EXTRACTS

While the Spirit distributes gift as He pleases, we are told to covet or desire spiritual gifts or manifestations, and especially that we may prophesy. If the Spirit exhorts us to desire gift it is obvious that it is with a view that He may bestow the gift and gratify the desire. Our hearts are deceitful, however, and we may easily fall into the snare into which the Corinthians fell and, under the desire for gift, there may be lurking the sinful and hateful wish for self-glory.

The edification of the assembly is to be our motive.

M. W. Biggs (‘The Presence & Activity of the Holy Spirit’, p.110) It must have been a strange path for the Lord through this world; things must have looked strange to Him here, and I have no doubt He appeared equally strange to them. The Christian ought to be as strange to the world as Christ was.

F. E. Raven (Vol. 5, p.5)

Correction: On page 15 of the July issue, line 16, ‘Elkanah’ should be ‘Elimelech’.

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