The Last Discourse and Prayer of Our Lord Jesus Christ with His Disciples; On the Night Before His Crucifixion, as Recorded in St. John's Gospel, Chap
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ISBN10: 0217010792
ISBN13: 9780217010795
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780217010795
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: traying his Master, barters his own soul for thirty pieces of silver. Oh let us take warning from the dreadful examples that have gone before us ! Let us dread the very first approaches of sin: remembering that Satan, with all his might and cruelty, is ready to rush in upon us, the moment he finds the door of any heart unguarded. 3. But there is no use in merely trying to keep evil out: the mind of man cannot remain empty or idle: therefore the way to cast out Satan, is, to invite Christ himself to dwell in our hearts by faith. Every believer is built up, in Christ, an habitation of God, through the Spirit. If love and humility fill this dwelling, there will be no place in it, where sin may lodge. The habit of sincere, practical obedience, in every thing commanded by Christ, will be like a fortification encircling the soul. The enemy cannot break through, to enter that heart! MUTUAL LOVE ENJOINED BY CHRIST. John xiii. 31?35. Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. It is worthy to be noted, how sometimes the presence of one individual causes a reserve and shyness to spread, almost insensibly, through a whole company. When that individual withdraws, all are relieved, and conversation flows on with ease. Thus it was, when Judas quitted the compan...