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We have to walk about refusing the things that invite us, learning always to refer to the Spirit of God, proving that you have no friend in this world but the Spirit. If you live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit ... the christian has everything against him in this world, his only help is from the Spirit of God, and if he does not walk in the Spirit he is worse off than a good moral man of the world. You have to refer to the Spirit of God for everything, the moment you want any other help you are in danger.

J. B. Stoney (N.S. Vol. 7, p.116)

Just think of it for a moment! Suppose you and I are the objects of the Father’s love, what could go wrong with us? Is it not a scene of perfect serenity? What could be wrong there? To think that He loves me! He has quickened me because He

loves me! That is the secret! What I am in the presence of the Father is not for my satisfaction but for His.

F. E. Raven (N.S. Vol. 8, p.341)

This proposal on the Lord’s part to rest is very touching—“Come ye yourselves apart ... and rest a little”. Some of us have been calculating the time spent by Israel in sabbath according to the types—it would average, in fifty years, thirty-eight per cent of their time. The Lord, I think, would remind us that for effective ministry there should be sabbath-keeping.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 91, p.234)

The more you apprehend “Jesus Christ” and then ‘God’s Son’ (Galatians 1), the more will be your abhorrence of yourself, and to this end I believe God would direct us in our histories to see what one has been. It is not just flesh, but it is the flesh in me. Paul was speaking of what was in himself. It is a very wholesome consideration and helps us all the more to appreciate the grace that has delivered us, not only from the world, but from ourselves, and made us superior to all that now.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 38, p.304)

The secret of the want of guidance with many of God’s people is just this, that selfishness is at the bottom of their exercises; whereas a righteous holy calculation in a time of uncertainty will certainly bring us into light.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 49, p.83)

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