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I think I have often ministered my knowledge of the Scriptures, and I suspect I am not very different to other people; but now I am much more disposed to limit my ministry to what I know. I do not think I am at all perfect in that way now, but that is the line I have more before me, in any little ministry I may do. Not simply to minister from one’s knowledge of Scripture, but from what I really know ... what I know by the Spirit of God. I think there is a long gap between what I know from Scripture as to the form of the truth and so on, and what I really know, by the Spirit’s work—as divinely taught.

F. E. Raven (N.S. Vol. 13, p.91)

He is to be “all in all”, meaning that He is all to us, but as filling us there is no room for anything else. It would be an eternal condition ... but it is to be reached now. There is a point reached where all else is shut out, however legitimate it may be elsewhere. I am filled with God; God is all to me as filling me. I may look at the heavens and admire the handiwork of God, but that is an objective matter; it is not all to me as in me. God is “all in all”—not all and in all, but “all in all”—one great fact.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 47, p.323)

Whilst we say rightly that it is “the day of small things”, let us remember and own that our laziness, our indolence, our want of evangelical activity, is the cause of the smallness of numbers in many cases. Let us take this to heart; for this is a great evangelical chapter, and also the next one (Luke 15).

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 47, p.359)

Circumcision deals with the flesh viewed in its power. Baptism refers to what is outside you; you reckon yourselves dead indeed to sin. It is what is outside of you, but circumcision is what is inside you; the work of the flesh inside ... One of the most remarkable things in Scripture is that God sought to slay Moses. Why? Because he was not dealing with the flesh.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 14, p.9)

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