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here, I mean within responsible years, too young to confess

Jesus Christ as Lord, and the earlier you begin to do it the

better. So I would appeal simply to you to begin to confess

Jesus Christ as your Lord. It is what brings about change in a

person. The kind of change that God is looking for in us comes

about by the confession of Jesus Christ as our Lord, and as

we are subject, submissive, and obedient, then God gives us

His Holy Spirit.

What a very great blessing is the reception of the Holy Spirit!

As we receive the Holy Spirit He sheds abroad the love of God

in our hearts. How wonderful that is! Think of the Spirit, in His

first service to us, shedding abroad the love of God in our

hearts. You may say, Why does He do that? I will tell you why

He does it; He does it in order to possess your heart for God.

That is how God possesses our hearts for Himself, by filling

them. How wonderful that is!

Well, when we come to 2 Corinthians 4 Paul again speaks of

our hearts, he speaks about “the God who spoke that out of

darkness light should shine”. These are wonderful statements.

Young brothers and sisters, I would like again to speak to you

as to the Scriptures, the value of the Scriptures, and the value

of reading them. There is nothing more wonderful as far as

reading material is concerned than the Scriptures. I would

appeal to you to take up the Scriptures in an exercised way

and read them, and seek God’s help in reading them. When

Paul wrote to Timothy he spoke about

the sacred letters, he spoke about the Scriptures, and how a

man of God is fully furnished by them (see 2 Timothy 3: 15).

You say, Well, I read other things. Well, you do not need other

things. I am not discounting ministry that is based on the

Scriptures, but other reading material you can well do without.

A dear brother, when I was recently converted, gave an

address as to the clean and unclean animals, and it stuck to

me that we become like what we read. You see, the idea is of