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in The Gospel Messenger (1887)
THE GOSPEL TELLS US GOD has given us life, and that life is in his Son. It must begin personally then with quickening or giving life. Life from Christ given is evidenced to the one receiving by feeling as never before felt, hungering for what never was desired before, thirsting for what they never knew existed till now. This life being of a higher order of life than relates to this natural world, with all its diversified forms of Life; it causes the individual to cast off in loathing and abhorring former delights and practices, and hunger and thirst after what the gospel describes. O, how this life struggles within to attain what is set before them in the gospel.
God, who is rich in mercy, having provided in Christ to deal with them in the way of mercy, the Spirit within begins in a weak, struggling way, to grasp. or appropriate what that requires; and cries give me Jesus or I die. Never was the breast, with its health giving supply, more suitably adapted to the new born babe, than is the gospel, sincere milk of the word, adapted to this state of things, hence all things are of God. Breath is not the cause of life, but the effect to a mortal state, and one way of its continuance. So faith is not the cause of spiritual life, but the evidence of the fact, and a fruit of the Spirit that gave the life and becomes the source from which the life is developed, so the apostle could say I live, yet not I, separated from Christ, but Christ liveth in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. In this sense we are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ, and if children, then heirs and joint heirs in the inheritance of the saints. |
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