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love the Lord, there is a law there in their members, and they
look at that and they cannot understand it.
The answer is that “the law of the Spirit of life” in another Man
“in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of
death”. That is real liberty when the Spirit of God through
Christ
has complete control of your affections and desires in relation
to being here for the will of God. When you get to that turning
point, Christianity shines with a holy lustre. You say, ‘Is that
Christianity—liberty, joy, peace, a prospect of glory?’ The
chapter finishes with that—a prospect of glory; that is
Christianity. The God whom we know is a God of glory, the
God who has the choicest and the greatest thoughts in His
heart, and we prove them experimentally because we transfer
our affections to Christ where He is. There is nothing so
powerful as love, love for Christ, and not only the Christ that
died, but the Christ who rose again, the Christ who is in the
presence of God. I never ask an unconverted person if he
loves Christ. How could he love Jesus? How could you love
Jesus without any work of God in your heart? What an
unconverted person needs is his conscience reached and
repentance produced, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. But,
oh, if you were just converted, I would ask you, Do you love
Jesus? Oh, think of all these boys and girls in this company;
some of them broke bread this morning. They could not tell
you much about doctrine, perhaps they could not tell you much
at all, but they could tell you, ‘I love Jesus’.
So, here is the final turning point, at least as far as the
occasion allows us to speak of it, that is, when the things of
the world lose every appeal by the quickening power of the
Spirit of God. You have a link with a heavenly Man and
everything, else in this world fades into insignificance. “But
surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on
account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count