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To be near unto God - pagina 521
communion with that world is possible. When the Psalmist would praise God, he calls upon the angels to praise and bless the Lord (Ps. 103) There is an host of the Lord that encampeth round about them that fear God. Not only Satan, the head of .but good angels, too, are in communication wit ...
To be near unto God - pagina 522
natural has come upon you. Not alone, but "With the saints," we will come to the knowledge of our God, and if in eternity it will be the wonderful exaltation of life together with all angels and all saints to glorify God forever, why, then, should we forsake and neglect the glorious power which a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 523
takes care of himself, because, in case his sin be-Acame known, it would injure his good name. third strives against a temptation because indulgence would ruin him financially. A fourth puts a mark against a given sin because in his narrower circle of life it is sharply condemned. O ...
To be near unto God - pagina 524
expression of godliness, and at the same time a precious means of cherishing nearness unto God. See it in the life of nations and associations, how waging a common war brings people together, closely unites them, and makes connections for the present and the future. When France at length obtained ...
To be near unto God - pagina 525
Indeed, there are bosom-sins, and fault, when the heart is so little known to itself, that no confession can be made before God of the sin that most assaults and conquers self. And it cannot fail but that everyone who takes his private life seriously is more parsurrounding. itisno m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 526
Andthus a more serious evil wiU always cause the struggle against a lesser evil to weaken. And such is also the case with respect to the When the struggle is continued to resist soul. and to repel the particular sin which tempts one the most strongly, a number of other sins have almost fre ...
To be near unto God - pagina 527
nearer unto God, but every time threwuponyou backyourself.Should we then give up the struggle against the sin that tempts us most, that we might resist the numerous lesser sins? By no means. He who leaves the main entrance to a fortress unprotected merely to repel assa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 528
holiness of God. In order to come nearer unto God, the child of God must take service under Christ in the warfare which God himself wages against Satan and his works, and thus obtain a twofold result: that whereas hitherto he suffered defeat, now he conquers, and that whereas jie thus farw ...
To be near unto God - pagina 529
Theringing of bells, the stations of the and so much more, all tended to quicken the thought of Christ. And in the age of the Reformation our fathers tried to reach the same end by putting prayer in between everything, by multiplying church services, and by the effort to sanctify every eve ...
To be near unto God - pagina 530
resisting everything that hinders or prevents ourcommunion with God. Does the church of Christ understand the interest that is here at stake? Can it begreat said,that an effort is in evidence, at least within the church, to pursue this exalted aim? As one means "to be near un ...
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