GROWTH AND DISCIPLINE

GROWTH AND DISCIPLINE

... Last week ———— gave a tea, and saints from ———— were invited. I spoke afterwards on growth and discipline. By the Holy Ghost you are assimilated to Christ, and at the same time God’s hand in discipline removes the obstruction in you to the leading of the Spirit. The Spirit does not lead but in conjunction with the conscience: you never advance without a good conscience. As my conscience is enlightened I am cast upon God, and as I am, the Spirit leads me in correspondence with the light; and concurrently with this, the stone before the wheel, or the obstruction in my flesh, is removed by discipline. “We who live are alway delivered unto death”. This is discipline to help, there is also discipline to correct. Jacob at Shalem suffers from the latter; at Bethel, from the former.

Do you see the difference between crossing the Jordan and circumcision which followed? I do not believe that we can see anything in doctrine or in practice aright, unless we are clear, through the Spirit, of the man of the earth; that is circumcision.