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| They Found the Secret, by V. Raymond Edman; Examples of the exchanged life | |
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| lightninboy | Apr 22 2008, 05:44 PM Post #1 |
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They Found the Secret, V. Raymond Edman, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1960. 1974 17th printing. 17 J. Hudson Taylor: The Exchanged Life 19 “’But how to get faith strengthed? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.’ ‘I have striven in vain to rest in Him. For has He not promised to abide with me – never to leave me, never to fail me?’ And, dearie, He never will!” 20 “The sweetest part is the rest which full identification with Christ brings. I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize this; for He, I know, is able to carry out His will, and His will is mine.” “in the easiest positions He must give me His grace, and in the most difficult His grace is sufficient.” life that is Christ “He was an object lesson in quietness. The serenity of the Lord Jesus concerning any matter and at its most critical moment, this was his ideal and practical possession. He knew nothing of rush or hurry, of quivering nerves or vexation of spirit. He knew there was a peace passing all understanding, and that he could not do without it. ‘the peace you speak of is in my case more than a delightful privilege, it is a necessity.’” 21 “an embodiment of ‘Keswick teaching’ such as I had never hoped to see. Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Is He worried, troubled, distressed? There is no wrinkle on His brow, no least shade of anxiety. Yet the affairs are His as much as yours.”It is the abiding life that is fruitful, just as it is the soul drinking deeply of the water of life that realizes “shall never thirst.” it is satisfying and overflowing. the little booklet by Harriet Beecher Stowe, How to Live on Christ “How does the branch bear fruit? in silent and undisturbed union, and blossoms and fruit appear as of spontaneous growth.” 22 “there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him; a constant looking to Him for grace. Christians in whom these dispositions are once firmly fixed go on calmly as the infant borne in the arms of its mother. Christ reminds them of every duty in its time and place, reproves them for every error, counsels them in every difficulty, excites them to every needful activity.” 30 John Bunyan: The Unchained Life 31 Bunyan was puzzled about the doctrine of election and troubled by blasphemous thoughts. He was given to frequent depressions and under sore temptation by the enemy of mankind to “sell Christ!” Hebrews 12:17. John 6:37. 37 Amy Carmichael: The Radiant Life 40 It seemed to her He looked for some to listen with Him, to listen to the voice of ones brother’s blood crying unto Him from the ground. 41 The Spirit-filled life is a practical one. Amy Carmichael found it so. In the problem of guidance she learned to pray, to trust, to obey, and not to look back. “When decisions have to be made, don’t look back and wonder what I would have done. Look up, and light will come to do what our Lord and Master would have you do.” “It may be that decisions which seem to change the character of the work will have to be made. But if the root principles which have governed us from the beginning are held fast, there will be no real change. The river may flow in a new channel, but it will be the same river.” “If you hold fast to the resolve that in all things Christ as Lord shall have the pre-eminence, if you keep His will, His glory, and His pleasure high above everything, and if you continue in His love, loving one another as He has loved you, then all will be well, eternally well.” 50 Charles Grandison Finney: The Powerful Life 59 Adoniram Judson Gordon: The Disciplined Life 62 “But for God to give is one thing; for us to receive is quite another. The disciples who before had been regenerated by the Spirit, as is commonly held, now received the Holy Ghost to qualify and empower them for service. It is the difference between the Holy Spirit for renewal and the Holy Spirit for ministry.” It is not denied that many have this blessing in immediate connection with their conversion, from which it need not necessarily be separated. 72 Frances Ridley Havergal: The Overflowing Life 75 “And the really leaving EVERYTHING to Him is so inexpressibly sweet, and surely He does arrange so all much better than we could for ourselves, when we leave it to Him.” “To think that you and I are never to have another care or another fear, but that Jesus has undertaken simply everything for us! And isn’t it grand to have the privilege of being His instruments? It does seem such loving condescension that He should use us.” “I never yet came across a suffering (real) Christian who could not thank Him for pain!” “cannot be ‘sinless’ till the resurrection change has passed upon us. But being kept from falling, kept from sins, is quite another thing, and the Bible seems to teem with commands and promises about it.” 76 “But have we not been limiting the cleansing power of the precious blood when applied by the Holy Spirit, and also the keeping power of our God? Have we not been limiting I John 1:7, by practically making it refer only to ‘the remission of sins that are past,’ instead of taking the grand simplicity of ‘cleanseth us from all sin?’ The very keeping implies total helplessness without it, and the very cleansing most distinctly implies defilement without it. Not a coming to be cleansed in the fountain only, but a remaining in the fountain, so that it may and can go on cleansing.” 82 Dwight Lyman Moody: The Dynamic Life 83 “Young man, when you speak again, honor the Holy Ghost.” 85 “God has got a good many children who have just barely got life, but no power for service. You might say safely, I think, without exaggeration, that nineteen out of every twenty of professed Christians are of no earthly account so far as building up Christ’s kingdom; but on the contrary they are standing right in the way, and the reason is because they have just got life and have settled down, and have not sought for power. The Holy Ghost coming upon them with power is distinct and separate from conversion.” 86 “Now, do you tell me that Peter and John and James and the rest of those men had not been converted at that time? Had not Nicodemus been born of the Spirit, and had not men been converted before them? Yes, but they were saints without power, and must tarry in Jerusalem until imbued with power from on high”. “A great many think because they have been filled once, they are going to be full for all time after; but O, my friends, we are leaky vessels, and have to be kept right under the fountain all the time in order to keep full. I heard a man say that God always chooses the vessel that is close at hand. Let us keep near Him.” Dr. C.I. Scofield spoke at Moody’s funeral service. “He had passed out of death into life, and he knew it.” 87 “Thirdly, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit, and he knew it. It was to him as definite an experience as his conversion. Fourthly, he was a man of prayer. Fifthly, he believed in works, in ceaseless effort, in wise provision, in the power of organization, of publicity. He expected the supernatural to work, but through the natural. He hitched his wagon to a star, but he always kept the wheels on the ground and the axles well oiled.” 138 W. Ian Thomas: The Adventurous Life 140 Christ Who is our Life 141 “I was saying, ‘Lord Jesus, I thank Thee that for the first time in my life, this is Thy day! I no longer have the burden of running my own life. at last I have a Governor capable of governing!’” 142 “That is My life.” 143 “It is simply My life: being what I am, doing the inevitable. This is now the thing you have got to realize; you cannot have My life for your program. You can only have My life for My program!” “That is the secret; it is so simple! Just to relate everything to the Lord Jesus, and take your hands off – to stand back and say, ‘I thank Thee, Lord, this is Thy situation!’” Such a course is not inactivity, it is simply Christ-activity. 145 A Personal Epilogue 148 It is sufficient to say that I have no fear of dying. Heaven is home to the believer, to that one who has become a child of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 149 II Corinthians 2:12. “a constant pageant of triumph in Christ” |
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