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To be near unto God - pagina 576
continue with you, with those who grow up frrm among the children of the church, and those who are still hidden in the seed of the church, or who are brought into the church from without. No one whom God has included, may we exclude. And that this refers not merely to your salvation, but also to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 578
majestic doings of God. Thus your own insigis readily transferred to the Eternal. But when you feel that you are a living member of the whole living body of Christ, that you are one of the multitude that can not be numbered, that you are related to all the saints above, to all God's saints in the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 579
youwill feel yourself in the presence ofhath included you "with same bundle of Hfe.allGod, whosaints" in the self-104'THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY GHOST BE WITH YOU ALL." The apostle from w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 580
In this habit of St. Paul of opening and closing his epistles with a benediction one can observe the aftermath of the manner of the East, and on this ground take it merely as a phrase, and merely as a formula of good breeding, which as such has no spiritual significance, at least to us. But is no ...
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 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 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 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 ...
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