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Are you holding on to ‘bad debts’? These musty ledgers are better thrown overboard—and you go overboard with them. The totting up of such debts is a sorrowful occupation for a son of God. You cannot pray unless you forgive ... God will be the poorer if you do not forgive your brother. How can he develop his crops if you have a mortgage on his land? ... I know forgiveness only as I show it to my brother ... Satan brings in petty difficulties.

Any shadows between us prevent our being in eternal life.

(From a reading on Deuteronomy 15, the year of release) Jonah had a patient Master, but he was a fretful servant … Jonah had to be thrown overboard—my extinction for Christ’s distinction; my annihilation for Christ’s exaltation ...

In your sermon, the lower you go in preparation in soul anguish, the higher will you go in declaration … Think of the journey down, the dying of Jesus, and as understanding and appreciating that, the higher you will go ... The name Jonah means ‘Dove’—are we doves? In fine weather perhaps, but fractious in bad weather ... You may have the Spirit, but you may not give Him His place. We should be marked by the sensitiveness of a dove—a quiet spirit ... Let us join in the choral praises with those who have learned to sing in the belly of the great fish. Take part in the choir practices, so that we can sing in thanksgiving to God ... Give up the robes of vanity in your wardrobe and put on the sackcloth of repentance and learn to sing in God’s praises.

(From a preaching on the book of Jonah)

(Extracts from jottings of meetings with Mr. P. Lyon at Hornchurch about l960.) If God were to sweep away all in judgment, righteousness might be seen, but there would be no love; if He were to receive all passing over sin, there would be no righteousness. But, when Christ takes our place on the cross, we get divine righteousness against sin as nowhere else, yet infinite divine love to the sinner. Here all that God is was perfectly glorified, where sin was perfectly manifested, but where the Lord accomplished the work which put away sin.

J. N. Darby (‘Coll. Wrtgs.’ N.S. Vol. 31, p.149).

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