EXTRACTS

Has sin shown itself in our walk? Far from undergoing the misfortune of remaining under the effect of our sin, we experience through the intercession of Jesus that gracious help, which sets us again before God, perhaps broken-hearted, still before God to whom we confess our sin. Our confession of sin is made to God, not to Jesus in order that He may intercede. His intercession on our behalf always goes on; it precedes us in our return to God. Therefore John does not say, If any man repent, we have an advocate; but he says, “If any man sin”, for repentance in us is itself the result of the intercession of Jesus.

J. N. Darby (‘Coll. Wrtgs.’ Vol. 28, p.308)

God goes on with His people in holiness, not passing over any sin as a light matter, but securing, not only that it should have been judged once for all in the death of Christ, but also that it should be measured morally in the light of that death, and rightly felt about in priestly exercise before Him. One would earnestly desire that more priestly ability to take up things in this way were found amongst the people of God. It is often easier for us to burn the sin-offering than to eat it. See Leviticus 10: 16–18. That is, to act in a judicial spirit rather than to make the sin our own before God, as did Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel. (See Ezra 9, Nehemiah 9, Daniel 9).

C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Leviticus’, p.83)

There is this wonderful thing in Scripture that, as you are in communion and read it, you can actually feel yourself in company with the Lord, and hear Him speak; you can say, I have heard His words. John’s gospel and the epistles to Timothy are just what are attacked by the enemy in the present day, because they are the very scriptures suited to help us in it. The gospel was written after 2 Timothy.

J. B. Stoney (N.S. Vol. 4, p.193)

Now one great help to this accuracy is this—never present anything, however clearly you may see it, if you have not reached it for yourself. I have found that many a thing which I had presented in an extreme way because I was sure of it, I put forth in a simpler and more real way when I had touched it in my own experience.

J. B. Stoney (‘Letters to Labourers’, p.38)

When Aaron met Moses on the mount of God he kissed him; Aaron had the love. Moses had the light and Aaron had the love; these two must always be combined, they must never be divorced; the light and the love are indissolubly in our Apostle and High Priest, and are they not to be combined in the priestly family? Are we to be content with light without the love?

We shall be, unless we use the water; unless the flesh is dealt with unsparingly, we shall not have the love ...

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 69, p.179)

The dispensation is going on in life and we want to get the good of what has been carried down by those still living and apply the things and bring God into them and see if there may not be restoration, recoveries, additions and increase amongst us, which I believe will go on to the end.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 78, p.92)

It is a great mistake to confound between the light which a servant may bring and the work of God. You get the light through an instrument, but it is God who makes the light effective.

F. E. Raven (N.S. Vol. 5, p.27)

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