True Discernment

From Crossroads:
 
My Goal is God Himself. . .
At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.
 
“He shall glorify Me. John 16:14.
 
“The pietistic [or emergent, universalist, mystical] movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the death of Jesus Christ, all that is [...]

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“Clouds and darkness are round about Him.” Psalm 97:2
A man who has not been born of the Spirit of God will tell you that the teachings of Jesus are simple. But when you are baptized with the Holy Ghost, you find “clouds and darkness are round about Him.” When we come into close contact with the [...]

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From Oswald Chambers:
When we say, “What a wonderful personality, what a fascinating person, and what wonderful insight!” then what opportunity does the gospel of God have through all of that? It cannot get through, because the attraction is to the messenger and not the message. If a person attracts through his personality, that becomes his [...]

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If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV)
What idea have you of the salvation of your soul? The experience of salvation means that in your actual life things are really altered, you no longer look at [...]

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“Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings.” 1 Peter 4:13
If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all, they are meant to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what transpires in other [...]

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“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man.” 1 Corinthians 10:13
The word “temptation” has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly. Temptation is not sin, it is the thing we are bound to meet if we are men. Not to be tempted would be to be beneath [...]

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“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret.” Matthew 6:6
The main idea in the region of religion is - Your eyes upon God, not on men. Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying [...]

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“Walk while ye have the light lest darkness come upon you.” (John 12:35
Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mount with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” The [...]

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Come unto Me.” Matthew 11:28
God means us to live a fully-orbed life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside, and we tumble into a way of introspection which we thought had gone. Self-consciousness is the first thing that will upset the completeness of the life in God, and [...]

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“Ye must be born again.” (John 3:7
The answer to the question “How can a man be born when he is old?” is - When he is old enough to die - to die right out to his “rag rights,” to his virtues, to his religion, to everything, and to receive into himself the life which never [...]

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