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To be near unto God - pagina 601
He is not conscious of it. and therefore can explain it. But it is evident even from his in the dark, or at strange sights and sounds. This fear shows that the child knows and ceives the existence of another world from which he sees withHencehis eyes.not fearperthat ...
To be near unto God - pagina 602
praying with the child, so that the child feels more disturbed in his religious impulses than led and helped. It is equally cruel and painful, in the presence of the child, to be unsympathetic, rough and hard in holy things. This hurts the heart of the child, and then it does not take long for th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 603
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 604
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 605
declares thatGoddwells in the high and loftythis same God down upon the children of men on earth. Heaven and earth are not intended to be sep-place,itimmediately adds thatlooksform a higher unity, so that the dwells simultaneously both in Go ...
To be near unto God - pagina 606
vealed in theamongflesh,i.e.in realityhe has dweltus.Hence Bethlehemis the real and actual return 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 do ...
To be near unto God - pagina 607
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 608
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 609
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 phj-sician. Whether he conceals the certainty, or at least the probability of the approaching end, or whether frankly and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 610
evident in the case of Jacob the patriarch. But 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 eter ...
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