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Abba, Father”. There is a certain urgency about it; the

urgency, dear brethren, is that the testimony is to be filled out

and finished on the divine level, and that level is sonship. We

have been furnished with all that is needed and we are to

finish our course in the liberty of sonship.

Now there are some young people here today, and I would

raise this question with you—

Have you received the Spirit of God? May you have to do with

Jesus, because God’s gift is towards all. Put your trust in

Jesus and have to do with Him about your sins, and you will

receive the forgiveness of sins. The next thing is the gift of the

Holy Spirit, and you could not have a greater gift. Most of us

are still learning what the gift of the Holy Spirit really means.

But the greatest thought connected with the Spirit is that He is

the Spirit of sonship. That is not something that is at the end of

the journey, it is part of the gospel: You need not have any

sense of fear in your soul; let Jesus into your heart if you want

to please Him. Then you want to please the Father, because it

is the Father’s heart that has come to light in Christ. You look

to Jesus and you can understand what a Son can be to a

Father, and you can understand what a Father can be to a

Son. The delight of being here in the pathway of the will of

God, the path of the Father’s will, that is what you learn in

Christ. We receive the Spirit of God’s Son in our hearts and we

cry, “Abba, Father”. That is normal Christianity.

I am not speaking of the great heavenly truths that come out in

Ephesians, standing in relation to what is collective; this is an

individual thing and

yet it leads immediately into what is collective—‘whereby we

cry, Abba, Father’. “As many as are led by the Spirit of God,

these are sons of God”. What a testimony that is! Well, that is

normal Christian testimony and leads into the assembly, leads

into the enjoyment of what is collective; but it begins with what