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To be near unto God - pagina 501
life of his soul from the moment '.vhen as infant he cradled at his mother's breast.the"AND WORSHIP HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER." Prayer and worship are not the same. This is at once when we consider the distinction between religion in heaven and religion on earth. Here on ear ...
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It is also plain that in heaven prayer is made The behalf of God's people in the earth. Scripture teaches this clearly with respect to Christ. That the angels remember us in their supplication is quite certain. And that the blessed themselves unite with Christ and the angels ininpra ...
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something from God. He who worships that his soul and his whole being may devote itself to God. He who prays intends that something shall come to us from God. He who worships intends that something from us shall come to God. desires desiresThat grace operatesin worship,is ...
To be near unto God - pagina 504
itself in God, when, in adoration it man-els at his virtues and his works, and of itself breaks forth into praises even as the .^olian harp emits its dulcet strains, when the wind plays on its strings. Examine now the life of your own soul and see, not whether there is mo^e prayer in it than wors ...
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been ushered in. shall we, on the new earth and under the new heaven, together with all God's angels, do nothing else. x\t present, need and w^ant continuously bring prayer to the lips. And 3^et, woe be to him, woe be to her, who already here, has not some knowledge of that real life, which finds ...
To be near unto God - pagina 506
;92'THE BODY IS NOT ONE MEMBER, BUT MANY." ChristisHeyour King.has been anointedKing not merely over Zion, the mountainof his holiness; not merely King, after the earthly Zionhad been profaned, over God's kingdom m the No, Christ is a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 507
the Divine, in Revelation, the Lamb is not alone our Reconciler and Surety, not alone our Redeemer and Savior, and not alone the Shepherd and Bishop of our soul. No, the Lamb of God— andinthisantithesisyoufeelwhatstrikesandirritates— ...
To be near unto God - pagina 508
on earth the King of God's kingdom can not be But with this the hkeness ends. That Christ is your king is as a figure of speech, so httle derived from earthly princes that on the contrary the kings in the earth are only imagebearers of his glory, and that true, real, actual kingship is never real ...
To be near unto God - pagina 509
the image before us of the bodj' of Christ, of the in that bod}', and over all these members, the glorious Head. The image here, however, is not merely the human body. Body in this connection rather indicates in a broader sense what we more commonly call an organism, even in the sense in which an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 510
—express it, we are bound to him; so that it is one blood of Hfe that circulates in him and in us; and that it is one spirit of life that animates us and him unto life. Yea, that as little as the head can be moved from one place into another, but the foot, the hand, the eye and the ear go ...
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