.Weofquently when we first come in touch with some one who acts strangely, a man of strong peculiarities, who ...
To be near unto God - pagina 460
in our sensations and feelings, and that astray in the deliberations of our hearts. were what we ought to be, there wouldwe Ifarewebe nofrom God, and no need of the exhortation to accustom ourselves again to God. Hence the saying: "Accustom now thyself to him," ...
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