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To be near unto God - pagina 581
every case. Not the curse of hated and anger. Not base meanness, which uses the curse as a poisoned weapon to wound. But the curse of him who is authorized to pronounce it, the curse of a father, or of a mother, or of one who is clothed with spiritual authority. Such a curse was valid as spoken u ...
To be near unto God - pagina 582
i. e. without any perceptible death In most cases nothing more is heard. In the face of all this the church usage has stood firm, and the congregation of God gathers in the sanctuary with the holy salutation and returns homeward with the address of blessing from the Lord. For this closing benedic ...
To be near unto God - pagina 583
Christianordinances and usages.But therealmeeting of these two spheres takes place only in believers, who still live in this visible world, and yet carry the higher world in their heart; the latter expressing itself in their communion with the Holy Ghost. And as often ...
To be near unto God - pagina 584
fullyaware of the antithesis between the world of things, and always toand the higher orderfoster fellowship with that higher order of things, to strengthen it, to feed it, and to remove everything that might hinder or weaken it out of theThis power and ability does no ...
To be near unto God - pagina 585
105 "I,THE LORD THY GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD.""Say tomypeople," said the Lord to Ezekiel: "I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them" (Ezekiel 11:5). Hence also he knows what should, but does not, come into it. Neither the all-seeing eye nor the all-he ...
To be near unto God - pagina 586
ences no inipression, no influence, no governing power of that all-knowing and all-hearing character of the perceptions of God. He acts, speaks, thinks and allows his inner life to operate as though there were no God who watches him, who overhears him, and whose eye inwardly searches him. He who ...
To be near unto God - pagina 587
thinks of him, goes out to him, and seeks his holy fellowship. On the other hand God's love is wounded when his child can forget him, and not think of him, and be engaged in mind with everything save him; when, as far as it depends on us, he is the forsaken one. For, in order deeply and strongly ...
To be near unto God - pagina 588
you pawn away your love amanspirits,yourtoyour ownself,or tothe world, or to demoniac the Scripture always and unconditionallyasidol, tocondemnsthis as a drawing away of self from God, as a violation of faithfulne ...
To be near unto God - pagina 589
and no hypocrisy. His all-penetrating glance puts every cover aside. And these two taken together account for the fact, that sensitiveness in Divine love is far more strongly ftioved to jealousy, than strongest human passion can ever arouse brooding envy. When we are not remembered by our friends ...
To be near unto God - pagina 590
highness and your glory?Andis itno violationof your God when you discard this holy urgency of love, and play with it, and for the sake of religious recreation spasmodically return to it, only to withdraw yourself presently from it again, that in your innermost soul you ...
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